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Add to Address Book Add To Spam Block List Subject: Introduction and Bibliographies To: firstname.lastname@example.com Reply To: Ecol/Env Anthropology -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Preston, > >I'm constantly amazed at the bibliographies that you post. Since Im >sure im not the only one on the list that's curious, I have to ask: >how do you do it??? -Rick No real mystery - hard work. I suppose it's time to tell "my story," such that it is. The references come from a software system I've developed over the years called Icons. One of its component databases is a Sources database that contains about 100,000 references on a range of topics - from evolutionary biology to indigenous knowledge, community-based conservation and natural resources management, biodiversity conservation, conservation biology, intellectual property rights, common property resources, ecological economics, community-based development, human rights, environmental rights and related issues. There is a companion directory of organizations globally that covers the same range that runs to about 40,000 organizations. There's also a periodicals list (about 5,600, many with web links, and still working on latter), an encyclopedia (1,600 entries: most pretty thin at this point), a species database (16,000+ species), a legal database (150+ international laws, legislation, declarations, etc.: currently working up a database of US federal Indian statutory and case law, environmental law) I've built both databases by hand over the last 10 years or so. I spend a lot of my spare time doing this, so it's not for those of you who have better things to do, which is most of you. In 1990, I developed a software program with an anthropologist friend in Panama for use in community-based conservation, which we called Icons (we gave it an acronym, but it's really more like Gap analysis - the name is Icons, because we saw it as a pointer system rather than something that could truly "store" indigenous knowledge, which is beside the point because that's what persons are for). I was working out of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute at the time, and was irritated by the working style of most of STRI's scientists, and also irritated at NGO's such as the Nature Conservancy, which had set up a Conservation Data Center in Panama. Data passed between Alexandria, Virginia and the offices of Ancon, and not anywhere else, so that the one elite environmental NGO in the region had an information-based power monopoly and the TNC had better information (well, debatable) on biodiversity in the area than local NGOs, community organizations and communities. We saw the need to create some systems for networked data exchange (this was before the public release of the Web). I was working as a Fellow of EcoNet, an arm of the Association for Progressive Communications (www.apc.org), an activist network for progressive social change, human rights, environmental justice and related issues, that had started in the mid-1980s, and so knew of the power of such networks. What's been interesting in seeing the Internet unfold is that although it has embraced HTML as a format standard, few have addressed the need for metadata standards. Metadata standards are those used to structure and describe data. For the last decade, it's been enough for people to throw up web pages, or construct site-specific databases that users can search. This isn't really networked information - it's information on a network. This is changing. With the advent of XML and other technologies, people are recognizing the need for structured information. Structured information allows for better control over the protection, indexing, search and interchange of data than simple HTML pages. As many have probably noticed, the problem with most web search services is that they index everything. If you adopt indexing and data structure standards, however, things change. Think of on-line library catalog searching. Many of you have used your local library holdings catalogs. What you may not realize is that there are tools that allow you to simultaneously search 1-100's of library catalogues around the world simultaneously using what is called a distributed search. The reason this can happen is that: 1. Libraries agreed on a limited number of formats for making bibliographic standards (the leaders are Bib-1, used by the Library of Congress, and MARC, a British Standard). By limiting the formats, there is some hope you can cross-map one system on another in a common format. This isn't conceivable with the current "Do whatever you like" mentality of most Web services. 2. The agreed on a connection protocol. In order for these things to work, database managers have to support requests for information in a common format, to package the data, and to send it out in a common way. The library catalogs use what is called the Z39.50 protocol to achieve this, and over the next decade this will likely be replaced by XML standards. Under the current system, every database has enough of its own quirks to make such distributed searches very difficult to set up. 3. They have adopted an institutional philosophy that allows this to happen. This is often overlooked. Most web portals want you to gaze upon their resplendence, and force you to enter their palaces through the entranceway. Z39.50 connections are made anonymously, through the back door. What you get: Rather than long pages of HTML, you get a database divided into well-defined records, that can be recompiled, filtered, sorted, reindexed, transmitted quickly in part or in whole. You gain control over what records can be viewed by whom, what parts of records can be viewed by whom. You get a system where on-line services can be linked to off-line databases, which can be independently copied and transmitted by CD-ROM, DVD, ZIp disks, or other electronic media. What you lose: Ego and Identity. You may not know the technical details of this change, but you have probably experienced them. If you are one of the elite, then you have access to Nature, BioOne, Science, Ingenta, or any other of the many on-line journal sources. You may have experience going to a reference list, clicking on the author name and getting a list of other references by that author, or a title and being taken directly to the linked reference. This is because publishers are beginning to rally around a small number of document description standards. This will only increase with time. Most academics couldn't raise a spit over these technical issues, but I suggest that they pay attention. Buried in the way academic business is conducted are a large number of issues related to the information commons. The adoption of standards is an important step, but doesn't determine whether we will find increasing enclosure or openness to information flow. As I mentioned, one outfall of this kind of approach is increased control of information flow. This is important, for example, to indigenous peoples that want to have greater control over the dispensation of their traditional knowledge. It is a double edged sword, however, because it gives greater control over information access. In our current system for the flow of scientific information, we've developed some institutions that look highly suspect from a communitarian point of view. Academics regularly take in large sums of public money, crank them through the research process, and spit them out as a propertized bit of information property owned by a publisher. Some small segments of the public then get this information back if they have the resources, or belong to an institution that has the resources, to buy this information back from the publishers. Actually, even this is changing. In previous times, authors and publishers only held "rights of first sale," so that any copy purchased by one could be given to another. More products are showing up as licenses now - you don't actually own the product, and so cannot transfer the title to any other. This perhaps worked at a time when academics talked mostly among themselves, and few outside academia paid much attention. As the cultural and ecological situation deteriorates, and as academics begin to turn towards more applied work, there is a greater civil society need for access to ideas and factual data. In my experience, most academics tend to get worked up over information commons issues when it affects their access to information they want, but then become more proprietary when it comes to sharing the products they have largely derived from other's work. What sort of principles should be discussed? 1. What is the status of scientific information vis a vis other kinds? There is, after all, a kind of mythology that as scientists, you are trying to produce ideas for the great storehouse of knowledge of mankind. And there are legal principles that seem to say that facts of nature shouldn't and can't be copyrighted (but - the European Union has done just that with the implementation in November of the European Rules on Databases. It's likely the developing world will stand for this - but they've gone to implementation stage so you had better take this seriously. Under these rules, even phone books, or a list of movie times at a particular theater could be copyrighted). Should scientific publications recieve that same protection - 70 years after the death of the author - that novels have? (remembering the "Disney Gambit" - every time Mickey Mouse comes up for public domain, the copyright gets extended 20 years). Where is the public domain relative to the private domain when it come to scientific information? 2. What are the duties of scientists to make their information available? Right now it's left up the commercial and NGO abstracting services to provide even abstracts of scientific work (can you find the difference in pricing between Biosis, an academic NGO, and Silver Platter? I can't). And these are only open to subscribers, and not to the general public that largely paid for the production of the knowledge in the first place. 3. What IS the legal status of information produced under government grants? This is a minefield no one has been willing to step into. I have in front of me a volume written almost entirely by government scientists, the rest contracted by the government to write chapters for this book, and published by Elsevier Press. The cost of the two volumes is US$260. There is a similar situation for products emerging under the global programs of work under such international initiatives as the IGBP, GISP, GTI, GBF, HDP, CBD-CHM, UNESCO-MAB and so on, many of which propose global policy that has direct impact on local and indigenous communities without any opportunity by them to read or discuss the policy documents. In my experience working directly with a number of these initiatives, local communities are something to be consulted somewhere down the line, but getting the policy discussion directly to communities is largely ignored. The situation is even more dismal hen it comes to the sharing of technical data (the US NBII has until now, over 10 years of operation, built almost entirely without Native American input into national planning. Not to bash them - this is changing - but indicative of the stance.). As with the TNC situation above, I've seen a new wave of NGOs getting into the information game, again collecting tax exempt donations and receiving many government grants, to produce what arte esentially privatized systems. What this has to do with the Bibliographies We can either let the publishers and abstractors retain control of the knowledge, or use the technology to build open systems of data exchange. One way around the impass is for the producers of the knowledge and their professional societies to take responsibility and deal with the issues, and pass by-laws and adopt standards of conduct that foster open exchange of information. We can continue to produce massive encyclopedias that enrich Academic Press, Garland Press and others but have little chance of really reaching the larger public, or we can get just a wee bit more smart about finding ways to create an aware and informed public. If you design a networked system, then it is possible for each producer to spend a small amount of time formatting their data in the proper way, tagging it, and exposing it to distributed agents. These many small, locally controlled databases can then appear as a single large database in a distributed network. The bibliographies are my, admittedly crude, first step. I've adopted the Bib-1 format for storing the source information. We are working to put this system on-line in the next couple of months. Later in the year we hope to be able to implement Z39.50 and create some client software that can connect to the bibliography and download records at the database level. Where do they come from? I spend a lot of time in the library. I have a large personal library of photocopies and books. My background is that I trained as a sociobiologist in the Alexandrian school of sociobiology, and worked on animal communication in gerbils and colonial swallows, social evolution in prairie dogs, primate community ecology in colobus and mangabeys, and the evolution a sex change in the androdioecious lantern bass, Serranus baldwini, which involved the use of game theory and sex allocation theory to explain the evolution of a species that has both a simultaneously hermaphroditic phase and a sex changing phase. My experiences overseas changed my interests, and I began working on indigenous rights/indigenous knowledge and community-based conservation issues in the late 1980's-early 1990s. I was trained in psychology, so I have an abiding interest in cogniton - and tied this to my interest in conservation after stumbling on Platt and Cross and Guyer in the early 1980's. The commons issues took me to Thayer, Ainslie, Schelling and others in economics, to the "bounded rationality" researchers in sociology and psychology, and the commons institutions folks that don't need to be named here. I currently work for a tribe in Washington State in intergovernmental affairs and watershed policy, and am working on a project to record and restore cultural landscapes, thus my interest in historical ecology, cosmography, and federal Indian Law. I have worked on the Convention on Biological Diversity for the past decade, and participated directly in negotiating sessions since 1995 on indigenous knowledge issues, which requires I keep up with international indigenous and human rights law. I sit on a number of councils and working groups that are building international biodiversity information networks, and so need to track the technology. I use Icons to store the references used in my work. I use a number of tools: Procite has an Internet search tools using the Z39.50 protocol. This a a simpler implementation of SeaChange's BookWhere software, a more sophisticated (and pricey) Z39.50 client. Bleu Angel Technologies also produces a Z39.50 client (http://www.blueangeltech.com/), but I haven't used it. Ther a couple of freeware clients out there, but I haven't found one that is very robust or sophisticated. I use Copernic Pro to search the web. There are a number of similar "multiportal" search tools. Go to C/Net, Downloads.com, Tucows or similar software archives on the Internet and look for and try out your favorite engines. Copernic puts out a free version that is adequate for most people, but information junkies probably want the pro versions of these things (automated routines and more engines). Some leading references: Lax, Stephen (ed.)(2001). Access Denied in the Information Age. Palgrave, New York, New York, USA. Lessig, Lawrence (2001). The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. Random House, New York, New York, USA. Litman, Jessica (2001). Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual property on the Internet. Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, USA. Maurer, Stephen M.; Hugenholtz, P. Bernt; Onsrud, Harlan J. (2001). Europe's database experiment. Science (Washington) 294(5543): 789-790. Mcsherry, Corynne (2001). Who Owns Academic Work? Battling for Control of Intellectual Property. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. NRC (National Research Council) (2000). The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. National Research Council - Computer Science and Telecommunications Board - Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure. National Academy Press (NAP), Washington, DC, USA. NRC (National Research Council) (1997). Bits of Power: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data. Committee on Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data. National Academy Press (NAP), Washington, DC, USA. Norris, Pippa (2001). Digital Divide: Civic Engagement, Information Poverty, and the Internet Worldwide. Communication, Society, and Politics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Onsrud, Harlan J. (1998). Tragedy of the Information Commons. In: Taylor, D.R.F. (ed.): Policy Issues in Cartography. Elsevier Science Ltd., Amsterdam, The Netherlands. pp. 141-158. Onsrud, Harlan J.; Lopez, X.R. (1997). Intellectual property rights in disseminating geographic data, products, and services: Conflicts and commonalities among European Union and United States approaches. In: Masser, I.; Slag�, F. (eds.): European Geographic Information Infrastructures. Taylor & Francis Ltd., London, United Kingdom. Vaidhyanathan, Siva (2001). Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity. New York University Press, New York, New York, USA. Preston Hardison Seattle, Washington -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- �1995-2002 WhoWhere? Inc. All Rights Reserved. �1998-2002 Lycos, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Lycos is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University


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Heart of West Michigan United Way pledges $589,000 in STEM program funding
Thursday, February 22, 2018
"We have been investing in Kent County for over 100 years," says Michelle Van Dyke, Heart of West Michigan United Way president and CEO. A century-old nonprofit designed to reduce poverty in West Michigan, United Way raises money, vets partner agencies, fund solutions, and mobilizes volunteers, according to their website. Recently, Van Dyke and the nonprofit set its sites on education, specifically in math and science, of youth in Kent County.
Conducting an assessment of the education needs of the community, United Way identified a gap in middle school STEM programming. Aiming to prepare this cross section of students in the area with adequate training in math and science, the nonprofit designated
$589,000 of their 2017-2018 Community Investment Fund Grants to education
in these arenas.
"A broad array of what we're funding around the issue of middle school math and science. We need better achievement in those subject in order or kids to be ready for the jobs in this community," says Van Dyke.
Part of this funding, announced yesterday at Westwood Middle School, was allocated to a one-time gift to Grand Rapids Public Schools of a leading STEM curriculum by Discovery Education. After meeting with GRPS Superintendent Teresa Weatherall McNeal last year, Van Dyke quickly determined that this partnership fit perfectly with both the nonprofit and the school district's missions of preparing students for future jobs.
This, says Van Dyke, is United Way's principal goal with specially tailored programs. "[We want to] make sure kids get a quality education and that they get opportunities that they need to get living wage jobs when they're adults. That's our aim," she says.
In addition to partnering with GRPS and providing this specialized curriculum for middle schoolers district-wide, United Way has teamed up with
Camp Blodgett
to form a STEM Academy and STEM Club,
Kent Intermediate School District
"training teachers how to be better science teachers and math teachers, as well as professional development in STEM subjects," and the
Expanded Learning Opportunities Network
(ELO) to create a new STEAM strategy.
United Way is also working with
The Refugee Education Center
to provide funding for academic intervention for those students who are learning English alongside their math and science curriculums.
Over the next three years, Van Dyke aims to equip Kent County students with the tools they need to master STEM and prepare themselves for careers in engineering, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing, among other industries.
For her, for GRPS, and for the many partner agencies throughout Kent County, it's simple:
"Our kids need to know math and science," says Van Dyke.
Robotics company expansion ushers in next generation of manufacturing in Kent County
Thursday, February 01, 2018
West Michigan is quickly becoming a hub for technological growth and experimentation. With a smattering of maker spaces, tech entrepreneurs garnering crowdfunding, and established companies expanded their capabilities, tech is here to stay.
One such company that is meeting the national need for tech innovation is Axis Company, a Walker-based firm that "designs, programs and builds robotic automation and assembly equipment for a wide range of manufacturers and industries," according to their press release. With eyes set on continued growth in the very near future, Axis recently announced a $4 million investment in a new facility in southeast Kent County, one that will offer 50 new jobs.
The new positions will include six to eight managerial/professional roles, 15 to 20 technical positions, and 20 to 25 skilled craftsman. Having already posted 10 to 12 job openings for their new facility, Axis is hiring now, and job descriptions can be found on their
Part of the $4 million in funding is sourced through a three-year contract with the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). Working with the Right Place and the MEDC and forgoing an out-of-state site option, Axis decided to maintain their presence in Kent County and reinvest in their home community, and thus the
MEDC approved the $400,000 performance grant in October 2017
"The reason that we're so excited about his, beyond having another company expand in the region, which is always good, is an automation and robotics company expanding in your community is really the next generation of what manufacturing is going to look like in the US," says Tim Mroz, vice president of marketing and communications for
The Right Place
Currently seeking the perfect site for their second location, Axis will most likely choose an existing structure that can be further developed for their use, according to Mroz.
Mroz adds that an increased advanced manufacturing presence stands to bolster the region's expertise and desirability in that sector. Adding 50 new jobs to the region while progressing in robotics and automation "really puts our manufacturing community in a position of strength," he says.
Justice is manufactured here: Q&A with Janay Brower, founder of Public Thread
Thursday, January 19, 2017
If you know Janay Brower, you know of her passion for people, community and justice. So it should be no surprise that her new business venture combines a very strong commitment to people, community and justice.
Public Thread
is located is located at 906 South Division. The business produces quality cut and sew products for clients and provides pre-production services: design, sourcing of fabrics and notions, prototyping, sample making, and pattern-making.
Like many startups, Public Thread has a fascinating backstory. Unlike many startups, however, the vision is not as much about fast growth, profits and expansion; rather, it is about developing a sustainable business model, making quality products with a local workforce and creating living wage jobs.
In this interview with Rapid Growth, Brower dives into the story behind behind Public Thread.
: When was your business officially started?
I researched and worked on Public Thread for three and a half years before we launched. We started actually producing sewn goods for clients in June 2016.
How long were you thinking about this idea? What was your inspiration?
Public Thread generates from many parts of my life. I grew up in Grand Rapids, went to GRPS and moved out to the suburbs in the middle of high school. I experienced two very different cities within the same geographic area -- one that had significantly more people of color and was under-resourced and one that was almost all white and highly resourced. This shift in location and culture opened my eyes to systemic inequalities and planted the seeds that opened up my world view to orient towards justice work.
After college, I worked for more than 11 years doing systems change and public policy work for vulnerable children and families at both the City of Grand Rapids and through the
Grand Rapids Area Coalition to End Homelessness
. What I saw at a systems level, mirrored by experience as a young person, was that, similar to many cities in the U.S., there are two different communities operating simultaneously -- and they are not equal. As I navigated through my work in the public and nonprofit sectors, I was continually challenged as to how I could put my values into action in a concrete way. How could I utilize my life experiences and what I have learned in my profession and thread them together? A common theme I kept seeing was the incredible need for living wage jobs and getting away from secondary systems that are not addressing root causes.
I researched and talked with a lot of people, finding out that there are so many talented people in GR and across Michigan with skills to design, sew and make things, but those skills are underutilized. I found out that less than one percent of the clothes we wear were designed by a person of color. I found out that a lot of small businesses need assistance with production in order to grow, and that there is a significant movement to re-shore apparel production in the U.S. Along with all that, I and many others I know and have met want to buy clothes, accessories and gifts that were made locally. We want to support domestic production and living wages. We want to build a stronger connection to the people that make the garments we wear every day. We want to be part of the solution and not wait any longer for someone else to do it. And so from all this, Public Thread was born.
What is your 'elevator pitch' for Public Thread?
: Justice is manufactured here. Public Thread is a social enterprise that offers small-batch cut and sew product manufacturing in Grand Rapids. We believe that being able to live in our own supply chain is critically important. Therefore, we pay living wages for our employees to make high quality, quick turn-around, sewn products right here in Michigan. We assist designers and businesses with product design, sample making and production of their sewn products. We also produce our own Public Thread line of products made with non-traditional textiles. We work in partnership with area breweries and community organizations in order to prevent materials from ending up in our landfills (because textiles/apparel are third biggest input into our
landfills in Kent County
: On your website you speak of building community. How does your business fit into the growing West Michigan "social entrepreneurship" community?
We are working with a number of apparel or sewn product businesses in order to create a functional system and foundation across the supply chain to be able to grow all of our ability to design and make sewn products here in West Michigan.
So, early on, what have your learned so far? Have you changed any of your original assumptions about this type of business?
Seriously, what haven't I learned? It's crazy hard! I have definitely learned that it takes a village to launch a business. One of many challenges is that I really like doing work that has a positive impact on people, the environment and hopefully on the larger systems involved. These elements are not how most businesses lead into their work since so many are only oriented towards how much money they can make. It has been challenging to navigate a system that has become so focused on one thing to the detriment of the other elements. In particular, in this industry (cut and sew, apparel), the profit is made by squeezing labor. In order to make that $5 t-shirt, someone in the supply chain had to take the hit. That means if we value other humans and the planet, it requires a shift in thinking and in our purchases.
Public Thread was created to be a different kind of manufacturer -- one based on the triple bottom line (humans, the earth and money all matter). But we cannot do our work alone. We need designers, small businesses and end consumers that use their precious resources to be part of the solution. And now, seven months in, we are incredibly thankful for the amazing partner businesses, organizations and people that believe in Public Thread and have continued to invest in it with their time and resources. They are part of our inspiration every day.
Thank you Janay!
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Sales of electric cars drive job growth at LG Chem
Thursday, January 12, 2017
LG Chem
has emerged as a significant job creator in Holland, having added 140 new jobs in 2016 to a team that now tops 450 members. New positions for the business that produces lithium-ion batteries for the auto industry include technical operators, journeymen electricians, and engineers.
Fueled by the rapid growth in electric car sales, LG Chem accelerated its growth in 2015 and expects continued job growth in 2017.
Nick Kassanos, LG Chem MI president, says his company is in the "hiring mode" in 2017. He acknowledges the tight job market in West Michigan, but he notes LG Chem is a terrific opportunity for individuals looking for careers, not just jobs in an advanced manufacturing environment. "The challenge is always finding people," he says. "The unemployment rate in West Michigan is below the national average. But we offer an opportunity for individuals wanting to grow, build a career and work in an interesting industry."
LG Chem produces lithium ion battery cells for electric and hybrid vehicles, including the award-winning Chevy Volt. In November, LG Chem added the production of battery cells and battery packs for the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, the first-ever hybrid minivan. The Holland plant manufactured over six million battery cells in 2016, enough for more than 30,000 vehicles, and is expected to produce even more in 2017.
LG Chem Michigan Inc. (LGCMI) manufactures large, lithium-ion polymer battery cells and battery packs for electric vehicle and energy storage applications. LGCMI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LG Chem, a South Korean company that has global operations focused on basic materials and chemicals, IT and electronic materials, advanced materials, and energy solutions. LG Chem is part of
the LG Group
For those interested in a career at LG Chem, visit their website
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
Days gone by: Holland's Grand-Craft focuses on making boats the old-fashioned way, by hand
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Boat building is not the oldest profession in the world, but it has to be close. And for
Grand-Craft Boats
, a builder and restorer of classic wooden boats, having an appreciation for "old" is very good for business.
"Retro new is very popular in our country now," says Jeff Cavanagh, owner of the Holland-based company that recently opened a second production plant in Holland to build its new $279,000 Super Sport power boat being introduced at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show November 3.
The introduction of the Super Sport is the first all new boat model from Grand-Craft in four years. The company was started in Holland in 1979 as a builder of vintage-design mahogany powerboats based on past Chris-Craft boat designs.
Cavanagh purchased Grand-Craft in 2010 and moved the business to its main plant and headquarters at 1821 Ottawa Beach Road on Lake Macatawa. Due to the high demand in his boats and restoration services, Cavanagh recently purchased the 10,000-square-foot former Chris-Craft facility at 60 Chris-Craft Way for production of the company's new 25-foot Super Sport and other custom runabouts.
Cavanagh says he has been working in the industry for almost his entire career, and he has long been fascinated by classic wooden boats and has a deep appreciation for the craftsmanship and design of wooden boats.
The company currently employs 12 people, and Cavanagh is looking to add two more people to his team, which he says is a great job, but is not for everyone. "Boat craftsmen are hard to find, he notes. He says an apprenticeship is typically one year and that he is aware of only one small school in the Upper Peninsula,
Great Lakes Boat Building School,
that has a program specifically for shipwrights. He says all the boats are hand built and can take anywhere from seven to 18 months to build.
The custom boat builder practices the slow process of cold molding planks of mahogany to create boats that are durable and beautiful to look at. New boats from Grand Craft range in price from $120,000 to more than $1.5 million for a custom designed, one-of-a-kind boat.
To learn more about Grand-Craft, you can visit their
website here.
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
Business is booming at JR Automation: Company expands, adds jobs
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Bryan Jones, CEO of
JR Automation Technologies,
sums it up succinctly: "We work in cool industries on cool projects. It is unlike what anyone is doing in the world."
The Holland-based JR Automation Technologies is a global leader in custom automation solutions for a variety of industries, including automotive, aerospace, medical device, pharmaceutical, food processing, construction, and more. The company which was founded in 1980, has been on a high growth trajectory since 2009 and has recently announced their intention to expand operations in Holland by investing $5.6 million, which will create 250 new jobs in the area over the course of the project.
Jones says an improving economy, advances in technology and JR Automation's culture and team environment have played key roles in the firm's growth. "An expanding economy certainly has helped our business, but our success is much bigger than that," he says. "Changing and improving technology is making it possible to do more. Process developments are changing the way that we build cars, airplanes, and any number of everyday products. All of these developments generally need intelligent, intuitive systems to be viable."
The new jobs that are being created through their recent expansion will be filled by both new graduates and seasoned veterans. "We are looking to hire individuals ranging in experience: new college grads to seasoned professionals in a variety of disciplines and skill sets. Mechanical, electrical and process engineers, controls engineers, software engineers, project managers, machine builders, machinist, fabricators, service technicians. JR is a very technically diverse team, and we will continue to add in all areas," says Jones.
Despite the competition for this type of talent, Jones is very optimistic that his company offers an interesting opportunities for job seekers. "JR is unique in that we bring so many different talent sets together in a respectful, enabling work environment for the purpose of solving problems and building solutions that are bigger than what any one discipline or talent set could ever accomplish on their own," he says. "We get to see the results of our efforts on a daily basis in the construction and run-off of systems that can be hundreds of feet long and cost multiple millions of dollars."
Jones says the technology being developed and used is industry leading. "It's cool stuff," he says. "We build things that move and make and manufacture and that are unlike anything else in the world. What could be more fun than that to someone who gets into building things and making things work? And while all that is happening, there is a true team atmosphere supporting one another and making the work days enjoyable."
Several economic development organizations have played a role in JR Automation's recent expansion, including Lakeshore Advantage, Holland Charter Township and the MEDC.
Those interested in employment at JR Automation should
visit http://www.jrauto.com/careers
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
Franks, sausage and specialty meats producer expected to invest $35 million in expansion
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Kent Quality Foods, a West Michigan maker of franks, sausages and specialty meats for commercial customers, has announced the construction of a food processing facility in Jamestown Charter Township. The company plans to invest nearly $35 million dollars, creating 140 jobs over three years.
"The project was a huge win." says Emily Staley, director of marketing and communications for Lakeshore Advantage, a non-profit that aims to drive economic growth in West Michigan. "They looked all over the region and they chose us." Staley says the Lakeshore Advantage team worked for nearly nine months on this location process, helping to coordinate nearly 15 local and state organizations in winning this expansion for Jamestown Charter Township.
Staley says the jobs that are being created are "really good jobs," including management positions and production supervision. She also notes the multiple benefits of the new facility to the region, including spin-off jobs with suppliers and construction.
According to Staley, key factors in the decision to build the plant in the local township were the experienced and educated workforce, the region's expertise in food production and the teamwork between the private and public sectors organizations that are essential for a project of this complexity and size to be successful.
Kent Quality Foods was founded in 1967. Family owned and operated for three generations, Kent makes high quality sausages and franks for customers from hot dog stands to national restaurant chains, food service companies, broad line distributors, and the further processing industry. You can learn more at
Lakeshore Advantage
is a non-profit organization that catalyzes resources to drive economic growth in West Michigan. You can learn more here.
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
Simms Electronics: Changing the world, one project at a time
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Simms Electronics
is a great example of a small company working on big ideas that turn into very smart products. And there is a very good chance you never of heard of them.
Simms Electronics is located at 3230 Broadmoor Ave. The firm designs and manufactures sophisticated IoT electronics that serve a wide variety of commercial products in the industrial sector.
IoT, which is the abbreviation for Internet of Things, refers to smart products that are connected to the internet. Examples in the consumer market are home appliances and light fixtures that are connected and controlled by smart phones. In the industrial setting these products could include sensors for carbon monoxide and monitors to help control energy consumption in large commercial settings.
Matt Simms, the president of the five-person engineering firm, says the company keeps a low profile and is not able to share details about many of their projects, but he is committed to attracting and retaining software design talent to Grand Rapids. Simms says the IoT market is really growing and shows no signs of slowing down.
"We have several projects in the pipeline and will shortly be announcing new job openings," he says.
Working with a small company is a great opportunity for an engineer or software developer that values job variety, Simms notes.
"We are always working on different opportunities, with different products, in different markets and different industries," he says. "You are not stuck working on one product for several years. It is great experience."
To learn more about Simms Electronics, including job opportunities,
you can visit their site here.
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
French auto & aerospace manufacturer taps Grand Rapids for first North American Innovation Center
Thursday, January 28, 2016
As the auto industry hit a downward spiral of historic proportions about eight years ago,
, a global automotive and aerospace innovator and manufacturer, was, like companies across the world, faced with an economy in which they were hemorrhaging major money.
Hutchinson's Grand Rapids site, which has been operating in the city for 30 years and which was previously known as Paulstra CRC, "was in bad shape, losing millions (of dollars)," says Cedric Duclos, Hutchinson North America president and CEO.
"I was sent here to find solutions; we knew the easy way was to shut it down," Duclos says of his arrival in Grand Rapids. "But that's not the right choice. You have so much talent and experience here."
Hutchinson, which employs about 300 people in Grand Rapids and operates 96 sites in 23 countries across the globe, did not leave the city — instead, it stayed, and the company is now in a far different position than the one in which it previously found itself. Last Wednesday, Hutchinson debuted its North American Innovation Center, also known as the 616 Fab House, which occupies 13,400 square feet of a renovated 100-year-old factory at 460 Fuller Ave. NE.
"We're here eight years later and are a leader in this market," Duclos says at the 616 Fab House's grand opening on January 20, which was attended by more than 170 guests, including Hutchinson Global President & CEO Jacques Maigne,
The Right Place Inc.
President & CEO Birgit Klohs, and state and city leaders.
The space is the company's second innovation center; its first, 507 Fab House, was designed by the legendary Gustave Eiffel and is located near Hutchinson's Paris world headquarters. Housed in a factory that was once the Corduroy Rubber Co., which made parts for Detroit's auto industry, the Grand Rapids venue was chosen because of "its central location to major clients and vendors" and is dedicated to "research, development and innovative thinking for all of Hutchinson's divisions," according to Hutchinson.
The Fuller Avenue site includes a mix of meeting rooms, videoconferencing technology, interactive showrooms with product and robotic displays, a fabrication lab and 3D printer center, a training and conference center, a board room, breakout and lounge seating, banquet facilities, and more. The interactive product display area shows all the products made by the company's North American operations. For example, there are replicas of an airplane fuselage, a full-size automobile and military tank treads with actual Hutchinson parts inserted.
Duclos notes that about 70 local companies participated in renovating the new space, which sits on Hutchinson's 30-acre Grand Rapids campus and which previously served as a storage facility.
"This facility is over 100 years old, so it's full of footsteps from the past," Duclos says. "In fact, if you look closely at some of these floors, you can still see those footprints. We felt it important to keep some of those footsteps visible, not just as a way to reflect on the past, but to also use it as a reminder that it takes the footsteps of many people to create things, to innovate, to collaborate, to create. Perhaps in another 100 years people will be standing here, reflecting on the historical changes this innovation had for our company, for our city and region, and for our state."
The company's decision to not only remain in Grand Rapids but open a world-class facility to drive global innovation "speaks highly for the region's community," says Klohs, the president and CEO of The Right Place, West Michigan's leading economic development corporation that has assisted thousands of companies to invest more than $4 billion in capital and create more than 40,000 jobs throughout the region.
"It sends a message that says a company of this importance has chosen Grand Rapids," Klohs says, noting that a global group like Hutchinson will draw other major companies to our area, including Boeing, Chrysler, Fiat, and many more.
"They can come to Grand Rapids and see the creativity that comes out of this company, and also this community," Klohs continues.
Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss, who was unable to attend the grand opening because she was at the Mayors' Conference in Washington D.C., sent her congratulations via a recorded message.
"The city of Grand Rands is very proud to have a longtime business such as Hutchinson invest in our city, particularly in our manufacturing and technology sectors," she says. "This innovation and dedication to advancing research and development is exactly what the city of Grand Rapids need to be a leader in this country."
Photos courtesy of Hutchinson
Anna Gustafson is the managing editor at Rapid Growth. Connect with her on email (email@example.com),
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Make no bones about it: Encoris is on the grow
Thursday, November 05, 2015
is a five-year-old, Holland, Michigan-based company that specializes in the design and manufacturing of clear, custom skeletal models that are used by medical device companies like Stryker Orthopaedics, Johnson and Johnson, and Medtronic to educate and promote implant devices in the medical field.
The firm recently moved to a new manufacturing and design plant at 3612 128th St. in Holland, Michigan, specifically for enhanced manufacturing capabilities and efficiencies that Jim TenBrink, vice president of marketing & sales, says are needed following some successful trade shows and customer meetings in Europe. "Europe has really taken off," TenBrink says. "They do not make clear bone models and found our company through Internet search."
TenBrink says the company recently participated in a medical device show in Germany, where interest was high: "We're close to partnering with a German company, with 1500 distributors worldwide, that want our clear bones in their catalog." He says another company in Italy, a business incubator for inventions, also loved their products and they are in the process of crafting an agreement for an alliance.
In just four years from startup, the company has almost topped $1 million in sales and is expected to grow by 35 to 40 percent in 2016 based on expansion into European and teaching hospital/university market segments.
TenBrink says all of the Encoris products are designed and made in West Michigan by the company's 17 employees and contract designers using CAD engineering and design, 3D printers and hand sculpting to create the master molds.
To learn more about the firm, you can visit their
site here.
Source: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
Kendall College students achieve "per-feektion" in design competition
Thursday, June 11, 2015
It's hard to imagine a better college assignment than being part of a design competition where you are given carte blanche to create anything you can dream of using an amazing material called
That is basically what students from
Kendall College of Art and Design
of Ferris State University (KCAD) recently experienced when they participated in
Trendway Corporation's
inaugural design competition, exploring the creative possibilities with Feek, a very unique coated foam product.
Top prize was taken by a team composed of Jordan Eastwood, Amanda Lumley, Hannah Snyder and Linghom Wang. Their winning design, Eco, introduces a set of elements for use in pediatric waiting rooms, including a butterfly, dragonfly and bee shapes.
Trendway President and CEO Bill Bundy, who also served as a judge, says the teams were given a ton of latitude with the competition. "We imposed very few limitations," he says. Instead, competition organizers let the student teams work through the entire design process, including extensive research on
, and then set them loose to create their own designs for whatever industry they deemed would be a good fit.
Bundy says Trendway holds the
North American license
for Feek and introduced the product in 2013. He says Feek especially lends itself to "whimsical, creative and fun" designs, which is exactly what he was looking for from the students since the winning design from the KCAD team will be featured in Trendway's Chicago Showroom during NeoCon week, June 15 through 17.
Trendway Corporation
is an employee-owned company in Holland, Michigan. The company offers many products, including panel systems, filing, storage, case goods, seating, and architectural solutions with moveable walls, glass storefront and raised floor. Bundy says the firm is growing with several open positions, including a new job for someone specifically to expand and champion
throughout North America.
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor.
Nucraft begins major expansion at Comstock Park HQ, projects 40 new manufacturing jobs to follow
Thursday, June 04, 2015
Contract furniture maker
broke ground on a 47,700-square-foot expansion of its manufacturing facility last week, with the addition bringing the Comstock Park headquarters at 5151 West River Drive to a total square footage of 300,000 upon its completion next fall.
CEO Matt Schad says the new addition, focused on the expansion of the facility's machining, veneering and product set-up departments, could created a projected 40 new full-time manufacturing positions over the next two years in addition to the existing 290 existing employees there.
"Those projections are based on where we anticipate the market going. Obviously, if there's a downturn in the economy things may change, but it's based on our sales projections and how we have done staffing in the past," Schad says. "Our first step is to build the building, then we'll be moving equipment into the new addition and at that point, we'll assess our hiring needs."
Erhardt Construction
is managing the expansion project, with design concepts by architects at
Fleis & Vandenbrink
. Schad says the team hopes to have the new, expanded space move-in ready by the beginning of October this year.
"The market for contract furniture has been improving greatly over the past year or so and we've been very fortunate to be able to be a part of that," he says. "It's a matter of having enough capacity to service our customers, both conference products and private office casegoods."
Schad says in the next few years, Nucraft will focus on increasing offerings in private office casegoods, as well as expanding Nucraft's presence in the market for conference and meeting space furniture both here in the U.S. and abroad.
"We've been successful in many of the major markets like New York, Washington DC, and Chicago and so that's where a lot of our focus is, but we've also have had a lot of success in smaller markets like Minneapolis, Denver, and North Carolina and places like that - so the success is really throughout the country," he says.
"If we keep focusing on product development, keep relying on our fantastic internal sales force and independent reps and keep producing the high-quality furniture our customers expect, I think our growth will continue on."
To learn more about Nucraft's products or available careers there,
visit Nucraft online here
Written by Anya Zentmeyer, Development News Editor
Images courtesy of Nucraft
Jobs, jobs and more jobs: Grand Rapids Chair Company hiring
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Business is booming at the
Grand Rapids Chair Company.
Founded in 1997, the business manufactures seating and tables for corporate, commercial and hospitality environments.
Citing both an uptick in the economy and new product launches, Dean Jeffery, communication manager, says the firm has immediate openings for up to 20 positions at their new Byron Center-based facility. "We experienced a lull in the past couple of years. Our customers had no commitment to update spaces," Jeffrey says. "It is now stabilized and there is growth and activity. We are redoing schools, restaurants and offices. There is much more confidence in the economy."
Besides the renewed confidence, Jeffery also attributes their growth and aggressive hiring needs to the launch of five new product collections.
The open positions are primarily skilled labor and include general labor, welders, spray finishers and upholsterers. Jeffery says the company offers great pay, benefits, training and tremendous career opportunities. He notes there is no third shift at the firm, adding to the work-life balance and quality of life for all employees. He describes the new facility in Byron Center as modern and "state-of-the-art."
The company is located at 1250 84th Street SW, Byron Center, Michigan and has over 140 employees in both office and warehouse positions. Jeffrey encourages job seekers to send their resume to email@example.com. You can visit their
website here
to learn more about the company.
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
Irwin Seating Co. expansion brings 60 new jobs to Grand Rapids Area
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Irwin Seating Co.
will bring 60 new jobs to the Walker community in 2015 as part of a 50,000-square-foot renovation effort of existing manufacturing space to accommodate a new product line for movie theaters called the
Spectrum Recliner Series
, which boasts a higher quality upholstery and comfort than typical theater chairs, says Vice President of Business Development Graham Irwin.
The world's largest manufacturer of public seating for movie theaters, auditoriums, arenas, performing arts centers, and convention centers, Irwin Seating Co.'s new Spectrum Recliner Series will require not only a renovated space, but also an investment in new machinery and equipment, including additional training for new employees.
With over 400 employees between its two locations in Grand Rapids and Altamont, Ill., 287 of its total employees work out of the Walker manufacturing plant at 3251 Fruit Ridge NW. Irwin says all of the 60 new hires will be at the Wyoming location to accommodate the expansion, and most will be full-time positions as the company embarks on a slow but steady hiring of new employees over the next three years as new production begins to increase as well.
"We're in the process; we've done some hiring but it's really a three-year plan to ramp up," Irwin says. "We'll be looking -- as we build up our capacity we'll be adding folks throughout the year."
The renovations, machinery investments and new hires are in large part thanks to a $300,000 Michigan Strategic Fund incentive approved earlier this month with the help of Grand Rapids-based nonprofit
The Right Place, Inc.
alongside its local and state partners.
"Irwin Seating Company and the Irwin family have long been a part of West Michigan's manufacturing and economic growth history," said The Right Place, Inc. President and CEO Birgit Klohs in a press release earlier this month. "We are pleased to see the company continue to grow, innovate, and reinvest in the region. The expansion project further demonstrates the manufacturing sector's continued growth in West Michigan."
Founded in Wyoming way back in 1908, Irwin says the company's mission is as simple as serving its customers and acting as an economic engine in the community it was created by.
"As we achieve success it's part of our values to share that with our stakeholders and our stakeholders are our employees, but we hope the community is one of our stakeholders, too," Irwin says. "As we're more successful we'd like to share that success with the community we're in."
For more information about Irwin Seating Co. or inquire about job openings, visit www.irwinseating.com or call 616-574-7400.
Written by Anya Zentmeyer
Images courtesy of Irwin Seating Company/The Right Place
Love's Ice Cream named "Startup to Watch" by Making it Michigan Conference, expands distribution
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Not all startups are made up of code and bytes. Some are based on fresh, organic ingredients and a commitment to sustainability.
Love's Ice Cream
was recently named the "Startup to Watch" by the Making it Michigan Conference. Chris McKellar, founder, says the recognition was based on his company's business plan execution, short time to hit profitability, consistent growth and a steady progress with distributing his pints throughout Michigan. McKellar says he was nominated by his advisor at the MSU Product Center.
New distribution channels for Love's include their selection, out of more than 100 possible products, to be featured by Westborn Market for at least a year. "I see that stroke of luck - being in the right place at the right time - as paving the way for the Love's Ice Cream invasion of the east side of the state," McKellar says. "It will help us get our small scale distribution wings."
Looking forward, McKellar says he is working on several projects. "Some are top secret, others not so much. We will be releasing a very special product this spring that has been over a year in the making. We are also starting to brew our own sodas, which will be available mid-February."
McKellar says he is still readying his vintage Love's Ice Cream van and anticipates being all over Grand Rapids in 2015 when the weather clears. "It made its debut last July but needed more restoration than originally thought. It's nearing completion and will be road ready for spring," he says.
He also anticipates a very busy year. "We're constantly booking events all over West Michigan, and while 2015 still has lots of dates open, we're getting requests for 2016 already. In addition, we are getting regular inquiries from retailers around the state interested in carrying our pints."
To keep up with the growth McKellar says he will be hiring some staff in March: "We're looking to add a couple staff for the May - September season and we're encouraging food-minded people to apply in February."
Putting the growth and recognition in perspective, McKellar is quick to point what is at the heart of Love's Ice Cream. "Most importantly, though, we remain focused on putting out the only organically principled ice cream and vegan gelato in Michigan," he says.
For more information you can view their
website here
or their Facebook
page here.
Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs News Editor
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Aquaman, Batman, Batsignal, Cyborg, dc comics, Flash, Joss Whedon, Justice League, Lois Lane, movie, movies, smile, Superman, trailer, Wonder Woman
The new Justice League trailer premiered yesterday at the New York Comic Con. If you haven't seen it, here it is:
The trailer starts off with some quick shots of the heroes and cuts to the logo.
We then see Lois Lane apparently having a dream about Superman returning to her.
For some reason, these movies seem to love their dream sequences. It seems as if the decades-long tradition of Imaginary Stories and Elseworlds from the comics has seeped into their movie universe. While I like those stories in the comics, if you have to rely on that to have something cool in your movie, maybe rethink the movie you are making. There is also talk of dreams in the trailer, so it's possible that someone's dreams are premonitions of events to come. If that's the case, why did we have to wait so long for that to be used as a storytelling device? If it is at all.
Next there is a voice over of reporters implying that hope is lost with the death of Superman.
Again, how is the man who tore up a city and snapped General Zod's neck a symbol of hope in this world? In the comics, sure. Here it makes no sense. I am really tired of them trying to shoe horn this into their story. They clearly wanted it both ways. A dark gritty superhero, but someone who could be an inspiration when he was gone.
Even his defeat of Doomsday, when he sacrificed himself doesn't help with this. Doomsday was a Kryptonian threat that wouldn't have endangered Metropolis if Superman hadn't been around. Most people would hold him responsible for what happened.
It does look like there will be some great action scenes in this. What I am guessing are invading forces from Apokolips facing off against the Amazons.
With the success of Wonder Woman, it makes sense to play up her role in this. Plus, it gives the good guys an army that could play into a large-scale battle.
Another interesting thing that's new in this trailer is this shot of Parademons apparently emerging from a cooling tower at a nuclear power plant.
My inference from this would be that they are trying to instigate a meltdown in the hopes of creating a firepit on Earth, like those on Apokolips. This has been a recurring goal with them in the comics.
"Bro Aquaman" is here as well. While there seems to have been mixed reactions to this online, I am totally fine with it. Growing up through the "grim and gritty" era of comic books, I have had my fill of reluctant heroes. To see one that enjoys what he is doing is a relief. Especially given the previous trailers' darker tone. Not everyone needs to be moody.
Speaking of tone, this seems to be the first trailer where we are getting Joss Whedon's input in the movie. It does seem a little lighter than the other trailers. Also, the heroes seem to be having a better time and are now allowed to smile.
Batman seems to be the only hero who doesn't get to smile. Perhaps they are instituting the old edict from the Batman comics where he never smiles. The flipside to that was, whenever this dark avenger of the night did crack a smile, you knew it was on. It was always super effective (or bat-effective).
The disappointing part of this is that these shots appear like they may have been reshoots that were dropped into the movie. Hopefully, they are more fluid in the movie than they appear to be here. Notably, this trailer end with Flash making a joke about the Batsignal that genuinely made me laugh. Something that I was not expecting.
Surprisingly, aside from Lois' dream there is no other shots of Superman in this. By now, it's sort of a given that he will be returning in this. Rumors of what part he is playing in the story seem to indicate he will be resurrected and fight the League, but nothing has been confirmed. A tease of the "S" logo or something similar at the end would have been expected. Maybe they will keep a lid on this until the premier, but more than likely this seems like something that will get spoiled at the last minute by a Lego set or the like.
Whatever behind the scenes issues may be happening, fingers crossed that we still get a good movie. At the end of the day, I have been a Justice League fan for most of my life and I want something good. I will definitely be "All In" for a great Justice League movie.
P.S. let's hope Cyborg gets at least one good "Booyah" in this. Maybe like how Hugh Jackman kept trying to sneak in "Bub" into the first X-Men movie.


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A student government resolution at Cal-Berkeley wants to cancel a university police training program called Urban Shield, but the university will ignore the resolution.
Topic: University of California-Berkeley
UC-Berkeley: Canceling Ann Coulter's Speech was 'Viewpoint Neutral'
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The New York Times runs a profile piece on College Republicans at the liberal bastion known as the University of California-Berkeley.
Berkeley Op-Ed: Free Speech is Overruled by 'Safety of the Marginalized'
Free speech doesn't matter as much as protecting the 'safety of the marginalized,' claimed a student at the University of California-Berkeley in an op-ed.
New York Times: Conservatives are "Emboldened" after Berkeley-Ann Coulter Controversy
The New York Times' recent piece on the Ann Coulter-Cal-Berkeley free speech controversy portrayed conservatives as being audacious for fighting for the right of freedom of speech at liberal college campuses.
Ann Coulter Cancels Speech at Berkeley after Threats of Protests
Ann Coulter, conservative commentator, withdrew from her speaking engagement at the University of California-Berkeley after threats of protests and change in date and venue kept emerging.
What is the Law on Campus Free Speech and What Should Berkeley—and all Universities—Do to Protect It?
Richard Cravatts, PhD, said that the University of California-Berkeley "repeatedly abandoned its responsibility to protect free speech, deciding instead that it would cave to the totalitarian demands of whiny progressive campus activists".


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Check out Luann and Tiffany. Does Luann have a hate crush on Tiffany? Probably. Does Luann hate herself? Go figure. Is this hilarious? Yes.
Are hate crushes for reals? Whatever!
Whoever is selling the hate crush meme should go stick her head out the nearest window and vomit. That's what she makes me want to do. But I didn't make it that far… Blech.
Not for the first time and definitely not for the last, I'm totally with you on this one, Dave. Do these people have any clue what they're talking about? The hate crush marketeers have the emotional finesse of "I love my fiancee, but I'm not in love with him." To quote again what you brought up:
If a crush is about seeing the best version of yourself as you envision it, a "hate crush" is about the worst.
Two things. One, I have not heard that BS about you hate in others what you don't like about yourself since — like — fourth frickin' grade! Two, must we explain everything through the prism of narcissism? I think we've spoken before about the odd and subtle generational disconnect between us and the Jezebel crowd, namely manifested in matters of sentiment — where there is, on the part of a latter, a certain tendency to take themselves waaaaaay too seriously and to, in general, dismiss nuance and casuistic. Is it because they have been brought up on wonky non-fiction and the Internet? I won't speculate. All I can say is — again — if these chicks read anything like Stendhal we would not be having this conversation. I mean, not only did they get the hate part wrong — put they even fracked up the much more traditional concept of the crush.
Yeah, I give up, folks: I really hate the fact that I'm a wannabe fetish model. I'm extremely insecure about how I look in leather. I fear, at times, that my love of hip radical European Marxists militias who kill people combined with my healthy, thoughtful skepticism of affirmative action, may not necessarily express a coherent weltanschauung. You're right. It's all about me.
Look at Luann. Yeah. Up there. At the top of this post. Does she hate Tiffany because she hates the superficial broad in herself? No, she hates Tiffany, because she's a stuck-up, preening, lousy lady who is acting all possessive of the Australian exchange student and — worse than that, she looks enough like Luann, that this latter worries that people will associate blond cartoon characters with a fracked up sense of community service. Her position, then, is two-fold: 1) It is a proud, confident disassociation with the superficial similarities shared with Tiffany, while at the same time 2) a strict sense of moral censure best expressed with the word "scoff."
Like, a lot of the people I hate are people who resemble me — say, picture a slightly shorter Peter O'Toole (when young, of course) with a nose for fresh bread and fine truffles and a certain ability to speak French and other languages, not least while talking about the weather in fine metaphoric terms that beget dreamy expressions in the eyes of the ladies. Well, so, you take that kind of person: Lovable, right? But then, say he learned his French in Quebec, drinks fine wine instead of manhattans, thinks Arcade Fire rocks, and thinks that Obama compromised liberal ideals when he let Van Jones go. And throw in a few carrots and chicks in the mix. This, my friends, is the perfect recipe for a hate crush: Again, not the incarnation of your worst faults but, rather, everything ersatz and pretentious that one fears could potentially be associated to your charming person and everything morally wrong that occurs in your vicinity.
Now it would be nice to pathologize and to remedy our capacity for moral censure. But then who would be there to do such a tough job? Do we just let these stupid poseurs hang around with a bunch of carrots and chicks without pointing and laughing?
Hate is fun! Hate is cathartic. And it keeps giving.
Oh, and a couple more points, Dave. There was no like, and, thus, no dry-heave-inducing epiphany. Just another joke gone too far. That's my official version, and I'm sticking to it. Also, I think there is something odd about the fact that I don't Google stalk my friends. I thing you're right that that should be the exception, not the rule. Whatever.


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I yeild to your experience - which you so eloquently put - I'm just running off of emotion.
You might be thinking about this though. During the LIBERTY attack 7 months earlier than PUEBLO planes were launced and on their way to help Liberty from a carrier but were recalled inflight by Pentagon in a not so polite wording as I understand it. They never made it and were ordered back to the ship. The LIBERTY attack followed by the PUEBLO attack makes me wonder what LBJ had gotten himself into though.


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New in Theaters Dec. 20: Anchorman 2, American Hustle, Saving Mr. Banks, Walking with Dinosaurs 3D
By Chris Kavan - 12/19/13 at 06:42 AM CT
In what is shaping up to be a crowded end-of-year rush at the box office, this weekend sees four movies hitting wide release (one has an early Wednesday opening, and two others are going wide after limited openings). That's nothing compared to the pre-Christmas rush next week when there will be SIX new movies all vying for your attention (not to mention the holdovers from this week and those pryer). What this also means is that there is going to be a lot of competition and not everyone is going to come out a winner over the holidays. We're going to start off strong here just a few days before the movie wave hits.
It's going to be a busy weekend. Besides all the above films, the latest from Spike Jonze, Her, opens in limited release (it goes wide in January). This is another film that has been getting a lot of awards hype, so it should be interesting to see what numbers it brings in. We'll find out on Sunday just what the weekend brings us.


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Sandhill Cranes seen February 13, 2010 at the Whitewater Draw in Southeastern Arizona.
There were plenty of birds besides the Sandhill cranes to see...
including this Green-winged Teal.
After the sun set, and there was still just enough light to see, thousands of cranes flew in from the nearby fields looking much like this. (Video from Southeastern Arizona Bird Observatory)


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Zuma to oppose ConCourt application over NPA appointment
The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution has asked the highest court in the land to force Zuma to make the appointment within 30 days.
Read: President Zuma's conflict of interest
Beeld reported on Thursday that President Jacob Zuma's legal team on Wednesday informed the rights group in writing of Zuma's decision to oppose the application.
The prosecuting authority has been headed by acting head Nomgcobo Jiba for the past 18 months, but has been without a permanent head since the Supreme Court of Appeal set aside Zuma's appointment of advocate Menzi Simelane as NDPP in 2011.
The presidency has to submit its response to the court by July 19.
Zuma has been criticised heavily for not appointing someone to the position, especially after corruption charges against him were dropped by the NPA even though reports suggested that prosecutors were overwhelmingly in favour of going ahead with charges against him.
The charges were dropped against Zuma before he was chosen as president, and the controversial spy tapes were dismissed by the NPA.
Last year, the parliamentary oversight committee on justice said it was concerned about the length of time it has taken to appoint a head to the NPA, saying that alleged criminals like Radovan Krejcir, Andrew Phillips and Glenn Agliotti escaped prosecution because there is no national director of public prosecutions.
But Deputy Minister of Justice Andries Nel said he was not a concern as the NPA had other representatives in the structure, including four national deputy directors of prosecution, nine provincial directors and over 3 000 prosecutors.
The current acting NDPP, Jiba, has her own controversies. She was suspended from a senior position in the National Prosecuting Authority four years ago by its then-head, Mokotedi Mpshe, after facing internal charges of unprofessional conduct, dishonesty, fraud and bringing the NPA into disrepute. – Additional reporting by Sapa.


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Born in Jesi (Italy) August 1, 1976.
Curriculum Vitae
Short Professional Bio
Senior Economist at Banca d'Italia (Financial Stability Department). His work focuses on finance, banking theory, risk management, financial regulation, and macro-finance. He previously worked as Quant Advisor at Banca d'Italia (Supervision Department). Before joining Banca d'Italia he worked as Fixed Income Trader/Asset Manager for several mutual funds. Lecturer in Financial Economics and Financial Regulation and Supervision at Luiss-Guido Carli and Science-Po.
2002-2003 USI-Swiss Finance Institute, Postgraduate (attendance of PhD courses in Quantitative Finance).
1995-2000 LUISS-Guido Carli, "Laurea" in Economics (Summa Cum Laude with Special Mention).
Academic Experience
2015-Present Luiss-Guido Carli, Adjunct Professor – Risk Management and Compliance.
2005-Present Luiss-Guido Carli, Teaching Assistant – Financial Economics.
2012-2013 Sciences-Po, Teaching Assistant – Financial Regulation and Supervision.
2008-2012 Luiss-Guido Carli, Teaching Assistant – Financial Markets.
Professional Experience
2014-Present Banca d'Italia-ESRB, Member of the Advisory Technical Committee (ATC)
2012-Present Banca d'Italia-Financial Stability Department, Senior Economist.
2010-2011 Banca d'Italia-EBA, Member of the Task Force on EU-wide stress testing.
2010-2011 Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), Member of the Research Task Force.
2007-2008 European Central Bank (ECB), Member of Task Force on "OtD intermediation model".
2004-2011 Banca d'Italia-Banking Supervision Department, Senior Expert on Risk Management.
2001-2002 Fideuram Asset Management ltd. (Ireland), Asset Manager (Fixed-Income and Derivatives).
2000-2001 Fideuram Gestions s.a. (Luxembourg), Asset Manager (Fixed-Income and Derivatives).
Books and Books Chapters
The ESRB Handbook on Operationalising Macroprudential Policy in the Banking Sector- Addendum: Macroprudential Leverage Ratios (co-author), June 2015.
Masera, F. and Mazzoni, G., "Basilea III. Il nuovo sistema di regole bancarie dopo la grande crisi", FrancoAngeli Edizioni, 2012. (ISBN Code: 9788856847239).
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (co-author) "Messages from the academic literature on risk measurement for the trading book", BIS Working Paper No. 19, 2011.
Masera, R.S. and Mazzoni, G., "Reform of the Risk Capital Standard (RCS) and Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs), in "Recovery after the Crisis: Perspectives and Policies" Ceis Economia Tor Vergata Foundation, 2010.
Masera, R.S. and Mazzoni, G., "The banking crisis and the systemic capital interventions by governments: June-October 2008 ", in Masera, R.S. (ed.), "The Great Financial Crisis", Bancaria 2009.
Mazzoni, G., "The hedge funds ", in Masera, R.S. (ed.), "The Great Financial Crisis", Bancaria 2009.
Journal Articles
Masera, R.S. and Mazzoni, G., "On the nonneutrality of the financing policy and the capital regulation of banking firms", Studies in Economics and Finance, 2015, Forthcoming.
Masera, R.S. and Mazzoni, G., "Banks' Capital: The Relevance of Market Signals", Journal of Business and Economics, ISSN 2155-7950, USA August 2014, Volume 5, No. 8, pp. 1236-1249.
Maino R., Masera, R.S. and Mazzoni, G., "Reform of the Risk Capital Standard (RCS) and Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs)", Bancaria 2010.
Masera, R.S. and Mazzoni, G., "Shareholders and Stakeholders Value Creation: an analytic foundation for value creation indicators", BNL Quarterly Review, March 2007.
Working Papers
Masera, R.S. and Mazzoni, G., "Cost of equity, enterprise value and capital regulation of banking firms", 2013.


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Almost one million Trek bicycles equipped with front disc brakes have been recalled for crash hazards. The front wheel hub can come in contact with the front disc brake assembly, which can cause a sudden unexpected stop or the front wheel to detach from the bicycle. Trek has received three incident reports including an incident causing one rider to become paralyzed.
All models equipped with front disc brakes are recalled from the years 2000 through 2015. The bicycles were sold nationwide at bicycle stores from September 1999 through April 2015. The recall does not include bicycles that have a front quick release lever that do not open a full 180 degrees.
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Michelle Williams slipped out of the New York Film Fest debut of her "My Week With Marilyn" Sunday to catch a flight to Detroit. The actress, who plays the blond bombshell in the movie, explained she had a 4 a.m. call time in the Motor City to shoot "Oz: The Great and Powerful." At a Dior party earlier to celebrate the premiere at the Hudson Hotel, Williams circulated with co-star Eddie Redmayne, Jake Gyllenhaal, Gina Gershon, Zoe Kazan and Harvey Weinstein.
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Corrado Cagli
Corrado Cagli (Ancona, 1910–Rome, 1976) was an Italian painter of Jewish heritage, who lived in the United States during World War II.
Cagli was born in Ancona but he moved with his family to Rome in 1915 at the age of five.
In 1927, he made his artistic debut, with a mural painted on a building in Via Sistina. The following year, he made another mural painting in a hall in Via Vantaggio.
In 1932, he held his first personal exhibition at the Gallery of Art of Rome.
Together with other artists such as Giuseppe Capogrossi and Emanuele Cavalli, he formed the group "New Roman School of Painting," better known as Scuola Romana.
In 1937 and 1938, he exhibited works at the "Comet" gallery in New York City.
In 1938, when Benito Mussolini stepped up the persecution of Jews, Cagli fled to Paris and later went to New York where he became a U.S. citizen.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army and was involved in the 1944 Normandy landings, and fought in Belgium and Germany.
He was with the forces that liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp, and made a series of dramatic drawings on that subject.
In 1948, Cagli returned to Rome to take up permanent residence there. From that time forward, he experimented in various abstract and non-figurative techniques (neo-metaphysical, neo-cubist, informal).
He was awarded the Guggenheim prize (1946) and the Marzotto prize (1954).
Cagli died at Rome in 1976.
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- Cagli's work for the 1972 Banner of Siena's annual Palio[1]


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Wonder child Shulem Brodt & Menacham Moskowitz singing "Ani Maamin" Yedidim Choir presents Shulem Brodt singing "Ani Maamin" together with Menachem Moskowitz, accompanied by Yedidim Choir and Shmily Spira on the keys.
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Asbestos in Construction
Asbestos, used in construction for heat insulation and fireproofing, was known to be a carcinogen and toxic substance for many years prior to leading up to the Environmental Protection Agency's ban on the use of asbestos in building construction. Those that first used asbestos (early Greeks) noticed that it caused respiratory ailments and it was documented in France that it was known to be the cause of health problems. However, with the rise of Industrialization, buildings and home construction increased and the use of asbestos went with it. Its ability to withstand extreme heat and fibrous pieces enabling it to be woven into insulation sheets, deemed it perfect for use in the construction industry to avoid problems with fires and decrease costs for expensive insulation in colder climates. H.M. Murray noted in 1907 that the death of one of a worker working with asbestos on a constant basis could have been in part attributed (if not all attributed) to asbestos, as he examined and found traces of the mineral in the deceased's lungs. In the years following, it seemed to be cover-up after cover-up by companies employing asbestos miners and workers in the construction industry.Research conducted and medical reports written around the world noted the severe consequences of prolonged asbestos contamination to the human body. However, the use of the substance continued and even companies conducting "research" on the effects of asbestos knowingly removed the word "cancer" from all of their findings. Corporations permitted their workers to have continuous contact when told about the possible health risks of asbestos and potential to claim asbestos related compensation; in fact, they even disregarded information suggesting that workers in physical contact with the fibres wear facial masks to limit their respiratory exposure. In 1989, the United States Environmental Protection Agency released its notes on the required stop-use and removal of asbestos in buildings and products. While this release was overturned by the Supreme Court, agencies such as OSHA have set strict standards for the presence of asbestos in buildings; and the EPA has strict enforcement of the presence of asbestos in drinking water. While the United States and most of the advanced world has nearly stopped its use of asbestos, developing countries still take the risk of exposing their people to this toxic natural mineral by allowing its continued use in construction of buildings and products.--There are a plethora of solicitors offering consultancy catering towards asbestos compensation however many people choose Mesothelioma Matters for a specific reason!Source: http://www.articletrader.com
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I didn't read any further, lest I go mad.
Don't deprive yourself.
Read it. It's positive.
We won!
Read it. It's a wonderful article. Great time to be alive.
SHOUT! SPIT! CLAMOR!! - okay, that's all I have to say tonight folks.
Evidently we have a lot of people's noses out of joint.
"I didn't read any further, lest I go mad."
I enjoy being mad almost as I enjoy a witty rejoiner.


text: America Abroad Media is running a fairly spiffy programme this coming Friday, 29 April. It's a town hall-style event hosted with Radio Killid Afghanistan and will connect audiences in DC and Kabul to discuss the future of women's rights in Afghanistan. It's a timely topic, especially considering the backlash over the Greg Mortenson debacle and the Karzai administration's penchant of trading women's rights for political profit (most spectacularly with the 2009 law that effectively legalized marital rape).


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Yeah, okay, not happening. I woke up with my cough being the same painful, productive mess AND it being difficult to breathe. On top of that, I'm back to feeling abnormally tired and lethargic (worse than the daily tiredness/sleepiness that I'm always dealing with). So, I'm going to heed the quote pinned to my wall and listen to my body. It doesn't help that I'm also crampy and probably PMSing, and really just want my mom to come take care of me. Hopefully another few days off and I'll be back at the running.
I have a homework assignment on the resolution of pronouns due on Thursday. There are several competing theories as to how comprehenders decide what a pronoun (he/she/it/they) is referring to. For this assignment, we've been given a pile of data (a transcript of a phone conversation) an we have to decide which theory best accounts for the data (the speakers' usage of pronouns) and explain why. Then we have to try and find an alternative model that violates our argument. It's definitely interesting, but feels a bit tedious when breathing is a chore.


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{Article: Beauty Under The Burqa}
I came across this NYTimes/Reuters article about an Afghani version of America's Next Top Model for Muslim girls.
...almost all women in deeply conservative Afghanistan still only appear in public wafting past in the burqa's pale blue, their dark eyes only occasionally visible behind the bars of its grille.
But in the relatively liberal northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a local television station has started to show a different image of Afghan women with an extremely low-budget take on the hit "America's Next Top Model," a reality TV show in which judges choose prospective models from a group of contestants over several weeks.
Check out the full article and the picture slideshow. What do you think about this?