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Part 7 out of 7
while they lacerated each other like lion and tiger, and then dropped
away. The hunted _Hartford_ gave a staggering thrust and futile
So for an hour went the fight; ships charging, the _Tennessee_ crawling
ever after her one picked antagonist, the monitors' awful guns forever
pounding her iron back and sides. But at length her mail began to yield,
her best guns went silent, her smokestack was down, her steering-chains
were gone, Buchanan lay heavily wounded. Of Farragut's twenty-seven
hundred men more than a seventh had fallen, victims mainly of the bear
and her cubs, yet there she weltered, helpless. From her grim disjointed
casemate her valorous captain let down the Southern cross, the white
flag rose, and instantly, everywhere, God's thunder and man's alike
ceased, and the merciful heavens smiled white and blue again. But their
smile was on the flag of the Union, and mutely standing in each other's
embrace, with hearts as nearly right as they could know, Anna and
Miranda gazed on the victorious stars-and-stripes and wept.
What caused Anna to start and glance behind she did not know; but doing
so she stared an instant breathless and then, as she clutched Miranda
for support, moaned to the tall, wasted, sadly smiling, crutched figure
that moved closer--
"Oh, Hilary! Are you Hilary Kincaid?"
They kissed.
It looks strange written and printed, but she did not see how to hold
off when he made it so tenderly manful a matter of course after his
frank hand-shake with Miranda, and when there seemed so little time for
An ambulance drawn by the Callenders' horses had brought him and two or
three others down the West Side. A sail-boat had conveyed them from the
nearest beach. Here it was, now, in tow beside the steamboat as she
gathered headway toward Fort Powell. He was not so weak or broken but he
could point rapidly about with his crutches, the old light of command in
his eyes, while with recognized authority he spoke to the boat's master
and these companions.
He said things freely. There was not much down here to be secret about.
Mobile had not fallen. She would yet be fought for on land, furiously.
But the day was lost; as, incidentally, might be, at any moment, if not
shrewdly handled, this lonesome little boat.
Her captain moved to the pilot-house. Miranda and the junior officers
left Hilary with Anna. "Did you say 'the day,'" she softly asked, "or
'the bay'?"
"Both," he murmured, and with his two crutches in one hand directed her
eyes: to the fleet anchored midway off Morgan, Gaines, and Powell; to
the half-dozen gunboats on Mississippi Sound; to others still out in the
Gulf, behind Morgan, off Mobile Point; to the blue land force entrenched
behind Gaines, and to the dunes east of Morgan, where similar besiegers
would undoubtedly soon be landed.
"Yes ... Yes," she said to his few explanations. It was all so sadly
"A grand fort yet," he musingly called Morgan, "but it ought to be left
and blown to fare-you-well to-night before it's surroun--I wish my
cousin were there instead of in Gaines. 'Dolphe fights well, but he
knows when not to fight and that we've come, now, to where every man
we've got, and every gun, counts bigger than to knock out any two of the
enemy's. You know Fred's over yonder, don't you? and that Kincaid's
Battery, without their field-pieces, are just here in Powell behind her
heavy guns?... Yes, Victorine said you did; I saw her this morning, with
Constance." He paused, and then spoke lower:
She smiled up to him.
"Our love's not through all the fire, yet," he said, but her smile only
showed more glow.
"My soul's-mate, war-mate soldier-girl," he murmured on.
"If you stand true in what's before us now, before just you and me, now
and for weeks to come, I want your word for it right here that your
standing true shall not be for the sake of any vow you've ever made to
me, or for me, or with me, in the past, the blessed, blessed past. You
"I promise," she breathed. "What is it?"
"A thing that takes more courage than I've got."
"Then how will you do it?" she lightly asked.
"By borrowing all yours. May I?"
"You may. Is it to save--our battery?"
"Our battery, yes, against their will, with others, if I can persuade
the fort's commander. At low tide to-night when the shoals can be forded
to Cedar Point, I shall be"--his words grew hurried--the steamer was
touching the fort's pier--the sail-boat, which was to take Anna and
Miranda to where the ambulance and their own horses awaited them had
cast off her painter--"I shall be the last man out of Powell and shall
blow it up. Come, it may be we sha'n't meet again until I've"--he
smiled--"been court-martialed and degraded. If I am, we--"
"If you are," she murmured, "you may take me to the nearest church--or
the biggest--that day."
"No, no!" he called as she moved away, and again, with a darkening brow,
"no, no!"
But, "Yes, yes," she brightly insisted as she rejoined Miranda. "Yes!"
For the horses' sake the ladies went that afternoon only to "Frascati,"
lower limit of the Shell Road, where, in a small hour of the night Anna
heard the sudden boom and long rumble that told the end of Fort Powell
and salvation of its garrison.
That Gaines held out a few days, Morgan a few weeks, are heroic facts of
history, which, with a much too academic shrug, it calls "magnifique,
mais--!" Their splendid armament and all their priceless men fell into
their besiegers' hands. Irby, haughtily declining the strictly formal
courtesies of Fred Greenleaf, went to prison in New Orleans. What a New
Orleans! The mailed clutch on her throat (to speak as she felt) had
grown less ferocious, but everywhere the Unionist civilian--the once
brow-beaten and still loathed "Northern sympathizer," with grudges to
pay and losses to recoup and re-recoup--was in petty authority.
Confiscation was swallowing up not industrial and commercial properties
merely, but private homes; espionage peeped round every street corner
and into every back window, and "A. Ward's" ante-bellum jest, that "a
white man was as good as a nigger as long as he behaved himself," was a
jest no more. Miss Flora Valcour, that ever faithful and daring
Southerner, was believed by all the city's socially best to be
living--barely living--under "the infamous Greenleaf's" year-long threat
of Ship Island for having helped Anna Callender to escape to Mobile.
Hence her haunted look and pathetic loss of bloom. Now, however, with
him away and with General Canby ruling in place of Banks, she and her
dear fragile old grandmother could breathe a little.
They breathed much. We need not repeat that the younger was a gifted
borrower. She did other things equally well; resumed a sagacious
activity, a two-sided tact, and got Irby paroled. On the anniversary of
the day Hilary had played brick-mason a city paper (Unionist) joyfully
proclaimed the long-delayed confiscation of Kincaid's Foundry and of
Callender House, and announced that "the infamous Kincaid" himself had
been stripped of his commission by a "rebel" court-martial. Irby
promptly brought the sheet to the Valcours' lodgings, but Flora was out.
When she came in, before she could lay off her pretty hat:--
"You've heard it!" cried the excited grandam. "But why so dead-alive?
Once more the luck is yours! Play your knave! play Irby! He's just been
here! He will return! He will propose this evening if you allow him! Let
him do it! Let him! Mobile may fall any day! If you dilly-dally till
those accursed Callenders get back, asking, for instance, for their--ha,
ha!--their totally evaporated chest of plate--gr-r-r! Take him! He has
just shown me his uncle's will--as he calls it: a staring forgery, but
you, h-you won't mind _that_, and the 'ladies' man'--ah, the 'ladies'
man,' once you are his cousin, he'll never let on. Take Irby! he is, as
you say, a nincompoop"--she had dropped into English--"and seldom
sober, _mais_ take him! 't is the las' call of the auctioneer, yo'
fav-oreet auctioneer--with the pointed ears and the forked black tail."
Flora replied from a mirror with her back turned: "I'll thing ab-out it.
And maybee--yes! Ezpecially if you would do uz that one favor, lazd
thing when you are going to bed the night we are married. Yez, if you
would--ahem!--juz' blow yo' gas without turning it?"
That evening, when the accepted Irby, more nearly happy than ever before
in his life, said good-night to his love they did not kiss. At the first
stir of proffer Flora drew back with a shudder that reddened his brow.
But when he demanded, "Why not?" her radiant shake of the head was
purely bewitching as she replied, "No, I haven' fall' that low yet."
When after a day or so he pressed for immediate marriage and was coyly
referred to Madame, the old lady affectionately--though
reluctantly--consented. With a condition: If the North should win the
war his inheritance would be "confiz-_cate_'" and there would be nothing
to begin life on but the poor child's burned down home behind Mobile,
unless, for mutual protection, nothing else,--except "one dollar and
other valuable considerations,"--he should preconvey the Brodnax estate
to the poor child, who, at least, had never been "foun' out" to have
done anything to subject property of hers to confiscation.
This transfer Irby, with silent reservations, quietly executed, and the
day, hour and place, the cathedral, were named. A keen social flutter
ensued and presently the wedding came off--stop! That is not all.
Instantly upon the close of the ceremony the bride had to be more lifted
than led to her carriage and so to her room and couch, whence she sent
loving messages to the bridegroom that she would surely be well enough
to see him next day. But he had no such fortune, and here claims record
a fact even more wonderful than Anna's presentiment as to Hilary that
morning in Mobile Bay. The day after his wedding Irby found his parole
revoked and himself, with others, back in prison and invited to take the
oath and go free--stand up in the war-worn gray and forswear it--or stay
where they were to the war's end. Every man of them took it--when the
war was over; but until then? not one. Not even the bridegroom robbed of
his bride. Every week or so she came and saw him, among his fellows, and
bade him hold out! stand fast! It roused their great admiration, but not
their wonder. The wonder was in a fact of which they knew nothing: That
the night before her marriage Flora had specifically, minutely
prophesied this whole matter to her grandmother, whose only response was
that same marveling note of nearly four years earlier--
"You are a genius!"
In March, 'Sixty-five, the Confederacy lay dying. While yet in Virginia
and the Carolinas, at Mobile and elsewhere her armies daily, nightly
strove on, bled on, a stricken quiet and great languor had come over
her, a quiet with which the quiet ending of this tale is only in
reverent keeping.
On Mobile's eastern side Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely, her last
defenses, were fighting forty thousand besiegers. Kincaid's Battery was
there, and there was heavy artillery, of course, but this time the
"ladies' men"--still so called--had field-guns, though but three. They
could barely man that number. One was a unit of the original six lost
"for them, not by them," at Vicksburg, and lately recovered.
Would there were time for its story! The boys had been sent up the state
to reinforce Forrest. Having one evening silenced an opposing battery,
and stealing over in the night and bringing off its best gun, they had
slept about "her" till dawn, but then had laughed, hurrahed, danced, and
wept round her and fallen upon her black neck and kissed her big lips on
finding her no other than their own old "Roaring Betsy." She might have
had a gentler welcome had not her lads just learned that while they
slept _the_ "ladies' man" had arrived from Mobile with a bit of news
glorious alike for him and them.
The same word reached New Orleans about the same date. Flora, returning
from a call on Irby, brought it to her grandmother. In the middle of
their sitting-room, with the worst done-for look yet, standing behind a
frail chair whose back she gripped with both hands, she meditatively
"All privieuse statement' ab-out that court-martial on the 'vacuation of
Ford Powell are prim-ature. It has, with highez' approval, _acquit_'
every one concern' in it." She raised the light chair to the limit of
her reach and brought it down on another with a force that shivered
both. Madame rushed for a door, but--"Stay!" amiably said the maiden.
"Pick up the pieces--for me--eh? I'll have to pick up the pieces of you
some day--soon--I hope--mm?"
She took a book to a window seat, adding as she went, "Victorine. You've
not heard ab-out that, neither? She's biccome an orphan. Hmm! Also--the
little beggar!--she's--married. Yes. To Charles Valcour. My God! I wish
I was a man."
[Illustration: Music "Um, hmm, hmm, hmm, Mm, hmm, hmm, hmm--"]
"_Leave the room!_"
But these were closed incidents when those befell which two or three
final pages linger to recount. The siege of Spanish Fort was the war's
last great battle. From March twenty-sixth to April the eighth it was
deadly, implacable; the defense hot, defiant, audacious. On the night of
the eighth the fort's few hundred cannoneers spiked their heavy guns
and, taking their light ones along, left it. They had fought fully
aware that Richmond was already lost, and on the next day, a Sabbath,
as Kincaid's Battery trundled through the town while forty thousand
women and children--with the Callenders and little Steve--wept, its boys
knew their own going meant Mobile had fallen, though they knew not that
in that very hour the obscure name of Appomattox was being made forever
great in history.
"I reached Meridian," writes their general, "refitted the ...field
batteries and made ready to march across (country) and join General
Joseph E. Johnston in Carolina. The tidings of Lee's surrender soon
came.... But ...the little army of Mobile remained steadfastly together,
and in perfect order and discipline awaited the final issue of events."
It was while they so waited that Kincaid's Battery learned of the
destruction, by fire, of Callender House, but took comfort in agreeing
that now, at last, come or fail what might, the three sweetest women
that ever lived would live up-town.
One lovely May morning a Federal despatch-boat--yes, the one we
know--sped down Mobile Bay with many gray-uniformed men aboard, mostly
of the ranks and unaccoutred, but some of them officers still belted for
their unsurrendered swords. Many lads showed the red artillery trim and
wore jauntily on their battered caps K.B. separated by crossed cannon.
"Roaring Betsy" had howled her last forever. Her sergeant, Valcour, was
there, with his small fond bride, both equally unruffled by any
misgiving that they would not pull through this still inviting world
Mandeville was present, his gilt braid a trifle more gilt than any one
else's. Constance and little Steve--who later became president of the
Cotton Exchange--were with him. Also Miranda. Out forward yonder on the
upper deck, beside tall Hilary Kincaid, stood Anna. Greenleaf eyed them
from the pilot-house, where he had retired to withhold the awkward
reminder inseparable from his blue livery. In Hilary's fingers was a
writing which he and Anna had just read together. In reference to it he
was saying that while the South had fallen to the bottom depths of
poverty the North had been growing rich, and that New Orleans, for
instance, was chock full of Yankees--oh, yes, I'm afraid that's what he
called them--Yankees, with greenbacks in every pocket, eager to set up
any gray soldier who knew how to make, be or do anything mutually
profitable. Moved by Fred Greenleaf, who could furnish funds but
preferred, himself, never to be anything but a soldier, the enterprising
husband of the once deported but now ever so happily married
schoolmistress who--
"Yes, I know," said Anna--
Well, for a trifle, at its confiscation sale, this man had bought
Kincaid's Foundry, which now stood waiting for Hilary to manage, control
and in the end recover to his exclusive ownership on the way to larger
things. What gave the subject an intense tenderness of unsordid interest
was that it meant for the pair--what so many thousands of paroled heroes
and the women they loved and who loved them were hourly finding out
--that they were not such beggars, after all, but they might even there
and then name their wedding day, which then and there they named.
"Let Adolphe and Flora keep the old estate and be as happy on it, and
in it, as Heaven will let them; they've got each other to be happy with.
The world still wants cotton, and if they'll stand for the old South's
cotton we'll stand for a new South and iron; iron and a new South, Nan,
my Nannie; a new and better South and even a new and better New Orl--see
where we are! Right yonder the _Tennessee_--"
"Yes," interrupted Anna, "let's put that behind us--henceforth, as the
boat is doing now."
The steamer turned westward into Grant's Pass. To southward lay Morgan
and Gaines, floating the ensign of a saved Union. Close here on the
right lay the ruins of Fort Powell. From the lower deck the boys,
pressing to the starboard guards to see, singly or in pairs smiled up to
Hilary's smile. Among them was Sam Gibbs, secretly bearing home the
battery's colors wrapped round him next his scarred and cross-scarred
body. And so, farewell Mobile. Hour by hour through the beautiful blue
day, island after island, darkling green or glistering white, rose into
view, drifted by between the steamer and the blue Gulf and sunk into the
deep; Petit Bois, Horn Island, Ship Island, Cat Island. Now past Round
Island, up Lake Borgne and through the Rigolets they swept into
Pontchartrain, and near the day's close saw the tide-low, sombre but
blessed shore beyond which a scant half-hour's railway ride lay the city
they called home.
Across the waters westward, where the lake's margin, black-rimmed with
cypresses, lapsed into a watery horizon, and the sun was going down in
melancholy splendor, ran unseen that northbound railway by which four
years earlier they had set off for the war with ranks full and stately,
with music in the air and with thousands waving them on. Now not a note,
not a drum-tap, not a boast nor a jest illumined their return. In the
last quarter-hour aboard, when every one was on the lower deck about the
forward gangway, Hilary and Anna, having chanced to step up upon a coil
of rope, found it easier, in the unconscious press, to stay there than
to move on, and in keeping with his long habit as a leader he fell into
a lively talk with those nearest him,--Sam and Charlie close in front,
Bartleson and Mandeville just at his back,--to lighten the general
heaviness. At every word his listeners multiplied, and presently, in a
quiet but insistent tone, came calls for a "speech" and the "ladies'
"No," he gaily replied, "oh, no, boys!" But his words went on and became
something much like what they craved. As he ceased came the silent,
ungreeted landing. Promptly followed the dingy train's short run up the
shore of the New Canal, and then its stop athwart St. Charles Street,
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whose _aim_ is not at some title far above and beyond it--which last he
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guns they had gone out with and of the furled but unsullied banner they
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By Keith Coffman
DENVER (Reuters) - A second psychiatric examination of accused Colorado theater gunman James Holmes, who says he was insane when he shot dead 12 moviegoers two years ago, can be recorded on video, a judge overseeing the case ruled on Thursday.
Holmes is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder for opening fire inside a cinema in the Denver suburb of Aurora during a midnight viewing of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises" in July 2012.
The shooting rampage killed 12 people and wounded 70 others, and prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty for the 26-year-old California native if he is convicted.
Holmes has entered an insanity plea in the case and last year underwent a sanity examination.
Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour ordered a second evaluation in February, siding with prosecutors who said the initial evaluation, whose results have not been made public, was "incomplete and inadequate."
On Thursday, Samour rejected a motion by lawyers for Holmes that filming the second evaluation could violate his right against self-incrimination.
In a motion seeking to bar the videotaping of the new examination, defense lawyers said that "nonverbal communications are testimonial acts," and recording them could be used against their client.
But Samour rejected that argument, noting that under Colorado law, a defendant waives the right against self-incrimination after invoking an insanity defense.
In a hearing on the issue this week, an unidentified psychiatrist who is conducting the evaluation testified by telephone that recording the examination on video reduces the chance for errors.
Additionally, the evaluator said in a letter to the judge that Holmes has already been monitored by surveillance cameras 24 hours a day, seven days a week since his arrest. Jury selection for the murder trial is set to begin on Dec. 8.
(Reporting by Keith Coffman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Eric Beech)


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The International University of Japan (IUJ) was founded in 1982 as the first English-medium graduate school in Japan with extensive support from industrial, financial and educational communities such as the Japan Association of Corporate Executives, as well as from the local communities of Minami-Uonuma region and Niigata. IUJ's mission is to develop future leaders in the globalized world, and for this purpose, it was initiated as the first English-medium graduate school in Japan. IUJ has accepted over 4,000 students from 116 countries and has successfully established its long-standing reputation as a unique educational and research institution known as "mini United Nations."
The uniqueness of IUJ comes from its campus environment. On our campus, about 370 students from about 50 countries and faculty members live together in dormitories, which enable students and faculty members to create close connections and interact with each other day and night. This learning environment is truly a unique and global intellectual community, unsurpassed in the world.
IUJ consists of two graduate schools:
Graduate Schools of International Relations (GSIR) and International Management (GSIM). GSIR, established in 1982, currently offers two-year master's programs in International Development Program (IDP), Public Management and Policy Analysis Program (PMPP), and International Relations Program (IRP). GSIM, established in 1988 as the first US-style business school in Japan, offers a two-year or one-year master's program in Business Administration (MBA) and a one-year master's degree in E-Business Management. JDS Fellows will enroll in the MBA program.
Students and Learning Environment:
IUJ campus is multinational. In any given year, over 50 overseas countries are represented within the student population. Students can learn how to work with different cultural, historical and social backgrounds in ways that are not easily possible anywhere else. One of the strengths of IUJ is that overseas students live together on campus and study with Japanese students who can introduce them to various sides of Japanese society and culture. Many of IUJ's overseas students, not limited to JDS scholarship students, are from such entities as government ministries, government agencies, and central banks.
IUJ's strategic location in the serene heartland of rural Japan provides a unique learning place for young men and women from all parts of the world to gather and to learn from each other and from highly qualified international faculty. Although the International University of Japan is in a small countryside city with a population of approximately 60, 000, the shinkansen (bullet train) provides very easy access to Tokyo, the journey taking approximately 90 minutes. Through advanced facilities, including the Local Area Network (LAN), students can access the internet and E-Resources even from off-campus.
As of September 2016, the number of IUJ alumni has reached 4,006, representing 116 countries including 103 from Bangladesh, 12 Bhutan, 1 Brunei, 72 Cambodia, 206 China, 2 East Timor, 159 India, 540 Indonesia, 31 Korea, 9 Kazakhstan, 51 Kyrgyz Republic, 68 Lao P.D.R., 75 Malaysia, 84 Mongolia, 153 Myanmar, 38 Nepal, 17 Oceanian Countries, 143 Philippines, 65 Sri Lanka, 16 Tajikistan, 165 Thailand, 89 Uzbekistan, 143 Vietnam and 188 from 28African countries.
Now our graduates are all over the world and moving up professional ladders to hold higher positions which enable them to better utilize their expertise. IUJ also has a well-maintained online alumni database, and local alumni chapters regularly organize various events, some on the same day all over the world.
The Graduate School of International Management (GSIM)
GSIM was started in 1988 as the first US-style business school in Japan, offering all courses in English. The IUJ MBA focuses on "Leveraging Emerging Asia for Global Advantage." It delivers the knowledge, skills and mindset required to gain a competitive advantage in the world's fastest-growing economies. The Graduate School of International Management (GSIM) has two programs: MBA program (2-year MBA and 1-year MBA) and E-Business Management Programs. JDS Fellows will enter the 2-year MBA program. The 2-year MBA program has been designed to offer the highest levels of business management skills within the most appropriate timeframe. It provides both integrative management capabilities and is combined with a specialized area focus that helps the JDS Fellows truly acquire the knowledge and skills required in their home countries.
Since most of the GSIM's classes involve group activities, each student will be grouped into a carefully chosen group of Japanese and international students. Most of the Japanese students are sponsored by major Japanese companies and have been identified as future business leaders by their companies. International students including JDS Fellows also have wide variety of work experiences, cultural backgrounds and career goals. By living and working with this exceptionally diverse group is one of the most valuable aspect of and IUJ education. Students develop the cross-cultural communication skills required to handle the infinite diversity found in the today's borderless world.
GSIM also offers pre-enrollment program in Japan before the first term starts to prepare the JDS Fellows. It also offers various field trip opportunities in Japan as well as various special lectures and seminars conducted by specialists from academics, government and corporations.
MBA Program of the Graduate School of International Management of the International University of Japan (GSIM-IUJ) aim to train true global leaders. We have successfully trained many students from Myanmar, Mongolia, Vietnam, Cambodia and several other countries through JDS projects. Many of them are now holding important positions in various governmental organizations as well as in private sectors, such as Central Banks, government banks, various government ministries, state enterprises, stock exchanges and other government and non-government organizations. Our extensive experience in training such student's from foreign governments is our strength, and they form an important part of student body. Our programs are designed to provide students with the functional knowledge and fundamental skills necessary to be effective and socially responsible leaders.
GSIM is pleased to have students sponsored under JDS project from Myanmar. Currently it has JDS Fellows coming from several countries. Some JDS Fellows tend not to be strong in quantitative analysis which is an important component of the key courses in our program such as Finance, Accounting, and Statistics. This may be due to the difference in the education systems in their home country. Faculty members always pay attention to those students who are in the special needs to obtain quantitative and analytical skills from the basics. Tutorial or follow-up sessions are conducted as needed. In case of Myanmar, GSIM faculty conduct pre-enrollment program to prepare the JDS Fellows prior to their joining the MBA program.
In addition, when JDS Fellows enter the program, one GSIM faculty member is assigned to each JDS Fellow as an academic mentor. In this approach, each JDS Fellow can consult with the faculty member from the beginning about the academic issues such as courses to take and research topics to work on as well as social issues that JDS Fellows may face living in Japan.
The core values of the MBA program concerned to IT/ICT include:
Specific to IT/ICT area at GSIM is the state-of-the-art E-Lab, which allows students to learn and experiment with idea in a real technology setting. E-Lab has most up-to-date IT software, network, open Internet web servers and Windows, Linux, or Apple platforms, including facilities to learn latest mobile technologies and Apps.
Recommended courses for JDS-ICT Fellows are "Foundations of Web Technologies", "Database Design and Management Strategies", "IT Strategy and Policy Planning", "Public Management Information systems", "Project Management", "Project Risk Management", "Operations Management", "Networking and Secure Data Transmission", "Managerial Accounting", "Project Financing", "Money and Banking in Japan", "Corporate Governance", "Corporate Social Responsibility", "Supply Chain Management," "Infrastructure Planning and Management", "Energy and Green Technology" etc.
In the first year, JDS Fellows will mainly take the core courses to acquire basic knowledge needed for an administration executive without biasing to the specific field and train themselves to have an overall view. From the third term on, students can choose a concentration area from the 6 areas including Finance, Marketing, Management, IT/Operations Management, Project Management and Social Enterprise suitable for their future careers and solve the problems the country is facing. Students can take related elective courses for the chosen concentration area. In the second year, they are required to take Research Seminars to write the thesis/Research Report. The Research Seminars are designed for guiding students to develop and complete their graduation theses/research report. Students are required to choose their academic supervisors by the end of the first year so that they can start taking the seminar courses and conducting research activities under faculty members supervision from the beginning of the 2nd year. The Research Seminar is conducted on a tutorial basis by the chosen supervisor and the graduation thesis/research report is individually written by the student in consultations with the supervisor.
Each faculty member of the Graduate School of International Management offers research supervision needed for MBA thesis or research report. Student is required to prepare a research proposal and find a most appropriate faculty member that could supervise his/her theses/research report.
Recommended courses for JDS-ICT Fellows are "Foundations of Web Technologies", "Database Design and Management Strategies", "IT Strategy and Policy Planning", "Public Management Information systems", "Project Management", "Project Risk Management", "Operations Management", "Networking and Secure Data Transmission", "Managerial Accounting", "Project Financing", "Money and Banking in Japan", "Corporate Governance", "Corporate Social Responsibility", "Supply Chain Management," "Infrastructure Planning and Management", "Energy and Green Technology" etc.
GSIM also focuses on the social and environmental issues. Our programs offer various academic courses in Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. This is based on our belief that global business leaders and policy decision makers have to be responsible socially and environmentally. The JDS Fellows are supposed to take the courses in accordance with the following table.
|Course No.
|Course Title
|Common Mandatory Course
|Introduction to Japanese History and Culture
*Uncountable credit toward graduation
|Course No.
|Course Title
|Core Required Courses
|Basic Courses
|Financial Accounting
|Applied Statistics
|Computer Based Decision Modeling
|Marketing Management
|Strategic Management
|Organizational Behavior
|Operations Management
|Managerial Economics
|Corporate Finance
|Cross-Cultural Management
|Business Ethics
|Managerial Accounting
|22 credits
|Seminar Courses
|Research Seminar I
|Research Seminar II
|Research Seminar III
|3 credits
|Language Core Courses*
|Academic English I
|Academic English II
|Academic English III
|3-0 credits
|Elective Course
|Select from among all the courses offered in GSIM, and GSIR courses which are opened to the MBA students.
In order to have "MBA concentration, a student must have twelve (12) credits from the courses designated as courses for a given concentration area by the end of spring term in his/her second year.
|20-23 credits
|Total number of requried credits
|48 credits
*Language Core may be exempted.
Academic English I
Academic English I *
Academic English II
Academic English II *
Academic English III
Academic English III *
Advanced Japanese I
Advanced Japanese II
Advanced Japanese III
Advanced Japanese IV
Advanced Japanese V
Advanced Japanese VI
Advanced Seminar I
Advanced Seminar II
Advanced Seminar III
Agricultural Economics
Applied Statistics *
Applied Time Series Analysis
Basic Japanese I
Basic Japanese II
Basic Japanese III
Basic Japanese IV
Basic Japanese V
Basic Japanese VI
Brand Management *
Business Applications with iPhone/iOS Devices *
Business Case Clinic *
Business Communication *
Business Ethics *
Changing Security Paradigm: National versus Human
Chinese Foreign Policy
Comparative Government and Politics
Computable Dynamic Macroeconomic Modeling
Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
Computer Based Decision Modeling *
Contemporary Japanese Politics
Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance *
Corporate Financial Reporting *
Corporate Governance *
Corporate Level Strategy *
Corporate Restructuring and M&A *
Corporate Social Responsibility *
Cost Benefit Analysis
Cross-cultural Communication
Cross-cultural Communication *
Cross-Cultural Management *
Cross-sectional and Panel Data Analysis
Customer Relationship Management and Data Analysis *
Data Analysis
Database Design and Management Strategies *
Debt Securities Markets *
Derivatives Markets *
Development Economics
Development of Japanese Industry and Business
Development Planning (Multisector Models)
Development Project and ODA Loans
Diplomacy : Theory and Practice
Diplomacy and Statecraft
Economics of Education
Elementary Japanese I
Elementary Japanese II
Elementary Japanese III
Energy and Green Technology *
Energy Policy
English for Professional Communications
English for Thesis Writing I
English for Thesis Writing I *
English for Thesis Writing II
English for Thesis Writing II *
Entrepreneurial Finance *
Entrepreneurship & New Business Creation in Japan *
Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development *
Entrepreneurship and Technology Practicum *
Entrepreneurship Strategy *
Environment and Human Security
Environmental Economics
Environmental Policy
Essentials of Economics
Essentials of Economics *
Financial Accounting *
Financial Accounting and Reporting
Financial Markets and Globalization
Financial Statement Analysis *
Foreign Policy Analysis
Foundations of Web Technologies *
General Management *
Global Civil Society
Global Issues: UNU Global Seminar
Global Market Seminar
Health Economics
Health Policy
History and Culture of Modern Japan
History of International Relations
Human Resource and Global Talent Management *
Human Rights and Global Justice
Industrial Organization and Public Policy
Inequality and Poverty: Measurement and Applications
Infrastructure Planning and Management *
Innovation and New Business Creation *
Interactions, Institutions and Economic Development
Intermediate Japanese I
Intermediate Japanese II
Intermediate Japanese III
International Career Development *
International Conflict Resolution
International Economic Systems and Order
International Finance
International Finance *
International Law
International Migration and Human Security
International Organizations
International Political Economy
International Politics
International Relations in Eurasia
International Relations in the Middle East
International Taxation *
International Trade and Investment
Introduction to Contemporary International Security Issues
Introduction to Electronic Government
Introduction to Japanese History and Culture
Introduction to Japanese History and Culture *
Investment and Asset Pricing
Investments *
IT Strategy & Policy Planning *
Japan's National Security Policy
Japanese Economy and Macroeconomic Policies
Japanese Energy Policy and Regulations
Japanese Foreign Policy
Japanese Government and Politics
Japanese Language Courses *
Japanese Public Finance and Administration
Labor Economics
Leadership *
Leadership Bootcamp *
Local Government and Public Services
Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Formulation I
Macroeconomic Analysis and Policy Formulation II
Macroeconomic Modeling and Forecasting
Macroeconomics *
Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis
Macroeconomics I
Macroeconomics II
Managerial Accounting *
Managerial Economics *
Marketing Communications *
Marketing Management *
Marketing Research *
Marketing Strategy *
Marketing Management *
Mathematics for Economics and Management (A)
Mathematics for Economics and Management (B)
Mathematics for Economics and Management (C)
Microeconomics I
Microeconomics II
Mobile Business Strategies *
Monetary Economics and Policy Analysis
Money and Banking
Money and Banking in Japan *
Negotiation Strategy *
Networking and Secure Data Transmission *
New Product Planning and Development *
Nuclear Issues: Safety and Non-Proliferation
Operations Management *
Organizational Behavior *
Paradigm Shift in War and Peace
Peace, War and the Development of Modern Japan
Policy Evaluation and Management
Policy Seminar I
Policy Seminar II
Portfolio Management *
Positive Political Theory
Postwar Japanese Economy
Poverty, War and Human Security
Private Equity & Venture Capital *
Project Cycle Management
Project Financing *
Project Management *
Project Risk Management *
Public Administration
Public Finance
Public Finance and Budgeting
Public Human Resource Management
Public Information Policy and Management
Public Management
Public Management Information Systems
Public Management Information Systems *
Public Organization Theory
Public Policy Modeling
Public Policy Process
Public Private Partnership
Public Sector Economics
Quantitative Methods for Decision Making
Research Methodology
Research Seminar I *
Research Seminar II *
Research Seminar IV *
Research Seminar III *
Risk Management *
Service Management *
Social Media Marketing *
Southeast Asian International Relations
Statistical Methods
Strategic Environmental Management *
Strategic Management *
Strategies for Social Infrastructure Projects *
Strategy Simulation *
Supply Chain Management *
Time Series Analysis
Transnational Management *
Transport Studies
UN and Global Governance
Urban and Regional Planning
Value-based Management for Japan *
Note: This course list is subject to change.
At the time of enrollment, a faculty consultant will be assigned to each JDS fellow to help with studies and research until the end of the second term when the fellows find their own supervisors. An academic supervisor will be determined based on students' thesis topic. The supervisors give participants appropriate guidance in selecting courses useful for their research and writing a master's thesis. The thesis writing gives the participants a crucial opportunity to learn how to discuss and analyze their research topic in depth by integrating the concepts and methods that have been acquired during the entire two-year program as well as the knowledge that had been developed in their previous professional careers. All professors at IUJ are all capable of supervising students in English and following faculty members are capable of supervising JDS Fellows.
Information on the faculty members: http://www.iuj.ac.jp/gsim/im-faculty/
All faculty members marked with ◎ listed below can supervise the JDS Fellows and faculty members marked with ○ can co-supervise with another full-time faculty member.
◎Kimio Kase,
Courses offered in GSIM:
Research Areas:
◎Shinichi Hirose
Courses offered in GSIM:
Research Areas:
◎Hyunkoo Lee
Courses offered in GSIM:
◎Ming Liu
Courses offered in GSIM:
Research Areas:
◎Jay Rajasekera
Courses Offered in GSIM:
Research Areas:
◎Toshiro Wakayama
Courses Offered in GSIM:
Research Areas:
◎Wenkai Li
Courses offered in GSIM:
Research Areas:
◎Haruyoshi Ito
Courses Offered in GSIM:
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◎Nora Sharkasi
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◎Zaw Zaw Aung
Courses offered in GSIM:
Research Areas:
○Mohammed K. Ahmed
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The following are visiting faculty. In case needed, they could be a co-supervisor:
○Adam Acar (MS, Advertising Saint Cloud State University)
○Yoichi Asakawa (BS, Oklahoma State University)
○Ludovico Ciferri (MA, Trinity College)
○Nigel Denscombe (MBA, Harvard Business School)
○Mark T Roeske
○Taro Minami (MBA, INSEAD, 2002)
○Takato Hiraki (Ph.D. , University of Arizona)
○Akitoshi Takatsuki (Ph.D., Meiji University)
○Tsutomu Yokose (MBA, Keio Univeristy)
○Akashi Hongo (Ph.D., Iternational Christian University)
○Junichi Itoh
○Kunio Kikuchi (Master of Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
○Remy Magnier-Watanabe (Ph.D., Tokyo Institute of Technology)
○Noboru Mikami (BS, California State University
○Wataru Ogasawara
○Kiyoshi Ohishi
○Ryukichi Miyabayashi
○Yuichi Naito (BE, Yokohama National University)
○Flavio Souza (MBA, International University of Japan)
○Takeru Ohe (Ph.D. In Experimental Physics, The Univ. of Maryland)
○Kazushi Sano (Doctor of Engineering, University of Tokyo)
○Prabath Weerasinghe
○Takashi Yamaguchi
○Noboru Yamada
○Masachika Suzuki (Ph.D., Erasmus University Rotterdam)
1st Year
2nd Year
All facilities at IUJ, including student's dormitories, faculty's housing, classrooms, computer rooms, library, gym, cafeteria, school shop etc., are within 5-minute walk. As the official language is English at IUJ, all administrative offices including Admissions, Office of Academic Affairs, Office of Student Services, Accounting, Matsushita Library and Information Center, are staffed with English speaking staff.
Computer Rooms (Open 24 hours):
Two computer rooms, offering PCs with Windows operating systems in English, are available.
Library (Open 8:30 AM – 24:00):
With extensive English database subscriptions and holdings on CD-ROM, the library offers free and easy access on and off campus to thousands of current journals and newspapers, many in full text, as well as to principal world economic statistics and data. The library also subscribes to leading financial data and market research services, which enable students to access real time information on business and market movements.
Study Rooms (Open 24 hours):
A wireless LAN is available, so students can connect their PCs to the campus LAN from anywhere in computer rooms, E-Business Laboratory, Library and Study Rooms.
Student Dormitories:
There are three single student dormitories (SD1, SD2 and SD3 with communal kitchens) and one married student dormitory (MSA). Each single room is furnished and has a private Western-style bathroom and the internet through WiFi or cable access for connecting to the campus LAN. The dormitories also boast computer lounges, numerous meeting rooms, group kitchens and washing machines, TV lounges with satellite broadcasts, a billiards room, a tatami room, a prayer room, and storage facilities. At least one English-speaking dorm staff is stationed 24 hours a day and 7 days a week including weekends and national holidays.
The Campus Cafeteria (Shokudo):
Lunch and dinner are provided. Meats served are halal.
School Shop:
A limited range of groceries, snacks, drinks and a selection of stationary goods are sold here. Services available through the school shop are; dry-cleaning, postal services and parcel delivery service.
Gymnasium and Sports Facilities:
A full-sized gymnasium and a work-out room are very popular places in the evenings. Students gather nightly in the gym for that evenings' sport or work out on the universal gym. Outdoors, IUJ has 4 tennis courts, two of which are lit for night-time tennis.
The Graduate School of International Management (GSIM) of IUJ was established in 1988 in collaboration with the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College, USA, becoming the first U.S. style business school in Japan.
We have one of the strongest faculties in the field of Business in Japan. Since the establishment, our faculty has drawn on their passion for teaching based on their research and professional experiences. We are committed to provide education and research programs that reflect the realities of the marketplace. Case studies used in classroom, which include cases from emerging countries as well, replicate actual business situations. Students work together to learn how to make most suitable or strategically best decisions under typical management conditions, including lack of complete information, and complex tradeoff situations.
GSIM has successfully trained many students from Asian countries from where JDS Fellows to study in Japan. So far, 49 JDS Fellows from Myanmar have graduated from GSIM. Especially for Myanmar, many GSIM-IUJ graduates are now holding important positions in various organizations, including Ministry of Planning and Finance, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Transport and Communication, Ministry of Education as well as various private sectors. GSIM faculty has often traveled to Myanmar to conduct seminars and to provide consultation to the officials of various Ministries as well as follow up on their alumni. With a world-ranked business school, GSIM-IUJ is uniquely qualified to train JDS Fellows from Myanmar who are intended in managing state enterprises and creating suitable policies for them to create new opportunities for young Myanmar students by learning market economy strategies that GSIM-IUJ would teach in the MBA program.
IUJ provides a diversified student body coming from over 50 countries with a rich educational and research environment. The majority of students and faculty members live in on-campus housing. This facilitates close interaction among students, their family, and faculty members. Most of the students are from government agencies which are formulating and implementing economic and public policies of their home countries so that they can share development experiences of different countries and foster an extensive global network for their future careers. Furthermore, such an international environment with residential campus provides foreign students with a rich opportunity in interacting with Japanese students both inside and outside the classroom. IUJ has two full-time professors from Myanmar and one of them, Professor Aung Zaw Zaw, whose specialty is in Information Science and who has wide experience in training JDS Fellows, belongs to GSIM. Myanmar Students Community makes all Myanmar students feel more comfortable and their studies more enjoyable. The hospitality of the Myanmar Students Community, with various social events, serves to make the IUJ community even richer.


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In an article titled, "Celebration over, Obama plunges into workday one", Jennifer Loven, AP White House Correspondent lists some of Obama's pending executive orders. Among them,
overturning the so-called Mexico City policy that forbids U.S. funding for family planning programs that offer abortion, and lifting President George W. Bush's limit on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
This will probably come Thursday or Friday according to the article. So, our tax money now funds abortion.
Two things: 1) we need to pray for our new President (1 Timothy 2:1-2), especially Thursday and Friday for this decision; 2) how far does Romans 13:1-7 go? must we pay taxes Caesar when Caesar uses them for genocide? Does Jesus say yes in Matthew 22:15-22?


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The first day of school is just around the corner! The first day for students 1st through 12th grade is Wednesday, August 17th. Students entering Kindergarten have staggered start days: A-L Kindergarten report on Wednesday 8/17, M-Z report on Thursday 8/18. All Kindergarten reports on Friday 8/19.
Be sure to check out the school supply list on this page and get ready for a great school year!
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Peng Peng
Peng Peng came to Princeton from Peking University, where he earned a B.A. (2008) and an M.A. (2011), with extensive experience in archaeology. He participated in the excavations at the Marsal site (Lorraine, France) and spent nearly half a year working at the Bronze Age salt-producing site at Shuangwangcheng (Shandong Province), China. In 2008, he took part in the Chengdu Plain Archaeological Survey Project organized by Harvard University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Peking University.
He has given presentations and published articles on a variety of topics, including Chinese bronzes, salt archaeology, the origins of agriculture, archaeological methodology, and Chinese local beliefs. At the Annual Conference of the Society of American Archaeology (SAA) ion Honolulu in April 2013, he gave a paper titled "Was Lost-wax Casting Practiced in Bronze Age China? A Case Study of the Rim Openwork Appendage of the Bronze Zun-Pan Set in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng," He is also interested in ancient civilizations besides China, including ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica.
Current Research
His current academic interest lies in the study of Chinese ancient bronzes, especially the Hanzhong bronzes of present-day southern Shaanxi province in the Early Bronze Age.
"Shilun Jindong Diqu de Nongye Qiyuan" 试论近东地区的农业起源—以植物的栽培和驯化为中心 (On the Origins of Agriculture in the Near East: Cultivation and Domestication of Plants)," Sichuan Wenwu 四川文物 (Sichuan Antiquity, published by the Sichuan Provincial Institute for Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Chengdu) 3 (2012).
"Lubei Laizhouwan Yanan Shangzhou Shiqi Zhiyan Gongyi Chutan 鲁北莱州湾沿岸商周时期制盐工艺初探 (A Preliminary Exploration on the Salt-producing Craft in the Region around Laizhou Bay in the Northern Shandong Province)," Nanfang Wenwu 南方文物 (Relics from South, published by the Jiangxi Provincial Museum and the Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute of Jiangxi Province) (2012/1).
"Muzang Dengji Fenxi zhong Yizhong Lianghua Fangfa de Sikao: yi Dadianzi MudiWeili" 墓葬等级分析中一种量化方法的思考—以大甸子墓地为例 (Considerations on a Quantitative Method for Mortuary Analysis by the Example of the Dadianzi大甸子 Cemetery)," Bianjiang Kaogu Yanjiu 邊疆考古研究 (Research of China's Frontier Archaeology, published by the Research Center of Chinese Frontier Archaeology in Jilin University, Changchun) 10 (2011).
"Guanyu Chifeng Quyu Kaogu Diaocha zhong 'Xiaocaijidian' Xingzhi de yige Sikao 关于赤峰区域考古调查中"小采集点"性质的一个思考 (Considerations on the Nature of the 'Small Collections' in the Regional Archaeological Survey of Chifeng)," Xibu Kaogu 西部考古 (Western Archaeology, published by the Cultural Heritage and Archaeological Research Center of the Northwest University, Xi'an) 5 (2011).
With Jang Ah Reum, "Shuishuxiansheng he 'Guishi': Shuizu Shehui zhong Liangzhong Shenfen de Bijiao 水书先生"和"鬼师"—水族社会中两种身份的比较 (Shuishuxiansheng and 'Guishi': A Comparison of Two Identities in the Society of Shui Nationality)," Zhongguo Renleixue Pinglun 中國人類學評論 (Chinese Review of Anthropology, published by the Beijing Central University for Nationalities of Ethnology and Anthropology) 19 (2011).
"Faguo Kaogu Manyi" 法国考古漫忆 (A Memory about the Excavation in France)," Zhongguo Wenwubao 中國文物報 (China Cultural Relics News, published by the Chinese State Cultural Relics Bureau, Beijing) (4 January 2008).
Lothar von Falkenhausen, Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000–250 BC), chapters 1–3 (Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Press, forthcoming).
Martin Hees, "Prehistoric Salt Production in Southwest Germany," in Zhongguo Yanye Kaogu 中國鹽業考古 (Salt Archaeology in China), vol. 2, ed. Shuicheng Li and Lothar von Falkenhausen (Beijing: Science Press, 2010) (from English to Chinese).
Laurent Olivier, "The 'Briquetage de la Seille' (Moselle, France): An Iron-Age Proto-Industrial Salt-Extraction Center," in Zhongguo Yanye Kaogu 中 國鹽業考古 (Salt Archaeology in China), vol. 2, ed. Shuicheng Li and Lothar von Falkenhausen (Beijing: Science Press, 2010) (from English to Chinese).
Laurent Olivier and Joseph Kovacik, "The 'Briquetage de la Seille' (Lorraine, France): Proto-industrial Salt Production in the European Iron Age," translated by Zhang Ying and Peng Peng, in Nanfang Wenwu 南方文物 (Relics from South, published by the Jiangxi Provincial Museum and the Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute of Jiangxi Province) (2008/1) (from English to Chinese).


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The McKee refinery has been so influential for the surrounding area of Texas that the adjacent down changed its name from Altman to Sunray to reflect that the town was home of the Sunray refinery. Valero's McKee refinery is home to numerous safety violations and accidents each year. If you or a loved one has been injured in a refinery accident, there might be various liable parties including employers who violated the US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration requirements, repair companies who failed to properly fixed defective or old machinery, or the general negligence of a coworker that directly caused a fire or explosion at the refinery to occur. Regardless of how a refinery accident occurs, victims of refinery accidents frequently find it essential to retain the services of a skilled attorney.
The History of Valero's McKee Refinery
The Sunray company that once owned the McKee refinery eventually changed its name to Sunoco, with the location later acquired by Valero. The McKee refinery, however, was built in 1933. Due to expansions and technological developments, however, the McKee refinery has managed to stay up to date with the various technological changes and advancements in the refinery field. The McKee refinery has access to crude oil from Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The McKee refinery manages to create an output of 195,000 crude oil barrels per day.
Injuries and Fatalities due to Explosions at Valero's McKee Refinery
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Hit to VW Stock Price Linked with Cheating
Volkswagen stock price plunged 30% in the wake of news of allegations that the organization has been manipulating the results of carbon emissions testing. Stock price is the value that investors put on the firm's ability to earn cash in the future.
Eleven million Volkswagen vehicles could be affected. Major fines, estimated to potentially be into the billions of dollars, are expected to follow as the legal processes crank up from the efforts of more than one national government and from consumers. Volkswagen operates more than sixty manufacturing plants worldwide. Some plants manufacture components while others assemble vehicles.
The Volkswagen ethical misconduct scandal deepened just days after news that General Motors was slapped with hundreds of millions in fines for its ethical misconduct relating to faulty ignition switches. The faulty switches are implicated in the deaths of hundreds of people who lost control of their vehicle and crashed when the ignition switch shut off. Decision makers at General Motors knew about the problem for several years before a recall was issued.
In Volkswagen's case, Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn resigned after apologizing to the public for the firm's misconduct. Volkswagen officials admitted that since 2009 some Volkswagen vehicles with diesel engines were equipped with something that could switch off emissions controls. With emission controls defeated, engine performance can be improved.
The allegation is that software used in the vehicle's engine computer was able to detect whether or not the vehicle was being tested for emissions. When the software determined that a test was in progress, engine emissions were then controlled to meet emissions standards and then switched off to allow for better performance.
Many of the consumers at Volkswagen were attracted to the claim of "clean" diesel powered vehicles. They were willing to pay a premium price for a car that contributed less to environmental pollution. Perhaps it will be these consumers who will be the most miffed at the alleged fraud–computer software which prevented them from achieving their goals of environmental friendliness.
On a weekly basis the Wall Street Journal reports news of an ethical, social, or legal issue important to investors. Every so often a national or international scandal bursts through the media about one or more high-profile firms that experienced significant ethical misconduct. The crisis at Enron of several years ago has become eclipsed by crises in the retirement investment industry (Bernie Madoff), the mortgage banking industry, and more recently, the auto industry.
National news media coverage is one thing. Yet, in many organizations, both for-profit and nonprofit, employees observe ethical misconduct that never sees the light of day in terms of media exposure to the public. But, misconduct, whether visible or invisible to the public, makes a difference to employees, customers and suppliers.
Strangely, during the last few decades, though stakeholders including media, law-makers, and the general public have called for improvements in the ethical conduct of businesses, the ethical misconduct continues.
The Ethics Research Center in the United States reported in a 2013 national survey of ethics in the workplace showed that observed ethical misconduct has declined.[1] Survey respondents say that pressure to compromise ethical standards also has declined. One reason for this may be that employees are less willing to take risks.
When the ability of a corporation to generate future cash flow declines, executives are fired. If high-level executives do not maintain discipline among managers to achieve profit targets, when leaders are unable to manage change required by the market, and when the executives are perceived as being out of touch with the market, their future is freed up to pursue employment elsewhere. In spite of the growing public displeasure at corporate ethical misconduct, unless ethical lapses garner national attention because of harm done, seldom do you hear in the media about an executive who is fired for ethical misconduct.
Many issues are worth raising in the public square regarding the recent ethical misconduct reported in the news. For example, if we assume as do some that shared values and beliefs "flow downhill" from top-level leaders to front-line employees, then, overall, the unethical behavior that is allowed has an enormous influence on the whole company. In ancient times, King Solomon observed this trickle-down effect: "If a ruler pays attention to falsehood, all his ministers become wicked" (Proverbs 29:12 New American Standard Version). Moses may have had this in view when he admonished the people that the king has the responsibility to personally copy the covenant and keep it in his possession: "Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left; in order that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel (Deuteronomy 17:18-20).
We can reasonably ask: What the boards of directors are doing in their oversight function to require chief executive officers to study the moral principles designed to foster flourishing life? If boards of directors are willing to allow chief executives to continue in their role without spending time considering the moral foundation of their organization, we will continue to see more ethical misconduct reported in the news.
The Bible doesn't mention cheating on emissions testing product recalls or many other contemporary ethical issues that get debated in the public square. However, it's hard to miss in the Bible the straight-forward declarations regarding cheating that are mentioned more than once. Here are two examples of statements made by top-level leaders in the Bible:
You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another (Moses: Leviticus 19:11).
Differing weights are an abomination to the LORD, and a false scale is not good (Solomon: Proverbs 20:23 NAS).
When the standards that are used to foster trust in an economy are themselves untrustworthy, then the viability of the whole economy becomes threatened. And, speaking in terms of the scriptural idea of shalom, cheating undermines the fulfillment of God's promises of flourishing life in all dimensions.
- Another issue worth raising here is this one: "Where are the Christians who work in the corporations of the world where ethical misconduct is occurring?"
- King David, another top-level leader who wrote in the Bible, plainly calls us to pursue shalom (flourishing life in all dimensions). "Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace (shalom), and pursue it (Psalm 34:14). Given the human condition, flourishing life in all dimensions does not come to us automatically. It is difficult to find. Once we find it, it can easily get away from us. Because of this, leadership is required in a community setting to pursue it and keep it. King Solomon encourages us to hoard faithfulness. "Buy truth (faithfulness), and do not sell it, get wisdom and instruction and understanding" (Proverbs 23:23). Apparently, the more faithfulness we have in keeping promises and the longer we have it, the more valuable this becomes for community well-being.
- Fostering a flourishing life is one of the character traits of God. Jesus Christ is called the "Prince of Shalom (peace)" (Isaiah 9:7; See also Romans 5:1; Ephesians 2:14). Faithfulness is another character trait. "Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Thy throne; loving kindness and truth (faithfulness) go before Thee (Psalm 89:14). "For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth (faithfulness) were realized through Jesus Christ (John 1:17; See also John 1:14; John 14:6).
In many secular business situations, Christians cannot speak openly about their faith in Jesus. Many organizational cultures forcefully push back against religious talk. But, Christians can still be positive influences to hold back the influences that undermine trust in the market. When we in the corporate world promote the fundamental principles of faithfulness and actions that foster flourishing life in all dimensions, when we advocate on behalf of these principles in the organizations we serve and when we integrate these into our personal habits at work, we are telling about the character of Jesus Christ just as surely as when we mention Him by name.
- Ethics Research Center (2013). National business ethics survey of the U. S. workforce. Arlington, VA: Ethics Research Center. http://www.ethics.org/downloads/2013NBESFinalWeb.pdf
By Michael E. Cafferky, Ruth McKee Chair for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics, Southern Adventist University and author of Business Ethics in Biblical Perspective (InterVarsity Press, 2015).


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Saturday, September 18, 2010
csa box:: week 14
csa box week 14:: lovage, parsley, onions, bell & banana peppers, acorn & butternut squash, sweet potatoes, head lettuce, kale, garlic, broccoli and a few tomatoes
extras, week 14:: butternut squash, onions, dill, parsley, mushrooms, leeks
It seems like this year would have been a good growing year - hot and wet - but we've been feeling like we are missing some things this year in our CSA boxes. Very very (very) few tomatoes, not many herbs, and no beans! It is interesting to see how things change from year to year!
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Thursday, September 9, 2010
csa box:: week 13
CSA Box Week 13:: spinach, lettuce (2 types), onions, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, sage, melon, squash and a sunflower.
Extras:: onions, garlic, mushrooms, butternut squash (soup!).
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Monday, September 6, 2010
sunflower butter cookies.
Peanut butter cookies are a favorite in this house, but today we wanted something different...sunflower butter cookies! I adapted our favorite tried and true PB cookie recipe and sure enough, super delicious - slightly crispy with a little chewiness. Perfect! We will definitely make these again.
1 c. unsalted butter, room temp
1 c. creamy sunflower butter (a nut butter would be fine too!!)
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. sugar (I used raw sugar)
2 eggs
1 Tbsp molasses
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1 c. finely ground whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp finely ground sea salt
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
Cream together the butter, nut butter and sugars. Then beat in the eggs, molasses and extract.
In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder. Stir that into the batter. Mix well and then refrigerate for a bit.
Roll into 1-inch balls and place on a baking sheet. Flatten each ball with a fork - classic peanut butter cookie pattern.
Bake at 375ºF for about 10-11 minutes or so. Cool on a rack.
sunflower seeds/butter:: In addition to linoleic acid (an essential fatty acid), sunflower seeds are also an excellent source of dietary fiber, some amino acids, Vitamin E, B Vitamins (especially vitamin B1 or thiamine, vitamin B5 or pantothenic acid and folate), and minerals such as copper, manganese, potassium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, selenium, calcium and zinc. Additionally, they are rich in cholesterol-lowering phytosterols!
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Thursday, September 2, 2010
csa box:: week 12
CSA Box, Week 12:: onions, carrots, variety of peppers and tomatoes, delicata squash, garlic, two types of lettuce, kale, eggplant, zucchini, cilantro
With sick boys this week I didn't get extras for canning/preserving, but I have been craving a good carrot soup, so loaded up on orange goodness.
extras:: carrots, spinach, mushrooms, cilantro, garlic
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By definition, public relations is the management of one's reputation in the marketplace. This extends to a number of promotional strategies, including public speaking. Commanding a stage and sharing your expertise with a broader audience is, in fact, a great way to not only get your brand's name out there but will also build your reputation as an industry expert.
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