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Case studies and stories from grade school to grad school
Students, educators and researchers around the world use Google for Education. Explore their experiences and successes.
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Academies Enterprise Trust (AET)
Academies Enterprise Trust leads the way for UK academies with Google Apps
Creating an "accessibility for all" culture in classrooms through technology
Allen Institute for AI
AI institute uses Google Cloud Platform to solve everyday challenges
Anaheim Union High School District
Anaheim Union High School District streamlines operations with G Suite for all students and employees
Arcadia School District
Arcadia School District in California has improved quality of feedback with the help of tech
Arizona State University
At Arizona State University, students design an app to help travelers on a budget
Arlington Independent School District
The Arlington Independent School District breaks down barriers of access
Atlanta Public Schools
How Atlanta Public Schools created digital learning "boots on the ground" with a Train the Trainer program
Brevard Public Schools
Brevard Public Schools in Florida improved writing with the help of Google tools
Brown University
Brown University uses VR to immerse students in American history
Brown University
Brown University uses G Suite to help build a community of independent thinkers on campus – and beyond
Carlynton Junior-Senior High School
At Carlynton Junior-Senior High School, coaching and support inspire teachers to engage students with technology
Carnegie Mellon University
At Carnegie Mellon University, machine learning gets social
Carroll School
Carroll School helps students overcome learning disabilities with Google for Education
Central Wyoming College
Central Wyoming College helps students and staff work together on and off campus
Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools
Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools Disrtrict prepares students with advanced classes
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina exceeded state growth expectations.
Churston Ferrers Grammar School
Churston Ferrers Grammar School sees a communication revolution with Google Apps and Chromebooks
City College of New York
City College of New York students get hands-on experience with the cloud
City Heights E-Act Academy
We are transforming our approach to teaching and learning
Coleg Cambria
Coleg Cambria transforms teaching and learning with Chromebooks and G Suite
Columbia University
2017 NSF BIGDATA grant sponsored by Columbia University builds on Google Cloud Platform to solve problems in climate science
Columbia University
With Google Cloud Platform, a team of Columbia students help people with disabilities communicate
Columbia University
Columbia University, Flywheel and Google team to create a cloud-based MRI Research Center
Community High School District 99
Illinois school district takes first step towards complete backup solution in Google Cloud
Cramlington Learning Village
Cramlington Learning Village encourages students to be independent learners
Davenport Boys High School
Devonport Boys High School in the UK is building learning styles with the help of tech
David Ross Education Trust
David Ross Education Trust develops a tech-savvy community with Chromebooks and Google for Education
Distinctive Schools
Chicago charter school organization uses Google Data Studio to visualize student progress
Edmonton Public Schools
Edmonton Public Schools builds collaborative learning with G Suite for Education
Emory University
Emory University researchers use Google Cloud Platform to predict sepsis in intensive care patients
Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)
Google Cloud Platform supports international effort to produce first-ever image of a black hole
Students in the U.S. and Brazil join forces to create an app that helps people who are visually impaired
Fairfield County School District
Fairfield County School District in rural SC is inspiring their students and improving test scores
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Geneva Business School
Geneva Business School: Empowering the business leaders of tomorrow with collaborative mindsets
Georgetown University
Georgetown University connects the community on campus and beyond
Georgia State University
Georgia State uses Google Cloud Platform to improve disaster recovery
Gowerton School
Gowerton School uses Google Apps for Education to transform learning
Harrison Township
In Harrison Township's inclusive classrooms, all students benefit from accessibility tools
Hartford High School
Chromebooks transform Digital History Class at Hartford High School
Highland Council
The Highland Council puts students and teachers at the heart of learning with Google for Education tools
Honolulu's Iolani School
Google Expeditions Brings Learning to Life for Students at Honolulu's 'Iolani School
Hoover City Schools
Hoover City Schools in Alabama equips students with skills of the future with the help of tech
Huntley Community School District
Creating a safer, more secure school environment at Huntley Community School District 158, using G Suite Enterprise for Education
Huntsville Independent School District
Huntsville Independent School District helps close the digital divide with Google for Education
Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM)
Finnish research institute moves to Google Cloud to advance breakthroughs in personalized medicine
With Firebase, students create an app to empower donors and improve fundraising transparency
Iowa State
Iowa State researchers use machine learning to improve road safety and efficiency
Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy
Isle of Portland Aldridge Community Academy (IPACA) pushes the boundaries of 21st century learning with G Suite and Chromebooks
Ivy Tech
Ivy Tech develops machine learning algorithm to identify at-risk students and provide early intervention
Jesuits' Schools
The Jesuits' Schools support its student education in digital skills with Chromebooks
KDPM High School
Improving digital skills and learning outcomes for students in Visakhapatnam, India.
King Solomon Academy
Google Chromebooks help prepare students for a new era of digital learning at King Solomon Academy
Lafayette College
Lafayette College rolls out G Suite Enterprise for Education
Lee's Summit R-7 School District
Lee's Summit R-7 School District in Missouri expanded access and tracked progress with tech.
Maine Township High School
Maine Township High School District 207 in Illinois improved ACT scores with the help of Google tools
Manhattan College
Manhattan College improves information technology services to better support students and faculty
Mason City Community Schools
How Mason City Community Schools use Jamboards to give all students a voice
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT professor pushes computing limits with the largest cluster ever built in the public cloud
McGuffey Middle School
McGuffey Middle School uses technology to give teachers more freedom in the classroom
Mesquite High School
K–12 Instructor Brings the World to Mesquite, TX Students Through VR with Google Expeditions
New York University
NYU's Tandon School of Engineering enrolls more women with the help of VR apps
New York University
Students build an app that uses skin imaging to identify moles as malignant or benign
New York University's School of Professional Studies
NYU-SPS students easily develop AR and VR content with Google 3D modeling tools
North Carolina State University
North Carolina State University makes teaching and learning more collaborative and creative
Northeastern University
Researchers at Northeastern use Google Cloud Platform to model Zika's spread
Oak Hills Local School District
Oak Hills Local School District in Ohio is breaking down barriers in the classroom
Oakland University
Oakland University looks to the cloud to detect early signs of Alzheimer's disease
Ormiston Primary School
With Chromebooks and G Suite for Education, Ormiston Primary School adds confidence and inspiration to classrooms
Oshkosh Area School District
Oshkosh Area School District in Wisconsin increased pass rates in English class
Paganel Primary School
Paganel Primary School turns to Google Chromebooks to make laptop use in the classroom as simple as picking up a pencil
Palm Beach County schools
Palm Beach County schools launch "Trailblazer" program, inspiring teachers to sharpen digital skills
Parallel Works
Marine research organizations sponsor innovative model to track coral larvae movements
Placer Union High School District
Placer Union High School District in California helps students build 21st century skills
Portland State University
Portland State cybersecurity students hunt malicious code in the cloud
Putnam County School
Putnam County School System inspires teachers to change the learning environment, using ASUS Chromebooks and G Suite
SOPOGO Foundation Schools
Google tools enable SOPOGO Foundation schools to manage their own IT facilities
Nonprofit focused on diversifying computer science enrollment runs cybersecurity event for thousands of students
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
SUNY Downstate Medical Center deploys Slurm integration with GCP, cutting compute time from five days to one hour
Saint Patrick's College
Saint Patrick's College in New Zealand advanced collaboration and engagement.
San José State University
San José State University supports students to teach themselves programming basics
St Julian's School
St Julian's in Wales adopted Google Apps to allow teachers and students to access their work from any device
St. Norbert College
At St. Norbert College, G Suite brings easy collaboration, communication, and information-sharing to campus
Stanford University
Stanford University improves scientific data management using Flywheel on Google Cloud Platform
Strayer University
Using machine learning to transform online education and improve student outcomes
Streetly Academy
Success of 1:1 deployment in the senior school years has the Streetly Academy scoping full device deployment across the entire school
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Google's machine-learning tools help researchers assess and track environmental change
Thomson High School
Thomson, GA, High Schoolers Bring Local History to Life Through Tour Creator
Tring School
Tring School in the UK differentiates learning for students with the help of Google tech
Trondheim Schools
Trondheim modernizes learning in schools using Google's cloud-based tools
UC Davis
In a UC Davis Capstone course, student teams use GCP to create a rather diverse set of projects
UNC Chapel Hill
At UNC, processing medical images accelerates from one week to three hours
University College Dublin
University College Dublin students and staff save time and increase sharing with G Suite
University of Alberta
University of Alberta deploys VR app & Google Cardboard to enrich health science learning
University of Arizona
Taking up a personal cause, students help Alzheimer's patients with a GPS-enabled smartwatch
University of California
Students create an intelligent platform to analyze car crash data and improve public safety
University of California
Students sync up their dance team's moves with an app that provides real-time video analysis
University of Maine
University of Maine student teachers bring lessons to life with AR & VR
University of Michigan
Google Cloud helps the University of Michigan's TOPMed team process and share genomics data faster
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
At UNC Greensboro, students and staff take charge of online groups and collaboration
University of South Carolina
By optimizing their workflow on the cloud, the University of South Carolina advances research into climate change
University of Southern California
Researchers at USC accelerate drug discovery process to address the opioid crisis
University of Southern California
USC students produce compelling, 360-video journalism with Tour Creator and other VR tools
University of York
Biologists use Google Cloud to advance environmental research on water treatment in Yorkshire
Upper Grand District
Ontario's Upper Grand District chooses Chromebooks to give special education student equal access to learning tools
Vedruna Schools of Catalonia
Vedruna Schools will save up to €600,000 in the next 4 years due to the elimination of maintenance and licensing costs
Researchers at WPI use Google's pre-emptible VMs to improve deep learning training
Walden University
Walden University students practice life-like social work scenarios through VR
West Point
West Point professor leads cadets onto Caesar's ancient battlefields with Google Expeditions
Wheatley Park School
Wheatley Park School in the UK uses Chromebooks to make learning easier and more engaging
Wick High School
Wick High School gives teachers and pupils freedom and flexibility to explore digital projects
Yale University
Yale University art students explore painting in 3D with VR and Tilt Brush
With Google Cloud Platform's AI tools, students make user research more user-friendly


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A number of conversations--both with interns finishing and beginning their experience--pushed me to write down some questions about how we negotiate the tensions around interns presiding at the sacraments. I am increasingly sure we're unhelpfully confused on this issue, and I'd like to just try out my thinking for your deliberation and response.
First, two stories about how this came to the front burner for me. One intern, just getting started, wrote to me to say her synodical bishop will not let her preside at communion, even with her supervising pastor present. However, she is aware of colleagues in a variety of situations who are presiding.
Another intern, just returned, described her experience on internship with the phrase, "not quite a pastor." She knows internship depends on her being a pastor, and she gives pastoral care examples. But then she notes "ways I don't quite count as 'pastor': I don't preside at communion." She knew of other interns who did preside, from the rural intern at a detached site who does the full range of word and sacrament ministry week-in and week-out. She knew of others whose supervisors gave them permission to 'cover' for them while they were out of town, and didn't really know if their synod bishop was aware. Still others had supervisors depart towards the end of the internship, and the interns took over for some weeks or months, with full permission of the bishop. (I have asked both of these students for permission to write about their comments here. They said emphatically, yes!)
Second, as I thought about our expectations at Luther for interns, I realize we expect interns to experience and live into the fullness of what being a pastor means. If it is true that ordained ministry is ministry of word and sacrament, a couple questions arise for me. Why do we encourage interns to preach, regularly and with feedback, so they can grow as preachers? Why do we not encourage interns to regularly preside at communion with feedback so they can grow as presiders?
Actually, I've had to be honest about the variety of experiences we now set up for what is on the surface the "same" internship experience. While some interns are in large parishes where they do have fewer opportunities to lead in the center of congregational life (preaching perhaps monthly, not doing funerals, let alone communion), other interns are functionally solo pastors of rural congregations and take on the entire range of pastoral work, checking in with a supervisor in another town (or in town).
So, colleagues, I'd like to put these questions before you. I firmly believe we ought to ask these questions, as they are core to the formation of public leaders for God's church. I want to see the formation of our students done with the broadest and deepest experiences possible. I want you to know I am writing a letter to the ELCA bishops to raise these issues. I also am communicating with the other directors of contextual education at the eight ELCA seminaries. Together, we can start a conversation able to perhaps open up new vistas for practicing ministry-something supervisors and interns are both engaging week by week.
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Since Its July 20th Premiere, "Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove" Has Made
Hallmark Channel the #1 Cable Network Saturdays 8-9 p.m.
Hallmark Channel's very successful and first-ever primetime series, "Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove" starring internationally renowned actress Andie MacDowell, has received a second season renewal. The critically acclaimed series has garnered tremendous popularity and success, already seen by tens of millions of viewers. Since the series launched on July 20, "Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove" has made Hallmark Channel the #1-rated cable television network, Saturdays 8-9 p.m. The two-hour series pilot debuted as the #1 primetime ad-supported movie of the week and day, delivering a 2.4 HH rating with over 3.8 million unduplicated viewers. Additionally, the premiere episode was the #1 general entertainment program for cable in social media as measured by Trendrr.
"We are incredibly pleased with the tremendous success of 'Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove,' our first-ever primetime series," said Michelle Vicary, Executive Vice President, Programming, Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel. "We are so thrilled to work with Debbie Macomber and have the opportunity to bring to life her beloved book series, which was the perfect fit for Hallmark Channel. The show's significant impact and the fact that audiences have responded positively to the show has warranted a second season renewal. We launched a new era at Hallmark Channel with 'Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove' and we look forward to the show's continued growth and success."
Andie MacDowell, Dylan Neal, Teryl Rothery, Bruce Boxleitner and Barbara Niven will all return to the second season of "Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove." The series is filmed in Vancouver and will begin production in 2014. The second season will also debut in 2014.
Hallmark Channel President & CEO Bill Abbott, Michelle Vicary, Andie MacDowell and Dylan Neal will be at MIPCOM in Cannes, October 6-8, and in particular will participate in a panel discussion about the series at the MIPCOM Press Center on October 7.
"Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove" is based on the popular book series Cedar Cove by New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. The series immerses its audiences into the majestic and inimitable world of Cedar Cove, a small town with a big heart. In "Debbie Macomber's Cedar Cove," the small but picturesque lake town of Cedar Cove is home to romance, relationships and drama. At the center of it all is Judge Olivia Lockhart, played by Andie MacDowell, whose Cedar Cove Municipal Court is where the town's shocking surprises and hidden secrets are unveiled. Dylan Neal plays the handsome Jack Griffith, the new editor of the Cedar Cove Chronicle, who uncovers and reveals the truth on what goes on behind the closed courtroom doors, but also has grown to be a love interest for Judge Lockhart.
Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming available in high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) to a national audience of 88 million subscribers. Hallmark Channel is the nation's leading destination for quality family programming with an ambitious slate of original TV movies and specials, as well as some of television's most beloved sitcoms and series, including The Golden Girls, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, and Frasier. The channel is also home to a range of lifestyle programming, anchored by Home & Family, a daily two-hour live show shot in a fully functional house located on the Universal Studios lot. Hallmark Channel's sibling network, Hallmark Movie Channel, available in HD and SD, focuses on family-friendly movies with a mix of original films, classic theatrical releases, and presentations from the acclaimed Hallmark Hall of Fame library.
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Ignite Bikes is part of our Mobile Social Interbike Remix We're talking about bikes and then Riding the Strip.
If you had five minutes on stage to talk about bikes what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world, geeks have been putting together Ignites and we're bringing the format to Interbike with us.
We want to hear about integrating wireless mobile technology and bikes. How you're changing the world with bikes too. Got some crazy new product idea? Tell us about it, but note these talks are not pitches.
April Streeter talking about "The Future of Biking Wears Skirts and High Heels" at our last event.
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Mobile Social Interbike Remix
Ignite Bike and the Mobile Social happens September 23, 2010, after the Ready to Ride Fashion Show. We're talking bikes and riding the strip.
- Event: Interbike 2010
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- Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Who: Attendees, Industry, Bike Huggers
- What time: 4:30 for Ignite Bikes and 6:30 for Mobile Social.
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Fly direct to St Petersburg with British Airways, there are no hidden charges.
While Moscow is quintessentially Russian, St. Petersburg has always looked westwards to Europe. Founded by Peter the Great in 1703, the city's bonbon-coloured palaces were largely built by Italians, while central Nevsky Prospekt and Palace Square and waterways such as the Moyka River variously recall Paris, Vienna, Rome and Venice.
Demoted from capital status after the Russian Revolution, St. Petersburg remains a Russian intellectual stronghold, a cultural centre rivalling Moscow and one of Europe's most beautiful cities. St. Petersburg is also top-heavy with sites. One of the world's grandest residences, the Baroque Winter Palace also houses the Hermitage's great art collection, while St Isaac's Cathedral's malachite columns and the Kazan Cathedral's huge colonnade make them among Russia's most striking churches. For more offbeat sites, the Aurora battleship – which fired the October Revolution's first shot, is moored on Petersburg's Neva quaysides. Where you can also find the Kunstkammer's ghoulish cabinet of curiosities. Beyond these sights, St. Petersburg is simply a pleasant place to spend time, containing some of Russia's oldest cafés and theatres and a social scene that runs until morning during the June White Nights, when the city's northern position means the sun never really sets.
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International Humanitarian Law (IHL) also known as "law of armed conflict" concerns the jus in bello, the law relating to the protection of victims, environment, and property during war or armed conflict. Among the groups affected under IHL are humanitarian workers, displaced persons, and refugees. See also the International Criminal Law and the International Human Rights categories of EISIL. Resources on jus ad bellum may be found in the the Use of Force section of EISIL, under the subcategory Law of Armed Conflict.
In-depth assistance on researching international humanitarian law is available in the ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law which includes a continuously updated chapter on this subject.


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Other Initiatives
LED lighting is perfect for Bolton Valley because LED lights have a much longer life than incandescent bulbs and fluorescent and do well in cold climates. We changed some of our outdoor lights to LED's in 2011 which saves 1,195 kWh/year.
Local Food
The James Moore Tavern and Fireside Flatbread work to provide locally sourced food and beverages. The James Moore Tavern and Fireside Flatbread locally source about 60% of their food. These restaurants work with Squash Valley Produce to source as much locally sourced food as possible. The Tavern uses Vermont beef from Boyden Farms and Cabot cheddar cheese in their famous Bolton Valley Ski Burger. These two apres ski specialists tie together the experience by providing Cookie Love cookies and Hood milk for the kids, and local brews such as: Long Trail, Switch Back and Magic Hat.
Trash Bags
Bolton Valley reduces their carbon footprint by purchasing Skyway trash bags which are made in the United States from recycled agricultural plastics and require 80% less petroleum to produce and distribute.
Every winter erosion and heavy traffic from cars, skiers, snow plows, and snowcats tears up the soil and grass around the Bolton Base lodge. Instead of purchasing new topsoil, Bolton creates their own organic material by mixing excess dirt from the parking lot, sand, woodchips donated by local residents, and salt. This mixture provides a great soil to grow grass again for another beautiful green summer and a creative way to replace the soil that erodes from the bottom of the slopes during the ski season.
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The University of Washington School of Pharmacy is recognized for its world-class education, innovative programs and pioneering research. The School owes this honor not only to its superb family of educators, researchers, and students, but also to donors like you, who support the School. Your support is critical to our success.
By giving to the top-ranked School, you support:
- Vital training programs and student experiences necessary to prepare highly-skilled pharmacists and pharmacy researchers
- Breakthrough faculty research and the resources to attract and retain the best minds in our profession
- Innovation in pharmacy community health initiatives
For more than a century, the School has been setting the standard in educating the multidisciplinary pharmacists and researchers so crucial to the future of our healthcare system. Your contribution can help ensure we continue to lead the way.
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Give to a School of Pharmacy fund on the secure UW Foundation Web site. You may also view specific funds that support the following priorities:
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Erik Olin Wright
Erik Wright, the 2012 President of the ASA, was born in Berkeley, CA, grew up in Kansas, was educated at Harvard, Oxford, and Berkeley and has spent the last 35 years teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is not only one of the most prominent sociologists on the planet, but one who manages to be both a local and a cosmopolitan.
A few months ago he could be found among the thousands of Madison citizens in their 17-day occupation of the capitol building, protesting Governor Walker's offensive against public sector unions and state spending, and lining up with hundreds of others to give testimony that would prolong the encampment. He then took off for Germany to explain Madison's "Cairo" to scholars at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. This is typical, developing projects in Madison and then lecturing about them to audiences all over the world.
Wright brings the local to the global, but he also brings the global to the local. For 28 years he has headed the Havens Center at the University of Wisconsin, inviting leading intellectuals from all corners of the world to Madison, where they are treated to an intense questioning and have the privilege of working with his animated graduate students. Wherever he goes, wherever he stays, Wright stirs up intellectual ferment. And so he will over the next year as he prepares us for the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting in Denver.
I am unable to pinpoint where his sociological career began. Maybe it was at the childhood dinner table where each member of the Wright family had to give an account of their day's activities or as a Harvard undergraduate where he became aware of structural functionalism at the tail end of Talcott Parsons' luminous career. Perhaps it was at Oxford where he was inspired by the great Marxist historian Christopher Hill and learned from the sociologist and political theorist Steven Lukes. Then again, maybe it was when he entered a Unitarian-Universalist seminary in Berkeley and worked at San Quentin as a student chaplain to avoid the draft and joined an activist organization devoted to reforming prison conditions. At the seminary, he organized his first seminars on utopian thinking and soon after wrote his first book, Politics of Punishment, co-authored with some of the San Quentin prisoners and prison-rights activists.
Perhaps the most formative of his early experiences was as a graduate student at Berkeley in the early 1970s. In those heady days, students were more concerned about changing the world than about their future careers. Faculty were still in a state of shock at the disturbances on campus, which opened up space for graduate students to teach their own courses. Wright and his fellow students conspired to put together a course on Controversies in Marxist Social Science, whose descendant Wright still teaches today at Madison.
In his own work, Wright's dissertation challenged mainstream sociology not on ideological grounds but on scientific grounds, demonstrating that a reconstructed Marxist definition of class could better explain income disparities than existing models of stratification and human capital theory. What he added to Marxism was the notion of contradictory class locations of which there were three: Small employers between the petty bourgeoisie and large scale capital, supervisors and managers between capital and labor, and semi-autonomous employees (professionals) between labor and the petty bourgeoisie. This breakthrough soon led to conducting social surveys designed to map class structures and their material and experiential correlates—first in the United States and then replicated in a dozen other countries—providing a global platform for his scientific Marxism.
Wright's empirical analysis of capitol and labor sparked many invigorating debates about the meaning of class. Wright was always willing to shift his framework as others made compelling criticisms. If there is one feature that threads through his scholarly work—and indeed through his life—it is his determination to get things right. This meant not only developing as close a correspondence as possible between theoretical elaboration and empirical research, thereby confronting and resolving anomalies, but also working exhaustively on the internal logic of his theoretical framework. The result was a series of books with various permutations on the word "class:" Class, Crisis and the State (1978), Class Structure and Income Determination (1979), Classes (1985), The Debate on Classes (1989), Class Counts (1997), Approaches to Class Analysis (2005).
In 1981, Wright joined a group of brilliant social scientists and philosophers among whom he was most influenced by philosophers G.A. Cohen and Philippe van Parijs and the economist John Roemer. Through the 1980s and into the 1990s they pioneered what they called analytical Marxism, or more colloquially "no bullshit Marxism," clarifying the foundations of Marxism in a no-holds barred London grilling of each other's work. This group became a second intellectual home for Wright and one inspiration for his subsequent turn to the moral foundations of Marxism.
The second inspiration has to do with the intersection of history and biography. Even before the collapse of Soviet communism, the Marxist resurgence within academia had begun to decline. As Wright's theories of class became part of mainstream orthodoxy, standard items on prelim reading lists, they now attracted a bevy of critics who announced the end of class, and the plurality of identities. Sociology was taking its neo-institutional and cultural turn, and in so doing lost sight of alternatives to capitalism. In response, Wright redirected his energies toward imagining such alternatives, directly challenging the metaphysical pathos of the new conservatism.
His new project began in 1991 with the inauguration of a series of conferences on "real utopias" designed to discuss specific proposals for an alternative world, yet the proposals had roots in the actually existing world. Held at the Havens Center at Madison, each conference assembled scholars from various disciplines to respond to a specific "real utopia" proposal. Over the years, conference topics have included associative democracy, market socialism, participatory democracy, universal income grants, and gender equality. The conference papers were published in a book series culminating in one authored by Wright himself, Envisioning Real Utopias (2009), which reconstructs Marxist theory to accommodate real utopias.
Building on these conferences, the theme of the 2012 ASA Annual Meeting is "Real Utopias: Emancipatory Projects, Institutional Designs, Possible Futures." Real utopias have no special affiliation with Marxism. Rather, they return to the abiding themes of classical sociology. Taking value commitments as a point of departure—always central concerns for Marx, Weber, Durkheim, De Tocqueville and others—Wright continually enquires into the institutional possibilities for realizing them. What would such institutions look like? What are the conditions of their reproduction and dissemination? What are their internal contradictions and dynamics? He scours the earth in search of embryonic real utopias, putting them under his analytical microscope and elaborating more general designs. His favorite examples include participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil; the production cooperatives of Mondragon, Spain; and even the collective self-organization of Wikipedia. The next meetings of the ASA in Denver will be awash with real utopias, featuring 20 panels, each devoted to a specific real utopia proposal, some 50 thematic panels on broad topics connected to real utopias and social justice, as well as three plenaries focused on real utopias in the areas of environment, equality, and democracy.
This is nothing short of reinventing sociology. Insecure about its standing among the disciplines, classical sociology often covered its value foundations under a mask of scientific virtuousness and virtuosity, whereas Wright—far more confident about the scientific foundations of sociology—inverts the balance by explicitly formulating values and then deploying science to work out the means for their realization. Wright's sociology does not sideline but instead explicitly foregrounds questions of social justice—questions that motivate many to enter our discipline, only to later discover their marginalization. With Wright at our side we have no need to be embarrassed by our devotion to this risky, relatively low-status discipline. He shows us how sociology's abiding concerns, as well as its theories and its methods, can have immediate relevance to an expanding world of concatenating crises.
Wright has been practicing real utopias most of his life. For starters, he is a superb teacher. I know no more lucid expounder of complex ideas, no one more open to exploring alternatives to his own views. He can be unsparing in pursuit of nonsense within sense, but is also adept at finding sense in nonsense. Legions of graduate students have passed through his courses on Marxist social science, theories of the state and economic sociology. Whether they agreed or disagreed with what he had to say, they received an unforgettable education in thinking, writing, and reading that they carried with them to universities all over the globe. For some students, Wright can be intimidating, but he can also be the gentlest, kindest, and most generous of teachers.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, Wright is an inveterate optimist about the capacity of human beings to come to rational consensus about the state of the world and what should be done about it. That is what drives his passion for social science, as well as his organizing energy for innumerable workshops and conferences. Obviously, such enthusiasm for rational deliberation privileges the intellectual over other dimensions of social life. All real utopias have their limitations, but that never stopped Erik Wright from trying to realize their possibilities.


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NDK is now available online. Formerly known as ns_kit7 , NDK is a multi-gigabyte single-strike drum and cymbal sample library with highly extensive velocity layering and articulation options, allowing for the ultimate in realism and performance. You can order NDK as an Internet download from our order page.


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'Bachelorette' Emily Maynard is Marriedby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Former 'Bachelor' contestant and 'Bachelorette' star Emily Maynard has finally found the love that she's looking for! PEOPLE reports that the 28-year-old wed fiance Tyler Johnson in a surprise ceremony in South Carolina.
The couple invited 200 friends and family to Johnson's family farm in which they told their guests that they were coming to an engagement party. But Maynard and Johnson shocked everyone when it was revealed that the guest had, in fact, been invited to a surprise wedding. Maynard and Johnson reportedly had been planning the event for three months.
Maynard is best known for appearing on Season 15 of 'The Bachelor' where she was chosen by Brad Womack to be his bride. Their engagement ended, and she was then selected to be the star of 'The Bachelorette' in 2012. Maynard gave the final rose to Jef Holm and the two were engaged in the finale, but that engagement ended months later.
Maynard met Johnson before she filmed 'The Bachelorette,' but things didn't become romantic until she split with Holm.
Congrats to Maynard for finding her love!


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More time to comment on new geothermal plant proposal
Note: A meeting will be held on Monday, Jan. 14 at the Mammoth Lakes public library at 2 p.m. to discuss the potential impacts to recreation of the pipeline associated with the proposed new geothermal plant project detailed below.
The Bishop Bureau of Land Management this week extended a public comment period to the end of January for the environmental review documents for a large, 33-megawatt geothermal plant that is planned for a site near the existing geothermal plant on Casa Diablo Road.
According to the BLM, the comment period for the big project has been extended due to the recent holidays, and "due to the complex nature of the draft document."
The comments were originally due on Jan. 15. They are now due to the appropriate federal offices (see below) by close of business on Wednesday, Jan. 30.
The proposed plant, called the Casa Diablo IV plant, will be located to northeast from the current geothermal plant facilities.
The project will also include as many as 16 new wells, and the pipeline to bring the geothermal brine from those wells to the plant.
An electric transmission line to connect the power generated from this plant will also be constructed, according to the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Environmental Impact Report (EIR) released late last fall by the lead agency for the project, the BLM.
The U.S. Forest Service and the state's Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District are cooperating lead agencies for the project, as the project is on forest service land as well as BLM land, and because issues of air quality are involved.
If the project is not delayed significantly, according to Dan Lyster, Mono County's economic development coordinator, construction could begin on the plant within "the next few years."
But that might be wishful thinking on the part of locals hungry for work, or a county that will benefit from the taxes that such a large project could bring to the county. A union advocacy group and others are suing the county over a plan to construct a replacement of one of the existing geothermal plants close to where the new plant is expected to be constructed, a reality that could delay that project—and may bode ill for a new plant that will trigger new impacts of various kinds (See the Times Jan. 11 story, "Union advocacy group sues over geothermal plan project") on this website.
• Written comments should be submitted to: BLM, Bishop Field Office, 351 Pacu Lane, Suite 100, Bishop, CA 93514; Attn: Casa Diablo IV Geothermal Development Project Draft EIS/EIR, c/o Collin Reinhardt, Project Manager; by facsimile: (760) 872-5050; or by e-mail: email@example.com ; Subject: Casa Diablo IV Geothermal Development Project Draft EIS/EIR. To ensure comments will be considered, the BLM must receive them by Jan. 30, 2013. Comments received or postmarked after the due date will be considered to the extent practicable.
• Oral comments may be submitted to Margie DeRose at the Inyo National Forest, Supervisor's Office by calling (760) 873-2424, or in person at, 351 Pacu Lane, Suite 200, Bishop, CA 93514.
• The Draft EIS/EIR may be reviewed at the BLM Bishop Field Office at 351 Pacu Lane, Suite 100, Bishop, CA 93514, and the Mono County Library at 400 Sierra Park Road, Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546. Additionally, CD-ROM versions of the Draft EIS/EIR may be obtained by contacting the Bishop Field Office. The document is also available on the Internet at: http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/prog/energy/fasttrack/casadiablo/fedstatus.html
• Additional information regarding the project can be obtained from Reinhardt at (760) 872-5024, email email@example.com.


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A baseball birthday surprise
Meet Bron Locke … it's his 45th birthday!
Bron, an avid Yankees fan who lives in Clearlake Oaks, Calif., has been a fan since 1976. He was 12 years old when Mickey Mantle shook his hand and autographed a photo for him at an Apple Blossom Festival.
Before that he was a Baltimore Orioles fan when he lived nearby, and Ken was one of his favorite players, said his daughter Tasha in an e-mail to Mrs. Singy.
"He never misses a Yankees game and watches most of them on the YES Network," wrote Tasha, a Virginia resident.
Bron has attended nearly 100 Yankees games at 12 different stadiums. During the recent Yankees-A's series, Bron was thrilled when Johnny Damon acknowledged his wave with a nod, a smile and a lift of his glove. When Johnny chased a foul ball then flipped it to an A's attendant, the attendant flipped the ball to Bron. Regrettably, another fan bumped his arm and the ball bounced away for someone else to snatch up. He was heartbroken.
Tasha said it is her dad's lifetime dream to own a baseball from the Major Leagues. And good daughter that she seems, she wants to ensure her dad has a very happy birthday.
"You have no idea how much my dad's happiness means to me," she said.
What a sweet girl. Tell your dad to watch his mailbox, Tasha, for a little baseball birthday surprise from Ken.
Happy Birthday, Bron Locke, Yankees fan extraordinaire!
UPDATE: A week after this entry, Mr. Locke was kind enough to send me a nice e-mail.
Hi Mrs Singleton,
This is Bron Locke, thank you for the great blog entry! It's a shame I was so clumsy at the game, I should've anticipated that someone would be reaching for the ball as well. But, to get an autographed ball from Ken is MUCH more special.
Attached is a collage picture I made for Tasha, with an extra message added to the bottom for you and Ken. I wanted you two to have it so you can know that you made a Ken Singleton fan's year! I'm building a walnut display case to house the ball and display the card.
Thanks again for your kindness,
Bron Locke
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Wow, I'm almost speechless. First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOUIE! A father is truely blessed when his kid loves him enough to do what my Tash did. I knew I was blessed before this, she became an avid Yankees fan and it takes a child that wants to bond with her dad to root for the same team and then become a true fan like she has. I can't thank her or Mr and Mrs Singleton enough for this birthday surprise.
Just a little background on how a Yankee fan became a fan of an Oriole player. In 1975, I went to see an Orioles game with my dad and two of his friends. I was sporting my favorite hat, it had ELB on the front and I believe it was a wild red white and blue color. We were sitting about five rows back to the left of the Orioles dugout. When they were done warming up, Ken walked over and made a gesture towards his hat and smiled. He tossed a baseball toward me. Unfortunately, a man two rows in front of me grabbed it and gave it to his son. I think Ken was disappointed but since the ball went to another little boy he went into the dugout. That was the day I became a huge Ken Singleton fan and even though I shifted my loyalties to the Yankees in 1976, I always followed Ken's career and rooted for him whenever we went to Memorial Stadium (except when he played the Yanks, sorry Ken. But, I never rooted against you personally if that helps. 🙂
Today, I enjoy his broadcasts and have told Tash numerous times how lucky the Yankees are to have him in the booth. He's knowledgeable, fun, and you can tell by listening that he loves the game just as you could tell when he played. Far too often local television broadcasters are biased and annoying, if you are rooting for the visiting team, the Yes Network crew calls games fair and professionally.
Thanks again Ken and Mrs Singy, you've made this birthday really special.


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Comfortable 3 point safety belt
The driver's lifeline
f the seat belt were an option, we would give it away for free. This is simply because the three-point safety belt is the single most effective protection system we can provide: a firm and reliable restraint system that keeps the human body in place when the truck's speed is suddenly reduced or when the vehicle rolls over.
The three-point seat belt is fitted as standard to both driver and passenger seats in all Volvo trucks.
Proper safety belt use:
1. The lap belt should be placed over the hips - as low as possible - not over the abdomen.
2. Make sure the shoulder belt lies on the shoulder and over the chest.
3. Do not leave any slack - the belt should sit (comfortably) tight.
A warning light on the dashboard reminds you to buckle up if the belt is not on.


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"Analyzing the Bible?," you say. "Yes!" Bibles must be analyzed so that we can determine the accuracy of the family information that is included.
Check For an Inscription
This Bible does contain an inscription that let's us know who owned the Bible and who gave it to him and when.
A present from My Mother
The Publication date of the Bible is 1867. That is one year before the date of the inscription. So we are off to a good start.
February 28th 1872 by Rev. F. V. Van
Edwards and Mary M. Edwards born
January 16" 1849.
William and Elizabeth Putman Van Derveer
born June 1" 1848
died April 1" 1909 aged 60 years & 10 mos.


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Menu Navigator: Best and Worst Choices at a Steak House
We'll show you the healthiest choices (and splurge-only dishes) to help you order wisely at a Steak House
Depending on the cut, beef isn't much fattier than other meats. Still, some big prime- and choice-grade steak house servings pack enough saturated fat to last you days―and that's before you factor in the side dishes. We analyzed six steak house entrées from popular U.S. restaurants to help point you to healthier choices. Nutrition numbers are estimates: Results vary widely according to portion size. And if sodium is a concern, ask the kitchen not to use added salt, and watch your intake the rest of the day. Now, let's get to the meat of the matter.
Smart Steak Strategies
Prime-grade beef (the highest quality) has more marbling than choice-grade, which makes prime steaks tastier, juicier, and, of course, fattier. But expertly cooked steak of either grade won't need buttery sauces―or the butter dollop some steak houses put on top―to be delicious.
What You Need to Know About Ordering Sides
- Go naked: Plain baked potatoes are healthy, but toppings can double the calories and add 18g saturated fat.
- Hold the cream: Creamed spinach has more than three times the calories and fat of sautéed spinach.
- Dress for success: Swap classic blue cheese dressing for vinaigrette. It has one-third fewer calories.
Splurge Only: Rib-Eye Steak
56g sat fat
Arguably the juiciest, tastiest menu item, in part because the exquisite marbling delivers two days' worth of saturated fat.
Healthy Choice: Petite Filet Mignon
15g sat fat
Your best bet for beef, but less fat also means less flavor. Order prime grade: The superior taste is worth the few extra calories.
Ask Your Server: Porterhouse
48g sat fat
Can be 38 ounces or more. Orer for a group: Figure 6 ounces per person, cutting fat intake more than 80 percent.
Healthy Choice: Grilled Tuna Steak
.5g sat fat
Nutritionally it's a good choice, but unless you're a pescetarian, enjoy what you came for: beef.
Ask Your Server: Strip Steak
28g sat fat
Watch portions: It's less fatty than rib-eye, but strips can weigh in at a pound or more
Splurge Only: Prime Rib
49g sat fat
Sliced from a whole roast rib-eye. Look for smaller "queen-size" cuts.