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CFO Moves this week include:
|Intuit Inc.
|J.Crew Group, Inc.
|Willis Towers Watson
|Dean Foods Company
|T. Rowe Price Group
|Huntington Ingalls Industries
|Deluxe Entertainment Services Group
|L.B. Foster
|CGE Energy
|Milestone Technologies
|Douglas Dynamics, Inc.
|Brinker International, Inc.
|TriState Capital Holdings, Inc.
|Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc.
|ScanSource, Inc.
|Innovest Global Inc.
|Misonix, Inc.
|Proteus Digital Health
|Liquidmetal® Technologies, Inc.
|PRE® Brands
|Livongo Health
|Indigo Ag, Inc.
|SmartBear Software
|Inseego Corp.
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Intuit Inc. [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.] (NASDAQ: INTU) announced its succession plan for Chief Financial Officer, Neil Williams who has served as CFO since January 2008 and plans to step down in January 2018. Michelle Clatterbuck, Senior Vice President of Finance for Intuit's Consumer Tax Group and acting finance leader for Intuit's Small Business Group, will assume the role of Chief Financial Officer Feb. 1, 2018. In 2006, she rose to vice president of Finance for the Professional Tax business and went on to lead finance for Intuit's Consumer Tax Group where she was promoted to senior vice president.
J.Crew Group, Inc. [NEW YORK] (the "Company") announced that Vincent Zanna, previously Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer, has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer. Zanna served as the Company's Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer since October 2016 and Vice President and Treasurer from 2012. Prior to joining the Company in 2009, he served as the Treasurer of Footstar, Inc.
Willis Towers Watson [ARLINGTON, Va. and LONDON] (NASDAQ: WLTW) announced Michael Burwell as its new Chief Financial Officer. Burwell will replace current Chief Financial Officer, Roger Millay, as he voluntarily retires on October 2, 2017. Burwell brings 31 years of finance and professional services experience from PwC. He has served in senior leadership roles for the last decade, including Head of Global Transformation; Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer in the United States; and Head of Transaction Services in the United States. In addition, he brings 11 years of audit experience and 12 years of Transaction Services advisory experience.
Dean Foods Company [DALLAS] (NYSE: DF) announced that Chris Bellairs, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will depart the company effective September 1. Bellairs will assist in transitioning to Scott Vopni, Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer, who will assume the responsibilities in the interim. Vopni joined Dean Foods in May 2008 and has served multiple senior roles in the company's finance organization.
T. Rowe Price Group [BALTIMORE] (NASDAQ-GS: TROW) announced that Céline Dufétel will join the firm as vice president by December of this year and assume the roles of chief financial officer (CFO) and treasurer in the first quarter of 2018. Céline, who will join T. Rowe Pricefrom Neuberger Berman, previously served as partner and head of the North American Asset Management practice at McKinsey & Company. She will succeed Ken Moreland, who will continue as CFO until no later than the filing of the Form 10-K for the 2017 fiscal year in February 2018. Ken will then retire after nearly 14 years of service to the firm. Céline began her professional career with McKinsey & Company in 2004 and served in a variety of operations, strategy, and consulting roles in their New Yorkand Paris offices. She was named a partner with the firm in 2010 and, as head of the North American Asset Management practice, led their engagement with C-suite leadership across the industry. In 2014, Céline joined Neuberger Berman, as global head of Client Service. She currently serves as a managing director and that firm's global head of Marketing and Client Service.
Huntington Ingalls Industries [NEWPORT NEWS, Va.] (NYSE: HII) announced today that Don Godwin has been named vice president of business management and chief financial officer for the company's Newport News Shipbuilding division. He will assume his new role on Sept. 5. Godwin will succeed Mike Helpinstill, who is joining the HII corporate staff as vice president of strategic transactions. Godwin joins Newport News with more than 20 years of experience in finance and business operations management. He most recently served as CFO of Hitachi Data Systems Federal. He also served as CFO at Harris Corp. and its predecessor companies.
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group [NEW YORK] announced the appointment of Robert Julian as Chief Financial Officer. Robert has worked with globally respected companies such as Cisco Systems, Honeywell, Rockwell International, Lydall Inc., Legrand S.A. and Fisher Scientific. He most recently served as chief financial officer of Callaway Golf.
Spokeo [PASADENA, Calif.] announced today the appointment of finance veteran Tom Fuelling as chief financial officer. Fuelling joins Spokeo most recently from Laurel & Wolf, where he was chief financial officer. Prior, he was chief financial officer at OpenX; ARTISTdirect; SegaGameworks; and Village Roadshow Pictures. Fuelling has helped scale many rapidly-growing technology organizations, most prominently at Hulu, where he was the twelfth employee and served more than six years as chief financial officer.
L.B. Foster Company [PITTSBURGH, Pa.] (NASDAQ: FSTR) announced that James P. Maloney will become L.B. Foster's Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer. Maloney joins L.B. Foster from First Insight, Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to First Insight, he served as Vice President – Global Financial Planning and Supply Chain Finance at H.J. Heinz Company. Prior to joining the Heinz North America team, he spent more than 10 years with Ernst & Young on various assignments in the U.S. and Europe.
CGE Energy [BRIGHTON, Mich.] (OTCPink: CGEI) announced that Harold Telners has joined the Company's leadership team as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, in 1986 he formed Accounting & Tax Services, Inc. (ATS), one of Southeast Michigan's most diversified accounting firms.
FinancialForce [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Gordy Brooks as Chief Financial Officer. Brooks was most recently as CFO of Citrix GetGo. He has leadership experience at notable companies, including as CFO of public company Blue Coat Systems, and in senior finance positions at VMWare and BEA Systems. Brooks has also held finance positions at other companies, including Microsoft and WebTV Networks.
Milestone Technologies [FREMONT, Calif.] announced Edward Reginelli as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Milestone Technologies, Edward Reginelli was the CFO for RhythmOne. Reginelli has 20 years of experience managing all financial functions across various industries, both public and private. Before holding executive positions in the technology services, manufacturing, and new media sectors, Reginelli began his career at Nestle USA.
Douglas Dynamics, Inc. [MILWAUKEE] (NYSE: PLOW) announced that its current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Robert (Bob) McCormick, has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer. Mr. McCormick's current responsibilities will be transferred to Sarah Lauber, who joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer. Lauber joins the Company from Jason Industries, Inc. where she was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to her time at Jason Industries, Mrs. Lauber served as Vice President, Financial Planning and Analysis at Regal Beloit Corporation, from 2011 to 2015. Mrs. Lauber previously served as Chief Financial Officer of A.O. Smith Corporation's Electrical Products Company ("EPC"), from 2002 until EPC was acquired by Regal Beloit in 2011. Mrs. Lauber began her career as an accountant at KPMG.
Brinker International, Inc. [DALLAS] (NYSE: EAT) announced that Joseph Taylor has been named senior vice president and chief financial officer of the company. With 17 years of experience at Brinker, Taylor has held multiple leadership roles in finance, communications and public policy. He joined the Brinker family in 1999 as vice president of finance, went on to lead corporate affairs, investors relations and most recently served as interim chief financial officer since April 2017. Prior to Brinker, Taylor served as vice president for Banc America Securities and Bank of America, Inc.
AppDirect [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the expansion of its leadership team with the addition of Michael DiFilippo as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to AppDirect, he most recently served as CFO of the SaaS Division at Citrix Systems. Prior to joining Citrix, DiFilippo held CFO/SVP Administration positions at MuleSoft Inc. and Intelleflex Corporation.
TriState Capital Holdings, Inc. [PITTSBURGH] (NASDAQ: TSC) announced that David J. Demas has joined the company as executive vice president of finance and, upon the completion of a four-month transition period, will succeed Mark L. Sullivan as chief financial officer on January 1, 2018. Sullivan will continue serving as vice chairman and a director of the company after transitioning out of the CFO role. Demas joins TriState Capital from Deloitte & Touche, LLP's San Francisco office, where he was a senior partner in the financial services practice.
Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. [HOUSTON] (NASDAQ: EXXI) announced that it has appointed Tiffany J. ("T.J.") Thom as Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Hugh Menown has resigned as Executive Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer to pursue other interests. Most recently, Ms. Thom served as the Chief Financial Officer of KLR Energy Acquisition Corp. from January 2015 until April 2017, when it was combined with Tema Oil and Gas Company to form Rosehill Resources Inc. Ms. Thom served in positions of increasing responsibility for EPL Oil & Gas, Inc. ("EPL") from October 2000 until its June 2014 acquisition by the Company's predecessor, Energy XXI Ltd. Ms. Thom held the most senior financial position at EPL from July 2009 until the acquisition, serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer when EPL was acquired. From 1992 to 2000, Ms. Thom served as Senior Reservoir Engineer for Exxon Production Company and ExxonMobil Company with operational roles, including reservoir engineering and subsurface completion engineering for numerous offshore Gulf of Mexico properties. Ms. Thom has served as a director of Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. since August 2014. From October 2015 to October 2016, Ms. Thom served as a director of Yates Petroleum Corporation.
ScanSource, Inc. [GREENVILLE, S.C] (NASDAQ: SCSC) announced the appointment of Gerald (Gerry) Lyons as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Since November 2016, Lyons has served as ScanSource's Senior Vice President and Interim Chief Financial Officer. Lyons joined ScanSource in 2007 and has worked in several financial management roles, including Principal Accounting Officer, Corporate Controller, and Vice President, Financial Business Systems. Prior to joining ScanSource, Lyons served as the Plant Controller, Global Group Controller, and Plant Manager for Moen Incorporated.
Innovest Global Inc. [CLEVELAND] (OTC PINK: IVST) announced that Mike Yukich will be joining the management team as the Chief Financial Officer for consolidated holding company operations. In the 1990s Mr. Yukich served as Chief Financial Officer and Controller for Eaton's Truck Component Operations. After Eaton, Mr. Yukich served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Guide Corporation.
Misonix, Inc. [FARMINGDALE, N.Y.] (NASDAQ: MSON) announced that Joseph P. Dwyer has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Dwyer has been serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Misonix since September 2016. From June 2015 he has provided financial consulting and advisory services to various companies through the firms Dwyer Holdings and TechCXO. Prior thereto, from November 2012 until June 2015, he was Chief Financial Officer of Virtual Piggy, Inc. Prior to joining Virtual Piggy, Mr. Dwyer served as chief financial officer of OpenLink Financial, Inc. During 2011 and 2012, Mr. Dwyer was a member of the board of directors and chairman of the audit committee and served as interim chief administrative officer of Energy Solutions International, Inc. From 2010 through 2011, Mr. Dwyer served as chief administrative officer of Capstone Advisory Group, LLC. Mr. Dwyer served as a consultant to Verint Systems, Inc., from 2009 through 2010, assisting with SEC reporting and compliance. From 2005 through 2009, Mr. Dwyer served as chief financial officer and executive vice president of AXS-One Inc. During 2004, Mr. Dwyer served as chief financial officer of Synergen, Inc. Prior to 2004, Mr. Dwyer also served as chief financial officer and executive vice president of Caminus Corporation, chief financial officer of ACTV, Inc., and senior vice president of finance for Winstar Communications, Inc.
Proteus Digital Health™ [REDWOOD CITY, Calif.] announced that Uneek Mehra has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Mehra has deep experience across pharmaceuticals, technology and financial services, through senior roles at Novartis, IBM and Citibank.
Liquidmetal® Technologies, Inc. [LAKE FOREST, Calif.] (OTCQB: LQMT) elected Tony Chung as a director of the Company. In connection with his appointment to the Board of Directors, Mr. Chung resigned as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, and Bryce Van, former Corporate Controller, was appointed as Vice President of Finance and will serve as the Company's principal financial and accounting officer. Bryce Van has been a key member of Liquidmetal's leadership team, serving as Corporate Controller for the last four years. "
PRE® Brands [CHICAGO] announced Jason Pinter as Chief Financial Officer. In addition to his most recent role as head of finance at SpotHero, he was a part of the core finance team at Orbitz that sold its online travel group to Blackstone, and had a subsequent IPO of Orbitz Worldwide in 2007. He also has a six-year stint at DialogTech (formerly Ifbyphone). Jason began his career at Kraft Foods.
Livongo Health [MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.] announced that Andy Page has joined the company as its President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Page served as President of 23andMe. Prior to 23andMe, Page has held several executive positions at other major consumer technology companies. He formerly served as President of Gilt Groupe and CFO at both PlayPhone and StubHub. Page also worked at investment banking leader Robertson Stephens.
Indigo Ag, Inc. [BOSTON] announced the appointment of Jeff Poulton as the company's Chief Financial Officer. Joining Indigo from leading biotechnology company Shire plc, Mr. Poulton brings financial leadership experience from his roles as Chief Financial Officer and member of Shire's Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
SmartBear Software [SOMERVILLE, Mass.] appointed Bryce Chicoyne as Chief Financial Officer and Global Operations Lead. Prior to joining SmartBear, Chicoyne served as the CFO of HealthcareSource. Prior to HealthcareSource, he served as CFO of Salary.com and Harvard Bioscience.
Inseego Corp. [SAN DIEGO] (NASDAQ: INSG) announced that the Company has appointed Stephen Smith as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Since 2016, he served as a financial consultant serving multiple early and mid-stage SaaS, Networking, and 3D Imaging businesses, and has served as interim CFO of TetraVue Inc. since February 2017. From 2012 to 2016 he served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Operations for Micropower Technologies. From 2005 to 2012 he ran his own consulting business and also served as President of XiTron Technologies. From 1999-2005, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Finance and Accounting Officer of Applied Micro Circuits Corporation. Mr. Smith previously held senior finance and accounting positions with ST Microelectronics, Northern Telecom and Motorola. Tom Allen, who has served as the Company's Interim Chief Financial Officer since May 16, 2017, will continue to provide consulting services to the Company, including transition assistance to Mr. Smith in his new role as CFO.


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The Loyola chemistry curriculum is designed to provide undergraduates with a sound education in the fundamental areas of modern chemistry. The curriculum prepares chemistry majors to structure and interpret concepts, ideas, and relationships within the broader field of chemistry. Students who complete all required courses in the program receive a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) certified by the American Chemical Society (ACS). The chemistry department has developed five learning aims for the chemistry major:
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Save The Sheriff is a defence game of cowboys and Indians. The objective is to survive for 11 days until you recieve reinforcements. You must employ additional gunners and workers to help you hold off the Indian assault. Shoot by clicking the mouse as soon as you see the Indians so they can't get through the barricade and rescue their friends. Your gold will increase when you shoot each Indian allowing you to hire more people.
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After Montréal, Guatemala, Tampa, and the Charlotte Motor Speedway, another giant sinkhole has appeared, this time in the German town of Schmalkalden, making 2010 the "Year of the Sinkhole."
The hole—200 feet across and 80 feet deep—greeted residents of Schmalkalden, a town of 20,000 in the state of Thuringia, on Monday morning. Locals awoke in the early hours of morning to a deep rumble and saw this massive crater upon sunrise:
All Schmalkaldeners escaped with their lives, but the hole claimed an automobile and left several others teetering over the edges of radically reconstructed driveways.
Experts are yet to determine what caused the crater to develop, but its circular shape is characteristic of sinkholes, which are created by the dissolution of
carbonate rocks undeground. There comes a point when the dissolved rock can no longer support the weight of structures above and it is around this point when you should run for your life.
If you crave more of this fine example of extreme infrastructure, Der Spiegel and The Guardian have further photos of the incident.
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Implementing and Configuring Cisco Identity Services Engine (SISE) v2.4 – 7/16
07/16/18 - 07/20/18$3995
Cisco Security Training
Implementing and Configuring Cisco Identity Services Engine (SISE) v2.4 is a 5-day Cisco ISE training program that discusses the Cisco Identity Services Engine, an identity and access control policy platform that provides a single policy plane across the entire organization, combining multiple services, including authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA), posture, profiling, device on-boarding, and guest management, into a single context-aware identity-based platform.
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Course Outline
Module 1: Introducing Cisco ISE Architecture and Deployment
Lesson 1: Using Cisco ISE as a Network Access Policy Engine
Lesson 2: Introducing Cisco ISE Deployment Models
Module 2: Cisco ISE Policy Enforcement
Lesson 1: Introducing 802.1x and MAB Access: Wired and Wireless
Lesson 2: Introducing Identity Management
Lesson 3: Configuring Certificate Services
Lesson 4: Introducing Cisco ISE Policy
Lesson 5: Configuring Cisco ISE Policy Sets
Lesson 6: Implementing Third-Party Network Access Device Support
Lesson 7: Introducing Cisco TrustSec
Lesson 8: Introducing EasyConnect
Module 3: Web Authentication and Guest Services
Lesson 1: Introducing Web Access with Cisco ISE
Lesson 2: Introducing ISE Guest Access Components
Lesson 3: Configuring Guest Access Settings
Lesson 4: Configuring Portals: Sponsors and Guests
Module 4: Cisco ISE Profiler
Lesson 1: Introducing Cisco ISE Profiler
Lesson 2: Configuring Cisco ISE Profiling
Module 5: Cisco ISE BYOD
Lesson 1: Introducing the Cisco ISE BYOD Process
Lesson 2: Describing BYOD Flow
Lesson 3: Configuring My Devices Portal Settings
Lesson 4: Configuring Certificates in BYOD Scenarios
Module 6: Cisco ISE Endpoint Compliance Services
Lesson 1: Introducing Endpoint Compliance
Lesson 2: Configuring Client Posture Services and Provisioning in Cisco ISE
Module 7: Cisco ISE with AMP and VPN-Based Services
Lesson 1: Introducing VPN Access Using Cisco ISE
Lesson 2: Configuring Cisco AMP for ISE
Module 8: Cisco ISE Integrated Solutions with APIs
Lesson 1: Introducing Location-Based Authorization
Lesson 2: Introducing Cisco ISE 2.x pxGrid
Module 9: Working with Network Access Devices
Lesson 1: Configuring TACACS+ for Cisco ISE Device Administration
Module 10: Cisco ISE Design
Lesson 1: Designing and Deployment Best Practices
Lesson 2: Performing Cisco ISE Installation and Configuration Best Practices
Lesson 3: Deploying Failover and High-Availabilty
Module 11: Configuring Third Party NAD Support
Lesson 1: Configuring Third-Party NAD Support
Lab Outline
Lab 1: Configure Initial Cisco ISE setup, GUI familiarization, system certificate usage
Lab 2: Integrate Cisco ISE with Active Directory
Lab 3: Configure Basic Policy on Cisco ISE
Lab 4: Configure Conversion to Policy Sets
Lab 5: Configure Access Policy for Easy Connect
Lab 6: Configure Guest Access
Lab 7: Configure Guest Access Operations
Lab 8: Create Guest Reports
Lab 9: Configure Profiling
Lab 10: Customize the Cisco ISE Profiling Configuration
Lab 11: Create Cisco ISE Profiling Reports
Lab 12: Configure BYOD
Lab 13: Blacklisting a Device
Lab 14: Configure Compliance Services on Cisco ISE
Lab 15: Configure Client Provisioning
Lab 16: Configure Posture Policies
Lab 17: Test and Monitor Compliance Based Access
Lab 18: Test Compliance Policy
Lab 19: Configure Cisco ISE for VPN Access
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Lab 21: Configure Cisco ISE pxGrid and Cisco WSA Integration
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Should citizens in general be required to bail out certain cities over and over and over again? New Orleans is a case in point. Suppose a bunch of people got together to build a city and got around to the siting question (where to put it).
New Orleans is at major risk every hurricane season and every 2-4 years it gets hit hard. Let's suppose New Orleans didn't exist and the aforementioned group were to look at the area. "Hmm...there isn't enough land there to build the city on." "Yeah but I have an idea. We'll build walls around part of the water and pump the water out and build our city there." "Under sea level? You must be kidding!" "I'm serious as a heart attack! If the sea wall fails, we'll just depend on the Feds to help us out."
Cities built along the San Andreas Fault are another example.
Maybe Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle should be moved to Kentucky and Tennessee (but not along the Ohio River).
And what about people who build homes in 100 year flood plains? People love to build homes right on the banks of rivers, and they can do so because they know the county, state, or FEMA will come in and rescue them and probably help them out.
How much should the public pay for stupid decisions as to where to build cities or homes?
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So, you think Japan might invade China? Somehow, I don't see that possibility looming on the horizon!
The thing about New Orleans is it is at the mouth of the Mississippi River, far and away the most important economic river in the world, more so than the Nile or Amazon. New Orleans exists because mankind needs some sort of major city to exist at the end of the Mississippi.
We can't really get rid of New Orleans, we can only move it upstream, and that wouldn't be terribly cheap for the American taxpayer.
Exactly John. You can't move the mouth of the Mississippi to Indiana. Cities are where they are for a reason.
The thing about moving the city was just an attention grabber subject line. Don't be literal-minded and take it too seriously. The real point is shouldn't people who persist in living in dangerous places by assuming government help be weaned off FEMA and forced to make set-asides and preparations and to take out insurance on their own rather than expecting us to be bailing them out all the time, especially when these events happen with great regularity. You know it's going to happen fairly soon, why not be totally prepared?
While we're discussing moving an entire city, why don't we move Israel to some part of Africa?
Well, the creation of Israel was, in retrospect, a horrible mistake and has destabilized the entire region. I'd be for moving them further away than Africa, if they'd accept it. They won't, though, because it's the land, in their view, that God promised them.
The Sykes-Picot borders, the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the San Remo conference, the Treaty of Lausanne, and, later, general Cold War sphere of influence considerations may have had a tad to do with the instability of the region too.
Doesn't Indiana suffer from frequent blizzards and tornadoes?
Blizzards no...though Tornadoes are becoming more and more common, even in my part of the state.
When one flies over the "tornado alley" part of the midwest, one realizes why tornadoes causing horrific damage and loss of life to towns or cities is relatively uncommon, given the hundreds of tornadoes which occur every season: looking down from the plane window, one sees farmland mostly and a city or town only rarely. When a tornado wanders into a densely populated area, it is rare and it is random.
Hurricanes happen to a region not just a wheat field or town. When you see a hurricane hitting the Southeast, you can be sure that Miami, New Orleans, and all the major towns in the region will be affected and will sustain damage. Nothing random about it, which is why they need to be prepared and should stop depending on the rest of us to bail them out. FEMA should be reserved for the unpredictable disasters, or the ones which happen so seldom, that it isn;t reasonable to expect those cities to be ready.
What is unreasonable about expecting New Orleans to be ready on its own?
When it comes down to it, humanity has spread out so much that it is inevitable that there will be communities subject to natural disasters. Even if we were to localize populations into areas that suffer less disasters, we'd have very dense urban populations more prone to outbreaks of infectious disease. Besides? where would people move? The northeast was hit with serious blizzards last year. Hurricanes plague the southeast. Tornadoes ripped through the central and southern states. Flooding plagues areas from North Dakota to New Orleans. Drought is gripping many states right now. Wildfires rage through the west and earthquakes have occurred across the country from DC to California and Alaska in the last year. On top of it all in the upcoming decades, global warming is going to make these events worse. Where exactly should people move?
Edit: CNN just reminded me that there is a gigantic supervolcano beneath Yosemite National Park that could take out the whole western half of the US and cause complete havoc around the globe.
The only way things are really going to work are if we change our construction for cities and towns to make buildings more resistant to natural disasters (like using monolithic dome construction for residential houses in areas prone to tornadoes or wildfires), have ways to mitigate or combat these disasters, and plans to keep people as safe from harm as possible. People are going to live where they are going to live. When it comes down to it, our laws are structured so that we can't just force people to move, but people will move on there own. There's a sizable number of people who left before Katrina hit and never returned. When the next big one hits California, there's going to be a huge migration.
I do agree that people living in places more prone to disasters pose a problem to the community at large. The more people you have caught in a disaster, the more of a disaster it becomes. The problem is that there are a lot of people for who moving isn't an option because they are caught in poverty and don't have the means to leave. If you have to take the bus to work everyday because you can't afford a car, then you probably have more immediate concerns like, is there enough food to feed my family this week? You don't see rich people lounging on their yachts as the waters are rising. It's the poor we see stranded on their own rooftops, because they had no means to evacuate or place to go.


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I Face the World
1. A young man, I face the world to learn and give and grow
to grow.
I may stand proud of what I am, the gospel makes me so.
Proud of trust, of honesty in all the things I do.
When faced with questions all around, the gospel path is true.
2. When I stand before my friends, I will not let them down,
let them down.
I'll stand by every word I say and live as I believe.
Proud of who I know I am in thought and word and deed,
I'll let them know in all I do "you can depend on me."
3. There may be times when I am down, times I'm wrong or slow,
but these are for experience, I'll learn from them and grow.
A young man, I face the world to give the best I can.
I will grasp the iron rod, and will be a man!
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Music: Joan Oviatt
Artist: Oviatt/Carter
Album: Music Published in the Church Magazines: New Era
Composition Date: 1981-05-01
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These are the same instructions as the last time this exercise was assigned. Keep practicing to develop speed and proficiency.
This exercise always has a first note of DO. From this note, think of the notes above or below it, alternating line and space notes for each successive note. Reminder, the order of solfege is
If you are able, try to sing the notes while you enter them. First, click the 'play scale' button to hear the framework. Then, click the 'play sound' button to see if you were correct. If this is too hard, then sing the solfege WITH the 'play sound' recording. Put the solfege and singing voice on the notes will greatly benefit your development of sight singing as we build for sight singing.
You may notice the symbols on the staff after the clef, and that they change for different starting note DO. These symbols are called accidentals, and when placed after the clef on the staff are collectively called a key signature. Experienced musicians identify the tonic (DO) by looking at the key signature. You will learn about key signatures in chapters labeled accordingly; until then, you need to rely on the exercise to identify it for you.
It takes time to develop speed and proficiency at this skill. You do not need to learn about Key Signatures to begin developing these skills. Starting now will help you keep pace with all of the skills necessary for reading music, as you learn the theory of it.
A foundational skill in the ability to read music is the ability to identify the scale degrees of the notes on a staff. Full implementation of this skill requires significant background in theory, especially a working understanding of key signatures. However, a student can and should begin developing this skill at a more rudimentary level in which the first scale degree is identified for them. By drilling this exercise (and, for that matter, applying the same process to real music with the guidance of a teacher for identifying DO and determining if the material is simple enough) students develop speed at identifing the other notes relative to the tonic (first scale degree).
When approached with the beginning settings, this exercise can and should be started before learning key signature, clef, or even letter names; you do not need any theory beyond line and space notes to get started. Speed and proficiency at this exercise take time, so starting it early gives students a jump start on the training and impresses on them the importance of this skill. This will also give students a sense of familiarity and cumulative development when they return to the exercise with more difficult settings after learning the appropriate theory. The beginning (and default) setting for this exercise is having the first note be the tonic and identified as such. Other settings are available for students with the appropriate background in theory.
This exercise returns several times during the lessons curriculum. Several other exercises reinforce concepts and skills of this exercise. For example, the interval quantity identification exercise (and lessons leading to it) helps students quickly identify intervals. Seeing these intervals and building a mapping of the scale degrees that would correspond for each interval develops speed and proficiency in sight reading music. In application, a student learns to quickly identify the interval of a perfect 4th, and also learns that if the bottom note is DO, the top will be FA; if the bottom is RE, the top will be SOL etc. More guidance for developing speed on Scale Degree Identification is provided within the lessons. Working through the entire first two units of the lessons will greatly increase understanding, speed, and proficiency of sight reading music.
The default mnemonic system for this exercise, and all exercises at SonicFit, is movable DO with LA based minor. In the settings, you can change the mnemonic system to letters or numbers or fixed DO. You can also adjust the following:
• Change the difficulty so that SOL is always first, no set note is first, or even include chromatic notes
• Fix the key or have key change
- select how often the key changes
• set to major or minor
• select clef
• select a time limit per problem
When working through scale degree notation, you should sing everything. You should play the scale and sing with it. You should sing along as you enter the solfege using the buttons, and then click the "play sound" button to check for your accuracy.


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Sprint dug a hole for itself when it bought Nextel in 2005 in one of the worst deals in telecom history. Now, a deep-pocketed friend from overseas could help the company climb out of its hole and reinvigorate its fight against AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
Japan's Softbank Corp. has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Sprint Nextel Corp. for $20.1 billion, money that will be divided by the company and its shareholders.
Announced Monday in Tokyo, the deal positions Sprint as a stronger competitor to its two biggest rivals, AT&T and Verizon.
The agreement, however, doesn't solve all of Sprint's underlying problems. Sprint, which is based in Overland Park, Kan., has been limping along since it purchased Nextel. The merger quickly turned sour, saddling Sprint with the cost of running two incompatible networks while customers fled.
Sprint has more than 56 million subscribers, compared to AT&T's 105.2 million and Verizon Wireless' 94.2 million. No. 4 U.S. carrier T-Mobile has over 33 million U.S. customers.
Softbank Corp., a holding company with investments in Internet and telecom businesses, made its own venture into the wireless world in 2005, with the acquisition of Vodafone Japan. It turned that business around, giving President Masayoshi Son the confidence that he can make Sprint a profitable company again after five straight years of losses.
Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has laid the groundwork for a turnaround but his efforts haven't had an immediate impact on profitability. In particular, the company's reputation for customer service has improved during his tenure, as he's focused on enhancing the store and call center experience. The company scored the highest of the Big 4 wireless carriers in the American Customer Satisfaction Index this spring.
Hesse has also coaxed Sprint subscribers to pay more, helping the company stem its financial losses. But the highest-paying customers keep leaving for the larger, faster networks of AT&T and Verizon. On its own, the company would have a hard road ahead, as it pays for a network revamp and fulfills a commitment to buy $15.5 billion in iPhones from Apple.
Under the deal, Sprint shareholders can turn in 55 percent of their shares to Softbank in exchange for $7.30 per share. Sprint shares fell 4 cents Monday to close at $5.69, suggesting that investors mostly felt comfortable with the valuation they pegged for the company last week, when they sent the stock up 14 percent based on reports of talks between Softbank and Sprint.
Softbank's is paying $12.1 billion for the 55-percent stake. It's buying an additional $8 billion worth of shares from the company, for a total stake of 70 percent. That investment will dilute the value of existing shares, and is the reason Sprint's stock didn't trade higher on Monday.
"This is a transformative transaction for Sprint that creates immediate value for our stockholders, while providing an opportunity to participate in the future growth of a stronger, better capitalized Sprint going forward," said Hesse, who will remain the company's chief executive.
Analysts were more reserved in their judgment.
"While we believe it will take far more than capital for Sprint Nextel to effectively compete with Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility, we believe the deal announced today, without question, strengthens Sprint's position in the long-run," said Christopher King at Stifel Nicolaus.
Kevin Smithen at Macquarie Capital said the deal doesn't improve Sprint's access to space on the airwaves, which is critical to improving its wireless data network, nor does it provide a path to improving its profitability. A merger with T-Mobile USA might still be needed to deal with those problems, he said.
T-Mobile USA has its own plan: two weeks ago, it struck a deal to buy MetroPCS Communications Inc., the No. 5 carrier in the U.S.
Moody's said Monday that it would consider upgrading Sprint's credit rating as a result of the deal. Standard & Poor's, another ratings firm, made a similar announcement last week. A higher credit rating would mean lower borrowing costs for Sprint.
Analysts also speculated that Softbank could buy out Clearwire Corp.'s shareholders and combine the company with Sprint. The Bellevue, Wash., company operates a wireless broadband network, but its network upgrades have been hamstrung by a lack of funds. Sprint already owns 48 percent of the company and resells access to its network as "Sprint 4G." The speculation sent Clearwire's stock up 16 percent on Monday. It has doubled since Wednesday.
Softbank shares fell 5.3 percent on the news, as Japanese investors worried that the company is making a huge gamble. The shares have fallen by a third over a week. Standard & Poor's had placed Softbank on "credit watch negative," meaning its credit rating could be downgraded.
The deal has been approved by the boards of both companies. It still needs approval from Sprint shareholders and U.S. regulators. Softbank said the transaction is expected to be completed by the middle of next year.
Analysts say buying a foreign cellphone company makes little sense in terms of operational synergies. There's little opportunity to improve service by combining networks or saving money by combining operations.
But Son said the U.S. and Japanese markets have much in common now that smartphones are all-important in both countries, and the two companies could benefit and learn from each other. By joining forces, Sprint and Softbank will become one of the world's top smartphone carriers, could negotiate better deals from the companies that make phones and network equipment.
Softbank was the first carrier to offer the iPhone in Japan. The iPhone has been such a hit in there that it has shaped Softbank's brand image and helped it lure customers away from its two bigger rivals.
Son said Sprint and Softbank can work together to develop new technology for faster data networks. Softbank recently bought smaller Japanese rival eAccess, largely to gain access to the latest fourth-generation, or "4G" networks.
Son likes to take chances in a culture that doesn't always reward risk. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he was only 16 when he ventured alone to the U.S.
"I am happy to be able to tell you today of my big comeback to the U.S.," he said. "This is going to be an even bigger challenge."
Son has made no secret that he has been looking abroad for new growth as the Japanese mobile market has been stagnant for years. Softbank has been an exception in racking up strong profit despite such stagnation, largely due to the popularity of the iPhone.
The deal is the largest foreign acquisition ever by a Japanese company, and illustrates how the strong yen, which is usually seen as a negative for export-reliant Japan Inc., has boosted the overseas purchasing power of Japanese corporations as a stagnant domestic market pushes them to look abroad for growth.
Before Monday's deal, the biggest overseas acquisition by a Japanese company was Japan Tobacco Inc.'s purchase of Gallaher Group of Great Britain in 2007 for about $19 billion.
The combination of Softbank and Sprint will tie with AT&T for world's No. 3 mobile company by revenue after China Mobile and Verizon, according to Softbank.
The deal leaves three of the four national U.S. wireless companies with complete or substantial foreign ownership. Vodafone Group PLC of Britain owns 45 percent of No. 1 Verizon Wireless, and Deutsche Telekom AG of Germany owns T-Mobile USA outright.


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Last week Frank Zimmerman, 60, narrowly escaped jail for sending the Corby MP an email branding her the 'slut of Twitter' and threatening that she faced a "Sophie's Choice" - a reference to a novel in which heroine Sophie has to choose between the life of her son or daughter at a Nazi concentration camp.
Zimmerman, was found guilty earlier this week and given a suspended jail sentence.
Writing in The Daily Telegraph Ms Mensch said: "I felt helpless and attacked. The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.
"Is it Zimmerman, with his filthy house and his record of targeting women online? Or is it some demented teenager with a gun?"
Ms Mensch described how she was forced to arrange security for her family but the abuse only got worse.
"Over the course of the next couple of weeks Zimmerman escalated his campaign. He rang me: I knew it was him right away – the well-spoken, English voice, the menace – and hung up.
"He sent emails from various fake accounts, pretending to be a duke, a doctor, a student. He researched obscure material about my husband's former address and even about my novelist sister."
The MP has called on internet providers to identify those behind trolling and says prosecutors must take the problem more seriously.
"Too often people have believed that the internet is a magical, protected space where nothing they do can be policed.
"Zimmerman, a typical troll, operated under the belief that if he hid behind an anonymous internet user name, nothing could happen to him.
"They type threats on their keyboard that they would never utter in person. A rash of such cases has arisen in the past couple of years, and prosecutors are cracking down.
"Social networks have a duty to identify internet bullies who cower behind anonymity. As victims repeatedly fight back, we can hope to see a culture shift. "
Zimmerman was given the suspended sentence, ordered to pay costs and made subject of a restraining order.
The order - until further notice - bans the agoraphobic from contacting a string of well-known people.
The list includes Mrs Mensch, her businessman husband Peter, and Mrs Mensch's ex-husband, property developer Anthony LoCicero.
Lord Sugar, the Amstrad businessman and star of hit TV Show The Apprentice, was named on the restraining order, as was Terence Blacker, a columnist with the Independent newspaper and Zimmerman's former neighbour in London.
Zimmerman had targeted the MP for Corby, Northamptonshire, last year telling her to stop using the social networking site Twitter or face the consequences.


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– Titus O'Neil and Justin Gabriel have continued their feud on Twitter after last night's match on WWE Main Event. Gabriel tweeted:
"My body still hurts after that match with @TitusONeilWWE. He's a strong dude with a mean streak. But numbers don't lie. 450 FTW"
– Jim Ross tweeted the following about Jack Swagger's arrest:
"Lots of legal experts on Twitter. Almost gleeful that a #WWE star made an apparent bonehead mistake. Due process/facts appear ill relevant."
"Now being lectured by people I don't even know 4 Swagger's mistakes. He made an error. Don't know the consequences but I won't bail on him."
Backstage News on WWE's Cruiserweight Project… What's Planned and More


text: Looking for some input on the CI quad pod vs. the Firewire dominator. I've surfed anything from a 9'2 Hap Jacobs down to my 7'3 7S fish, and I'm looking to take it down to 6'6 - 6'0. My size is perfect for something 6'0 and under as I am only 5'6 & 160 lbs. however, at 41 yrs. young (shut your mouth groms) and two damaged shoulders I need something with a lot of foam under it. So lets hear it? Need some serious opinions as I have a limited window to purchase the new HPSB (have an 11 month old boy and wife who is willing to let me add to my quiver FOR NOW!!). FYI - This is mainly for the winter swell Thanks!


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== Controverial Issues ==
== Controverial Issues ==
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- There could be a description of OpenMoko/Neo1973 features
- There could be a short story about what OpenMoko/the Neo1973 does different:
- e.g.:
After leaving work your Neo's GPS automatically switches your Alarm Profile from Silent to Loud and guides you to the next gas station. At home, your Neo automatically deploys its WiFi functionality, retrieves your email (free of charge) and activates voice over ip capabilities (free of charge).
And so on...
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Neo: Hi, I'm an Neo. iPhone: And I'm an iPhone. * iPhone looks on a big map and tries to orientate himself Neo: What are you doing? iPhone: I try to locate myself by using Google Maps. Neo: Oh, that doesn't seem to be very exciting. I use GPS for that kind of stuff. Works automatically. iPhone: GPS, yeah? Neo: Yes. Oh, wait, I'm entering the cinema. I think, it's better for me, to switch to stand-by now. See you after the movie. iPhone: Oh, bye. * Neo leaves, iPhone looks on the map again. iPhone: Oh, here we are! Finally...
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Scene: Completely blank white background. Two people enter the frame. Moko: Hi, I'm an OpenMoko iPhone: And I'm an iPhone * OpenMoko looks like he's enjoying himself iPhone: What are you doing? Moko: Oh, I just downloaded this great new game I came across. Want to try it? iPhone: I, er, I can't play new games. I've got this great game of solitaire, though! Moko: That's a shame. Nothing at all? iPhone: Well, I can play games off the web. Some of them. Want a game of bejeweled? Moko: ...thanks, no. I'm fine.
- There should be some pre-composed basic information that can be copy'n'pasted into one's Myspace/Facebook/whatever/-profile.
- There should be some pre-composed advanced information for press/blogs/mobile service providers
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Adam Krikstone did some nice OpenMoko video ads: (youtube)
Sound empathy / Jingle
- There should be some kind of jingle for OpenMoko, just like this "Hello Moto" thing from Motorola
- I started right now to produce one but a bit more choice wouldn't be bad
Controverial Issues
- We need to be careful about using copyrighted material (e.g. youtube)
- Other legal issues...?
- Be aware of what we are advertising: What functions does OpenMoko currently feature, what is planned and what not? Are functions advertised protected by patents?
- What is the community's goal in advertising?
- Are we advertising OpenMoko?
- Are we advertising the Neo1973? And if so, is this our job? The Neo1973 is after all, a commerical product.


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Picture the ubiquitous "Plan Ahead" poster. You know, the one with the little orphaned "d" because not enough room was left in the allotted space for it to fit in.
Henry Montag did not create this clever graphic design — but both its cautionary message and his are identical: Anticipate problems before they occur.
The independent certified financial planner, 63, who heads Henry Montag Associates, specializes in helping middle-income individuals and family business owners plan ahead with insurance and investments that maximize their assets. The overall goal is to develop and maintain a legacy.
On a broader scale, Montag makes his plan-ahead point via public speaking, including engagements at the Whitehouse Conference on Aging, American Association of Individual Investors, National Conference of CPA Practitioners and the New York State Bar Association.
But closest to this 36-year industry veteran's heart is teaching financial literacy — encompassing budgeting, establishing financial goals and avoiding "creeping interest rates" — to teens and young adults. Through his Financial Forums, Inc., Montag, with journalist and FFI partner Ronald Roel, holds workshops and seminars at high schools, colleges, hospitals, synagogues and churches. Now, at Montag's urging, several high schools on Long Island, New York, have established full-credit courses in fiscal literacy.
"Many parents inadvertently hurt their children by overindulging them or keeping them dependent by having [joint] bank accounts and adding them to their credit cards. I encourage [young people] to become independent and learn how to manage their own checking and savings accounts — to take responsibility for their own finances," says the quietly intense Montag in a phone interview from his Uniondale, N.Y., office on Long Island.
And with expertise in issues of aging and finance, Montag focuses on the opposite end of the life spectrum too. He coaxes clients to hold formal Family Meetings to plan ahead, with special emphasis on the possibility, or likelihood, that at least one elderly parent will become incapacitated. Further, he speaks about this critical matter to groups of accountants and attorneys, who often refer clients.
"People don't want to deal with things like buying insurance on a parent's life. We call this PDD — Planning Deficit Disorder. The whole point of a Family Meeting is to look at all the decisions that have to be made beforehand in order to avoid emotional, financial and legal crises down the road," says Montag, who guides clients through the financial options needed to support such decisions.
"I can trust and rely on Henry. He's very sympathetic to our needs, and he listens to you," says client Steven Feld, of Syosset, N.Y. "He takes everything into consideration and comes up with proposals that are in your best interest. Henry doesn't just go out there to sell a product."
Montag, for instance, helps clients and professionals identify appropriate annuities that provide a variety of retirement income flows. And with in-depth knowledge of long-term care insurance products, he has become the go-to guy for advisors seeking help on that subject.
"Long-term care is no longer an item that can be ignored," he says. "It not only provides money but a sense of independence because it also [furnishes] a care coordinator to [look after] the individual."
"Where will the money come from?" is a recurring Montag theme. And it indeed arises when advising family business owners to set up a succession plan.
"We encourage them to look at the three contingencies: if one of the partners retires, passes away or becomes disabled — and then we discuss plans. This avoids finding themselves in a crisis situation if something suddenly happens to a partner and there's no liquidity available" he says.
Montag's first exposure to financial advisory was at age 15, when, working as a pharmacy stock clerk, he overheard the owners conferring with an estate planner about "where the money would come from" in the event of a partner's early retirement or death. "I thought that was the most interesting thing in the world: to be able to help people," he recalls.
Montag's own parents, Raga and Max, were Holocaust survivors who met while imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp. Henry was born in a displaced persons' camp in Germany. When he was 11 months old, the family came to the United States, settling in New York City.
He grew up in modest neighborhoods in the Bronx and Flushing, Queens. For 11 years, while working full time, Montag attended night school, earning a BA in business administration from Queens College; a master's degree from Queens Graduate School and CFP certification from Adelphi University.
As an undergrad, he did financial planning at Connecticut General; and to fund grad school, he was, for eight years, a legislative aide in the Queens City Council.
In 1979, after three years with Connecticut General, Montag moved to Connecticut Mutual. By 1983 he had opened his own practice on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.
Experience rearing his and wife Lynn's five children, ages 17-23, led to Montag's mission to teach young people fiscal literacy.
"It was Lynn [a CPA] who straightened me out about not overindulging the kids. She brought to my attention what happens when you try to do too much," he says. "Now I've been able to use that as a teaching tool."
His most precious possession is the five-hour videotape recording that Steven Spielberg's company, researching the director's 1993 film Schindler's List, made of his mother describing her life before, during and after World War II. Copies are also ensconced in Jerusalem's Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
But Montag nonetheless has planned ahead: "If my house caught on fire, the thing I'd grab would be my mom's video from Steven Spielberg."


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For some reason, seemingly everything Broadway Joe says about the current Jets makes news in New York, where The Guarantee is something of a Sermon on the Mount for aging sportswriters. Namath has been especially critical this season of Rex Ryan, questioning the Jets' preparation on one occasion and saying Ryan is "too darn nice" to his players on another. And now Namath has taken his critique a step further.
Appearing on Michael Kay's radio show, Namath was told Ryan had worn his jersey to the mall during the bye week. To which Namath answered with a laugh:
"I'm just stunned that the jersey with No. 12 come in that size."
Ryan has since gone on Kay's show, where he was told of Namath's remarks. He laughed it off before adding: "Any fan or any Jets alum is welcome to their opinion. It doesn't mean I have to like it or agree with it." Ryan then called Namath a pathetic old man who hasn't done shit to win a game for the Jets in 35 years.
Well, OK, I made that last part up. But it would have been way better had Ryan actually said it.


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When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 last month, many tech pundits called it "boring." I was one of them. In fact, I was so bored that I called the iPhone boring way back in July, on the basis of the lackluster new mobile operating system that Apple announced at its developer conference. After I got a few minutes with the iPhone 5 after Apple's press event, I wrote that it was "a very impressive device." But those words appeared under the headline, "No, This Is Not the Best iPhone Ever," a conclusion that was prompted by my annoyance about Apple's new, proprietary dock connector. The company should have gone with a universal connector, I argued. By making that unfriendly move, the firm had "screwed over" its most loyal customers, and missed a chance to build a truly perfect device.
Now, almost a month later, it's time for me to get something off my chest: I've made a huge mistake. I've had the iPhone 5 for about a week and a half, and I'm still annoyed about the dock connector thing. But it's a small problem, and in retrospect I was wrong to allow myself to become overwhelmed by dock-based frustration.
That's because, in all other ways, the iPhone 5 is the best phone ever to grace the earth. It beats every single rival on just about every metric you can think of, including speed, battery life, and especially beauty and workmanship.
I'll go even further: When I pick up the iPhone 5 and examine it closely, I find it difficult to believe that this device actually exists. The iPhone 5 does not feel like a product that was mass produced. In a strange way, it doesn't feel like it was built at all. This is a gadget that seems as if it fell into the box fully formed. If you run your hands around its face, you scarcely feel any seams or other points of connection; there's little evidence that this thing is a highly complex device made from lots of smaller things. Instead it just feels like a single, solid, exquisitely crafted piece of machinery, and once you pick it up you never want to put it down.
Manufacturers call this "build quality," and Apple made a big deal out of it at its press event. But I dismissed it: I've always appreciated the build quality of Apple's devices, but I could not understand how better manufacturing would change the iPhone in an appreciable way. After all, every other iPhone was built really well, too. But the only way to appreciate how much more solid the iPhone 5 feels is to use it for a few days_and, crucially, to use it without stuffing it into a case. (Really, you should never use a case: The phone is made of aluminum, so it's less likely to break than the old, all-glass models. If you're going to get a case for the iPhone 5, you're ruining its best feature_it'd be like losing a bunch of weight and celebrating by donning a fat suit.) Compared to the iPhone 5, all other products will feel cheap. Even Apple's products: When I hold my Macbook Air, I now notice gaps between the bottom cover and the body, or the ugly way the screen is indented into the frame. I can't think of any other mass-manufactured product I've used that was as perfectly crafted as this phone.
I could have remained silent about my reversal. It's been weeks since the iPhone 5 went on sale, so there's no real point in my writing a review_dozens of critics, and more importantly millions of actual customers, have had a chance to use the device, so the opinion of one more tech writer isn't really a big deal. But I decided to speak up after reading John Gruber's review of the phone. Gruber, who runs the blog Daring Fireball and is an obsessive chronicler of Apple, argued that the tech critics like myself weren't adequately valuing niceness, his word for how solid the iPhone 5 feels in your hands. He wrote:
"The bored-by-the-iPhone tech press/industry experts surely value niceness, but they do not hold it in the same top-tier regard that Apple does. They are not equipped to devote an amount of attention to niceness commensurate with the amount of effort Apple puts into it. Apple can speak of micron-level precision and the computer-aided selection of the best-fitting of 725 identical-to-the-naked-eye components, but there is no benchmark, no tech spec, to measure nice. But you can feel it."
When I first read this I thought it was bull****. But now I understand what Gruber means. With the iPhone, Apple is building products at a level of quality that may be unprecedented in the history of mass manufacturing. But the only way to know what that means for you, a user of the phone, is to pick it up and feel it, because objectively it does not sound like a big deal. If I tell you the greatest thing about the iPhone 5 is how it "feels," you'll accuse me of being a superficial aesthete who cares more for form than function. You don't care how a phone was built or how it looks; you just want it to work. But I think that argument misses something important about what it means for a phone to "work well": When you're holding a device all the time, how it feels affects its functionality. Or, as Steve Jobs might say, how it feels is how it works.
All top-of-the-line smartphones on the market today do pretty much the same things. Since they've all got similar specs_superfast LTE networking, great cameras, great displays, app stores that carry most of the apps people want_the only reason you would choose one over the other is personal taste. If you like a wider screen, you might go with the Samsung Galaxy SIII. If you like Windows' more informative start screen, you'd go with something made by Nokia. The iPhone's unique comparative advantage is build quality: If you want a phone that is a pleasure to hold, one that just looks and feels better, there's no equal on the market. No other phone is even close.
And it's not like you're sacrificing anything by choosing the iPhone 5 for the way it looks and feels in your hand. In addition to being beautiful on the outside, it's also great on the inside. It's the fastest phone you can buy. Its camera is fantastic. It's got more apps than you'll ever need. Its display is unbeatable. And so on and so on_on "function" alone, the iPhone is no slouch. But where it really kills is form.
Now, one final thing. I know what you're thinking: What about Apple Maps? Actually, that's not right. If you've read this far and you're skeptical of my argument that the iPhone 5 is amazing, you're more likely wondering, WHAT ABOUT APPLE'S @##@%$! MAPS?
That's a fair point. As has been amply documented, Apple's new app is not good at all. But I don't think this is a huge problem, even though I use Maps all the time. That's because the flaw is temporary. Google is working on a new maps app for the iPhone, and when that's released in a month or two, pretty much all of your mapping troubles will be solved. ("Pretty much" because Apple won't allow third-party apps to register as default services on the phone, so when you click an address in another program, the phone will still open Apple's rather than Google's maps; that will be a hassle but not a fatal problem. I do wish Apple changes that policy, though.)
If you're unwilling to take it on faith that the maps situation will be solved soon, I'd suggest waiting a couple months to see if the iPhone's map problems get resolved. What I wouldn't do is buy a competing phone, now, just because you don't like Apple's maps. Mapping is a software problem; it is almost certainly going to be fixed. But any other phone you get now will have hardware that's inferior to the iPhone 5. And that flaw will be permanent.
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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of "True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society."


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Advice for students entering PR and communications in the digital era
This post is prepared just ahead of my return as a guest panelist at Humber College. I outline how my career has evolved since graduating and close with some parting advice. What advice would you offer to the next generation of communication professionals?
I graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University in 1992 with a B.A. in Communication Studies and followed it up with a one-year post-graduate certificate program in PR at Humber College. My experience at university taught me how to think, while my year at Humber really taught me how to apply my thinking and do something with what I knew.
I entered the workforce in 1993 and landed my first full-time gig at Fleishman-Hillard (FH) Canada, an international PR firm that had just launched a Toronto office. I was hire #8, if memory serves me correctly.
I was keen. Energetic. Learning all the time. You know what. I still am, largely because of the path my career has taken. When I started at FH there was this "new thing" called the Internet. I was "voluntold" to go learn about it at our world headquarters. What a cool opportunity for a 24-year old. I got hooked. The early Internet adopters in the PR industry were far and few between. By age 28, I was a true Internet PR pioneer and had some incredible perspective and expertise.
The pace of my career development hasn't slowed down. I left FH to work at Canada's largest PR agency at the time, NATIONAL. The PR industry still wasn't ready for the Web, so I spent a couple of years on the ad side of the business where interactive was rocking. I learned so much in that experience. I learned that I was ultimately a communications professional, not an ad guy. I migrated back to PR, working at NATIONAL again and then iStudio, a web communications agency. I found my home.
After six years I left "home" for the streets of New York where I returned to FH after more than a decade. I was given the opportunity to launch a digital, social and emerging media practice in the most marketing-savvy place in the world. I rocked NYC. I think there's an old Sinatra song about it.
When I arrived a battle royale was taking shape on Madison Ave over social media. "Who owns social media?" My team was the powerhouse, scoring many truly exciting accounts and world-class projects. We were the winning team, educating the marketing world about social media. We still are.
So why am I writing about this today? Well, the kind folks at Humber College (actually, the students that occupy the seats I did 17+ years ago) have invited me to join a panel exploring the future of PR and social media. It should be fun. [photo: I am on the far right in this picture. Click on it for more images of the era].
My advice to the professionals of tomorrow?
Never stop learning
The next generation of PR professionals is entering the industry at a time of great turbulence and opportunity. It's exciting and unpredictable.
PR is being reinvented
It's not just PR that's changing. Marketing is going through unprecedented change too. Chances are what you're discussing in the classroom today will be a solid foundation but not necessarily a road map for your career.
Be courteous and creative on the job search
Last year at Personal Brand Camp, one of the comments I suggested was to deliver "personalized introductions and creative thank you's." There are many people competing for jobs and employers are becoming more specific in the desired skill set for new employees. A personalized introduction shows what you know about the company and the person hiring and effectively communicates why you're a great fit. Be passionate. Be smart. A creative thank you reinforces your strengths, shows what you can do and catches the attention of the person making the hire.
Stay connected
Your classmates will do some exciting things. Social platforms allow you to stay connected and continue learning from each other. Share your experience. Ask your friends for advice. Introduce each other to new connections and invite each other to cool events.
Stay current
In turbulent times you need to keep your ear to the ground. Figure out how to stay on top of the trends relevant to where you are working or want to work.
Work is life, but work to live
If you're working in social or digital worlds, it's a 24/7 world. People struggle to find work life balance. Some argue that there's no such thing any more. There is, but you need to figure out how much you're willing to work and learn, and when you need to make time for yourself. You'll figure it out. Ask others how they manage it.
So, those are some thoughts. Careers can be totally predictable or completely unpredictable. It depends on your personality. I like mine to be predictably unpredictable, especially leading the charge in digital and social. Predictability results in complacency.
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HRPP Document: POL040Effective Date: 3/30/07Revision Dates: 2/22/10, 9/9/19Review Date: 9/9/19Subject: UAB Policy on Other Laws Affecting Human Subjects Research
UAB commits to conduct its human subjects research enterprise in accordance with state and local law as well as federal law and regulations. Most states, including Alabama, have laws mandating the reporting of certain diseases and/or conditions, as well as other occurrences, to state and/or local authorities that could apply to investigators as well as other research personnel, including service providers. All research conducted under the supervision of the UAB IRB shall conform to every law of the jurisdiction in which research is being conducted. Usually "the law of the jurisdiction in which the research is conducted" will be the state law where the research procedures will be performed. Further, every individual involved in any research activity that is subject to any reporting requirement mandated by any federal, state, or local law or regulations shall comply with such law or regulation.
In furtherance of UAB's commitment to protect the rights of human subjects, where research procedures are likely to produce information that must be disclosed to a third party pursuant to federal, state, or local law or regulation, regardless of the consent of the participant, the UAB IRB shall ensure that prospective participants are informed that the research is likely to illicit such reportable information and that disclosure is mandatory under applicable law.
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Christopher S. Brown, PhDVice President for Research
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Free Admission to Winnipeg Police Museum
January 1, 2021 @ 10:00 am-3:00 pm
The Winnipeg Police Museum displays many artifacts related to the history of the Winnipeg Police Force, dating from its beginning in 1874.
The museum is located:
Winnipeg Police Headquarters
245 Smith Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba.
There is no entry fee and the building is wheelchair accessible.
10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Tuesday through Friday
Guided Tours:
Guided tours are available for groups of 6 or more people. To request a guided tour, please email us at least two weeks in advance with the details.
Special exhibits in the museum include:
- Displays of early equipment such as handcuffs, weapons and old books with handwritten entries. The early police identification camera is there along with "mug shots" of criminals and the glass negatives that the pictures were made from
- Memorabilia from the famous Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, including batons, armbands, and badges issued to the "Special Constables" who were quickly hired to replace the dismissed constables for the duration of the strike
- A display about Earle 'The Strangler' Nelson, a serial sex killer from the United States who was responsible for the deaths of many women across North America until he was captured in Manitoba and met his fate in Winnipeg
- A jail cell from the North End "E" Division built in 1911, which is an interesting attraction, especially to children
- A display on the dangers faced by officers in the line of duty. In addition to several bullet-proof vests that have been used for testing, there is one vest that was not intended for the test but in fact, saved the life of one officer when he was shot by a known drug dealer
- Large artifacts, including a restored 1925 REO Patrol Wagon and a restored 1978 Harley-Davidson and sidecar
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Please do plant Chamomile to feed the bees!
Chamomile is downright heady scented on a warm morning and the tea is sweet.
Chamomile is in the Asteraceae family, making it a relative of Daisies. German Chamomile, Matricaria recutita, is upright, easily gets 2'+ tall and leggy, unruly! It has dainty feathery foliage, smells like pineapple or apple depending on who you talk with. Due to the shape of the yellow part of the flower is sometimes called Pineapple Plant! Roman Chamomile, Anthemis nobilis, is a ground cover with thicker foliage. For medicinal purposes they can be used interchangeably. Roman has bigger flowers, but German is easier to harvest and pretties up your garden!
Bodegold, Matricaria recutita, is an improved German variety from East Germany, where herbal remedies have been used for centuries. Bodegold is shorter, a more sturdy upright 18–24″ tall, so flowers several weeks before other varieties! It blooms through August, even a little more if there are rains! Bodegold has more and larger flowers per plant that have higher essential oil content. Its more uniform habit which makes harvesting easier. If you enjoy details, see a comparative study of 4 Chamomile cultivars including Bodegold.
PLANTING It's an annual that prefers cooler weather. In SoCal, plant by seed in fall or when the soil warms to about 65 degrees in spring for blooms starting in 65 days! It goes through midsummer or later. It's lovely in containers! Maybe right by the door or below the kitchen or bedroom window! Full sun is best but in hotter areas partial shade may be ok. Plant as a border, use it to fill in spots where you need something bright and cheerful, as a companion pest-preventing plant by the plants that need its protection. Chamomile likes well-drained soil with lots of organic matter. Give mature plants ample even moisture.
There are four ways to plant!
- The easiest is to simply let babies sprout this year from fallen seeds if you had Chamomile last year!
- Also easy is to simply fling seeds about and forget about them! Let them come up when and where they will. It's a miracle these super tiny seed beings can do this, but it does happen just like in nature! You can 'weed' and transplant them where you want them.
- If you are starting Chamomile for the first time and want to grow it from seed, get a packet from your local nursery or a reputable organic seed house. The seeds are husky, but tiny to say the least! The seedlings are tiny too! If you don't start them indoors, mark where you planted them so you don't step on them or pull them up thinking they are weeds. Be sure to clear that area of slugs and snails first by putting down something to kill them off before you plant your seeds. Once planted, cover to protect them from being vanished by birds.Put your seeds on the soil surface in slight separate depressions 3″ diameter so the seeds don't float away and water stays where it is needed. Press lightly to settle, do not cover with soil. Your seeds need to be kept moist. That might be every day or twice a day depending on sun and wind. Water lightly and gently so as not to wash away your seeds, or damage tiny seedlings about to come up. They germinate in 7 to 14 days. Do cover the seedlings with netting, a wire cover or a cloche to protect them from birds.
Here is what your tiny seedlings will look like when they first appear! You can easily see how you could step on them if the area isn't marked, mistake them for a weed unless you know what to look for. And, how easily they can be overnight gourmet outdoors for slugs. When they are a tad bigger, they have teensy leaves.
Photo by Jellaluna
- If direct seeding isn't for you, get transplants as soon as your nursery has them. If you already have plants and like them right where they are, let some of your flowers dry on the plant. When you remove the dry plant, give it a good shaking, or squish the dry cones, roll them between your fingers, and let some of the seeds fall to the ground. Your Chamomile will likely self seed next season! That area can act as a nursery area and you can transplant some of the babies to other spots next year if you like. Or, gather a few dry flowers while you are harvesting your flower heads. Save extra seeds for the annual Seed Swap. Next spring plant the seeds you keep where the plants will do the most good for your garden. If your nursery doesn't carry Chamomile, then you are back to planting from seed or asking another gardener if they have any babies they don't need and transplant those!
Though Chamomile is pest and disease resistant, it can/does get mildew when mildew temps, 60° to 80°F, arrive. Chamomile gets 2′ tall and a good 2′ diameter! Leave plenty of room. Best to leave enough space so mature plant's leaves don't touch each other or another plant and spread the mildew. But it often does lay over and lean on neighboring plants, so stake it up. Tie it loosely to the stake if the area is windy. No overhead watering. Mildew can be a problem on a plant you have pinched back to get dense bushy foliage with little air circulation. When you treat your other plants for mildew prevention, treat it too.
Traditionally chamomile is known as the "plant doctor," chamomile has been known to revive and revitalize plants growing near it. Chamomile improves the flavor of any neighboring herb and it's just plain pretty.
CARROTS thrive with Chamomile, Cilantro, and Marigold. Plant a flock of carrots intermingled with, along with them or around a central plant!
Chamomile flowers attract hoverflies and wasps, both pollinators and predators that feed on aphids and other pest insects.
One of the colors bees see is yellow! Chamomile blooms are perfect! Please plant Bee Food, Herbs and Flowers! Sow or transplant basil, borage, chervil, chamomile, chives, cilantro, comfrey, dill, fennel, lavender, marjoram, mint, oregano, rosemary, sage, savory, tarragon, and thyme. Let a carrot or two, and a celery to go to flower to bring bees, butterflies and beneficial insects! Besides being beautiful and having lovely scents, let them seed out for seeds for next year's plantings, to share at the seed swap, give as gifts!
Chamomile, comfrey and yarrow are compost speeder uppers. Plant them near your compost area! Sprinkle your compost with a handful or two of living moist soil to inoculate your pile, and add a few handfuls of your decomposer herbs.
Some think Equisetum (Horsetail) tea is the sovereign remedy for fighting fungus — especially damp-off disease on young seedlings. Spray on the soil as well as plant. (I sprinkle with Cinnamon powder.) Chamomile tea and garlic teas are also used to fight mildew on cucumbers and squash. Try it on other plants that get mildew too!
German Chamomile is a productive and highly medicinal herb, a staple of every herb pantry. Photo by Fotolia/gitusik
Mother Earth News says: It is an anti-inflammatory nervine that has a calming effect on the nervous and digestive systems, and it's safe for children and adults who are in a weakened state. Chamomile has antiseptic properties and is used topically in washes for skin, eyes and mouth. Its essential oil is useful in creams, oils and salves. When brewed as a tea – affectionately called 'cammy tea,' the sweet little blossoms bring a sense of well-being. Chamomile can also be formulated with other herbs and taken in extract form as a digestive, a sleep aid and an overall nerve tonic.
In an herbal shampoo – sage darkens your hair, chamomile lightens!
HOW and WHEN TO HARVEST the FLOWERS!
Many large commercial growers of chamomile sacrifice quality for expediency by using combines to harvest the flowers. Hand-harvesting is easy and retains more of the essential oils and medicinal compounds. Pick on a dry day when the flowers are nearly fully open, after the dew has evaporated but before the sun is high, before the sun beats down on them and volatile oils lost. Definitely harvest before the petals fall back (go back down). In this early morning image you can see flowers with their petals down, others fully open. Most are mature, others just starting to petal up!
Image by Cerena Childress, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden, Santa Barbara CA
As your plants grow, you can pick the flower heads by running your fingers through the plants, palm up, fingers spread wide enough to allow the flower stems to get between them, taking the flowers as you sweep across. Of course, you can pick them one by one as well if you want only the very best. You only want the flower head – cone and petals, not the stem, which some people taste as bitter. One efficient way to do this is to cut off a stem that has several flowers on it. Shake it well to remove any insects. Remove the flowers with your fingernail or scissors or as you wish. The purpose for taking the stem with the group of flowers is so you don't have to trim remaining flower stems away after you take the flowers.
Start harvesting 3 days after flowering. Pick blossoms every seven to 10 days during peak bloom time. The more you harvest, the more your plant will bloom! Flowering may slow down during hot, dry spells and then resume when cool weather returns.
PRACTICAL CAUTION: Some of us have topical hypersensitivity to chamomile. If you are allergic to other members of the Asteraceae family, such as ragweed, if you develop a rash while picking chamomile flowers, avoid using them externally or internally. Please.
You can use fresh blossoms immediately, but they're also relatively easy to dry. Everyone has their own special method and tips!
To ensure the centers of the flowers are dried completely but volatile oils are not lost, dry at lower temperatures (85 to 95 degrees) somewhere with good airflow and limited light. Be sure your flowers don't have any insects! You can tie and hang them, or spread out the flowers in a single layer on a paper plate and allow them to dry for 1 to 2 weeks in a dark, warm, dry space.
Image from Susy Morris/Flickr, via Hobby Farms
If you have a lot of flowers to dry, you can build a screen frame and rest it over two sawhorses. With a frame, the flowers dry both from top and bottom. Make your frame lightweight so you can shake and flip the flowers to speed drying. Lay a white window sheer fabric over the screen so small bits of the drying flowers aren't lost by falling through the screen.
Store in an airtight glass jar in a cool dark place until ready to use. Dried chamomile keeps its flavor for up to a year if it's stored in an airtight glass or metal container, away from heat and humidity, and out of direct light. Put some in a small jar, tie a ribbon around it, add a label. Makes a super sweet gift!
Simplest TEA preparation: Before bed or anytime you need to relax, put a tablespoon dry or 2 tablespoons fresh, or as you prefer, into your tea ball/infuser. Put it into 6 to 8 ounces of hot water in a cup or teapot and steep for five minutes. Steeping for longer than the recommended time or boiling the blossoms can volatilize the essential oils in the plants, reducing the quality and negatively affecting taste and aroma.
Chamomile, being in the Daisy family, has those white ray petals. The yellow center cone has the disk flowers that produce the seeds! To harvest seeds, just pull the dry cone apart, and there are your seeds!
Author and Ethnobotanist Dawn Combs says it so well! 'With so many great uses for the bright, sunny flower of chamomile, it's well worth the time and effort to grow and harvest. The time I spend in the quiet of the garden on a summer day while picking the small blossoms do as much for me as if I were drinking a cup of the tea. We all need more excuses for these times of contemplation and peace. You might say growing chamomile is a way to grow your own meditation.'
Bee good to yourself and Mother Earth! Plant Chamomile!
The Green Bean Connection started as correspondence for the Santa Barbara CA USA, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden. All three of Santa Barbara city community gardens are very coastal. During late spring/summer we are in a fog belt/marine layer area most years, locally referred to as the May grays, June glooms and August fogusts. Keep that in mind compared to the microclimate niche where your veggie garden is. Bless you for being such a wonderful Earth Steward!


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The hunt for the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs is back on, after a NASA mission indicated that the current suspected space rock is not the likely culprit.
A study in 2007, which used visible-light data from ground-based telescopes, had suggested that a fragment of a huge ancient asteroid known as Baptistina had been the one to plunge to Earth and annihilate the ancient reptiles. But NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has figured out that Baptistina broke up just 80 million years ago, which doesn't give the remnants enough time to make it to Earth and plunge the dinos into extinction 65 million years ago.
"The original calculations with visible light estimated the size and reflectivity of the Baptistina family members, leading to estimates of their age, but we now know those estimates were off. With infrared light, WISE was able to get a more accurate estimate, which throws the timing of the Baptistina theory into question," said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near Earth Object Observation Program at NASA.
Many scientists believe that dinosaurs – which as a group comprised over 1,000 species – were wiped out along with several other species when a massive asteroid hit Earth, throwing dust clouds and smoke from forest fires up into the sky, thereby darkening and cooling the planet. According to this theory, the resulting climate change affected the growth of plants at the bottom of the dinosaurs' food chain, leading to the eventual demise of the monsters.
Evidence to support this claim includes a huge crater in the Gulf of Mexico and layers of rare minerals in the fossil record, which are rare in the Earth's crust but often found in meteorites. ®


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Caramoor American Roots Festival
6.21.12 10:40am
WFUV presents The American Roots Festival at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, June 30th. With performances by David Bromberg, Hot Tuna Acoustic, Eilen Jewell, Red Molly, and more on the grounds of the beautiful Caramoor Estate, it's going to be a great day!
Come spend your Saturday relaxing to the sounds of live music. Don't forget to stop by the FUV booth while you're there.
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Welcome to Michigan State University's Academic Governance
The Michigan State University Academic Governance was established in 1955. The Secretary for Academic Governance is Tyler Silvestri. Silvestri is an ex-officio member of University Council, Faculty Senate, The Steering Committee and Academic Congress. He serves those bodies as Secretary and Parliamentarian. Silvestri meets with the University Committee on Academic Governance working with that committee to review and interpret the University Bylaws for Academic Governance. This Web site features many informational resources, including meeting dates, agendas, minutes, committees and memberships.
Along with other administrative offices, the Office of Academic Governance provides staff support to the the Steering Committee, University Council, Faculty Senate, and the University-Level Standing Committees. The office conducts and oversees elections for faculty vacancies on Standing Committees, Advisory Consultative Committees, At-Large Faculty Members of the Steering Committee and Other Boards and Committees.
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My name is Cady and knew from a young age that I wanted to be an artist. In school, you could always find me at the crafts table or scribbling away on colorful paper. I had incredibly supportive parents that brought me from art class to art class. I couldn't get enough of it.
I have had my hands in clay since I was 15 years old. After taking my first pottery class in high school, I knew it was going to lead somewhere. From there, I continued taking classes into college and briefly rented a wheel in a shared studio space. In 2017, I took the plunge and quit my "big girl job". Deciding to take this risk and do what I love every day has enriched my life more than I could explain. I work from my home studio in SE Portland where I create each piece by hand. I hope you like them as much as I love making them.
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