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For Immediate Release
Patricia Kiernan Johnson;
New York, NY —
OPERA America
, is pleased to announce that seven new members were elected to the Board of Directors during the organization's recent annual conference in Los Angeles. The newly elected members are
J.A. "Gus" Blanchard
Gregory Carpenter
Rena M. DeSisto
David B. Devan
Allen R. Freedman
Jake Heggie
Andreas Mitisek
"I am delighted to welcome these outstanding new members to the Board of Directors," stated OPERA America President and CEO Marc A. Scorca. "These seven individuals come from a wide range of backgrounds — each bringing a different, specific set of skills and experiences to OPERA America as we look to the future from our 40th year of leading and serving the opera community."
Board Chairman
Anthony Freud
, general director of Houston Grand Opera, was also elected to a second two-year term as chairman. Current Board member
Carol Penterman
, CEO and executive director of Nashville Opera, was appointed to serve as the next treasurer.
The OPERA America Board of Directors meets three times per year and oversees the organization's portfolio of programs, including professional development activities, educational offerings and grant opportunities such as
The Opera Fund
. The next meeting of the Board of Directors will take place in November in San Francisco.
New Board Member Profiles
J.A. "Gus" Blanchard
Although J.A. "Gus" Blanchard retired from full-time employment at the end of 2002, he currently serves as non-executive chairman of the board of ADC Telecommunications of Eden Prairie. Previously, he held chairman & CEO positions at eFunds Corporation (2000-2002), Deluxe Corporation (1995-2000) and Harbridge Merchant Services (1991-1993). His work background also includes 25 years at AT&T and a brief stint at General Instrument Corp. An alumnus of Princeton and MIT Sloan School, he has served on the boards of Wells Fargo & Co. as well as ADC Telecommunications. Opera became his first musical love and passion as a result of the Texaco radio broadcasts in the 1950s. In addition to service with Minnesota Opera that began in 1996, he was a director of New York City Opera for five years, and has sought out opera performances in Europe, Asia and Australia in addition to numerous American venues. He and his wife, Mary, have two married daughters and reside in White Bear Lake, MN.
Gregory Carpenter
Gregory Carpenter joined the staff of Opera Colorado as director of development in 2004 and became general director in 2007. He is responsible for overseeing artistic and administrative operations of the company, guiding a staff of seventeen full-time employees. As the director of development, he proved himself as an exemplary leader in the areas of fundraising operations, working with a 45-member governing board and overseeing a full-time professional staff of four. He has successfully generated revenue through special events, donor cultivation, community partnerships and corporate support. Carpenter was the chairman of the fundraising committee for the National Performing Arts Convention. Prior to joining Opera Colorado, he worked for three years as the manager of development with the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. There, he worked closely with the National Symphony Orchestra leadership and an 85 member board to achieve and exceed annual fundraising goals averaging $8.9 to $10.5 million.
Rena M. DeSisto
Rena M. DeSisto is head of marketing & corporate affairs for Europe, the Middle East & Africa; and Global Arts & Heritage executive at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In her marketing & corporate affairs role, DeSisto oversees the company's marketing, sponsorships and philanthropy for the region. In her role of global arts & culture executive, she oversees the programming of Bank of America-related investments in nonprofit arts institutions and the communities they serve. DeSisto also oversees a grant program for nonprofit arts organizations to strengthen their ability to educate and serve their local communities. Previously, DeSisto was philanthropy executive with the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, and before that, marketing executive. She served as co-lead on the marketing and communications team that combined Bank of America with Fleet, and which launched the Bank of America brand in the Northeast States. She has also held the position of senior vice president for FleetBoston Financial Corporation, where she oversaw marketing, philanthropy and communications in Metropolitan New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
David B. Devan
David B. Devan arrived at the Opera Company of Philadelphia (OCP) in January 2006 following an extensive search to identify a managing director to oversee all income-generating departments, as well as board development and community programs. In March 2009, OCP's Board of Directors unanimously supported his appointment as executive director. Since his arrival, Devan has worked closely with Board and administration on strategic planning initiatives and building partnerships within the community. Key achievements born out of these initiatives have included the first cycle of the education department's Hip H'Opera collaboration with Arts Sanctuary's after-school program; the successful partnership between OCP, Curtis Institute of Music and Kimmel Center Presents to produce a fully-staged opera each season at the Perelman Theater with joint marketing strength; OCP's selection for a Wallace Foundation Excellence Award to support marketing programs; and a successful $5 million fundraising campaign supporting the company's artistic goals, completed in a most difficult economic climate. A native of Canada, Devan attended Brock University in Ontario and Stanford's University's Graduate School of Business Executive Program.
Allen R. Freedman
Allen Freedman graduated from Tufts University in 1961 and from the University of Virginia Law School in 1964. He also attended New York University Graduate School of Business, studying accounting and banking. In 2000, Freedman was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. Freedman founded Assurant Inc in 1978 and retired as CEO in 2000. He has also been a private equity investor since the 1970s. He previously served as chair of the Board for two public companies, Systems and Computer Technology Corp. and Indus, Inc. He has served as chair of the audit committee of two public companies, currently chairing the audit committee of Stonemor, MLP. He is designated as a "financial expert" by the Stonemor Board for the purposes of the audit committee. At Eaton Vance and Assurant, he is a member of the finance and portfolio management committees, which deal with investment policy and implementation. Freedman and his wife co-founded the annual Freedman Prizes at Hartwick College, which are intended to dramatically reposition the focus of this small liberal arts college in Oneonta, NY. In 2009-2010, over 30 student-faculty fellowships were awarded to stimulate undergraduate/tenured faculty participation in the undergraduate learning experience.
Jake Heggie
Jake Heggie is the American composer of the acclaimed operas
Dead Man Walking
Three Decembers
The End of the Affair
To Hell and Back
, as well as the stage works
For a Look or a Touch
At the Statue of Venus
. The recipient of a 2005-2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, he has also composed more than 200 songs, as well as concerti, chamber music, choral and orchestral works. His songs, song cycles and operas are championed internationally by many of the most celebrated singers of our time, including Isabel Bayrakdarian, Joyce Castle, Stephen Costello, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Ben Heppner, Kristine Jepson, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Kiri Te Kanawa and Bryn Terfel, to name a few. The operas - most of them created with the distinguished writers Terrence McNally and Gene Scheer — have been produced internationally on five continents. Since its San Francisco premiere in 2000,
Dead Man Walking
has received more than 150 international performances.
, which recently received its 2010 world premiere in Dallas, was commissioned by The Dallas Opera with San Francisco Opera, San Diego Opera, State Opera of South Australia and Calgary Opera. Upcoming projects include songs commissioned by Carnegie Hall, The Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, as well as "Ahab" Symphony, commissioned by University of North Texas at Denton, where Heggie will be guest artist-in-residence during the 2010/11 academic year.
Andreas Mitisek
Andreas Mitisek has been the artistic and general director of Long Beach Opera since 2003. There he has conducted a number of productions including
Bluebeard's Castle
Volo di Notte
by Dallapiccola,
The Ring of the Nibelung
. He is also increasingly sought after as a guest conductor in North America, leading productions for Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Vancouver Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Hawaii Opera Theater and Yale Opera. A native of Austria, he served as music director of the Wiener Operntheater from 1990-1997, which earned critical and popular acclaim as the foremost contemporary opera company in Austria presenting the world premiere of
The Eternal Triangle Trio
by Farber, the Austrian premieres and Viennese premieres of
Der Reigen
by Boesmans,
Der Revisor
by W. Egk,
by Enescu,
Le Grand Macabre
by Ligeti,
The Second Mrs. Kong
by Birtwistle,
Das Schloss
by Reimann,
Nixon in China
by Adams,
Death in Venice
by Britten and
The Devils of Loudon
by Penderecki.
OPERA America leads and serves the entire opera community, supporting the creation, presentation and enjoyment of opera.
Artistic services help opera companies and creative and performing artists to improve the quality of productions and increase the creation and presentation of North American works.
Information, technical, and administrative services to opera companies reflect the need for strengthened leadership among staff, trustees and volunteers.
Education, audience development and community services are designed to enhance all forms of opera appreciation.
Founded in 1970, OPERA America's worldwide membership network includes nearly 200 Company Members, 300 Associate and Business Members, 2,000 Individual Members and more than 16,000 subscribers to the association's electronic news service. In 2005, OPERA America relocated from Washington, D.C. to New York as the first step in creating the first-ever National Opera Center. With a wide range of artistic and administrative services in a purpose-built facility, the Opera Center is dedicated to increasing the level of excellence, creativity and effectiveness across the field.
OPERA America's long tradition of supporting and nurturing the creation and development of new works led to the formation of
The Opera Fund
, a growing endowment which allows OPERA America to make a direct impact on the ongoing creation and presentation of new opera and music-theater works. Since its inception, OPERA America has made grants of nearly $11 million to assist companies with the expenses associated with the creation and development of new works.


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Officials: Jamaica closer to finalizing IMF deal
The finance minister of debt-burdened Jamaica says negotiations to forge a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund are nearly complete.
But Peter Philips says there must be a framework for taxes, public sector wages and other matters before a deal is finalized.
Philips declined to provide many specifics at a Monday press briefing, but said there must be "sacrifice from all sectors of the society" to achieve economic stability.
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's government has been criticized for not keeping citizens better informed of the status of the IMF bargaining.
On Monday, she said the Cabinet recently signed off on all fiscal consolidation matters to forge a new IMF deal. Simpson Miller says the Cabinet is determined to protect the most vulnerable Jamaicans while pursuing economic growth.


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I couldn't see how my colleagues could top the speakers at our first Digital Library Conversations @British Library. Internet pioneers Vint Cerf (known as one of the fathers of the internet) and Ted Nelson who founded Project Xanadu, the first hypertext project in 1960. There is a video of the meeting if you are interested.
However, I was wrong. As a result of Stella Wisdom (one of our Digital Curators) reading an article in the Metro newspaper, we were privileged to hear from 16-year-old 'internet genius' Nick D'Aloisio, the founder of Summly.
This iPhone app has made international headlines and attracted backing of an investment company controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing..
Summly is an iPhone app which summarises and simplifies the content of web pages and search results. Currently it can condense reference pages, news articles and reviews but according to Nick, has the potential to go a lot further.
Nick has been profiled in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wired and FastCompany for his entrepreneurial success and interest in Artificial Intelligence. Before founding Summly, Nick created Facemood, a service which used sentiment analysis to determine the mood of Facebook users, and SongStumblr, a geosocial music discovery service.
Did I mention he was 16 years old?
According to an interview with the BBC, Summly came from his frustration in researching for his exams.
"I was revising for a history exam and using Google, clicking in and out of search results, and it seemed quite inefficient. If I found myself on a site that was interesting I was reading it and that was wasting time," he said.
"I thought that what I needed was a way of simplifying and summarising these web searches. Google has Instant Preview but that is just an image of the page. What I wanted was a content preview," he says.
What impressed me most from our meeting with Nick at the British Library (which you can get a glimpse of here thanks to Reuters), was his intelligence and modesty.
I'm sure he has had plenty of practice, but his 'elevator pitch' (which is something of an obsession with me), was superb.
And when I asked him if he was planning to pursue an entrepreneurial path or go on to university, he talked enthusiastically about studying philosophy after his A levels. This is from someone just back from a series of meetings with high powered investors and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
I came away with the impression that he was quite possibly the most confident and mature person in the meeting.
Addition 28 March 2012:
The video of this event has now been posted onto YouTube, and the interview with Nick starts 34 minutes in.


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My Pizza Oven: Aaron 'DoubleA' Harris
Q&A about home pizza ovens.
We got wind of Aaron "DoubleA" Harris's oven when he chimed in on the Awesome Pizza in Kentucky? Talk topic. You know what happens when you mention you own a wood-fired oven around these parts, don't you? You get yourself a place in the hot seat. Let's get Aaron in there now.... —AK
Name: Aaron "DoubleA" Harris
Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky
URL(s): aa.speedgeeks.org/pizza
When did you put it in? Did you build it yourself or have someone build it?
It took about a year to build. My father-in-law and I first broke ground in June 2009, and the first firing was June 2010. My original plan was an Alan Scott oven, but while laying the block I decided to take the easy way out and called Forno Bravo.
Like most of my home projects, the oven is in "finished enough to use" state. I've been too busy making pizzas to put a finish on it.
How often do you use it?
We usually fire it up at least twice a month.
Do you cook anything besides pizza in it?
Can't let that heat go to waste. Most of the time we'll throw a pot roast in the day after a firing. I've baked bread a few times with varying degrees of success, most recently 30 loaves of rosemary bread on Christmas Eve. There is a certainly an art to hearth bread-baking.
What style of pizza do you normally do?
Mostly I make a Nearly-politan crust then let people pick their own toppings/crust/sauce on firing day. They vary from the ordinary (pepperoni), to the California/Artisan style. The only other type I make is Chicago deep dish, but only in the winter.
What's your favorite topping or topping combination to make?
I'm boring. I keep mine to three toppings or less. My favorite is pepperoni, sausage, and jalapeño (above).
My wife comes up with the interesting stuff. Her favorite is her "Mediterranean Salad Pizza" (above). It's pesto, Kalamata olives, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, fresh mozzarella, tiger shrimp, spring mix, and balsamic vinaigrette.
Do you cook for friends/neighbors?
Absolutely. It's way too much work to fire up the oven to cook for four people. We usually have anywhere between 12 and 25 people come over for a firing and everybody helps out.
What does your family think of your pizza madness?
They don't really understand my constant tweaking of the dough recipe. Especially when I start rambling about hydration or rise times.
The Pizza Cognition Theory states that "the first slice of pizza a child sees and tastes ... becomes, for him, pizza." Do you remember your first slice? Where was it from, is the place still around, and if so, does it hold up? On that note, has your taste in pizza evolved over time?
The only pizzeria in my hometown (population 6,000) growing up was a Pizza Hut. So it was that or frozen Jeno's. Pizza has always been my favorite food, but it wasn't until five years ago that it turned into an obsession.
Where do you go for pizza in your area (when you're not making your own)?
I'll admit it: Pizza Hut. For the simple reason it's a mile from my house. Otherwise it's the Brickyard Cafe or The Bistro.
What one thing should NEVER go on a pizza?
Flaming logs. And salad (my wife disagrees though).
Most unusual pizza you've ever eaten?
I made a crustless pizza for my wife when she was pregnant. The "crust" was actually ground beef.
What's the farthest you've traveled for pizza?
Usually when traveling with the family, I'll find a place that's only 50 miles out of the way. I don't really want to torture the kids too much. But I always eat pizza when I'm traveling on business. I've had great pizzas in San Antonio, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City. However, my favorite all-time slice was from the Domino's in the Cancun Airport. After five days of gourmet Mexican cuisine, I just wanted a taste of America. Even if it was $8 a slice.
Who would you like to see interviewed next?
Home oven, I'd like to see Keith Wiley's oven. With its herb plant box, it's the most unique oven I've seen. I'd also like to see Doug Horn of Dough Pizzeria Napoletana in San Antonio. Simply amazing.


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Time for my list of the year's top stories about sustainability news in government, business and beyond. Notice the irrelevance of the United States in positive developments.
1. China goes big time green with new Five Year Plan
You may know that China has overtaken the US, EU nations and other countries in production of solar and wind renewable energy technologies; but may not have heard that China, which will use 15% renewables by 2020, is committed to greening far more than its energy (note: the US has no goal for renewable energy).
China's Five Year Plan for 2011-2015 demonstrates that it is serious about tackling its rampant air and water pollution. This recently announced plan also shows that China will be designing scaleable new technologies and approaches for everything from greener urban development to more fuel efficient vehicles, including nationally subsidized electric cars.
Nowhere was this more evident than at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, a six-month affair that I attended at its close in October (see photo above). Climate change, sustainability, environmental management and the role of citizens in reducing their impact were major themes in the China Pavilion and in other theme pavilions. The Shanghai Expo featured some of the most creative and engaging exhibits that I have seen on climate change, green technology, waste reduction, urban planning, and air and water pollution.
2. India's GDP will factor in environmental damages by 2015
Now that more than 30 nations have agreed to some kind of price on carbon emissions, India declared in November that it will go a step further. India said within five years it will factor in environmental damages into its Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. In other words, if the country now has an annual GDP of 8 percent that could be adjusted a few percentages points lower once the damages to air, water and species are analyzed and calculated in the equation. Under such "full-cost accounting," intensified green economic development would likely become a substantially larger component of the GDP.
3. US Congress fails to pass climate change legislation (again)
Climate change legislation in 2010 appeared to be dead in the water after passing in the U.S. House in 2009. The Obama Administration is likely to try to enforce greenhouse gas emission reductions using Executive Order, mainly through the Environmental Protection Agency. Lawmakers hunker waiting in revolt.
4. It's happening: Climate change related flooding in Pakistan, fires engulfing Russia, etc.
Pakistan experienced some of the worst rain and flooding in its recorded history, with the Indus River flooding its banks and occupying more than 30 times its usual width, which covered one-fifth of the country. Russia in 2010 experienced record high temperatures and rampant drought and extreme temperature-related fires, impacting national food crops, health in major cities including Moscow, and commercial aviation. More than 15,000 were likely killed by the Russian 2010 heat wave, cutting more than $15 billion from its GDP. The year 2010, meanwhile, is likely to finish as the planet's warmest year ever recorded since record keeping began in the late 1800s.
5. Gulf Oil Spill demonstrates future dangers of ever-riskier drilling
The BP Gulf Horizon disaster, the largest US oil "spill" in history (it was more of an uncontrolled gusher than a spill), caught BP, the federal government and the nation at large way off guard. I blogged about the disaster's potential in April, when estimates of damage were laughingly underplayed by BP through the US government. Who can forget the weird summer with that underwater camera video spewing daily before our eyes? Deep water drilling is not for the timid, especially as such operations will more frequently encounter highly volatile methane gases.
6. New electric vehicles released by Chevy and Nissan
Both Chevy and Nissan came out in 2010 with electric cars (though only Nissan's Leaf is truly an all-electric car.) Now we just have to figure out how to get people to realize that electric cars are a small sliver of a solution. They're not even part of a solution if people end up feeling justified in driving more and continuing the auto-dominant lifestyle that presents so many other challenges: exurban sprawl; life-cycle energy; peaking oil (see #7) for plastics, asphalt and lubrication; waste and resource impacts; biodiversity and agricultural land destruction; personal health and community societal damages.
7. Oil prices near $100 a barrel. Again.
Oil prices per barrel reached over $91 late this month. The last time oil was at such a price in 2008, the Great Recession was just beginning to wrap its talons around the globe. Now industry analysts see oil prices moving to $100-120 per barrel in 2011. Others, including the US Department of Defense and a UK energy and aviation industry consortium have forecast that the real oil crunch will come in 2014-2015 as global supplies "peak," "plateau," "top off," or "poop out," depending on who you are reading or talking to. The International Energy Agency even came out with a report in 2010 stating that global oil supplies peaked in 2006. Expect much higher prices for gasoline and higher prices for food and transportation (especially airline flights).
8. Post Carbon Reader lays out a plan for what's next
The Post Carbon Institute tapped 29 of its fellows, including yours truly, to write chapters about the major climate, ecological and economic problems faced by the world in 2010. Chapters covered the inter-related challenges of climate change, resource and water scarcity, dwindling "easy" energy supplies, food security, waste, biodiversity, buildings, "growth" economics, cities and local government, exurban sprawl, human health and psychology, education, societal resilience, population and transportation.
Unlike other books that may be easily filed under "Gloom and Doom," authors in the Post Carbon Reader including Richard Heinberg, Bill McKibben, Erika Allen, David Orr, Stephanie Mills, Wes Jackson, and Sandra Postel
made sure to explore positive paths laden with solution examples.
As Lester R. Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute (and founder of the Worldwatch Institute) put it, "The Post Carbon Reader is an invaluable primer, resource and textbook. This is what you need to know, period." Since its release eight weeks ago, the book is in its second printing from Watershed Media/ University of California Press.
9. Cancun Accord a small step forward
At the Cancun, Mexico, United Nations conference on climate change, representatives from 192 countries pledged to help developing nations mitigate and adapt to climate change with a $100 billion fund announced for 2020. The United Nations and host country Mexico emerged as successful in bringing together the negotiations. Unlike the Copenhagen gathering, Cancun did not attract heads of state. But maybe that's precisely why it was considered more successful than Copenhagen's climate conference.
10. ICLEI announces STAR pilot sustainability program for communities
ICLEI USA, part of an international organization that works with cities and counties on sustainability programs, announced in November a 2012 pilot program called the STAR Community Index. The membership local government advocacy organization, which had promoted its STAR Index since 2007-2008 as coming out in 2010, did release 81 sustainability goals and 10 guiding principles for STAR.
ICLEI has made it clear that STAR is a sustainability rating system for communities, not a ranking system. Its delay for releasing the STAR rating system, which it sees as a US Green Building Council LEED-like rating for communities (USGBC is a partner for STAR, along with the National League of Cities and the Center for American Progress), has been attributed to management volatility as well as the incredibly ambitious scope of STAR.
In addition to ranking green buildings, infrastructure and other environmental, quality of life and energy attributes, ICLEI plans on using STAR to measure and rate city or community "poverty prevention and alleviation," "social cohesion," "government transparency," "industry sector development and revitalization," "employment opportunity," "financial literacy," "arts and culture" and dozens of other categories.
Warren Karlenzig is president of Common Current. He is a fellow at the
Post-Carbon Institute, strategic adviser to the Institute for Strategic Resilience and co-author of a forthcoming United Nations manual on global sustainable city planning and management.


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What's your Favorite Scene in FWDAJ
Discuss this movie. Available on DVD and PSP.
I would have to say the scene in the psychedelic shop. That was kind of trippy.
"If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!" ~ Jim Carrey
same here, i loved it all.... of course there were little things that stood out that i liked such as... "I think were in a bit of a pickle, Dick." and... "Like my father used to say..." Then he stares into space not speaking for 5 minutes.
and ... When Jane wakes up and she has a big hand print on her boob and she looks over at Dick and he is all muddy and the white sheets are brown. lol.
Just some little parts, but the whole thing was great.. oh and i like the end where he tricks alec Baldwin into giving him the signed check. that was awsome.
Personally I loved the part where he was in Jack Mcallisters house and they say.
Jack: Call me Jack
Dick: Likewise
That was really funny.
And also I loved it when he went on TV. The Newsreaders face looked really funny on the credits.
Another would be "I believe I Can Fly" but I have watched it sooo many times on the trailer that it has become less funny.
"You Cant Stop Me No Matter Who You Are"
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever." JC
I think everyone loved every bit of it lol... i hav sum lil fave bits too like.. how he jumps over the fence in tht bit where they are all escaping into janes car lol...
and i had a tear in my eye wen near the end of the movie Jim and his boss are in the bank and Jim pulls the gun on him.. and u get a close up of his eyes watering up.. awww! i just wanted to sqeeeze him lol.. and he makes a joke about it after lol!.. i also thought there was sum classic lil jokes in there.... oh and other is wen tht guy is nickin jims tree frm his office lol.. and him and tht guy start fittin over it lol!!!
hope to go see it agen soon yay lol!! i wounder who is goin to see this movie the most out of everyone on the forum lol... ?????...
lol................the ones who have the DVD already............tsk tsk..........lol
i have to say when he pulled the gun on Alec was one of my favs........that one was brilliantly acted with a lot of genuine feeling.......
Ummmm so many fave scenes!! I did roll around laughing at the robot scene..'Dont know what i got, I'm Mister Robot!! Also, got to be the scene when they robbing the coffee store, then they just leavin, Jane like 'Honey, coffees??Classic!! And ofcourse the singing in the elevator!! Loved it when they showed the guy walking outside past the elevator and all you can hear is Dick singing his heart out!! Great film, definatly worth the wait to go see!! xxxx And just adding the obvious here, was it just me ladies or did Jim look extra gorgeous in this film?? lol
I personally found it absolutely hilarious when Jane says that maybe he's not a 'badass' and then he freaked out and went into that psycadelic shop and she comes in, hes like 'hon! robe!" I also thought the coffee shop part where he forgot the coffee was classic too because when he went back for them he said THANK YOU. lol
"No day but today!" ~RENT~
The Elevator scene, of course...
good thing he had quite a few floors to go up to have time to sing the song. Brings back smiley memories.
The darth vader voices were a neat surprise.
And of course the ending was tragically wonderful.
Great Job folks!
Lovin' em.
Don´t you remember, a couple of years ago, the telecomunication firm, ENROM, was bankrupted because of bad administration, as said in several newspapers? Some people said that FWD&J was inspired by this case.
The joke at the end of the movie was just an irony.
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In a society where many young men and women live with their parents well into their 20s, foster children learn quickly that they are their own responsibility. To find someplace to live in 10th grade Kaleef Starks, now an A student at the University of California, Los Angeles, but back then (to use his words) a gay, effeminate, abused teenager, went to the local library, logged onto a computer and Googled "homeless shelters for youth."
His closest friend at U.C.L.A., Bianca Boccara, had parents who made her go panhandling with them because they knew passers-by would be more likely to donate if they saw a young child.
By the time he was 18, Manny Roque, now a student at Los Angeles City College, had lived in seven foster homes and attended five high schools. He was raised by a mother who was a crack addict and prostitute, growing up in such chaos that he did not go to school until sixth grade and only then did he understand how abnormal it was for a boy his age not to be able to name the letters of the alphabet.
One of his classmates, Shamir Moorer, "born with crack inside me," estimates she's lived in "15 or 17" foster and group homes. She can't say for sure because she can't remember the earliest ones, having been placed in care as a baby.
IN a 2010 study by researchers at the University of Chicago, only 6 percent of former foster youths had earned a two- or four-year degree by age 24. Those not in college may be in jail; 34 percent who had left foster care at age 17 or 18 reported being arrested by age 19.
Most of the research is bleak — but not all. It appears that extra support can make a difference. The Chicago study tracked the lives of about 700 foster children in Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. Those in Illinois who were still getting foster care services at age 19 were less likely to have been arrested (22 percent versus 34 percent) than those in the other two states who were on their own. The same was true for education. The foster children from Illinois, which has long allowed young people to remain in care until their 21st birthday, were more likely to have completed at least one year of college than their counterparts from Iowa or Wisconsin, where the age of emancipation at the time was 18.
Which is why a growing number of colleges — from those that are selective, like U.C.L.A., to those that are not, like Los Angeles City College — have created extensive support programs aimed at current and former foster young people. At U.C.L.A., this includes scholarships, year-round housing in the dorms for those who have no other place to live, academic and therapeutic counseling, tutoring, health care coverage, campus jobs, bedding, towels, cleaning products, toiletries and even occasional treats. Ms. Boccara mentioned the gift cards she was given to a local supermarket. At Los Angeles City College, Marcellia Goodrich likes the free snacks in the program office and Mr. Roque noted the free paper. "It's useful and helps you stay on budget," he said.
No one tracks college programs for foster youth. But it is clear there has been considerable growth in recent years, spurred in part by the creation in 2003 of the Chafee grant program, an annual $48 million federal appropriation used to award scholarships of up to $5,000. Also important was federal legislation in 2008 giving states the option of extending federal aid programs for foster youth from age 18 to 21.
Seven states are considered to have particularly strong programs. California's is known as the Guardian Scholars. Texas, Ohio and North Carolina call theirs Reach; Michigan has Fostering Success Michigan; Washington, Passport to College Promise; and Virginia, Great Expectations. Many colleges provide some services, but a far smaller number have the kinds of comprehensive support systems offered at places like Western Michigan University, Sam Houston State University, City College of San Francisco, and community colleges in Tallahassee, Fla., and Austin, Tex.
California has the largest foster population — about 54,000 of the 400,000 in care nationally — and Los Angeles, with 18,500 children, has the most among cities, more even than New York, which has about 14,000.
U.C.L.A. began identifying foster students five years ago when it introduced its Guardian Scholars program, and the results are promising. There are now 250 current and former foster students at the university. The first group had a four-year graduation rate of 65 percent and a five-year rate of 80 percent, which compares favorably with rates for all low-income students (61 percent and 84 percent) and campuswide (69 percent and 88 percent).
According to the state website, 33 two- and four-year colleges have a Guardian Scholars program or are in the process of developing one. The first, at California State University, Fullerton, started in 1998 with financial backing from Ronald V. Davis, the former chief executive of the Perrier Group. Philanthropy has played a role at several universities. Paul Blavin, who made his fortune as an investor, has financed programs at the University of Michigan and Northern Arizona University. The Pritzker Foundation recently gave $3 million to U.C.L.A.'s program. Casey Family Scholars provides scholarships and support services directly to students, an average of $3,500 a year to about 220 undergraduates.
Why treat foster youth differently from other low-income students?
Janina Montero, a vice chancellor who developed U.C.L.A.'s program, said most poor children have at least one parent to guide them and provide basic needs — and a place to call home.
There are 25 students at U.C.L.A., including Mr. Starks and Ms. Boccara, who have nowhere to go during holiday and summer breaks, and so live in the dorms year-round. And while spending Thanksgiving and Christmas in a nearly empty 10-story residence hall may sound depressing, it is better, Ms. Boccara said, than her alternative, some cheap motel room. During her first Christmas at school, she said, "I stayed busy, but it was pretty lonely here — no one I knew, just foreign students in the dorm. It does get a person down."
Mr. Starks had a hard time, too: "The first night I cried — a young adult in college on my own." But he also said, "I don't let brokenness get in my way; I've always known if I worked hard, doors would open."
The biggest door so far opened in the spring of 2011, when he was accepted to U.C.L.A. For Mr. Starks, it was validation that he was the kind of person he'd believed himself to be.
"To celebrate," he said, "they had a dinner for me at the group home."
Last summer, living in a dorm was not so hard because by then Ms. Boccara and Mr. Starks had become friends. Ms. Boccara is pretty sure her roommate during the school year has a sense of her background but not the details. "She hears me on the phone, but I don't talk about it," Ms. Boccara said. "The only person I tell is Kaleef."
THINGS are harder at Los Angeles City College.
Nearly three-quarters of the students qualify for an annual tuition waiver because they are too poor to pay the $1,400. The average age is 30, meaning many have probably failed at college before. The graduation rate is only 6 percent within six years (versus the national community college average of about 14 percent in three years).
City College, like most community colleges, does not have dorms, and most students find housing through social welfare agencies. Mr. Roque lives in housing financed by First Place for Youth, a nonprofit organization that serves former foster children. He was 18 when he left the last of seven homes, in 2010, and as is true for many foster youth, there are pieces of his story he doesn't know. He was too young to remember why he was removed from the first two homes. Another house was closed for violations. His fourth foster mother planned to adopt him, he said, but changed her mind.
Last spring, Mr. Roque was rejected by Los Angeles City College for having failed to make adequate academic progress; he says he had twice attended area community colleges, but withdrew without earning any credits. To be reconsidered, he had to write a letter of appeal explaining any mitigating circumstances, which in Mr. Roque's case was homelessness.
He wrote of the transition from foster care to no care: "Couch surfing, from relatives who did not like me to friends who got tired of me. I was not able to concentrate in school or even keep my grade-point average at a 2.0." He also filled a single-spaced page with several more mitigating circumstances and in his conclusion promised to do better: "I have such a good support system in place, people who expect a lot from me, and I am in a place where I can make school a priority. I am serious this time."
Mr. Roque was better than his word, said Jon Lee, director of tutoring for the Guardian Scholars.
"All summer he was the first one in each morning," he said. "He'd put on headphones, sit at the computer with a dictionary and find a website to practice grammar. He'd show me sentences and ask if they were right."
New foster students take a mandatory course that includes lists of proper study skills, which Mr. Roque has memorized.
"Sit in front of the room," he recited for me. "Visit your professors during visiting hours. Have a notebook and binder for each class, not all stuffed in one. Take notes for every class and give yourself five to eight minutes after class to go over them. Ask questions even if they sound silly. Be prompt and considerate with assignments and attendance."
He paused. "Do all they say and you'll be golden."
In addition to the new friends he's made, the computer he won at a raffle sponsored by the Scholars, and knowing that he will not age out of the housing program until March 27, 2015, Mr. Roque has a job working four shifts a week at the Subway restaurant across from the college. "Life's the best it's ever been," he said.
WHEN Mr. Lee started tutoring at the community college, he thought he was going to save everyone who walked through the door. He believed it was just a matter of putting in the hours. But early on, he watched as most cascaded through the cracks. There have been 300 students in the program for at least a semester since it began in 2009, and so far 14 have graduated or transferred to a four-year college.
"It's hopeless to help students who haven't come to the realization that they have to want to do it on their own," he said.
For Randy Davis, who is on the honor roll and is the student government parliamentarian, the light bulb went off late, two years ago, when he was 25. Part of the problem was his family, he said. He never knew his father, hasn't seen his mother in 10 years, his grandmother who had cared for him is dead and two brothers are in jail.
But partly, he said, it was him. He has been arrested multiple times on drug charges.
"I can't put it all on others," he said. "I have no bad feelings toward my biologicals. I tell people, 'Leave the past in the past,' but I hear people say, 'If I had parents I would have done better.' Well, you don't have parents. You got to learn to roll with it."
Mr. Davis, Ms. Goodrich and Ms. Moorer have been known as the Three Peas in a Pod since they formed a study group last year that helped them all get A's in a geology course. But while Mr. Davis and Ms. Goodrich are applying to four-year colleges, Ms. Moorer, who's 27, dropped out recently.
On the Friday I first interviewed her, she said, "I haven't told anyone, but today is my last day." She is a single mother and said the reasons had to do with her 8-year-old son. "I'm going all the time. There are nights we don't eat until 9," she said. "This weekend I'm making a new plan."
But the following week there still was no plan, except that she did not want the Scholars staff to know. "They'll pressure me to come back," she said. "I've broken down a couple of times in my life and I can feel it coming on, so I just need to slow it down."
When Veronica Garcia, who runs the Scholars program at the community college, found out, she pushed for Ms. Moorer to take at least one course, and the young woman promised that she would. Ms. Moorer said she's fearful of being one of those women who is 40 years old and still trying to get her associate degree.
THE leap from foster care to U.C.L.A. is enormous, and there are things those who reach the far side share. Ms. Boccara said that from the time she was little, school was the one place she felt happy. Mr. Starks said his teachers intuited the harshness of his life and encouraged him. Donovan Arrington, a U.C.L.A. sophomore, said he always felt he was imposing on people; doing well in school made him feel less of a burden.
Having come so far, they are not willing to be overlooked. When Rayvonn Anthony Lee, who has overcome abuse, legal problems, serious illness and homelessness, was rejected by U.C.L.A., he appealed. He is now a senior, majoring in contemporary classical music composition. One of his professors, Adam Schoenberg, said Mr. Lee is a great student, but what stands out more is his will.
"I was able to get to know him after class," Mr. Schoenberg wrote in an email, as he was always very ambitious. "He would ask to show me his compositions several times after theory class, and he even took a bus — because he didn't have a car at the time — from the west side all the way to downtown just to have a lesson with me (and it probably took him close to two hours with all of the bus changes). It was clear from the get-go that Anthony is hungry to make it as a composer."
Angel Gabarret has lived on the streets of Los Angeles before and does not intend to again. In September, he used the money he'd earned working at a carwash to pay his rent through the end of the year. "Now I just have to worry about education and food and that's it," he said.
He was born in Honduras, orphaned at a young age and, still a child, made his way north to Guatemala, then Mexico, and finally the United States, a street urchin supporting himself by gathering firewood, hawking newspapers and helping women sell vegetables in local markets. He didn't learn English until he was 18 and it has taken him five years to graduate from City College, but now at 27, with a B average, he is applying to California State University, Long Beach.
Most days he arrives on campus by 7 a.m. and works at an outdoor bench. Afternoons, he goes for tutoring at the Scholars office. After several false starts, he has decided on a career.
"I think accounting is doable for me," he explained. "I understand the concepts. I've learned the accounting equations. It's a very, very clean job. You work indoors in a nice office. You're supposed to dress up with shiny shoes and dressed-up pants."
Michael Winerip moderates the Booming blog of The Times and has covered education and parenting.


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Election Projection Selection for CT
26 June, 2017
The BBC contracted CT to project imagery and data onto Broadcasting House as part of the official Election Special programme.
As the General Election campaign drew to a close, and the drama unfolded as to who would govern the UK for the next few years, the BBC results programme used the BBC Broadcasting House as a canvas to display the exit polls and results as they came in.
Following the success of the 2015 election and 2016 EU referendum programmes, the BBC once again contracted Creative Technology (CT) to project imagery and data onto the Art Deco building as part of the official BBC General Election Special programme's backdrop. As in previous years, CT worked through the night to display the figures as they were verified and announced, utilising six of the latest additions to CT's projector fleet, the 30K lumen Panasonic PT-DZ31K projectors. These were situated in two locations; three in Regent Street's St George Hotel and three at The Langham.
Featuring 3D visuals as well as key live updates on statistics and data throughout the evening, the content was created by the BBC News team on the night. The live data captured from the BBC's VIS engine was pulled directly into CT's four Photon media servers placed within The Langham, with the onsite team translating it into the visual graphics projected on the building.
CT used their MediorNet signal transport system to pass all of the content and projection data through a single run of fibre cable, which was also able to carry all of the communication links between the BBC News team within Broadcasting House and the CT team who were split between the two hotels.
CT's project manager, Paul Seeger was delighted to bring the BBC's Broadcasting House to life: "Yes, the set-up is a challenge but for the third year running delivered reliable and impressive results. It always looks fantastic and provides a pretty stunning backdrop to the programme, whichever way the public votes!"


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A Pint With: Greg Hall, Goose Island Beer Company
Chatting about beer with the folks who make it.
Greg Hall of Goose Island Beer Company makes beers that are delicious on their own and even more brilliant with food. We caught up with him to chat about his exciting new sour beer releases, his favorite beer-and-food pairings, and his thoughts on where craft beer is heading.
Name: Greg Hall
Location: Chicago
Occupation: Brewmaster, Goose Island Beer Co.
Your father started Goose Island—did you always know you wanted to be the brewmaster? I started as a "helper" to our original brewer, Victor Ecimovich. I worked about 60 hours a week at minimum wage the first couple years until I went to Siebel, a brewing school based in Chicago since 1900. I rode my bicycle to Siebel. My classmates came from Boston, California, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, all over the world.
How has Goose Island changed over the years? Do you think Americans' taste for beer is changing? We really have moved a lot of focus to our Belgian style beers, the beers that work so well with food. The new revolution is at the table. America's drinkers have it better than anyone in the world, with access to so many great local and international beers, and they have responded by demanding more flavor in beer, more styles. When the drinker wants better beer, the retailers respond. It's great to see so many bars and now restaurants devoting themselves to pouring the best beers they can find.
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We love your Belgian series—can you tell us the story behind the Matilda? I've had the pleasure of visiting Belgium over a dozen times, and enjoyed many of my favorite beers at the brewery. One of my favorites has always been Orval, and when I visited the Abbaye Orval, I heard the story of Matilda, a Tuscan countess who lost her ring in the fountain behind the original church. After the ring was returned by a trout she gave a lot of money to the Abbaye. The Matilda Fountain is still there, and I was so taken with the story we decided to name our beer after her. We were one of the first American brewers to ferment with a wild yeast called brettanomyces; that is what makes Matilda so unique.
What are the challenges and benefits of brewing in Chicago? I love being an urban brewer and wouldn't have it any other way. Being right in the middle of a world class city, with all the culture, restaurants, bars and music is a daily thrill. That being said, when I visit other breweries and hear the just bought another 10 acres to expand, I just shake my head. We are surrounded by business, including our friends at Intelligentsia Coffee, and have no room to expand our footprint, so we have to be a lot more creative with adding capacity.
We know it's hard to choose, but if you had to pick a favorite Goose Island beer, what would it be? Of course I love them all; if I stop loving them I stop brewing them. That being said, Honkers has been our flagship in Chicago since 1988, so it's special. And now we have a Saison called Sofie, which is named after my daughter. Like his sister, my son Henry gets a beer for their tenth birthday. "King Henry" will be a barleywine. So I guess they would have to be about as special as anything.
How do you get inspired to create new recipes? Can you tell us about the new beers you'll be releasing this year? We heard a rumor about a few sours... Everywhere I go I search out local brewers and ask bartenders what is new and what are their favorites. It's nice having a world class beer store across the street from our brewpub too. We have an innovation team that comes up with lots of great ideas, including our first sour beer, Juliet. That was Matt Lincoln's idea; he's now a head brewer on the West Coast. We started out with his recipe using marionberries, but switched to more local blackberries. Now we have three other sours about to hatch. Fleur is a Belgian Pale brewed with hibiscus, then blended with more hibiscus that has been fermented with kombucha cultures. It's wild, great with spicy food. Then we have Lolita, a framboise brewed with local grower Mick Klug's raspberries. We just won a silver medal at the World Beer Cup with Lolita. Madame Rose is a kriek, a strong brown ale barrel fermented with Schaerbeek cherries grown just for us by Peter Klein, another friendly Michigan fruit man. It's a very exciting year!
What is your favorite Goose Island beer and food pairing? I love beer with food, but I feel extra strongly about beer and cheese. It's such a better match than wine. I've been doing beer and cheese classes in Chicago for over 10 years, and now do a monthly class at Murray's Cheese on Bleecker in New York. Some of my favorite matches are Matilda with Winnimere by Jasper Hill; IPA with a big salty blue from Rogue Creamery; our Harvest Ale with Pleasant Ridge Reserve; and Sofie with Sofia, a goat cheese from Judy Schad at Capriole in Indiana.
When you're not drinking Goose Island, what do you drink? Do you have any favorite beers that you think all beer lovers should try? I've always been a big fan of everything Sierra Nevada brews. They own hops, but they never get out of balance. Love Garrett Oliver's new beers from Brooklyn, especially Local One and his hoppy weizen collaboration with Schneider, as well as Black Ops. The stuff Rob Tod does at Allagash in Maine is great too. Plus, I love so many English and Belgian Ales. There is more good beer than ever.
You're part of the Craft Brewers Alliance (along with Redhook, Widmer Brothers, and Kona Brewing.) What does that entail, exactly? What is the Craft Brewers Alliance's relationship with AB-InBev? We are all leaders in our own regions, and learn a lot from each other. They represent us on the West Coast and we do the same in the Midwest. AB has an investment in CBA and we have a distribution agreement with AB.
Where do you see Goose Island in the next five years? Sour is the new hoppy; we will have more sour beers. Vintage beers will be everywhere. Beer and food matches will no longer be a novelty, it will be as common as wine and food. We are currently working with two very successful chefs on collaborative beers, we will continue to lead on food friendly beers. Hopefully we will continue to grow and make people happy.
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Birds of Nepal.
London: Christopher Helm/A & C Black, 2000. Octavo, paperback, 110 colour plates, colour photographs. Illustrates more than 780 species in colour. Text on facing pages to colour plates for at-a-glance reference. Concise text, covering identification, voice, habitat, altitudinal range, distribution and status. Introduction includes information on birdwatching and conservation in..... More


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TV Moore is an internationally recognised artist who lives and works in Sydney and New York.
'TV Moore is Dennis Hopper from the film The last movie (1971). TV Moore is Joaquin Phoenix from the film I'm still here (2010). TV Moore is Mickey Rourke from the film Rumble fish (1983). TV Moore is TV Moore from the film Nina, me and Ricky Jay (2009),' says David Griggs.
'TV Moore is a friend and one of Australia's most progressive artists: a mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a smoke haze of acid night cowboy ghouls during a love story re-shoot. TV Moore is a Bulldogs fan, who can stay up all night and talk about Australian history while commenting at the same time on the importance of filmmakers like Werner Herzog.
'I needed to paint TV Moore! TV or Timmmmmmmm has offered so much friendship, care and inspiration over the years that I needed to give it back somehow! Knowing TV's art practice on an in-depth level I decided to paint him in an intuitive way, meaning I just worked in the studio and painted a portrait I hoped TV Moore would enjoy.'
Griggs has studios in Sydney and Manila, where he has worked on-and-off for eight years. He was a finalist in the 2007 and 2009 Archibald Prize.


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Welcome to Rock Type 1: Empowering individuals with type 1 diabetes
What is type 1 diabetes?
Type 1 diabetes (formerly known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes) occurs when one's own immune system attacks the beta cells in the pancreas. It is not known what triggers this autoimmune response. Type 1 diabetes is not caused by lifestyle factors, such as being overweight, inactive, or eating unhealthy foods. However, lifestyle factors play a very significant role in the effective management of type 1 diabetes. Effective type 1 diabetes management also requires vigilant monitoring of blood glucose levels. If one's blood glucose level drops too low, it can be life threatening. If it runs too high, it can cause very serious long-term health effects. Individuals with type 1 diabetes require synthetic insulin in order to survive. At this time, there is no cure for type 1 diabetes.
What is Rock Type 1?
Rock Type 1 is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those with type 1 diabetes through exercise and education. When our son Liam was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 7, we made a promise to him that he would be able to continue doing all of the things that he had been doing before his diagnosis, including rock climbing. As a result of remaining active, he continues to be a strong, healthy kid, despite the challenges presented by his medical condition. There are so many individuals with type 1 diabetes who are accomplishing amazing things while managing this chronic medical condition. Through Rock Type 1, we hope to shine a light on some of these individuals, and we strive to encourage and empower others who might be hesitant to push themselves physically. Through our events, we aim to build a stronger sense of community among those affected by type 1 diabetes.
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Hi! I'm Liam Scott. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 7. I am aware how lucky I have been to have access to the supplies I need to keep myself healthy. There are so many people who have limited or no access to the insulin and glucose testing supplies that they need just to survive, especially in the developing world. My family and I are going to climb Mount Rainier in August. We are hoping to use that climb to raise awareness and funds for the work that Insulin for Life-USA is doing. They provide insulin and other supplies to the developing world and emergency supplies to areas affected by natural disasters in the U.S. and around the world. They are saving the lives of people with type 1 diabetes every single day. My goal is to raise $10,000. Please donate here if you can. They also accept donations of insulin and supplies. To find out how to donate these items, please visit their website. Contributions are tax deductible.
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We founded Rock Type 1 to encourage and empower individuals with type 1 diabetes to embrace an active lifestyle. Our mission is to provide opportunities for individuals to experience rock climbing and other activities, as well as to provide education regarding the benefits of exercise. We strive to promote a stronger sense of community and support among families affected by type 1 diabetes.
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north america / mexico | anarchist movement | review Sunday August 07, 2005 13:52 by Mitch - W.S.A. wsany at hotmail dot com 339 Lafayette Street - Room 202, NY NY 10012
I am submiting this in part, as historical backgound, to help understand the origins of a part of the US anarchist movement. Quite a few of us continue adhere to the traditional principles of anarcho-communism, while also adhering to the best traditions of anarcho-syndicalism as well.
I am submiting this in part, as historical backgound, to help understand the origins of a part of the US anarchist movement. Quite a few of us continue adhere to the traditional principles of anarcho-communism, while also adhering to the best traditions of anarcho-syndicalism as well.
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by Andrew - Anarkismo Fri Aug 12, 2005 22:52
Thanks for posting this - its important to record the history of the anarchist movement even or perhaps especially with projects whose outcome was mixed.
It would be very interesting to see a more fleshed out version of this that included a discussion of key initatives that must have been taken over the years and a critical evaluation of these. This could provide a useful starting point for those who are getting active now - and a way of avoiding the tendancy of each generation having to reinvent the wheel.
by Mitch Sat Aug 13, 2005 13:15 wsany at hotmail dot com
At some point I hope to do a few different in-depth articles. I'm in the process of tryiong to get it together (mainly time constraints and a lousy writing style) to write an article on the US & Canadian ACF. I've promised the NEFAC comradse I'd take a stab at it. It will get done!
by James Sat Aug 20, 2005 11:06
What are the main differences between Nefac and the WSA? And any other of the organisations in your neck of the woods. Are the WSA more intent on promoting explictly anarchist-syndicalist unions? If so is that a sizable difference in the here and now? Would there be much practical contact between members of both organisations?
by Nicolas Phébus - NEFAC Sun Aug 21, 2005 22:13
Practicaly, in the day to day class struggle, I dont think there is a big difference between NEFAC and the WSA. The main difference I see is that the WSA is an anarcho-syndicalist formation (used to be a member of the IWA) while NEFAC is an anarcho-communist group. There's also a difference in the fact that NEFAC is more ideologicaly orthodox while WSA people are looking at different traditions (see the debate over PARECON for exemple). Otherwise, there are generational and organisational differences (WSA folks are generaly older, are less numerous and more geographicaly widespread).
by MaRK - NEFAC Tue Aug 23, 2005 01:26
Yeah, honestly I don't think the differences in the day-to-day work or outlook of our respective groups is all that different. I am critical of orthodox anarcho-syndicalism as a viable strategy for anarchists, at least at this stage of class struggle (particularly in North America), but I think the general approach of the WSA to labor struggles, unions, etc. is fairly open and non-dogmatic, and pretty much in line with NEFAC in this area. Along with NAF, they are probably the group we are closest with these days.
by mitch Tue Aug 23, 2005 13:20 wsany at hotmail dot com
Hi folks,
by Tom Wetzel - WSA Tue Aug 23, 2005 14:47 tomwetzel at riseup dot net
I will mention a couple of additional points from my
by Syndicalist - W.S.A. Mon Sep 15, 2014 08:29
W.S.A. Celebrates 30 years of struggle!
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November 2014, W.S.A. Celebrates 30 years!
by Syndicalist - WSA Sun Sep 28, 2014 03:19
Slowly thumbing thought WSA papers, jotting notes, thinking about how to organize these and write a small history of WSA. In doing so I reread my opening comments to the WSA founding November 1984 Conference.
by Alexander Selkirk - None at present Fri Mar 30, 2018 00:59
How nice that the authors go to such length to call attention to the 30-plus year long existence of the Workers Solidarity Alliance -- but give no evidence that this group has done anything in the 30-plus year period to justify its existence. If the politics on display here were a going concern, we would see:
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Earlier this month Qualcomm launched their GameCommand application into the Android Market to showcase all the titles that are optimized for their Snapdragon devices. The app couldn't be installed on non-Snapdragon devices and the design of the layout was rather uninspiring, but Qualcomm is investing a lot of resources to make sure that GameCommand is a success.
Recently we had the opportunity to sit down with Dave Durnil, Director of Advanced Content and Gaming at Qualcomm, who provided a quick walk-through of the app and talked about the future of the program. He told us that the next version of GameCommand is already in development and it should launch next month around the time of Mobile World Congress. New features include the ability to add custom RSS feeds to the news reader, a landscape layout for tablets, and new filters to sort games by category, publisher, and more.
Dave also told us that Qualcomm now has an in-house studio dedicated to making Android games for Snapdragon devices. We don't know the exact size of the team, but we were told their goal is to release one flagship title per year. Their first game will be a full blown sequel to the mini-game Desert Winds.
GameCommand already boast over 100 titles, which is more than NVIDIA's Tegra Zone. Not every game is a blockbuster, but Qualcomm has already made deals with Gameloft and EA Mobile to release exclusive titles. Both Gameloft and EA Mobile were originally listed as partners for Tegra Zone, but we never saw any games come from that.
Qualcomm actually shipped more mobile GPUs than anyone else last year (thanks to the integrated Adreno GPU found in Snapdragon), so developers have a lot of reasons to target Snapdragon devices. GameCommand has yet to crack 5k installs, but if Qualcomm refines the app and pumps out some exclusive titles they might be able to catch up with NVIDIA's Tegra Zone (currently 1 million+ installs) this year.
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Winn-Dixie, working in collaboration with IBM and SAM Group, Inc. -- a premier IBM Business Partner -- will implement a network of 6,000 IBM SurePOS™ 700 systems armed with IBM's SurePOS ACE and Retail Integration Framework software, which are components of IBM's Smarter Checkout solution. Winn-Dixie will also install IBM SurePoint™ infrared touch displays and SureMark™ thermal impact printers as part of its plan to create one the industry's most comprehensive, flexible and robust retail shopping environments.
Winn-Dixie, Inc. has purchased 6,000 IBM SurePOS 700 retail systems and infrared touch-screen displays to help transform customer service and improve operations at its 484 stores across the Southeastern United States. The SurePOS 700 is the flagship of IBM's point-of-sale product line with more systems installed worldwide than the top two IBM POS competitors combined
The new technology is expected to improve customer service, speed the checkout process, simplify store operations, and enhance store team member productivity.
"This initiative will allow us to introduce services quickly and seamlessly to improve our guests' shopping experience and will help to support our overall strategy," said Maura Hart, Winn-Dixie group vice president and CIO. "We believe the functionality, reliability and open standards offered by IBM hardware and software will accelerate our innovation, which will enhance our competitiveness, as well as our ability to deliver quality service in our stores."
Based in Jacksonville, Florida, the Winn-Dixie supermarket chain is known for implementing technologies that support healthy and fresh guest selections and other innovations at the store level. In recent years, the company has remodeled nearly half of its stores, using technology to transform and expand its produce, meat and floral departments. Winn-Dixie has introduced innovations such as its fuelperks! loyalty program that rewards shoppers with discounts on fuel, and customer smart-phone applications that deliver promotions to guests while they shop.
"Winn-Dixie is recognized as a premier turnaround story in the U.S. grocery industry and as a customer-centric innovator focused on improving efficiencies and creating new services for their shoppers," said Steve Ladwig, General Manager, IBM Retail Store Solutions. "Implementing IBM's SurePOS hardware and our ACE and Retail Integration Framework software will help Winn-Dixie to efficiently introduce new services to benefit their guests and team members."
Key to the Winn-Dixie deployment will be the implementation of the SurePOS Application Client/Server Environment (ACE), IBM's strategic POS application for grocery and high volume retail, IBM's Retail Integration Framework (RIF), which provides a complete, flexible and robust retail-optimized infrastructure to enhance and connect store-centered and enterprise-level processes, IBM's Remote Management Agent™ (RMA), which enables pro-active monitoring, asset tracking and problem determination from one local store or an enterprise location, and Lotus Expeditor and Expeditor Integrator, which helps developers integrate a wide variety of applications for use on mobile devices, desktops and kiosks. The use of RMA with SurePOS hardware and 4690 software can help Winn-Dixie reduce its overall total cost of ownership.
In addition, the solution includes SAM Audit Explorer, software designed to enhance system support and provide file integrity monitoring for PCI compliance, SAM Refund software to provide a centralized refund management system, as well as IBM Store Integrator, Store Integrator Graphic User Interface, and IBM Data Integration Facility software.
This powerful combination of IBM and SAM Group retail technology is expected to help Winn-Dixie build smarter retail stores across its entire operation, from point-of-sale to enterprise.
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Announcements, Announcements…
A busy day back here at Dodger Stadium, in Glendale and in Tucson.
This afternoon, we welcomed a new Spanish-language broadcast partner to the Dodger family. KTNQ 1020 AM, part of the Univision radio group, will carry our games in 2011-12. They also carried the Dodgers from 1979-86 and will be a huge benefit to Spanish-speaking Dodger fans.
We also announced the return of the Dodger Stadium Express Bus Service from Union Station. We have been getting a lot of questions about whether or not that will continue and last year, it transported over 120,000 fans to and from the ballpark. It's free to fans with a game ticket, so be sure to take advantage of this great service and save money on parking and gas.
Earlier this morning, we announced officially that we'll be playing the Diamondbacks on March 25 in a game to benefit the families of the Tucson shooting tragedy, including Christina Taylor Green. For those in the area, you can get tickets here.
And finally, starting tonight at Camelback Ranch, fans will be able to purchase a pin with Christina's initials, CTG, to benefit the memorial fund created in her name. Back when this tragedy took place, many of you asked how you can help and this is certainly one small way.
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This is great that they have that pin commemorating Christina Taylor Green.
I had heard from Dylan about the switch from La Ranchera back to KTNQ so I had already switched the radio station. They used to play music there now it seems to be a talk radio station. As long as we have el trio de Jaime, Pepe y Fernando, I am OK. Hopefully the Dodgers benefit from additional advertising from Univision.
Glad to hear that the Dodgers Express bus is back. There are alot of us that benefit from that. I know two group trips being planned this year that were suggesting using the Dodger Express bus to get to the stadium.
thanks Josh!
I'll be buying the pin tonight during my first look at Camelback Ranch. I'm glad the Dodgers are helping out with that memorial fund.
Very admirable purpose, just like another one of Frank's charities. I wonder who Frank is putting in charge of this charitable collection and at what cost that will be deferred from the franchise expenses. Sorry, if it sounds like I don't trust Frank, but then I DON'T.
Prayers for the Green family and I'll look to pick up the pin when I get back to CBR.
Good to hear the Express is back. I took it to Opening Day last year. The one suggestion I would make is to have a dedicated bus lane that leaves the Stadium if it's possible. After the game, sat on the bus in the parking lot for 45 minutes along with all the Opening Day traffic waiting to exit. It would probably influence more people to take the Express if they saw the buses going straight out and not stuck with everyone else.
Welcome (beinvenido) back to KTNQ!
Any other old fogies remember when KTNQ was "Ten-Q" back in the late 70's? Not sure for how long, but I remember when they were playing "Frampton comes Alive" in virtual perpetuity.
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That's one beautiful Cristina Taylor Green pin.
I will keep it among my downloads. so many times when I'm looking for a picture to post I won't miss it when I pass by.
Say JOSH, seeing those years, 1979-86 it looks like it's a good idea to bring back KTNQ 1020 AM because the Dodgers were a better team when they left. Maybe they'll bring back some good luck they may've taken with them, at that time.
Vaguely remember Ten-Q abcrazy. Wasn't there also Pirate radio? KIIS (Rick Dees) was big. And there was also "A little bit of heaven 94.7 KMET."
Josh…I just want to say, that I lost my son at birth…and as hard as that was, and still is…It pales in comparison to losing Christina Green. I do with all my heart, believe that lost children such a this… Are in Gods eyes, the Duke Sniders of ours.
My moniker D4 is something I cherish, not for fame, but for being a small part of a Wonderful Family…Thier are no rankings among us…If you don't believe me ask the guy at the top.
And then him about Christina…
And then ask him about Christina
ZZZZZZZZZ… Yawn… ZZZZZZZ… Yawn… ZZZZZZZ
Bound to be a really exciting season.
Should have many EMPTY SEATS.
Our prayers are with you Christina!!!


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Lakers go ahead with Dwight Howard billboard despite backlash
Dwight Howard was doing some tremendous trending on Twitter during the course of the day Thursday.
Just not so much with the #StayD12 halo affect that the Lakers could have anticipated with their latest billboard campaign throughout the city.
The Lakers' Instagram and Twitter accounts announced in a somewhat coy way early Wednesday that giant overhead signage with the simple message "Stay" had been placed at various locations, including one slapped onto the side of Staples Center.
"If you're walking Hollywood Blvd. looking down at the stars, don't miss the one above you #StayD12," read one tweet, with a photo of the billboard featuring Howard above the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The hashtag reference was to create similar conversation, at the very least, about what the benefits might be to have the 6-foot-11 enigmatic star extend his welcome to L.A. past one season.
By Thursday morning, the team had more than 1,000 retweets and hundreds of "favorites" respondents.
They also had the media seizing upon it, adding their own twist:
"If you're the Lakers, you don't beg people to stay," said Dan Patrick on his syndicated radio show. "You say, 'We're all in, are you D12?' Sacramento did this with Chris Webber (in 2001). You're the Lakers. You don't beg. Take down those silly billboards. 'Stay.' 'Please.' 'Pretty please.'"
A tweet from Ben Maller, who has a syndicated show on Fox Sports Radio: "On same day Clippers hire championship winning coach (Doc Rivers), Lakers put up billboard begging Dwight Howard to stay. #minorleague."
Deadspin.com called the campaign "kind of sad." USA Today referred to it as resorting "to desperation." NBC Sports Radio said it was "desperate, embarrassing & kind of hilarious #HesJustNotThatIntoYou."
Lakers vice president of public relations John Black admitted Thursday that "a significant amount" was spent on the seven billboards around town -- with possibly more to come.
Estimates, based on the costs of billboards in prime Southern California spots, could easily push this past $50,000 for a month's worth of exposure.
The backlash, Black added, was "pretty much expected. There'll always be some negative feedback.
One of the things we've learned is that when someone's unhappy, we'll hear from them, but not so much when things are positive. We didn't want to let what we knew about incoming negative feedback dissuade us from doing this as best we could.
"We want to let him know how important he is to us out in the public. We're comfortable letting the public know how we feel."
How will Howard react? According to a "source close to Howard" who spoke to The Sporting News, "Dwight does want to be courted. He notices the little things."
It has also been reported that Howard was unhappy when playing in Orlando that his image was not used as much to promote the team, which lost to the Lakers in the 2009 NBA Finals.
But as Patrick noted, this really isn't such an original idea. Not even when it comes to wooing Howard.
In February 2012, during NBA All-Star weekend in Orlando, four billboards went up around the city asking Howard to stay.
The team wasn't behind it, though -- celebrity booking agent Ryan Totka was, admitting to ESPN that he spent $20,000 of his own money on a campaign that included the billboards, a website (StayDwight.com), T-shirts and stickers.
"The difference between when (Shaquille O'Neal) left Orlando (after four years in a deal to the Lakers in 1996) and now that Dwight may leave is that fans have a voice in the matter via social media and campaigns likeStayDwight.com," Totka said at the time. "If you're Dwight, it's got to be hard to think about leaving when you see the kind of support we have drummed up."
This, from the same Totka who in December, 2011 spent another $2,000 for digital billboard space to try to get the Magic to acquire Chris Paul.
How'd that all work out?
Black said the Orlando campaign "never came up at any of our meetings" between the Lakers' marketing, public relations, community relations and basketball operations executives as this L.A. billboard plan was put into effect.
Soon, there was a similar-looking campaign going on at Twitter with a billboard-like graphic from @SoCalEverton asking the Premier League's Everton F.C. to keep star player Leighton Baines with the tag: #StayLB3, rather than let him be transferred to another team.
One response to the Lakers' billboard barrage came from Eric Stangel, the executive producer and writer for "Late Show with David Letterman." He tweeted: "Lakers putting up billboards urging Dwight Howard to stay. Might help if they put up billboards urging D'Antoni to leave."
Consider that done, too. Tyson Beck, an Australian artist who works in graphic design and founded an NBA artwork design site called posterizes.com, created a "billboard" with D'Antoni's image that read simply "Leave" with #LeaveMDA.
Last March, when the Lakers and Howard came to Orlando to play the Magic, a local FM radio station tricked up a billboard with a digital counter that marked the number of days, hours and minutes "'Til Dwight Leaves Us Again."
Anyone considering doing that in L.A. at this point might want to see how well that goes over as the July 1 deadline approaches, when Howard can hear offers from other teams, then make up his mind by July 10 if he wants to opt out.