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It's been a while since I last posted an update about my old moggy, Columbo. In truth I've been waiting until today to post about him, because today is his birthday. He's 17, not bad for a diabetic tom cat. Yesterday I bought some fresh prawns and this morning gave them to him as a treat. He demolished them so quickly I doubt if they even touched the sides. Technically he's supposed to be restricted to special diabetic food but it's a one-off so I decided to splash out. Anyway, here's a close up of him looking close up. This is his tactic when there's cheese on my plate.
Archive for March, 2011
Columbo's BirthdayPosted in Columbo with tags cats, Columbo on March 31, 2011 by telescoper
Just a gigoloPosted in Jazz with tags Just a gigolo, Thelonious Monk on March 30, 2011 by telescoper
Much of Thelonious Monk's recorded output was based on his own original compositions, which include such classics as Bemsha Swing, 'Round Midnight, Epistrophy, Brilliant Corners and Straight, No Chaser, but this is an exception to that rule. Just a gigolo is a little ballad that he took a bit of a shine to relatively early on in his career and performed impromptu versions of it on many subsequent occasions. Monk's unique style is a joy to listen to, and this clip gives you a chance to see him too – watching him play the piano always makes me think of a kitten playing with a ball of string. For all the genius that he was, and all the problems he had with his own mental health, he never lost sight of the child within himself.
Now this is what I call awesome…
No Cox please, we're British…Posted in Television, The Universe and Stuff with tags astronomy, Brian Cox, Britain, Cosmology, galaxies, rubbish, stars, Wonders of the Universe on March 29, 2011 by telescoper
The final episode of the BBC television series Wonders of the Universe was broadcast this weekend. Apparently it's been incredibly popular, winning huge plaudits for its presenter Brian Cox, and perhaps inspiring the next generation of budding cosmologists the way Carl Sagan did thirty-odd years ago with his series Cosmos.
Grumpy old cosmologists (i.e. people like myself) who have watched it are a bit baffled by the peculiar choices of location – seemingly chosen simply in order to be expensive, without any relevance to the topic being discussed – the intrusive (and rather ghastly) music, and the personality cult generated by the constant focus on the dreamy-eyed presenter. But of course the series wasn't made for people like us, so we've got no right to complain. If he does a great job getting the younger generation interested in science, then that's enough for me. I can always watch Miss Marple on the other side instead.
But walking into work this morning I suddenly realised the real reason why I don't really like Wonders of the Universe. It's got nothing to do with the things I mentioned above. It's because it's just not British enough.
I'm not saying that Brian Cox isn't British. Obviously he is. Although I do quibble with him being labelled as a "northerner". Actually, he's from Manchester. The North is in fact that part of England that extends southwards from the Scottish border to the Tyne. The Midlands start with Gateshead and include Yorkshire, Manchester and Liverpool and all those places whose inhabitants wish they were from the North, but aren't really hard enough.
Anyway, I just put that bit in to inform non-British readers of this blog about the facts of UK geography. It's not really relevant to the main point of the piece.
The problem with Wonders of the Universe is betrayed by its title. The word "wonders" suggests that the Universe is wonder-ful, or even, in a word which has cropped up in the series a few times, "awesome". No authentic British person, and certainly not one who's forty-something, would ever use the word "awesome" without being paid a lot of money to do so. It just doesn't ring true.
I reckon it doesn't do to be too impressed by anything on TV these days (especially if its accompanied by awful music), but there is a particularly good reason for not being taken in by all this talk about "Wonders", and that is that the Universe is basically a load of rubbish.
Take this thing, for example.
It's a galaxy (the Andromeda Nebula, M31, to be precise). We live in a similar article, in fact. Of course it looks quite pretty on the surface, but when you look at them with a physicist's eye galaxies are really not all they're cracked up to be.
We live in a relatively crowded part of our galaxy on a small planet orbiting a fairly insignificant star called the Sun. Now you've got me started on the Sun. I know it supplies the Earth with all its energy, but it does so pretty badly, all things considered. The Sun only radiates a fraction of a milliwatt per kilogram. That's hopeless! Pound for pound, a human being radiates more than a thousand times as much. All in all, stars are drastically overrated: bloated, wasteful, inefficient and not even slightly awesome. They're only noticeable because they're big. And we all know that size shouldn't really matter.
But even in what purports to be an interesting neighbourhood of our Galaxy, the nearest star is 4.5 light years from the Sun. To get that in perspective, imagine the Sun is the size of a golfball. On the same scale, where is the nearest star?
The answer to that will probably surprise you, as it does my students when I give this example in lectures. The answer is, in fact, on the order of a thousand kilometres away. That's the distance from Cardiff to, say, Munich. What a dull landscape our Galaxy possesses. In between one little golf ball in Wales and another one in Germany there's nothing of any interest at all, just a featureless incomprehensible void not worthy of the most perfunctory second thought; it's usually called France.
So galaxies aren't dazzlingly beautiful jewels of the heavens. They're flimsy, insubstantial things more like the cheap tat you can find on QVC. What's worse is that they're also full of a grubby mixture of soot and dust. Indeed, some are so filthy that you can hardly see any stars at all. Somebody needs to give the Universe a good clean. I suppose you just can't get the help these days.
And then there's the Big Bang. Well, I don't need to go on about that because I've already posted about it. Suffice to say that the Big Bang wasn't anywhere near as Big as you've been led to believe. The volume was between about 115 and 120 decibels. Quite loud, but many rock concerts are louder. Very disappointing. If I'd been in charge I would have put on something much more spectacular.
In any case the Big Bang happened a very long time ago. The Universe is now a cold and desolate place, lit by a few feeble stars and warmed only by the fading glow of the heat given off when it was all so much younger and more exciting. It's as if we inhabit a shabby downmarket retirement home, warmed only by the feeble radiation given off by a puny electric fire as we occupy ourselves as best we can until Armageddon comes.
No, the Universe isn't wonderful at all. In fact, it's basically a bit crummy. It's only superficially impressive because it's quite large, and it doesn't do to be impressed by things just because they are large. That would be vulgar.
Digression: I just remembered a story about a loudmouthed Texan who owned a big ranch and who was visiting the English countryside on holiday. Chatting to locals in the village pub he boasted that it took him several days to drive around his ranch. A farmer replied "Yes. I used to have a car like that."
We British just don't like showy things. It's in our genes. We're fundamentally a rather drab and dowdy race. We don't really enjoy being astonished either. We prefer things we can find fault with over things that intimidate us with their splendour. We're much more likely to tut disapprovingly than stare open-mouthed in amazement at something that seems pointlessly ostentatious. If pushed, we might even write a letter of complaint to the Council.
Ultimately, however, the fact is that whatever we think about it, we're stuck with it. Just like the trains, the government and the weather. Nothing we can do about it, so we might as well just soldier on. That's the British way.
So you can rest assured that none of this Wonders of the Universe stuff will distract us for long from getting on with the important things in life, such as watching Coronation Street.
Professor Brian Cox is 43.
Such a ShamePosted in Bute Park with tags Bute Park, Cardiff, Friends of the Earth on March 29, 2011 by telescoper
Thanks to MaryCav for this ironic take on the ongoing destruction of Britain's green spaces, including Bute Park. It was made by Friends of the Earth.
The Two DesertsPosted in Poetry, The Universe and Stuff with tags Convetry Patmore, The Guardian, The Two Deserts, William Wordsworth on March 28, 2011 by telescoper
An interesting choice for Poem of the Week in the Grauniad today is this, Two Deserts, by Coventry Patmore.
Not greatly moved with awe am I
To learn that we may spy
Five thousand firmaments beyond our own.
The best that's known
Of the heavenly bodies does them credit small.
View'd close, the Moon's fair ball
Is of ill objects worst,
A corpse in Night's highway, naked, fire-scarr'd, accurst;
And now they tell
That the Sun is plainly seen to boil and burst
Too horribly for hell.
So, judging from these two,
As we must do,
The Universe, outside our living Earth,
Was all conceiv'd in the Creator's mirth,
Forecasting at the time Man's spirit deep,
To make dirt cheap.
Put by the Telescope!
Better without it man may see,
Stretch'd awful in the hush'd midnight,
The ghost of his eternity.
Give me the nobler glass that swells to the eye
The things which near us lie,
Till Science rapturously hails,
In the minutest water-drop,
A torment of innumerable tails.
These at the least do live.
But rather give
A mind not much to pry
Beyond our royal-fair estate
Betwixt these deserts blank of small and great.
Wonder and beauty our own courtiers are,
Pressing to catch our gaze,
And out of obvious ways
Ne'er wandering far.
I think this is quite an interesting composition because of its fluid structure and variable metre, although I think the language is a bit contrived in places. Or is it just dated? However, as a scientist, I can't really agree with the sentiments it expresses (which are also found in abundance elsewhere in 19th Century poetry, such in Walt Whitman's When I heard the learn'd astronomer).
As the accompanying piece in the Guardian puts it,
Patmore hymns imaginative perception of local realities at the expense of scientific discovery: the reverse position is today's default.
I'm not sure that last statement is true, for most people, but in any case I'd argue that the more we discover through scientific means the more there is to inspire artists, as long as they have their imaginative eyes open…
Although you probably associate Patmore's point view with poets of the romantic tradition, such as Wordsworth (whose poetry I admire enormously), I think it's a misguided assertion that science ignores "the imaginative eye". I don't think it does. Science is full of imagination, it's just of a form different from that found in the arts. Science and the arts offer complementary ways of imagining. They're neither incompatible with each other nor is one superior to the other.
And, as I've mentioned before there's more to life than the tedious arts-versus-science rants beloved of certain academics. I can't think of a clearer expression of the supreme importance of simply living than this, from a poem by William Wordsworth I posted just a few days ago:
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up these barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
The Dissolution of the AssemblyPosted in Education, Finance, Politics with tags Higher Education, Leighton Andrews, Universities, Welsh Assembly Government on March 27, 2011 by telescoper
Yesterday's mail included a polling card for the forthcoming elections to the Welsh Assembly. Coincidentally, I found out this morning that the Welsh Assembly will be dissolved on 31st March, to be re-convened on or after 5th May when the elections are finished.
Until Thursday the Welsh Assembly Government comprises a coalition of New Labour and Plaid Cymru and, although I don't know enough about Welsh politics to predict what's going to happen with any real confidence, it seems reasonably likely that not much will change. I can't see the Tories or LibDems making any gains, at any rate.
I'm not sure of the extent to which Higher Education will be important in the forthcoming election campaign. It sure be, of course, as the relevant issues are those over which the Assembly has direct responsibility, education being one. The WAG's hands are tied to a large extent by the funding it receives from Westminster, and it also has many other calls on its purse, but I do hope the new WAG, whatever its complexion is, will do the right thing by Welsh universities when it re-forms in May.
I have to admit, though, that I'm very worried for the future. As I predicted when the new funding arrangements for English universities were announced, the vast majority – and certainly all the research intensive ones – will be charging the full £9K fee level from 2012. That means the current WAG's commitment to pay fees for Welsh-domiciled students wanting to study in England will be much more expensive than the WAG's estimates, which were based on an average fee level of £7.5K. English students wanting to study in Wales will have to pay whatever fee Welsh universities charge, which isn't known yet.
Currently about 25,000 English students study in Wales, compared with the 16,000 Welsh students who study in England. If numbers remain the same, in order for the funds coming in from England to exceed the money going to England, the fee level charged in Wales must be at least 64% of that charged in England, i.e. £5760 if all English universities charge £9K. That's way above the putative mininum fee level of £4K announced by the WAG; if Welsh universities charge fees at that level then the WAG will be providing a large net subsidy to English universities.
And breaking even isn't anywhere near enough. The WAG has signalled an intention to top-slice teaching budgets by about 40%. We don't yet know how that will be implemented, university-by-university and department-by-department, but unless there are to be wholesale closures of "expensive" subjects (i.e. science and engineering) fee levels will have to rise substantially above the level calculated above. My own employer, Cardiff University, a member of the Russell Group of research-led universities, will probably want to brand itself alongside the English universities belonging to this club by charging a high fee. I hope it doesn't do this, but the WAG's policies are pushing it in that direction. As one of Wales' biggest recruiters of English students, Cardiff will have to charge high fees in order to be seen as being of the same quality as leading English universities as well as to make up for funding lost in the latest round of deep cuts to recurrent grants.
The recent rhetoric of the WAG is all about achieving greater control of the HE sector in Wales to align it with strategic priorities within the Principality. This is certainly justifiable in principle as Wales has a university system which is far too fragmented and chaotic. Paradoxically, however, the WAG's own policies seem to be forcing Welsh universities to look to England for income to make up for the big cuts recently announced.
So what's the alternative?
I think it would be much more rational to ditch the commitment to fund Welsh-domiciled students for studying in England. If a student wants to go to England then they should experience the same fee regime as students domiciled there. After all, you wouldn't expect the WAG to pay fees for a Welsh student to go to America, would you? The cash thus saved should be reinvested in Welsh Higher Education, in accordance with the WAG's strategic priorities, and in keeping tuition fee levels as low as possible within the Principality. The best way to avoid tuition fee levels of £9K is to maintain core grants at a level that makes it unnecessary to charge so much.
It seems to me that this plan is a better deal for Welsh students, for English students wanting to study in Wales, for Welsh universities, and for the Welsh Assembly Government, but then I'm used to being in a minority of one.
Let's just say I'll be reading the party manifesto statements with great interest over the next few weeks…
When I do count the clocks that tell the timePosted in Poetry with tags British Summer Time, Poetry, Sonnet 12, William Shakespeare on March 27, 2011 by telescoper
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;
When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silvered o'er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer's green all girded up in sheaves
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,
Then of thy beauty do I question make
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence
Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
Sonnet 12 by William Shakespeare, posted on the occasion of having forgotten to put my clocks forward one hour for the start of British Summer Time...


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This coming fall Rochester Institute of Technology continues its excellent lecture series, "Women Design Pioneers." One of those featured is designer Henrietta Condak.
Back in 1992 Seymour Chwast invited me to be a judge on the panel of the Art Directors Club Annual Awards show. My first such venture, I have to admit I was awestruck by my renowned co-judges. At lunch I sat between AIGA medalist Fred Woodward and Henrietta Condak. Fred leaned over me and told her what a great influence her work had been on him. You can also add to that stellar list AIGA medalists Paula Scher and Caren Goldberg, both of whom worked with Henrietta.
A native New Yorker born in Manhattan, Henrietta attended Cooper Union. Upon graduation she began her career at Esquire's GQ (Gentleman's Quarterly) magazine and moved on to the Esquire Magazine promotion department. After leaving Esquire/GQ, she traveled with Massachusetts-born illustrator Cliff Condak, who had just quit had his job at the J. Walter Thompson Agency, to Florence, Italy, where they married.
In 1963 she joined the Columbia Records art department as a designer, working for art directors Bob Cato and John Berg. There, Henrietta and Cliff collaborated on occasion, but she also worked with many other illustrators, including David Levine, Robert Van Nutt, Philip Hays, Robert Weaver, John Collier, Milton Glaser, David Wilcox, et al. Cliff passed away in 1985.
Other album covers she designed were purely conceptual. Henrietta soon established a high standard of typographic excellence and design, making the most out of post-modern historical references, albeit in a completely contemporary and personal milieu. She was eventually joined at Columbia by other young designers like Scher and Goldberg, as well as Richard Mantel, Tony Lane, Anne Garner, Lloyd Ziff, Gerry Huerta, Andy Engle, Chris Austopchuk, Nancy Donald, et al.
Leaving Columbia in 1984, she opened her own studio, Condak Design, with music clients such as Nonesuch/Elektra Records, Score Productions, Balanchine Foundation, and publishing clients that included Simon & Schuster, Random House, Crown Publishing, Business Week, Time, Sports Illustrated, and the New York Times, among others, designing books as disparate as Martha Stewart's Pies & Tarts, The United States and China , and Damon Runyon, A Life by Jimmy Breslin.
Today Henrietta is fully engaged in her own design and fine art projects, the two at times overlapping. A professor at the School of Visual Arts since 1982, there was a recent exhibition of her senior Type Design students' work "Form and Letterform: Interventions 2010-2013" at the SVA Gallery. The following year the show was exhibited in Paris at the Ensa Paris–Malaquais Galerie (affiliated with L'Ecole Nationale Superieure D'Architecture). In ample evidence was Henrietta's continued influence on future generations.


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Ikat, retro and bright colours – interior design trends for 2016
- Nearly a quarter (23 per cent) of interior designers* believe patterns, bright colours and the eclectic Ikat** style will be the key trends for 2016
- The industrial, metallic style will be very 'last season' in 2016
- On trend home design for 2016 will have 1960's and 70's inspired furniture, Ikat soft furnishings, eclectic wallpaper, dark lighting and hardwood floors
- Bad luck Kelly Hoppen, designers hate the boring beige look
New research commissioned by Direct Line Home Insurance identifying the latest interior designer trends reveals that 2016 is going to be the year of pattern, texture and colour in people's homes.
Researchers questioned interior designers to understand the latest trends and identify what it takes to create a fashionable British home for 2016.
There are two key trends that will be dominating British interior design, nearly a quarter (23 per cent) of interior designers from across Britain believe warm colours like gold, burnt orange and bronze will be a key trend for 2016. The other top theme will be bright patterns and the Ikat style (23 per cent). Retro fashion will be making a comeback this year, with designers predicting 1960's and 70's colour schemes (16 per cent) will be making an appearance in many of our homes.
Table: Key design trends for 2016
|Warm colours – copper, gold, burnt orange
|Patterns – bright colours, bold patterns, Ikat style
|Retro mid-20th Century – 1960's and 70's
|Industrial look – metals, chromes, steels
|Florals, nature
|Pastel colours – pinks and greens
|Scandinavian furniture
|I was embarrassed about not being able to drive
|Marbles, golds, precious stones
Source: Direct Line Group 2015
Fashion‑conscious homeowners looking to redesign their home should be wary of picking last season's trends. Popular design trends from 2014/15 including matching metals, chrome fittings and dark colours were reported by 43 per cent of interior designers as going out of style this year.
In news to send shivers down the spine of Kelly Hoppen, the worst design trends ever to happen, according to the designers themselves are beige, boring, neutral homes. Designers also dislike the feature / accent wall look in rooms and the art deco style.
Katie Lomas, Head of Direct Line Home Insurance, commented: "For those wanting to ensure their home is 'on trend' in 2016 the advice is clear, be bold with patterns, colours and fabrics. The Ikat, eclectic style and retro 60's and 70's are key styles, which mean bright colours and vibrant patterns.
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Those wanting to redesign and ensure their entire home is up to date should take note of the specific advice from interior designers.
Those wanting their walls to be 'on trend' should not be afraid to be bold this year. With one in four (24 per cent) interior designers reporting eclectic Ikat style wallpaper as being the key trend for 2016. Some homeowners will be relieved to know that plain, neutral colours remain on trend for walls (17 per cent), while greys and blues are also popular (12 per cent)
The top three furniture trends for 2016 will be retro 1960's and 1970's furniture (18 per cent), handcrafted, unique, bespoke furniture (eight per cent) and classic British oaks and marbles (six per cent). Soft furnishing trends will be visually stimulating patterns like Ikat (16 per cent), dark colours (eight per cent) and textures like velvets (five per cent).
The top three design trends in lighting will be dark greys (16 per cent), exposed lighting (15 per cent) and retro LED lights (seven per cent). Flooring trends for 2016 will be hardwood, homely flooring (28 per cent), carpets (19 per cent) and geometric rugs (six per cent).
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Notes to editors
* Research carried out amongst 100 interior designers between 9th and 23rd November 2015
** Ikat, or Ikkat, is a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles that employs a resist dyeing process on the yarns prior to dyeing and weaving the fabric
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Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea: Preview, Likely Line-up & Predicted Score
Tottenham welcome Chelsea to White Hart Lane tonight looking to open a 5 point gap over the Blues. Here's a match preview with likely line-up & predicted score.
- Posted December 21, 2011
Tottenham Hotspur v Sunderland: Preview, Likely Line-up & Predicted Score
Tottenham welcome Sunderland to White Hart Lane on Sunday looking to get back to winning ways. Here's a preview, likely line-up and predicted team
- Posted December 17, 2011
Shamrock Rovers v Tottenham Hotspur: Preview, Team News & Predicted Score
Tottenham play Shamrock Rovers in their last Europa League game needing a 5-goal swing to qualify. Here's a preview with team news and predicted score.
- Posted December 15, 2011
Stoke v Tottenham Hotspur: Preview, Tactical Analysis & Predicted Score
Tottenham travel to the Britannia to face Stoke City looking to continue their impressive run of form. Here we review the game and predict the score.
- Posted December 10, 2011
Tottenham Hotspur vs Bolton Wanderers: Preview & Predicted Score
Oh the joys of being a Tottenham Hotspur fan. Everything was going so well, unbeaten in 10 league games, winning 9 and top of the Premier League form table with very hushed mutterings of a title challenge....
- Posted December 3, 2011
Tottenham Hotspur v PAOK: Preview, Predicted Team & Score
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How are we to explain the continent's remarkable rebirth after the war?by Jonathan Derbyshire / December 26, 2015 / Leave a comment
The historian Ian Kershaw is the author of an acclaimed two-volume biography of Hitler. His latest book, "To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949", is the first in a two-volume history of modern Europe (and is part of Penguin's "History of Europe" series, edited by David Cannadine). This volume ends in 1949, just as the reconstruction of Europe after what Kershaw calls the continent's "self-destruction" is beginning. Its successor will take him up to the present day.
I spoke to Kershaw in London in the autumn and began by asking him why he decided to end this part of the story in 1949, rather than the more obvious punctuation point of 1945, when hostilities formally ended.
IK: 1945 is the obvious place to stop. And I thought of stopping there. 1946-49 is a transitional era. In 1946, just after the war, Europe's in terrible shape. It seems unthinkable that Europe would recover so rapidly from that catastrophe. I thought I would take the story on to see how the beginnings of a new era were possible. A German friend said to me: "Very nice, you've ended with the creation of two Germanys in 1949."
JD: But presumably, in the first instance, that period was concerned more with reckoning than with reconstruction?
Yes, initially. The first phase was to do with the reckoning, and naturally enough, in all these [European] countries, the first stage after the liberation was, "Now we have to have a reckoning with the people who brought us to catastrophe." That was done in different ways, as I try to outline [in the book]. But quite rapidly, as the Cold War begins to set in, they turn to questions of reconstruction.
You can see this also in foreign policy, with the emergence of Nato. In economic terms, [western European countries] are asking if it makes sense to keep Germany on its knees—you need Germany for economic recovery. So the whole thing turns quite swiftly. You move from a period of recrimination and reckoning to one of rebuilding.
You write that "denazification" was largely a failure. Why was that? And what were the consequences?
The answer to the first question is that the logistics were totally impossible. In [countries other than Germany] you were dealing with a tiny number of collaborators and you could sort them out relatively quickly. In Germany, where millions of people were involved in one way or another with the Nazis, how could you have gone about the same process? They [the Allies] couldn't do it.
Whatever intentions they started out with, in a year or two it [was clear] that it was more important to get [Germany] stabilised in terms of building a bulwark against Soviet Communism. So the drive rapidly went out of the denazification process.
What were the consequences? Well, an obvious consequence—and the same was true in Austria—was that large numbers of people who'd been involved in pretty shady things got away with it. They were reintegrated into society or had their crimes hushed up. Stabilising democracy was seen as more important than rooting out the Nazis in their midst. So you had this period of self-imposed collective amnesia, because the future, it was thought, was more important than the past.
That unfinished business becomes particularly contentious in Germany in the mid-to-late Sixties doesn't it? The student unrest in May '68 in Germany was in part an attempt to begin an overdue reckoning with it.
It had started a bit before with the Eichmann trial [in Israel in 1961-62] and the Auschwitz trials [in Germany in 1963-65]. So people's eyes had been opened. Then you had a new generation coming along and the '68 student demonstrations when attention is turned towards Nazism in a way that it hadn't been before.
Let's go back to the beginning of the story you're telling in this book. If one were trying to describe it in a slightly old-fashioned idiom, you might say that this is a book about the origins of the Second World War. Would it be at all accurate to describe it in that way?
I think that'd be a bit of a shortcut. It's [about] why Europe plunged into a double catastrophe in the first half of the 20th century, and how it then started to emerge from that double catastrophe to bring about, unexpectedly and in a short space of time, the beginnings of decades of peace and prosperity.
In the introduction to this book you identify four interlocking factors which led to the "self-destruction of Europe": ethno-nationalist conflict; territorial conflict, fomented, presumably, by the shortcomings of the Treaty of Versailles; class conflict stimulated by the Russian Revolution; and the crisis of capitalism. Which of those do you think contributed most to the outbreak of war in 1939, or do you think that, by themselves, they were necessary but not sufficient for the conflagration?
Each of them individually was a necessary component but insufficient on their own to cause the catastrophic destruction that ensued in the Second World War. Each of those factors was present in an extreme way in Germany [between the two World Wars], and bundled together they provide the explosion.
Does the traditional idea of a "German problem" or "German question" in Europe have any explanatory force here?
When you try to explain complex developments, some of these shortcut arguments are not wrong, they're just insufficient. To say that something like the "German problem" is the reason we had two world wars really won't do. But Germany is at the centre of events. And for that matter, even in the second half of the century, if you look at what happens after the war—the Cold War, the economic miracle, then the end of the Cold War—Germany is somehow central to everything that happens.
You have a chapter entitled "Hell on Earth" which deals with the war itself and the Holocaust. You say there that securing food for Germany's population was the imperative that was driving its war aims. Timothy Snyder, in his recent book Black Earth, argued that one could also understand the Final Solution in terms of ecological panic. Would you go that far?
Economic arguments, including the quest for land and food, are obviously part of this onslaught on Eastern Europe. The Jews, though, were a small number, six million or so, out of the whole population of Eastern Europe. In 1941, the "general plan" for the east spoke about transplanting 30m people from that area over the next 25 years. That is more closely connected to the securing of land and wealth than the destruction of the Jews.[Snyder's] argument, therefore, is putting the cart before the horse. In Hitler's own thinking, vicious, lethal and exterminatory anti-Semitism comes first. You find that in his speeches in the very early 1920s. The Lebensraum stuff comes in later on.
How does Hitler's prosecution of the war dovetail with the Final Solution? You point out that the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 turns genocidal almost from the start.
At the beginning, from the very day they entered the Soviet Union, German security police were killing large number of Jews—mainly male Jews, initially. The next step came in late July and August [of 1941], when they then started [killing] women and children as well. That was a major step up only a few weeks after they'd begun Operation Barbarossa. It becomes wholesale extermination relatively quickly.
How does it dovetail [with the conventional war effort]? As the plans for [the invasion of] Russia were building up, the idea was then to send them to inhospitable parts of the Soviet Union. But once the war stalls, they can't do that either, so [you ultimately] get the notion of death camps in Poland.
At the end of the introduction, you make the very important point that while the Second World War outdid the First in moral squalor and the sheer scale of the slaughter, it nevertheless paved the way for the extraordinary rebirth of western Europe, at least, after the War. So one of the things this book is trying to do is to work out how that was possible.
I started out with this complicated double question. First how was it possible to plunge into this level of catastrophe? Second, how and why did Europe begin on the route out of this? The second volume will take that on and will probably end on an equivocal note.
Ian Kershaw's "To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949" is published by Allen Lane (£30)


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Complaint filed against Bishop Julius Trimble
Seventeen lay and clergypersons from the Iowa Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church have filed a formal complaint against their former episcopal leader, Bishop Julius Trimble, for "disobedience to the order and discipline of The United Methodist Church" and an unwillingness to do the work of ministry entailed by a bishop. Trimble has recently been reassigned to the Indiana Annual Conference. The complaint, which will be represented by the Revs. Craig Peters, Mike Morgan, and John Gaulke was sent to Bishop Gregory Palmer and Bishop Hee-Soo Jung, president and secretary of the North Central Jurisdiction College of Bishops. (As eluded to above, fourteen additional lay and clergy members of the Iowa Annual Conference have also added their names to the complaint.)
The focus of the complaint centers on the public testimony of the Rev. Anna Blaedel, a campus minister at the University of Iowa Wesley Center, when she announced before her colleagues at the Iowa Annual Conference in June, "I am a self-avowed practicing homosexual. Or in my language, I am out, queer, partnered, clergy."
In response to Blaedel's public comments, a complaint against the campus minister was filed. After one supervisory response meeting, the bishop was unsuccessful in obtaining a mutually agreeable just resolution. Bishop Trimble summarily – and incorrectly – dismissed the complaint against the Rev. Blaedel and reappointed her as an ordained clergyperson.
The Iowa United Methodists who filed the complaint point out that Bishop Trimble does not have the right – according to the Judicial Council – to "legally negate, ignore, or violate provisions of the Discipline with which [he] disagrees, even when the disagreements are based upon conscientious objections to those provisions" (Decision 886).
The concerned persons also contend that Bishop Trimble's failure to provide a written explanation of the dismissal of the complaints is a failure to do the work of ministry of a bishop. "The disruption caused by the bishop's dismissal of the complaint has been severe," write the three pastors representing the group, "impacting local church members and clergy across the Iowa Annual Conference who do not understand why the clear standards of our Discipline have been ignored. Bishop Trimble made no provision for a process of healing, which constitutes a failure to do the work of ministry and a violation of the requirements of the Discipline."
In his negligence to the process of handling the complaint, Bishop Trimble failed to consult with – or even notify – the complainants before dismissing the complaint.
"We are reluctant to file this complaint and do so out of love for our church and its integrity," state the three clergypersons representing the group. "The integrity and trustworthiness of the church is undermined when a bishop chooses to arbitrarily ignore violations of our covenant life, especially when those violations are so public."
Rev. Craig Peters, 319-210-8316
Rev. Mike Morgan, 319-721-8549
Rev. John Gaulke, 515-967-2991


text: Interesting facts about Switzerland Admin 05-02-2019 Interesting facts about Switzerland - photo# 1 1. Switzerland is called the most "mountainous" country on Earth. 2/3 of its territory is occupied by landscapes with snowy peaks and inaccessible mountains.2. The longest mountain tunnel was built in this country. The length of Lechberg (this is its name) reaches more than 34 kilometers. Interesting facts about Switzerland - photo# 2 3. Swiss penknife (one of the most popular and high-quality inventions) has a red color or elements of this shade. And this is not a fad. Just it will be easier to find, for example, in grass, water or snow.4. Jodl - the whimsical singing of the Swiss, which has no words, was originally coined by shepherds. So they kept in touch with each other. Interesting facts about Switzerland - photo# 3 5. Fondue - the most famous Swiss dish. Who would have thought that the restaurant menu item used to be poor food. The peasants simply ate up the remnants of cheese and bread.6. The state makes quite interesting demands to its guardsmen. They should not wear a beard, long hair, be below 174 centimeters in height and marry (during service). But, as practice shows, sometimes these rules are violated. For example, you can take as a wife a woman who is a Catholic. Interesting facts about Switzerland - photo# 4 7. Swiss forests - a paradise for mushroom pickers. But a large number of white mushrooms with perfect hats the Swiss not only do not collect, but do not even eat.8. In Switzerland, more than 6 hundred lakes. And each of them - as a work of art. Interesting facts about Switzerland - photo# 5 9. The official name of Switzerland is the Swiss Confederation, although in fact it is a federal republic.10. There are no apartment numbers in Switzerland. Instead, special signs with the names of the guests are posted.11. The equipment of Swiss soldiers includes the famous army knife. In addition to the folding knife, it includes a corkscrew, a can opener, scissors, a screwdriver, a saw, an awl, a key ring, tweezers, a file, toothpicks, pliers. But more modern models of army knives are equipped with electronic clock, LED, laser pointer, flash memory with USB interface and even MP3-player. Interesting facts about Switzerland - photo# 6 12. Interesting facts about Switzerland concern education. So, children go to school at the age of four. The working week is 4 days.13. On the streets of this European country you will not find stray dogs and cats.14. On the territory of Switzerland after 9 pm in any store do not sell alcohol.15. The majority of the population of Switzerland are Christians.16. The first Swiss wristwatch was invented by Pattek Philippe in 1868. Interesting facts about Switzerland - photo# 7 17. The population of Switzerland speaks 4 different (official) languages: German, Italian, French and very rare Romance.18. The first mention of Swiss cheese dates back to the first century of our era.19. For cows in Switzerland to give more milk, they are tied with "weighting" around their necks. So it is difficult for an animal to raise its head, so it constantly eats grass.20. Most varieties of Swiss cheese does not have eyes that are characteristic of this product.21. The most popular cheeses in Switzerland are Emmental and Gruyer. They are used in the traditional recipe for fondue.


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- Who Speaks for America's Children?: The Role of Child Advocates in Public Policy
June 7, 2010
Because nonprofit and voluntary organizations are primary vehicles of citizen action and participation, they serve as important mechanisms to understand how the needs of children can be heard in the policymaking process and how the quality of children's lives can be improved.
- 2007 Child Well-Being Index (CWI) Special Focus Report on International Comparisons
June 7, 2010
This analysis compares the United States to the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
- The School Readiness and Academic Achievement in Reading and Mathematics of Young Hispanic Children in the United States
June 7, 2010
This policy brief from the National Task Force on Early Childhood Education for Hispanics presents data on the reading and math readiness of Hispanic children at the start of kindergarten and their achievement at the end of fifth grade.
- Exploring Connections Between Emergent Biliteracy and Bilingualism
June 7, 2010
This article by the Foundation for Child Development's former Young Scholar, Iliana Reyes, published in the Journal of Early Childhood Literacy (Volume 6, Pages 267-292), explores the ways in which young emergent bilingual children begin to develop literacy in two languages, Spanish and English.
- Racial-Ethnic Inequality in Child Well-Being from 1985-2004: Gaps Narrowing, But Persist
June 3, 2010
Since 1985, racial/ethnic differences among Black, Hispanic, and White children have been narrowing overall.
- Trends in Infancy/Early Childhood and Middle Childhood Well-Being: 1994-2006
June 3, 2010
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- Child Well-Being Index (CWI) 2008 Report
June 3, 2010
Annual Release - July 22, 2008 The 2008 annual release of the Foundation for Child Development's Child Well-Being Index (CWI) finds that after an upward trend for eight years, 1994 through 2002, progress in American children's quality of life has now moved into a stall/slow growth period.
- An Ounce of Prevention: How Early Efforts for Education, Health and Safety Make a Critical Difference in the Well-Being of Children
June 3, 2010
Co-sponsored by Representative Mike Castle (R-DE) and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), The New America Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development hosted An Ounce of Prevention: How Early Efforts for Education, Health and Safety Make a Critical Difference in the Well-Being of Children, on Tuesday, September 9, 2008, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168, Capitol Hill.


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Veterinary Technician? Burn-Out? Considering a career CHANGE? Perhaps it is time to REINVENT yourself.
You do not have to place catheters or explain post-surgical care to clients to make an impact in an animal's life.
So, you have been working in a clinical setting since you graduated and every day seems like you are having a deja vu moment. 'Didn't we do this yesterday?!' Wellness exams, fecal floats, cat neuters and dog spays. The highlight of your day is when the doctor decides to spay a 200 pound overweight 11 year old Saint Bernard and you are the anesthetist. Sure the case is intense and keeps you on your toes, but it's a sure thing that your back is going to ache tomorrow!. Though you love your patients and clients (most of them), you are beginning to wonder if there are other career options within the profession. I am here to tell you, YES, THERE ARE.
Twelve years ago, I graduated a technician program and began working in a prestigious veterinary college. Each day was truly an adventure: preparing horses for emergency colic surgery, placing multi-lumen jugular catheters in Yorkies suffering from portosystemic liver shunts, performing lumbosacral epidurals in overweight Labradors and providing guidance to the next generation of veterinarians. I left work knowing I contributed to someone's education and maybe even had a positive influence on their opinion about the value of licensed veterinary technicians. One of the many rewards of being a technician in post-secondary academia is working alongside some of the best veterinarians, technicians, assistants and support staff in the industry. You learn EVERY day in a supportive environment with coworkers who respect you, utilize all your nursing skills, and encourage you to be a better nurse; what could be better? This was my experience in clinical veterinary education and I wish every graduate technician had the opportunity to flourish in this type of environment. In most cases, the benefit package outweighs the salary, but there are opportunities for advancement, especially if you have/earn an advanced degree or earn a specialty.
Due to my spouse's job relocation, I found myself leaving a workplace I adored and job-hunting on the other side of the country. Finding the "right fit" was paramount, so I began offering my services for relief work. Staff members go on vacations, get sick or quit short-notice, so managers seek short and long term replacements. By working relief jobs, you will meet a diverse array of people and pick up nursing tips, techniques, and communication skills along the way. This type of employment not only gets your foot in the door to many hospitals, but you can decide your salary. Progressive practice owners and managers seek out, and compensate, experienced professionals to enhance their patient care and client perception. So, relief work can turn into the opportunity for permanent employment if you share their philosophy and have "the goods" to offer them.
Another job relocation later, again I found myself job-hunting. Interviews at private practices proved fruitless and being unemployed was not an option for my family. Though a human healthcare position seemed unfathomable, it was still within the medical/science field. Human medicine is not that different from veterinary medicine and some employers hire graduates with any type of science-based associate or bachelor degree. For example, you have been performing venipuncture on a vast array of animals. Tiny "hair" veins, "hose" veins, "hidden" veins, scarred veins and "virgin" veins are your forte. How about phlebotomy on people as an option? It isn't as creepy as it seems, though the first couple "sticks" are strange without a restrainer. I discovered most states do not require an applicant to possess human phlebotomy experience. Pathologists are interested in folks with anatomy knowledge to help them process blood, urine, and other diagnostic specimens. A human finger versus a canine toe in a formalin jar may test your gag reflex, but you may be surprised what you can do when you need income. You will be surprised how applicable your veterinary nursing skills and education are to this type of employment.
As graduate veterinary technicians, we have the option to teach in technician and assistant programs. Not only are there classroom courses, there are also distance-learning courses that need credentialed technicians to provide instruction to students. You are provided with a set curriculum and syllabus as guidance, but you have the freedom to structure and plan your class(es). Unless this is a full-time position, the salary may not reflect the amount of time and energy you put into preparing lectures, assignments, quizzes, exams, activities, organizing guest speakers and mentoring students. But, if you are working a full-time job elsewhere and need extra income and a challenge, choose this path. Teaching assistant and technician courses is a nice refresher and knowing you are helping to shape future technicians and assistants can be additional "compensation".
If you thrive on client interaction/communication, possess the ability to "sell" pre-anesthetic blood work to every client you meet, and are organized/detail-oriented, a position in the sales or research industry may be an option. Not only are pharmaceutical companies looking for qualified veterinary technicians, animal food companies employ technicians to be representatives, but also as to be on their research animal care team. Research does not just mean autoclaving rat cages, but you may be providing prophylactic dentistry or physical/mental enrichment to the company's dogs and cats or collecting data from food trials. These jobs may require relocation, so make sure you are committed to a change in scenery so to speak.
Perhaps you are loyal to your hospital, enjoy the daily grind, but need a challenge to stimulate your mind. How about writing a blog or journal articles? I'm not talking about writing work-cited-research-scientific-case-study stuff. Write for your peers and others wanting to understand our profession. Share your experiences, tips, and accomplishments. We work in an intense, highly emotional career field. Sometimes it is validating to know someone else feels the same way you feel after a multiple-euthanasia day. We all know that venting to non-veterinary friends can be just as frustrating as that incompetent coworker who refuses to take your advice. Maybe you can share advice about how to discuss care plans (estimates) with angry clients that can encourage a colleague to improve their communication skills. Writing provides an outlet for your creativity and helps connect you with peers. It is also a gratifying way to "vent" with people who understand your job. We all need perspective sometimes and it is our ethical obligation to support and encourage our fellow technicians so the profession can receive the recognition and respect we deserve.
When you wake up each morning dreading your job, you need a change. Maybe this means you need to find another hospital that will be more mutually beneficial. Sometimes unforeseen events require you to relocate, forcing you to explore alternate avenues. Either way, you need to "reboot" your resume (ask a former instructor to review it) and reevaluate what you want and need from your career. I never realized how small the veterinary world is until I moved across country. There will always be someone somewhere who knows the same people you know. If you are moving, ask your coworkers if they know any veterinary hospitals in your new town. This is called 'networking'. Register your information on a professional employment/networking site to reach a wider audience. Opportunities that have never crossed your mind will present themselves and, there you go, a new path to travel.
So, before you get so frustrated with your job that you are contemplating a career outside of veterinary medicine, it may be time to reinvent yourself and explore alternatives. You do not have to place catheters or explain post-surgical care to clients to have an impact in an animal's life. Sharing your knowledge with students, advice with peers, and skills for people outside of the veterinary profession can also improve our patients' quality of life. Choose, or create, a job that not only provides you with a way to pay your bills, but one that refreshes your passion and pride in being a veterinary technician.
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The Imagined/Ideal versus the Experienced/Real
There is a constant struggle between these two worlds in Keats' poetry. In "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale", "The Eve of St. Agnes", and others, characters express disappointment when they compare the ideal worlds formed in the imagination to the necessarily subpar world of reality.
"Romance" is defined here as a movement which prized and prioritized vivid moods and flights of fancy. Keats' constant preoccupation with early death (which proved to be a reasonable preoccupation, in his case) and his focus on the impossibility of achieving artistic/romantic fulfillment during his lifetime are interests that both fall squarely within the Romantic tradition. In his treatment of such themes, he was greatly influenced by another Romantic poet, William Wordsworth, who described the moments of drama and insight that can occur in the course of everyday life.
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As a true Romantic, Keats shows extreme appreciation for the natural world in his poetry. Detailed descriptions of plants (including over a hundred species names) are included in many of his poems, including "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode to Psyche". For Keats, the natural world represents a kind of Eden, and is the only environment which comes close to mirroring the idyllic world of the imagination.
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Keats states, in a letter to Richard Woodhouse, that "the mere yearning and fondness" he has for the Beautiful is the greatest impetus for his poetry. But the nature of beauty itself is something Keats also explores in a few poems. In "Ode on Melancholy", he expresses the Romantic idea that beauty and joy can only be found in opposition: beauty can only be found in melancholy. "Ode on a Grecian Urn", however, concludes with the timeless lines, "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty," perhaps a simpler concept and a more reassuring answer. In any case, a love of beautiful things -- both physical and philosophical -- is one of the touchstones of Keats' work.
Any casual reader of Keats will quickly recognize that mortality is one of the poet's major preoccupations. Having lost his father when he was at age eight, his mother at fifteen, and his brother at twenty-three, Keats was forced to reckon with the human condition from an early age. The topic of mortality arises directly in poems such as "When I have fears that I may cease to be", in which Keats struggles with the prospect of dying before he has achieved artistic success. Similar themes are addressed more indirectly in "Ode to a Nightingale", in which he wishes (though perhaps only for dramatic effect) to die while listening to the songbird of the title.
The ultimate inextricability of pleasure from pain, joy from sorrow, happiness from melancholy, and life from death is essential to Keats' poetry. Keats believed that recognition of these relationships is a hallmark of practical education. In a letter to his brother George and sister-in-law Georgiana (in May of 1819), Keats writes, "Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?" Without pain, pleasure could never be experienced fully. This paradox is described most directly in "Ode on Melancholy", but also appears in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "The Eve of St. Agnes".
Romantic Notions of the Female
Mystical female figures are a constant presence in Keats' poetry: these range from Psyche in "Ode to Psyche", to the Belle Dame in "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", to the female figures of Love, Ambition, and Poesy in "Ode on Indolence". Female figures are often marked by a dreamy otherworldliness; in fact, even mortal women like the mistress in "Ode on Melancholy" have "peerless eyes" that are to be "fed upon" in the midst of angry moods. Madeline, in "The Eve of St. Agnes", represents notions of female virginity and sexual purity. Keats's male figures are often chivalrous, but Keats himself often plays the role of spectator-poet in relation to the women he describes.


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Dr. Alan Meek and former Ontario Superior Court Chief Justice Patrick LeSage appointed to oversee external review
Newmarket, ON (August 9, 2010) - The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Ontario SPCA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Alan H. Meek and the Honourable Patrick LeSage, Q.C., will lead an independent External Review of the events leading up to, during and immediately following the ringworm outbreak that took place in May at the Ontario SPCA's York Region Branch.
Dr. Meek will examine the protocols and procedures in place that were meant to prevent an outbreak of this kind, and determine whether they were breached. Dr. Meek will also examine all aspects of how the outbreak was managed by Ontario SPCA staff.
Mr. LeSage will advise on non-veterinary issues that emerge during the review.
Dr. Meek is one of Ontario's most highly respected veterinarians, having been a faculty member of the University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College for over 30 years, where he also served as Dean. Patrick LeSage served as a judge for 29 years, including Chief Justice of the Ontario Superior Court from 1996 to 2002. Since retiring in 2004, Mr. LeSage has served on the Board of Governors of York University, been elected a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and been appointed a commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission. Mr. LeSage was appointed to review Ontario's police complaints system, completed in 2005. In 2008, he was appointed by Ontario's Attorney General to review large and complex criminal case procedures.
They will have unfettered access to all Ontario SPCA staff, volunteers and managers, as well as all outside experts who were consulted regarding the ringworm outbreak. Furthermore, they have the authority to engage additional expertise at their discretion. They will report to the Ontario SPCA Board upon the completion of the review.
"We are pleased to welcome such distinguished Ontarians as Dr. Meek and Mr. LeSage to report on the events that led up to the unfortunate ringworm outbreak, and we offer our full co-operation as they embark on this important review," said Ontario SPCA Chair Rob Godfrey. "We are hopeful that this review can lead to significant improvements in animal shelter management, not just within the Ontario SPCA, but throughout North America, so that we can better fulfill our public trust."
Dr. Meek was appointed through a process in which the Ontario SPCA was not involved. The University of Guelph was asked to recommend three candidates with the appropriate expertise. The names and credentials of those recommended were sent to the British Columbia SPCA's Chief Executive Officer, who made the final decision appointing Dr. Meek.
Mr. Godfrey will make the review public at the earliest opportunity and immediately undertake the appropriate actions necessary to prevent a similar crisis from occurring in the future.
For more information contact:
Rosaline Ryan
Director, Marketing and Communications
Ontario SPCA
Mobile (416) 428-9886
Director, Marketing and Communications
Ontario SPCA
Mobile (416) 428-9886
The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Ontario SPCA): Protecting animals since 1873, the Ontario SPCA is a registered charity comprised of over 50 Communities relying primarily on donations to fund animal protection, care and rehabilitation; advocacy; and humane education. The Ontario SPCA Act mandates the Society to enforce animal cruelty laws and provides Society investigators with police powers to do so - making the Ontario SPCA unique among animal welfare organizations in the province. The Ontario SPCA is affiliated with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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...May they forever carry the torch of both our hardships, and our friendships. SOBWHIMPERBAWL. Liz, you beat me to posting the photo. Stupidface.
(For those uninformed, these are the people with whom I spent the majority of my waking hours in and out of class- god bless 'em.)
And, on another note, I have no idea how to deal with crushes. I'm an official 'shoulder to lean on' when it comes to relationship issues, and yet I have no idea how to handle my own love life. Huh.


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Occupational Therapy and Speech-Language Pathology Students Participate in Dominican Republic Service-Learning Projects
WASHINGTON (Aug. 1, 2013) – Howard University graduate students from the departments of Occupational Therapy and Communication Sciences and Disorders Speech-Language Pathology completed a service-learning fieldwork and clinical practicum in theDominican Republic from June 23 to July 7. The team of 10 students served more than 100 children and their families and visited local hospitals and rehabilitation clinics. The students were accompanied by Felecia M. Banks, Ph.D., OT/L, chairperson of the Department of Occupational Therapy; Martine Elie, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, director of the Speech and Hearing Clinic at Howard; and Sertia Poindexter, M.S., OTR/L, an occupational therapy clinical instructor.
BlackStar Film Festival Honors Howard Film Program
WASHINGTON (Aug. 1, 2013) – The 2nd Annual BlackStar Film Festival, which opens this week in Philadelphia, will bestow a special honor on the Howard University Film Program as well as present an all-star panel on Howard's contribution to filmmaking, "Howard University and Visualizing Blackness." The Aug. 4 panel will include renowned filmmaker and director of the Howard University Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Film program, Haile Gerima; cinematographer Bradford Young (MFA '04), actress Loren Lillian (B.A. '00); and filmmaker Najma Nuriddin (MFA '11). Howard professor Montré Aza Missouri, Ph.D., will serve as moderator. Panelists will discuss the legacy of the Howard film program, the philosophy of their work and the future of Black film. For more information, visit here. Over the past several years, Howard film alumni have been steadily winning awards and gaining recognition for cinematography, directing and producing. The MFA graduate program — the only one of its kind at an Historically Black College or University (HBCU) — is now celebrating its 30th year. BlackStar Festival organizers said the MFA program is becoming widely known for "a specific, politically-charged aesthetic in which students are encouraged to push beyond the boundaries of conventional cinema to represent Black bodies masterfully and beautifully." BlackStar Film Festival will screen 75 feature films, short films, and music videos representing four continents, and hold a special awards ceremony, panels, concerts, receptions, and a screenplay competition. The festival will primarily take place at International House of Philadelphia with additional screenings at Drexel University and The Barnes Foundation.
Freshmen Leaders Embark on China Academic Exchange
WASHINGTON (Aug. 1, 2013) – Students in the Howard University Freshman Leadership Academy (FLA) program are experiencing a global connection this summer by traveling to China and studying in Beijing and Shanghai. As part of the international experience, students are taking part in lectures, leadership seminars and cultural tours. This year, 42 students are traveling to China from July 14 to Aug. 4. The experiences are designed to broaden their appreciation of world cultures, improve their intercultural communication skills and increase awareness of what it means to be a global citizen. This year marks the third summer FLA students have traveled to China.
Lorraine Fleming, Ph.D., Named Interim Dean of College of Engineering,Architecture and Computer Sciences
WASHINGTON (July 31, 2013) – Provost and Chief Academic Officer Wayne A.I. Frederick, M.D., MBA, today announced the appointment of Lorraine Fleming, Ph.D., as the Interim Dean of the College of Engineering, Architecture and Computer Sciences (CEACS). She succeeds Dr. James Mitchell. The appointment is effective August 1, 2013. The University will begin a search for a permanent dean this fall. "We commend Dr. James Mitchell for his decanal leadership and his dedication to enhancing the STEM research environment at Howard University. He also played an instrumental role in the renovation of Downing Hall and the centennial celebration of engineering and architecture programs at Howard," Frederick said. Through the Office of the Provost, Dr. Mitchell will lead an initiative to explore entrepreneurial opportunities around innovation and research. Dr. Fleming is a professor and former Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering.
Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Ph.D. Named School of Social Work Interim Dean
WASHINGTON (June 21, 2013) – Provost and Chief Academic Officer Wayne A.I. Frederick, M.D., MBA, today announced the appointment of Sandra Edmonds Crewe, Ph.D., as the interim dean of the School of Social Work. Dr. Crewe succeeds Cudore Snell, D.S.W., who will retire as dean on June 30. "We thank Dean Snell for his extraordinary service as dean to the School of Social Work from 2003-2013," Frederick said. "Under his leadership, the School of Social Work grew in prominence with nationally-ranked programs at the master's and doctoral levels. Dean Snell also led several national and international research, scholarship and service initiatives."
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center To Host Five Summer Faculty Fellows
WASHINGTON (June 18, 2013) – The Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (MSRC) of the Howard University Library System (HULS) has selected five Howard University faculty members from a range of academic disciplines as 2013 Summer Faculty Fellows. This summer's MSRC Fellows
Bison Athletics Receives Major Academic Recognition from NCAA and MEAC
WASHINGTON (July 25, 2013) – Howard University students athletes rank among the best in the nation. Both NCAA and the MEAC have recently announced major academic honors for high-performing athletes at Howard. "Howard University has a tradition of academic excellence," said Howard University Director of Athletics Louis "Skip" Perkins. "We are very proud of the recent recognition from the NCAA and MEAC Commissioner. These represent the hard work, commitment and dedication of our student athletes, coaches and athletics staff.
Howard University College of Medicine Leads 6th Annual National Clinicians HIV/AIDS Testing and Awareness Day
WASHINGTON (July 24, 2013) – This week marked the sixth annual National Clinicians HIV/AIDS Testing and Awareness Day (NCHATAD), spearheaded by Howard University's College of Medicine. The University partnered with institutions nationwide to strengthen the HIV clinical workforce and increase clinicians' knowledge, awareness, and commitment to eradicate HIV/AIDS and stigma surrounding the disease within minority communities. On July 21, Howard worked with partners and congressional leaders to help reduce the stigma and barriers associated with routine HIV testing and to increase treatment capacity. This is part of the University's local, regional and national network plan to empower clinicians with training to increase their awareness about HIV/AIDS and to effectively test, refer and treat minorities living with HIV/AIDS.
College of Pharmacy Alumna Elected President of the Drug Information Association's Board of Directors
WASHINGTON (July 24) - Howard University College of Pharmacy alumna, Minnie Baylor-Henry, JD, RPh, ('72) was elected to serve as the president of the Drug Information Association (DIA) and chair of its Board of Directors during the Association's 49th Annual Meeting in Boston, June 23-27. Baylor-Henry's year-long tenure began June 30. DIA is a global, professional association of nearly 18,000 members involved in the discovery, development, and life cycle management of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and related health-care products. "The College of Pharmacy and entire University community applaud Dr. Baylor-Henry on her election," said Anthony K. Wutoh, Ph.D., R.Ph, dean of the College of Pharmacy. "She is truly a daughter of Howard and the College of Pharmacy. Her extensive clinical, regulatory, and life sciences knowledge will undoubtedly be beneficial to DIA and, indeed, to the profession of pharmacy."
Howard University Co-Presents FOUR LITTLE GIRLS: Birmingham 1963
WASHINGTON (July 23, 2013) – Howard University and The Kennedy Center, Project1Voice, in conjunction with Duke Ellington School of the Arts and African Continuum Theatre Company, present a free, staged reading of the play FOUR LITTLE GIRLS: Birmingham 1963 on Sept. 15, 2013 at 6 p.m. in the Family Theater, located within the Kennedy Center. For tickets, call (202) 467-4600, (800) 444-1324, or visit www.kennedy-center.org. Written by playwright Christina Ham and directed by Tony Award®-winning actress and Howard alumna Phylicia Rashad, the reading commemorates the 50th anniversary of the bombing that took the lives of four young girls at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. The free performance is part of the Kennedy Center's daily, free Millennium Stage series and will be broadcast live on the Center's website. Following the reading, there will be a post-performance discussion. Casting will be announced at a later date.
Howard University Hosts College Readiness Program for 25 Students Interested in Health Professions
WASHINGTON (July 23, 2013) – Howard University College of Arts and Sciences welcomed participants in the 2013 Prefreshman Academic Summer Enhancement Program to campus in July. The program is sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Howard University School of Law's Response to State of Florida v. George Zimmerman
George Zimmerman is not innocent; he was found not guilty of the charges of Second Degree Murder or Manslaughter. This verdict was not about justice for Trayvon Martin, which he deserved. We are profoundly saddened by this verdict because it means that there is yet another unarmed young black male's death at the hands of someone relying on racial stereotypes. This is why last year, Howard Law students insisted on raising the profile of this case by creating a video, "Am I Suspicious," which was posted on YouTube and why they rallied with others in Washington, D.C. and Florida to have Zimmerman charged.
Cross-Disciplinary Howard Team Wins First Place in Innovation Contest
WASHINGTON (June 25, 2013) – A team from Howard University has won first place in the 2013 Partnership for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering and Education (PACE) Collaboration and Innovation Challenge. The team will travel to the 2013 PACE Annual Forum held July 21-26 in Pasadena, Calif., to present their winning project and accept the award.
Howard Researcher Studies Earthquake First Responders in Japan
WASHINGTON (July 1, 2013) –Terri Adams Ph.D., Howard University associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, traveled to Japan in May to examine the challenges experienced by first responders during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The disaster is considered one of the worst nuclear catastrophes in modern times and claimed more than 20,000 lives. Adams was able to interview individuals of various ranks of a first responder agency that played a pivotal role after the disaster. The research in Japan is part of a larger study being conducted by Adams. The study examines resilience and role conflict among first responders who are personally impacted by the disasters in which they are expected to respond. Adams has examined similar issues during the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans and Gulfport, Miss., as well as the earthquake and tsunami in Santiago and Constitución Chile in 2010.
Howard School of Business Awards Inaugural Executive MBA degrees
WASHINGTON (June 28, 2013) – Howard University will host a graduation ceremony to honor the inaugural class of the School of Business Executive MBA (EMBA) program at 6 p.m. on Monday, July 1, in the Blackburn Center Hilltop Lounge on the main campus.
Pharmacy Students Begin International Experiential Rotations in Africa
WASHINGTON (June 28, 2013) – Five Howard University College of Pharmacy students will begin their international experiential rotations in July at Ethiopia's renowned Addis Ababa University, at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia and at Howard University's regional office in Pretoria, South Africa.
Howard School of Social Work Receives Kellogg Foundation Grant to Study Racial Disparities in Child Welfare Systems
WASHINGTON (June 3, 2013) – The Howard University School of Social Work has received a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to evaluate the effectiveness of racial equality standards in countering the overrepresentation of African Americans in child welfare systems. Ruby M. Gourdine, D.S.W., and Jacqueline M. Smith, Ph.D., are co-principal investigators on the $75,000 grant. The grant will fund the evaluation of child welfare procedures in two states where Black children are overrepresented. The grant period runs from April 2013 to March 2014 "The rate of African-American children in the child welfare system remains disproportionate to their numbers in the general population," Gourdine said. "Too many African-American children are removed from their homes and efforts should be made to eliminate risk faced by children in fragile families in need of intervention services."
GROUP TICKETS AND ME+3 TICKET OFFERS AVAILABLE FOR 2013 AT and T NATION'S FOOTBALL CLASSIC®
WASHINGTON (June 12, 2013) – Events DC is offering special benefits to individual and group ticket buyers who plan on attending the third annual AT and T Nation's Football Classic® taking place Saturday, Sept. 7 at RFK Stadium at 3:30 p.m. This game features Howard vs. Morehouse. As part of a new promotion called Me+3, fans who purchase three tickets in either the stadium's lower or mezzanine levels, will receive a fourth ticket for free. For larger groups purchasing 50 or more tickets, benefits include discounted ticket prices (savings of $5 per ticket), in-game group recognition, exclusive Group Ticket Fan Experiences, free promotional materials – posters, t-shirts and more, complimentary VIP parking and personal service from a Group Ticket Sales Specialist. Please note: Benefits vary based on group size.
Alvin Thornton, Ph.D., Honored as Morehouse College Alumnus of the Year
WASHINGTON (May 29, 2013) – Alvin Thornton, Ph.D., senior academic advisor to the president of Howard University, was honored recently as Alumnus of the Year at Morehouse College in a ceremony in Atlanta for his work supporting Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the community at large. "I am deeply honored to be recognized in this manner by the National Alumni Association of the institution that did so much to define and shape my life," Thornton said. "Morehouse first served me so I could then serve the community." The award was bestowed on May 18. When asked about his support for HBCUs and advocacy on their behalf, Thornton talked about their importance in maintaining diversity in higher education.
SALT Offers $10,000 Sweepstakes to Help Students Pay Tuition, Loans
WASHINGTON (May 13, 2013) – For Howard University students looking for immediate help with tuition costs, SALT is running a nationwide, educational sweepstakes at FaceTheRed.com until June 30. Students who enter the SALT contest will be eligible to win one of three $10,000 prizes to help pay for school and/or repay student loans. This spring, Howard partnered with American Student Assistance® (ASA), mtvU and Usher to provide student debt relief for one very lucky Howard student. ASA® also recently launched its online psychological thriller The Red—a short film that captures the horrors student loans can provoke. SALT is a free educational resource created by ASA that provides simple, smart and personalized ways for college students and recent graduates to take control of their student debt and manage their finances. With a combination of helpful tools, tailored information, and unbiased expertise, SALT helps students borrow less, borrow smart, and repay their loans in a way that works for them.


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