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Senior captain James Hawrot looks to lead his squad in the NCAA regional event as the team hopes to qualify as many entrants into the NCAA Championship as they can. (Gil Talbot)
The Particulars
The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams head to Boston College in Newton, Mass., Sunday to compete in the 2012 NCAA Northeast Regional with qualification for the NCAA Championship on the line.
What's At Stake
Harvard could qualify up to 12 fencers Sunday for the NCAA National Championship, two for each of the three weapons in both genders. The national championship is awarded as a coed team title, so getting as many fencers as possible will be important for the Crimson. Harvard qualified 11 entrants last season and finished sixth at the championship.
Last Time Out
Both the men (12-6) and women (15-6) won their respective Beanpot titles over their local rivals MIT, Boston College and Brandeis Feb. 14 for the fifth-straight year. The Crimson women beat host Brandeis, 24-3, defeated Boston College, 20-7, and earned a 21-6 victory over Cambridge rival MIT. The Crimson men topped Boston College, 20-7, beat Brandeis, 22-5, and won, 21-6, over MIT to hoist the trophy for the fifth consecutive year.
They're Honored
Both senior Valentin Staller and freshman Brian Kaneshige were included in CollegeFencing360.com's week #4 primetime performers of the week awards list after their efforts at the Ivy League championship on Feb. 11-12, where they went a combined 23-7, helping Harvard to a second-place finish. Both Staller and Kanshige earned First-Team All-Ivy League honors.
Ivy League Recap
The No. 9 Harvard women's fencing team closed out the second day of championship play with a 2-1 record after falling to Columbia 14-13, and downing Brown and Cornell by identical scores of 18-9, finishing the tournament in third place with a 4-2 record. The Crimson also landed five its members on all-Ivy League teams.
Sophomore Alexandra Kiefer and junior Kathy Chou were named First Team All-Ivy selections for their efforts during the two-day tournament. Kiefer and Chou finished the weekend with 13-5 marks tying them for third best mark in the foil division. Senior Caroline Vloka and Felicia Sun along with freshman Emma Vaggo earned Second-Team All-Ivy selection. Vloka went 14-4 in the saber field, while Sun and Vaggo both went 13-5 in the epee division.
The No. 6 Harvard men's fencing team defeated Columbia, 15-12, and Brown 18-9, completing the Ivy League championship with a 5-1 record and second-place behind Princeton (6-0). The Crimson also earned four Ivy League awards in the process.
Seniors Valentin Staller and James Hawrot, along with freshman Brian Kaneshige earned first team all-Ivy League honors in the saber, epee, and foil, respectively. Staller went 12-3 over the two-day span, missing out on sharing the individual title by a one win. Hawrot finished third in the epee field with a 10-5 mark and Kaneshige went 11-4 to finish tied for second with Columbia's Alex Pensler and Brown's Barret Weiss. Meanwhile sophomore Lucas Lin landed on the Ivy League's second team in the foil. Lin went 9-6 in the field placing sixth.
Regionals 2011
The Harvard men's and women's fencing squads placed 14-fencers in the top 15 places across the six events. Val Staller finished second in the saber competition while Thomas Kolasa, Eric Arzoian finished third and fourth respectively. Michael Raynis earned bronze for the Crimson in the epee with teammated James Hawrot placing fourth and Ben White finishing in sixth. Tomasso Di Robliant won bronze in the foil event as Lucas Lin took home 13th while graduated senior Hao Meng came in 18th. For the women Alexandra Kiefer had the Crimson's best day claiming the title in the foil while Noam Mills came out on top in the epee. Katherine Chou finished in eighth-place while Shelby MacLeod came in 12th. Senior co-captain Felicia Sun came in sixth in the epee field while Dakota Root wrapped up in 26th place. In the saber Hayley Levitt and Caroline Vloka both finished in the top 15 as Levitt took 11th while Vloka came in 13th.
Up Next
Those Harvard fencers who qualify will compete next at the NCAA Championship in Columbus, Ohio, March 22, hosted by Ohio State.


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, Sep 3, 2013 / 02:06 pm ().- Former students of Benedict XVI met for the first time without him this year for their annual "Schülerkreis" discussions, although they were able to see the former Pope briefly for Mass.
"He has a great sense of humor and we loved to be with him," said Father Vincent Twomey told CNA on Sept. 1. "He has a great sense of joy and he loves to be with his students."
The Schülerkreis is a circle of doctoral and post-doctoral students who had then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger - who would later become Pope Benedict XVI - as their supervisor and professor at the University of Regensburg.
Since 1978, the group has been meeting annually with the former Pope to hold discussions, until this year. The results of the group's yearly dialogues are sometimes published.
This event was the first time new Schülerkreis members – those who are studying Ratzinger's theology – met alongside the old members, Ratzinger's former students.
They met at the Focolare movement's Mariapoli Center in the town of Castel Gandolfo from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 alongside guest speaker Remi Brague to discuss "the question of God in a secularized society."
Although Benedict did not participate in the discussions with his former students, he met with them during the gathering. The former Pope celebrated Mass at the end of the meeting on Sept. 2 at the Mariapoli Center.
"He was in very good form and he seemed very relaxed," said Fr. Twomey. "It was a wonderful experience to meet with him, and each year was the same feeling."
Although Benedict seemed "slightly smaller" this year, he actually looked "much frailer last year when he was still Pope than he did this year," the priest added.
Fr. Twomey described his student years under Ratzinger's supervision at the University of Regensburg as "a wonderful experience."
"There was a tremendous excitement," he said. "He managed to create a kind of sense of excitement to theology."
"He has the capacity to enable people to speak their mind, he listens very carefully and takes in what you say and then he leads the discussion onto a higher level," Fr. Twomey explained.
The Irish priest said that Benedict had offered him an approach to theology that he had not received anywhere else.
He reflected on Ratzinger's influential "courage in tackling the most difficult questions, his complete confidence in the fact that the truth has been entrusted to the Church and to us."
"But our task is to discover it and to enter into dialogue with all those who are searching for the truth," he added.
The priest explained that it was this dialogue that marked Benedict's theology.
"For him, revelation is God's dialogue with us and we're part of that dialogue and it is still continuing," he said.
"Theology is seeking understanding in a world that is no longer aware of God," said Fr. Twomey. "But you can't exclude God from reality."
The former Pope, he said, was never judgmental, but tried to be objective and was capable of "tuning in with the world."
"He once said, 'we don't have the truth, the truth has us, we don't possess truth, the truth possesses us'," the priest reflected.
He added that Benedict had criticized contemporary German theology, which is why he "never received the same openness" in Germany that "he would have received in the United States or France."
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Insurgo Theater Movement debuted a new version of what is becoming a classic tragicomedy clown "Nutcracker" Dec. 19-Jan. 7 at the Plaza, this year including two glib, flightless birds as protagonists.
The show opens witha a strategically lit set made of plastic, draped and stapled to the back of the stage. A frosty, arctic climate is the setting, as it turns out; a white stage and two waddling penguins (Michelle Meyer and Melanie Ash) confirm the locale.
Comical exchanges between the birds comprise the bulk of the show, but it is no less poignant because of this. Sweetness abounds, and the appearance of a dashingly dressed — and superbly acted — Nutcracker (Brandon Oliver Jones) provides yet another avenue for wordless warm fuzzies.
The plot itself is Insurgo nuance at its best. A Nutcracker mysteriously appears in an enormous gift-wrapped box and decks out a chilly set with Christmas cheer. Penguins cavort, Santa's jolly offstage presence is implied and, especially for an offbeat production, the show ends optimistically.
However, stealthily woven throughout the plot is a thread of references to such issues as overfishing and ocean pollution. Suffice it to say that a hungry penguin gnawing on a plastic bottle isn't 100 percent funny, and it probably wasn't intended to be. It's clear that director John Beane and assistant director Daneal Doerr have some big topics on their minds, but this does little to dampen the whimsy of the show.
From a choreographic standpoint, "The Insurgo Nutcracker" is spot-on. Clutzy, cuddling penguins carom around the small stage, bumbling into each other, the Nutcracker and various inanimate objects. The effect is darling and makes for most entertaining versions of "Nutcracker" classics like "Waltz of the Flowers" and the snow scene from George Balanchine's original. And with a 40-minute running time, the production is accessible to all but the most staunch of Scrooges.
Needless to say, this might not make the list for balletomanes. However, for the rest of us, "The Insurgo Nutcracker" warrants recognition as a holiday tradition in the making. Sugarplum is nice, but until you've seen a pique-turning penguin in a tutu, you have yet to witness the full embodiment of "sweet."


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Clearly structured throughout, this book combines well known collection techniques in a field oriented format that can be used for casework. Collection of evidence differs from formal plant collection in that most professional plant collectors are gathering entire plants or significant portions of a plant for permanent storage and reference. Evidence frequently consists of fragments, sometimes exceedingly tiny. Exemplars (examples of reference plants) are collections of plants made in the manner a botanist would collect them. These collections are necessary to link or exclude evidence to or from a scene. Various methods that allow easy collection, transportation, and preservation of evidence are detailed throughout the book.
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Timing 5
Gravesite growth 9
Stomach contents 11
Summary 11
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Nonplant groups traditionally studied by botanists 22
Plant habitats and associations 25
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Habit 28
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Storage 61
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Types of cases 63
Evidence analysis 63
Laboratory report 65
Transportation of botanical evidence 66
Evidence retention and disposition 66
Step–wise method for the collection of botanical evidence 68
Appendix 3.1 70
Crime scene data 70
Habitat documentation 70
Scene location 70
Collection information needed for each botanical sample 70
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Botany field data sheet 72
Appendix 3.3 76
Botany laboratory examination data format 76
Appendix 3.4 78
Evidence log 78
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Bernard A. Raum JD, MFS
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The United States experience 80
The decision in Frye v. United States 81
The codified federal rules of evidence 82
The decision in Daubert v. Merrill Dow25 85
The scientific method 86
The pure opinion rule 87
The United Kingdom experience 88
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Types of samples and collection for DNA analyses 94
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Case studies 102
Conclusions 104
References 104
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Microscopes and microscopic botanical structures relevant to forensic botany 107
The importance of reference collections in microscopic analysis 115
Preparation and documentation of specimen evidence for microscopic examination 116
References 118
7 Plant anatomy 119
David W. Hall, Ph.D. and William Stern, Ph.D.
The lindbergh case 121
Further reading 126
8 Palynology, pollen, and spores, partners in crime: what, why, and how 127
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Terminology 127
What are pollen and spores? 127
Where are they found and how do they travel? 129
What does pollen look like? 130
The use of pollen for non–forensic work 132
The use of pollen in the forensic setting 132
When should pollen samples be collected? 134
How to collect and store pollen samples 134
How many samples to collect? 138
Who can collect pollen samples and where can an analyst be found? 139
Costs and turnaround times 140
Case examples 140
Summary 142
References 143
9 Algae in forensic investigations 145
Christopher R. Hardy, Ph.D. and John R. Wallace, Ph.D.
Finding an algal botanist and identifying algae 145
Algal diversity 146
Application of algal evidence in forensic investigations 154
Collection and processing of algal evidence in forensic investigations 165
Acknowledgements 172
References 172
10 Case Studies in forensic botany 174
David W. Hall, Ph.D.
Placing people or objects at scenes 174
Determining time of death 181
Index 189
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Officials in Washington, D.C. are looking to incorporate more diverse historical monuments into the city's fabric, Art News reports, with legislation proposing new monuments to historically resonant women and people of color. "This legislation aims to properly recognize and honor remarkable persons who left indelible marks on society: men, women, and migrants," says Kenyan McDuffie, the councilmember. "These bills aim to channel an important dialogue carrying around our country to reconcile symbols and monuments that have often complicated, and in some cases blatantly racist, history behind them."
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"'Just Do Science': A Liberal-Arts College Perspective on Teaching the Sciences to Undergraduates"
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"'Just Do Science': A Liberal-Arts College Perspective on Teaching the Sciences to Undergraduates"
President William Durden delivered the following keynote address for the Gateway Sciences Initiative symposium at Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 17, 2013.*
I am delighted to participate in this engaging meeting at my graduate alma mater focused on the continuing improvement of Gateway science education at Johns Hopkins. Thank you for the invitation.
I intend to offer concluding remarks to the day's activities that introduce you to some best practices in teaching the sciences at a representative liberal-arts college-my undergraduate alma mater and the college of which I am currently president-Dickinson-a college that arguably has been a leader in undergraduate science pedagogy in the United States. I believe that it is especially important for you to be familiar with what we do because of the results we in the liberal-arts sector achieve through science education. Victor Ferrall, Jr., a former colleague at Beloit College, cites key data points in his book provocatively entitled Liberal Arts at the Brink (2011) that may be of interest:
Twenty-eight of the 50 baccalaureate-granting institutions that, proportionate to their size, graduated the most science and engineering doctorate recipients from 1997-2006 were liberal-arts colleges. Five of them, Harvey Mudd, Reed, Carleton and Grinnell, ranked ahead of Harvard; nine of them ahead of Yale.
Of course, I am keenly aware that we in the liberal-arts college sector do not possess a magic potion and that, in turn, we could learn a great deal about science advancement from a major research university such as Hopkins. I share then to grasp the best of both worlds for a shared purpose and to challenge you to determine whether what I describe can be adapted to science teaching at Hopkins. The obvious issues to reconcile are mission, class size, pedagogy, classroom design and disciplinary ownership.
I assert four points of differentiation between Dickinson and Hopkins in the teaching of science [of course, I do so dangerously not knowing in detail what you do currently!]: history and mission, pedagogy, student-faculty research and interdisciplinarity. I am dismissing one point of distinction I hear often among my colleagues at liberal-arts colleges because I believe it is bogus. Some claim that liberal-arts undergraduate colleges have "better" results with science education because they do NOT have graduate programs. Faculty do not have to direct time and energy, as well as intellectual capital, to graduate students who are attending the university to accomplish research towards a Ph.D. and in turn, they do not have to spend an inordinate amount of time seeking grants to support an elaborate graduate school-oriented agenda. I reject this notion because I believe that good undergraduate science teaching can benefit from a graduate research university environment in many ways (resources, scope of study, contact with bright, striving graduate students and shared research projects), if-but only if-the university makes an effort to diminish any unnecessary divide in terms of instructional support and the personalization of teaching and learning. Unfortunately that does not happen at all research universities-undergraduates are not always given the attention they need to be prepared for both science literacy and advanced study in the sciences. Additionally, if I were to defend this claim of my liberal-arts colleagues, I would give an exceedingly short presentation as Hopkins, I trust, is not about to forgo its distinguished graduate programs-its DNA from its founding and the base, I believe, of its most creative possibilities for enhanced undergraduate teaching in its future.
Dickinson comes by its scientific disposition quite naturally. Its founder, Dr. Benjamin Rush, was not only a signer of the Declaration of Independence, but a physician and scientist. He argued for Dickinson College in 1783 to reject the "monkish" higher education inherited from the elite British and to adopt a new form of education-a USEFUL liberal education-suited to the new and emerging democratic form of government that was the United States of America.
Dr. Rush centered the new American higher education on the sciences-particularly chemistry (he is, of course, America's first professor of chemistry at what is now the University of Pennsylvania). It was this subject, he believed, that would have the most "connectivity" to emerging fields-fields that, in turn, would help the nation grow in political substance and financial stability. In a 1787 letter to Jonathan Smith he wrote, "Chemistry is not only a science of importance in itself, but serves as a key to a thousand other sources of knowledge." Already we perceive that, for Dr. Rush, science in America's undergraduate liberal-arts curriculum was of central importance. Its influence extended well beyond the confines of the subject area itself. Dr. Rush understood that the study of science in America had to be about something larger than the subject itself to capture the energy and creativity of the population. For him, that something larger was informed participation in an emerging democracy. The teaching of science brought students directly into the progress of humanity and democracy. It is precisely at this early point in my presentation that a difference of founding mission between liberal-arts colleges and particularly Johns Hopkins-albeit representative of all major research universities-must be mentioned as it could well confound Hopkins adopting anything I say today about science instruction among liberal-arts colleges. Hopkins was, of course, founded "to realize the scholarly ideal of an institution devoted to the CREATION of knowledge" from Richard A. DeMillo in Abelard to Apple, 2012). As Daniel Coit Gilman so explicitly stated, "[At Hopkins] No love of ease, no dread of labor, no fear of consequences, no desire for wealth will avert a band of well-chosen professors from uniting their forces in the persecution of study….By their labors, knowledge has been accumulated, intellectual capital has been acquired." Clearly the primacy of university activity and distinction is located in outstanding faculty who are singularly devoted to the creation of knowledge. However, this focus on professors is problematic historically as noted by Richard A. DeMillo, "But it was always a delicate, and sometimes confusing balance-even for Johns Hopkins-between research and teaching the thousands of students who were pouring into colleges and universities and whose interests did not necessarily lie in the laboratory."
An early graduate of Dickinson and later professor, Spencer Fullerton Baird-of course, the second secretary of the Smithsonian Institutions-introduced field study into the American curriculum for the express purpose of teaching science. For the first time in American educational history students went out of the classroom and into-in this case-the surrounding Central Pennsylvania mountains to gather specimens that were later classified and studied in a college laboratory. The formal acquisition of science in our institutions lost its fixedness to confined space and extended out into the world. Students and their professor were involved directly in the collection and the analysis of scientific data.
Let us now fast forward a few centuries. In the 1980s, before many of our peer institutions, Dickinson embarked on a comprehensive, long-term science initiative that has included an infusion of new faculty, innovative pedagogy and curriculum, and upgraded instrumentation and facilities. Critical components of this initiative have been the application of active, discovery-oriented approaches to science education and the integration of student research throughout the curriculum. Numerous liberal-arts colleges and some universities have adapted their science instruction to this model. Progress began with the development of an award-winning program of Workshop PhysicsÒ in the 1980s funded extensively by NSF-throwing away the textbook and permitting students to discover scientific principles by personal experimentation. This was followed with curricular reforms in mathematics, geology, chemistry and biology in the 1990s. More recently, the college has instituted new programs in biochemistry & molecular biology and neuroscience and explored the role of bioinformatics, genomics, and nanoscience in the undergraduate curriculum.
Science education at Dickinson focuses on the following goals:
Participatory, discovery-oriented pedagogy for both majors and non-majors,
Opportunities for students and faculty to engage in intensive research, often leading to publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals and presentations at professional conferences,
and Encouragement of faculty and students to engage in interdisciplinary science and to write frequently about their progress and discovery.
The combination of pedagogical innovation, a research-intensive curriculum, an emphasis on interdisciplinarity and, as importantly, writing, has produced, I believe, an exceptionally dynamic undergraduate science program at Dickinson with very positive commitments of our graduates to continued engagement in science as researchers, practitioners and informed citizens.
First and foremost, most introductory science courses at Dickinson-and increasing numbers of intermediate and advanced courses-focus on active learning using discovery-based approaches, enhanced fieldwork, and/or laboratory-based investigation of issues and themes. Implementation of this pedagogy across all disciplines has placed Dickinson on the vanguard of national science education reform. Retired faculty members Priscilla Laws in physics and Nancy Baxter Hastings in mathematics pioneered the WorkshopÒ method of science teaching. Their work centers on the principle that students learn most effectively through direct and active experimentation. Similarly, our faculty introduced a discovery-based approach to biology and geology by building introductory courses around themes such as cancer or global warming.
Discovery-based teaching and learning has also influenced the design and equipment of many science classrooms and laboratories. For example, spaces in our Tome Scientific Building were specially configured and equipped with computers and other technology to support the Workshop Physics and Workshop Mathematics curricula. Cooperative learning design was complemented by the immediacy of experimentation space. In biology, a grant from Merck in 1996 enabled us to equip laboratories and classrooms for physiological and pharmacological research. Very early, therefore, our faculty and students were engaged in our construction process and guaranteed that what was built met completely their emerging needs for teaching informed by research. Form met function head-on and faculty were engaged architects of their instructional space.
In addition, the college's recent and successful $150 million campaign provided funds for the construction of the first two wings of the new Rector Science Complex, which opened for classes in fall 2008. Featuring 90,000 square feet of laboratories, classrooms and research facilities, Rector houses the entire department of chemistry, as well as portions of biology and psychology relating to our interdisciplinary program in neuroscience. It includes "areas of inquiry" in place of the traditional department structure-meaning that groups of offices, laboratories, classrooms and equipment are largely grouped by function, rather than by department. Offices and laboratories of biologists are situated next to those of psychologists in neuroscience, and the chemists' offices are spread through both wings. Rector has a vivarium on its lower level shared by biology and psychology. Since the opening of this new building we have seen a steady increase in student enrollment in introductory biology, chemistry, neuroscience and BMB courses-especially among women. A further expansion is currently underway to enhance our science facilities and unify all members of the biology department in the Rector facility.
The college itself also actively encourages curricular development. Many of the external grants noted above-and there are many more-were secured by faculty who first received planning grants for their ideas from the college's own Research and Development (R&D) committee.
Discovery-oriented teaching at Dickinson mirrors a strong focus on research by faculty and students. We strive for a student-centered experience in which faculty self-interest is balanced by student needs and interest (DeMillo). Dickinson requires senior science majors to conduct capstone research. We also encourage interested students to work one-on-one with faculty for intensive research collaboration either in the summer or during the academic year.
Beyond the undergraduate assistant roles that many faculty have incorporated into their own research proposals, Dickinson has won multiple institutional grants specifically for collaborative student-faculty research. Over a decade ago, external grants helped us establish a regular summer program of student-faculty research projects.
Thanks to a challenge grant and the generosity of alumni and friends, considerable internal funds are now available for summer projects through the college's own Student-Faculty Research Endowment.
Dickinson faculty members have also worked to ensure that students understand and experience the increasing interconnectedness and interdisciplinarity of modern science-that they appreciate collaboration-a principle already suggested in the 18th century by our founder. The college has made many strides in recent years to break down disciplinary silos and to build a curriculum that encourages problem posing and solving from multiple perspectives. For example, our BMB major, created in 1997, combines the teaching and research expertise of faculty in biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics. BMB joined Dickinson's existing interdisciplinary environmental studies major, which integrates work in biology, chemistry, earth science, environmental science and policy studies. Most recently, Dickinson's commitment to interdisciplinary science prompted the creation of a new major in neuroscience, composed of coursework at the intersection of biology, chemistry and bio-psychology.
Dickinson has also worked to develop interdisciplinary bridges among the sciences, humanities, arts and social sciences. External grants funded the construction of new laboratories in archaeology and biological anthropology. In addition to providing arenas for the further application of discovery-based pedagogy, these new labs extend the reach of the sciences. Archaeology now actively integrates geology with the classics, art history, and history. Anthropology and its collaborating major in sociology now have a strong grounding in biology.
Dickinson has made great progress in interdisciplinary science with the help of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2008. We established a Center for Sustainability Education (CSE) to serve as a point of connection for all academic activities and resources at Dickinson related to the study of sustainability. CSE is working across the curriculum to link classroom learning with co-curricular programs, greening of campus operations (facilities), and both global and local civic engagement.
We have also been assisting other institutions in increasing their interdisciplinary approaches to learning. With a grant from NASA's Global Climate Change Education Program, Dickinson is leading a consortium involved in the teaching of global climate change in the liberal-arts curriculum at four-year and two-year colleges. Members are jointly implementing a multifaceted campaign to build faculty competency for interdisciplinary teaching about climate change and developing and implementing a core curriculum of climate change-focused courses.
Dickinson's ambition to have its science students and faculty profit intellectually from interdisciplinarity and collaboration appears to challenge long-standing practice in the Academy. Richard A. DeMillo describes the challenge: "Academic biographies-especially in the sciences-are filled with stories of stars who are not only distrustful of methods and techniques they did not create themselves, but are also actually disdainful of lessons that could be drawn from related fields. Many prefer instead to invent everything that needs to be invented to solve the problem at hand. Fearful of committing themselves to courses of action, they are often suspicious of strategy. They have been rewarded for solving problems in isolation from distracting contexts." In contrast, Dickinson intends by its discovery-based instruction to prepare a "different kind of mind" for a different kind of graduate-one that can recognize problems, create, make connections among seemingly disparate elements and thread meaning and application from the juxtaposition of past, present and future.
When I was preparing this presentation I asked our science professors to tell me what they thought was distinctive about how they taught science-especially in contrast to what they were familiar with as TAs at the excellent graduate institutions they attended to receive Ph.D.s. The response was unequivocal. To a person they declared, "WE DO SCIENCE!" Being a humanist I asked for clarity. The response was clear, "We personally take students through the scientific method. We are in this jointly. The students are partners with us at the undergraduate level and our research is intended solely to improve their introduction into the complexities and mysteries to which science permits access and solution."
Another faculty member attributes the apparent success of the science program to the college's substantial investment in sophisticated equipment in the 1980s, continuing through today-equipment normally only available to graduate students. Such equipment directly in the undergraduate classroom and used daily by undergraduate students facilitates an immediacy of problem posing, research methodology, data collection and analysis, thus eliminating the delay associated with sending classroom data to an external third party for tabulation. All students respond positively to this immediacy of result-but especially those who are non-science majors.
Another professor stresses that, while the physical arrangement of a classroom is often thought to be the most important ingredient in the success of "workshop" science, this is not the case. The most important ingredient is the curriculum and its adaptation to "workshop" pedagogy and discovery learning. The curriculum must be conceived such that the student discovers for herself, at the data collection and analysis points, the logical link between what has been engaged and observed and an understanding of the associated general principles.
Yet another example comes from a senior English professor-of all things!-who participated in a Mosaic program this fall. At Dickinson a Mosaic is an intensive, interdisciplinary, semester‐long research program designed around ethnographic fieldwork and immersion in domestic and global communities. In this particular Mosaic, entitled "Natural History Sustainability Mosaic", students spent the entire semester with three professors engaged in natural history field work informed by both an array of sciences and a commitment to intensive writing. Considerable emphasis was directed to writing about scientific matters as an 19th-century English essayist or science journalist, and how to engage in citizen-science that can be communicated to fellow citizens and national and international leaders. This mosaic is a prime example of utilizing small class size, interdisciplinarity and beneficial balance of core classes with focused topic work, so that our students see science as part of the wider world and as part of their lives beyond graduation. The professor with whom I spoke admitted that the size of the class does matter and that such results would be extremely difficult to achieve in a large research university setting-particularly at the introductory levels (But might the creative use of MOOCs and other digital technologies in a blended instructional context overcome this apparent obstacle? More on this later).
The comprehensive pedagogical principle behind just "Doing Science" extends today to most areas of the Dickinson curriculum. It complements work initiated in disciplines other than science at the college. It involves our students in an activist, "useful," liberal-arts education wherein their direct confrontation with and manipulation of existing knowledge causes them to connect the dots among reflection, engagement, understanding and application. Such a compelling dynamic is essential, we believe, to accomplish the ambition of a 21st-century undergraduate education and to set the stage for the more focused creation of new knowledge in graduate students and professions. There are several examples at Dickinson including: the engagement of our students directly in excavation at the ancient Greek city of Mycenae, as we possess the exclusive rights for such activity; also, an environmental outreach project throughout Pennsylvania, known as ALLARM, that engages our students in helping citizens evaluate regularly the quality of water in local streams and rivers. Another project has our students combing historical records to establish and maintain one of the most thorough on-line repositories of families involved in the American Civil War. This much acclaimed effort is called "A House Divided." And then, there is the senior art history majors' project that requires students to prepare an exhibition from beginning to end-in all aspects-and that has been cited for its contribution to Dickinson joining Williams College in graduating the most museum professionals among liberal-arts colleges.
But, "Doing Science" and discovery-based teaching/learning extends well beyond academics and into some surprising places at Dickinson-for example, into Student Life. "Connectivity" is reaching new levels of complexity and applicability. Dickinson presents its students with a series of axioms to guide their thoughts and action while at college and to serve as reasonable mentorship for what lies beyond in the wider world. We call these the Dickinson Dimensions. And for the past few years, the Dimensions have been guiding the evolution of our residential life/student development effort. More and more opportunities are being created for and with students to exercise these dimensions in residential activities that increasingly cross with academic life. Here are a few of the Dimensions:
Associate confidently in unfamiliar environments
Move beyond that which is comfortable to embrace intellectual risk and gain self-knowledge
Use the energy created by these connections to generate meaningful action
Exert intellectual flexibility and innovation
Discover new knowledge to shape the future
Search out facts to support opinion
Think independently but objectively, and act responsibly
Each of these Dimensions, applicable to all meaningful aspects of human activity, can be advanced through application of the scientific method and we are assisting our students to appreciate just that. Scientific pursuit involves moving confidently into unfamiliar settings that involve considerable risk-taking as a student asks what the problem is and poses a hypothesis to determine a solution. Intellectual flexibility is required and the method itself assists a student in sorting out ultimately fact from fiction. The hypothesis is either proven or refuted. You know where you stand at the end of the process. You have, as a student, gained an objective, pragmatic "take" on the world and you have done it by your own independent engagement.
We are now about the business of linking even more compellingly our students' academic track at college and their non-curricular activities. In so doing science is about to help us overcome a gnawing deficiency in American residential higher education-the almost insurmountable divide between academics and student life where distrust and suspicion reside in both parties.
What I have talked to you about today is not just "workshop" science or discovery-based pedagogy. It is all about CHANGE-DIRECTED PEDAGOGY-a way of teaching that pervades life in and out of the classroom and that is a powerful preparation for substantive contribution and leadership in the rapidly evolving world our students face ahead. For Dickinson discovery-based learning is now a powerful and essential part of our total BRAND. We have harnessed our disparate pedagogical innovations in all disciplines over the last few decades and now set them moving in the same direction as one college.
I wish you well in your future endeavors as you perhaps take what appears to define successful undergraduate science teaching at the liberal-arts college into a different institutional environment. Again, five key areas, I believe, must be examined and adjusted to the research university setting for successful adaptation: mission, classroom size, classroom design, pedagogy and disciplinary ownership.
Hopkins may well be especially successful precisely as an entrepreneurial research university experimenting with and adapting into the traditional course-setting digital technologies and thus achieve some of the advantages of science instruction at a liberal-arts college-albeit on its own terms. "Successful" is defined here as appealing to all modes of identity recognition needed by a human being to learn-to include among contemporary students, digital recognition. Digital technologies' capacity for customization and one-on-one instruction could well achieve intimacy of learning and identity affirmation comparable as that at a liberal-arts college without compromising your research imperative. Ironically, your historical practice should not cause you to resist experimentation. Whereas at small liberal-arts colleges, there is often a tendency to defend vigorously what you, at Hopkins, currently do not possess-a brand critically dependent on small classes, close student-faculty in-person contact and, by definitional necessity, little to no direct instructor-replacement instruction via technology. Many of your current and prospective students and faculty will not expect of you an exclusively high-touch, in-person instructional platform as might be expected of liberal-arts colleges. In fact, the types of students you attract may very well have already fused their physical identity with their digital identity, thus making it easier for you to introduce digital learning and have it accepted at your tuition price point. Additionally, you possess reputational leverage and proven scalability that will attract necessary third-party financial support for the complex ambition of approximating that human "intimacy" necessary for total learning through digital technologies. You may well at once embrace your original mandate to "create new knowledge" and posit a new pedagogy for science teaching. In so doing, you will distinguish yourself by the quality of the experience you offer your undergraduate students that deftly matches the emerging realities of acquiring knowledge with institutional capacities and distinction.
Thank you for permitting me to be part of your dialogue.
*I wish to thank the following Dickinson professors for their insights about our science program:
Tom Arnold, Associate Professor of Biology
Marcus Key,Professor of Earth Sciences and Joseph Priestley Professor of Natural Philosophy
Priscilla Laws, Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy
B. Ashton Nichols, Professor of English Language and Literature, Walter E. Beach Distinguished Chair in Sustainability Studies
Jeff Niemitz, Professor of Earth Science
Neil Weissman, Professor of History, Provost and Dean of the College
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Although it is declining slightly due to a higher energy bill, the current account balance is expected to continue to post a large surplus in 2019. The deficit in the trade and income balances due to cross-border transfers is expected to remain largely offset by the sizeable surplus in the balance of services resulting from the activity of financial corporations.
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Following the October 2018 elections, the Christian Social Party (CSV) led by former minister Claude Wiseler remains the country's leading political party with 28% of the vote. But with 21 seats out of 60, it is far from enjoying a majority and will remain stuck on the opposition benches, where it has sat since the snap elections in October 2013. With 31 seats, Xavier Bettel's outgoing coalition returned to power after a deal was made in December 2018 to lock in the DP-LSAP-Déi Gréng government's programme for the next five years. The Socialist Party (LSAP) and the Liberal Party (DP) obtained 18% and 17% of the votes respectively. The big winner of the elections was undoubtedly the Green Party, which took 15% of the votes, 5% more than in the previous elections. The Pirate Party also made its parliamentary début with its first two elected representatives, while the populist right-wing ADR party consolidated its position with four seats instead of three.
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New York, N.Y., Feb. 1, 2013—Fordham University has launched a website to engage public support in creating a database to document burial grounds of enslaved African Americans.
"This website is our liaison to members of the public who share our desire to bring dignity to the enslaved by identifying and documenting their burial grounds," said Sandra Arnold, a Fordham employee and student, and the founding director of the project.
"We hope to receive support from descendants, property owners, churches and local community organizations to properly memorialize these forgotten people. Most enslaved African Americans are buried in unmarked or abandoned graves and are increasingly in danger of desecration and forever being lost," she said.
A senior secretary at Fordham University by day and adult undergraduate student at night, Arnold got the idea for the database when she stumbled upon her own ancestor's burial site some years ago.
Arnold visited the site for the first time in 2003, paying homage to the graves of her great-grandfather, B. Harmon, a former slave, and his wife, Ethel. Arnold credits her 99-year-old great-aunt, E. Frye (Harmon's daughter), for igniting her curiosity to find and visit the site.
"She talked about the cemetery all the time like it was a precious jewel. I just wanted to see it, and then I wanted to see where he was buried. So I went out there, and it was just breathtaking," she said. "It's an island in a cotton field, at the end of a field road."
Arnold began to conduct independent research by collecting data on slave burial grounds throughout the United States. She soon elicited the participation from administrations of four presidential estates: George Washington, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. All contained valuable information on slave cemeteries within their grounds.
"The potential of this project is immeasurable," Arnold said. "Not only can it properly memorialize the enslaved, it can also facilitate a mutual and respectful dialogue about a subject that is still very sensitive to many."
- The website - http://www.vanishinghistory.org - is maintained by Fordham's Department of African and African American Studies in collaboration with advisers from Emory and Yale Universities, as well as the College of William and Mary and Sweet Briar College.
- The mission of the Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans is to identify and document burial sites of enslaved African Americans.
- Upon completion, it will be the first database of its kind to document these grounds on a national level.
- Researchers will document as many as the public will assist in identifying.
- The ultimate goal of the Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans is to produce an unprecedented national burial registry as a publicly accessible genealogical tool and scholarly aid.
- There are slave burial sites with graves that are cared for by family and community members and are clearly marked by headstones. Those will be documented as well.
"The launch of the Burial Database Project of Enslaved African Americans is significant at this historical moment not only because it is the year of the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, it is also a moment of some urgency as the locations of these spaces may soon disappear in the oral histories of descendants and local communities. The launch is a call to the public to assist the Project in uncovering and documenting these important historic monuments."
- Irma Watkins-Owens, Director and Fordham professor of African and African American Studies
"The pervasive cemeteries of the enslaved are the indelible, though often buried, mark of humanity on a historic landscape of willful dehumanization. These represent the contestation of humanity from which the distinctive wealth and culture of the Americas are significantly derived. The Burial Database of Enslaved African Americans takes sides in that ongoing history."
-Michael L. Blakey, National Endowment for the Humanities, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Institute for Historical Biology, College of William and Mary.
"I have been studying historic, African-American cemeteries for over a decade. Our understanding of 19th-century communities, religious beliefs, and family structure is not complete without a thorough study of these historic sites. The Burial Database Project represents a significant step forward in our efforts to locate and document these sacred sites so that they will be preserved for current and future generations to visit and study. Given the generations of enslaved families, I think most people will be surprised at how many historic slave cemeteries exist."
-Lynn Rainville, Founding Director, Tusculum Institute, Research professor in the Humanities, Sweet Briar College
"The Burial Database Project is of huge significance for both the memorialization and the study of the enslaved populations of the Americas. Drawing on the most recently developed techniques of the digital humanities, including crowd-sourcing, it will result in the establishment and maintenance of a National Burial Ground Registry of Enslaved African-Americans that will become a major source for re-creating and understanding the lived experience of slavery in our country's past."
-David Eltis, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History; Co-Editor, Transatlantic Slave Trade Database; Emory University
"Too often Americans have chosen to forget our shared history of slavery, finding it too painful to dwell on or too distant from our lived experiences. Nowhere is this more evident in the neglect given to the burial grounds of enslaved African Americans. In identifying these sites, the Burial Database Project will not only provide important information to historians but will honor the memory of those who labored in bondage." – Thomas Thurston, Education Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
As you'll see in this USA Today story from 2012, this database is sorely is needed. Similarly, this CNN story from February 2011, refers to the "invisible dead." And this November 2011 story from NewsOne.com shows how these burial sites are sometimes simply stumbled upon.
Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 15,100 students in its four undergraduate colleges and its six graduate and professional schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre at Heythrop College, University of London, in the United Kingdom.


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This describes how to authenticate with Microsoft Live using Goa, as described in Oauth2 for Apps Script in a few lines of code (which you should read first for background).
The library, cGoa, is available under this project key.
Setting up
You'll need to create an App. The dashboard/developers console can be found here. Your one time setup would look something like this.
// this one connects to onedrive
cGoa.GoaApp.setPackage (propertyStore , {
clientId : "0xxxx3",
clientSecret : "NxxxxxxM",
scopes : ["wl.signin","wl.basic","wl.offline_access","wl.skydrive_update"],
service: 'live',
packageName: 'onedrive'
The example
Services > Desktop Liberation - the definitive resource for Google Apps Script and Microsoft Office automation > OAuth2 for Apps Script in a few lines of code >


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Can you reveal where you are getting this information?
Having a mobile phone is great when you need to talk on the go, but if you have a faulty battery, then you have to carry charger along with you throughout the day.
Many things can go wrong with a phone's battery, from the so-called "memory effect" to plain-old worn out batteries. Some problem can be corrected, but unfortunately, most of the batteries need to be replaced.
Nowadays overcharge is a more common problem in modern cell phones. When you overcharge a battery, it means that you leave the phone on the charger after it has reached 100 percent.
While leaving a battery on a charging station for a few hours after the charge has completed will not impact the battery too negatively, if you leave the battery on the charger for more than 24 hours you can overheat and permanently damage the battery.


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Asian Style Coleslaw (for Sher, who touched so many lives)
I always felt a special kinship for Sher (never Sherry to me) starting from the very first time she participated in Weekend Herb Blogging in February of 2006. Right away, Sher became one of the most faithful participants, probably missing only a few weeks since that first time. It didn't take long following her blog for me to realize that every recipe Sher posted always looked delicious to me, and after a while I started an ongoing joke that "Sher and I had the same taste buds." We shared a love of cilantro, tomato sandwiches, and garbanzo beans, and were both passionate about gardening. After a while we discovered that we were born within days of each other, and Sher had been an attorney, which had been my first choice of professions in college. The last year or so, I knew that Sher had been facing some real challenges in her life, but the one time I spoke with her on the phone recently she was positive and hopeful for the future. I deeply regret that although we planned to meet in person, it never did work out, and regret even more that dreams we shared of traveling around the world together, meeting our mutual food blogging friends, are now never going to come true. I'm sure I would have loved Sher in person as much as I did on her blog, in her e-mails, and in the witty and charming comments she regularly left on so many blogs. I will miss you Sher, perhaps more than you could have ever imagined.
This recipe makes 10 servings, but can be easily cut in half.
Dressing Ingredients:
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter (or use tahini, which Sher used because she didn't have peanut butter)
3 T fresh lime juice
3 T Asian fish sauce (I used less of this and a bit more peanut butter because I was making this for people I thought might not be fans of fish sauce)
3 T water
3 T sugar, Splenda, or Agave Nectar (I used Agave nectar)
3 cloves garlic, finely minced (I used 1 tsp. garlic puree)
1 T Sriracha sauce (I only used 1 tsp. You could use another type of hot sauce.)
Salad Ingredients:
2 pounds napa cabbage, thinly sliced (about 12 cups)
3/4 lb. red cabbage, thinly sliced (about 3 cups)
3 medium carrots, juliened (I used a mandoline, but next time I would grate the carrots)
2 red peppers, thinly sliced
3 T chopped cilantro (I used about 1/2 cup chopped cilantro)
15 mint leaves (I used about 1/4 cup chopped mint)
1/2 cup roasted peanuts (Sher said unsalted, but I only had salted)
salt and freshly ground pepper
I wrote earlier this week about Planning an Online Memorial for a Wonderful Blogger and Friend. There is also a lovely tribute to Sher at A Fridge Full of Food. Sher's wonderful friend Glenna is collecting links to all the recipe tributes on her post about The Comforts of Sher's Home so that Sher's friends and family can find them.


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With the ongoing conflict in Syria and North Korea preparing to launch a rocket, the world can be a volatile place.
Monitoring the world's conflicts and more is just part of the job of United Nation's Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Mountain View-based Google likes to live by the mantra "Do no evil" despite what its critics say.
Tuesday the two worlds will come together when the search company hosts the South Korean diplomat in a Google+ Hangout.
"We're passionate about changing the world," Dex Torricke-Barton, with Google's Global Communications and Public Affairs team, said in a statement. "But there's another organization that's equally passionate—and has been doing it a lot longer. For more than 60 years, the United Nations has worked to advance a global agenda on ending war and poverty, promoting human rights, protecting the environment and dealing with humanitarian crises—critical issues that will determine the quality of life for future generations to come."
Google will stream the Hangout live on Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. on YouTube. It will be moderated by Google's SVP of Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer David C. Drummond.
Select users from across the globe will also be given the opportunity to ask Moon questions.
The Hangout is part of an ongoing series the tech company is hosting with world leaders and trend setters.
Google to Hangout With Ban Ki-moon
With the ongoing conflict in Syria and North Korea preparing to launch a rocket, the world can be a volatile place.


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text: Happiness Is A Warm Gun song She's not a girl who misses much. Do do do do do do do do She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand Like a lizard on a window pane. The man in the crowd with the multicolored mirrors On his hobnail boots Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy Working overtime A soap impression of his wife which he ate And donated to the National Trust. I need a fix 'cause I'm going down. Down to the bits that I left uptown. I need a fix 'cause I'm going down. Mother Superior jump the gun Mother Superior jump the gun Mother Superior jump the gun Mother Superior jump the gun. Happiness is a warm gun Happiness is a warm gun When I hold you in my arms And I feel my finger on your trigger I know nobody can do me no harm Because happiness is a warm gun. Happiness is a warm gun Yes it is. Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun. Well, don't you know that happiness is a warm gun, mama. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Song by the Beatles from the album The Beatles Released 22 November 1968 Recorded 24–25 September 1968,EMI Studios, London Genre Hard rock, blues rock Length 2:43 Label Apple Records Writer Lennon–McCartney Producer George Martin The Beatles track listing 30 tracks Side one "Back in the U.S.S.R." "Dear Prudence" "Glass Onion" "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" "Wild Honey Pie" "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Side two "Martha My Dear" "I'm So Tired" "Blackbird" "Piggies" "Rocky Raccoon" "Don't Pass Me By" "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" "I Will" "Julia" Side three "Birthday" "Yer Blues" "Mother Nature's Son" "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" "Sexy Sadie" "Helter Skelter" "Long, Long, Long" Side four "Revolution 1" "Honey Pie" "Savoy Truffle" "Cry Baby Cry" "Revolution 9" "Good Night" "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" is a song by the Beatles, featured on the eponymous double-disc album The Beatles, also known as The White Album. Although credited to Lennon–McCartney, it was written by John Lennon. Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication. Happiness Is A Warm Gun (White) Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Anthology 3) ©1968 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.


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A Bird's-Eye View of Accounting in the Life Insurance Industry
by KENNETH E. STAPLES Principal, Dallas Office
Presented before the Dallas Chapter of the Ameri-ican Society of Women Accountants — September 1963
LIFE INSURANCE follows one of the most exceptional methods of accounting in existence today, a fact that in itself makes life insurance accounting work interesting. In addition, the continued and substantial growth of most life insurance companies and developments in state regulation and in the Federal income tax laws relating to life insurance companies make life insurance accounting even more intriguing.
The financial statements of a life insurance company are prepared on what is frequently called the liquidation basis of accounting. This method is in contrast with that used in the financial statements of most commercial concerns, which are prepared on the going-concern basis. This distinction is responsible for most of the extraordinary features of life insurance accounting. Presumably a life-insurance-company balance sheet prepared on the liquidation basis should reflect the net assets realizable by the company if it were liquidated at the balance-sheet date. This would not be true however as would be apparent from comparing the market value of such a company's investments in bonds with the value reflected in its balance sheet. The liquidation basis does, however, result in very conservative accounting by restricting the type of, and also the amount at which, assets may be included in the balance sheet. This circumstance will become apparent when specific financial-statement items are discussed later.
Uniform Annual Statements
The insurance departments of the various states regulate the life insurance industry within their borders and determine the reporting and other requirements to be adhered to. The primary concern of insurance
authorities is to protect the policyholder rather than the stockholder, which accounts for the restrictions imposed upon life insurance
companies and for much of the conservatism of their financial statements. An insurance company must comply with the laws of the


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Gigi Gaston was the prototypical 60s French pop star. Her life was full of the dramas which seem to plague only the rich and famous; her Gypsy family's escape from Bulgaria, an affair with her stepbrother, her rise and fall up the pop charts, a marriage that ended in infidelity and murder.
In 1974 Normal Mailer wrote, "Could this Black Flower with a voice like Piaf have guessed that when she bloomed into a teenage singing idol for post-war European youth, and later became the Continental fashion icon and sexy French pin-up girl on the bedroom walls of the hippest kids, that the future would strangle her dreams of normalcy, like the protagonists in one her romantically fatalistic songs? No, of course not. Because the characters of Greek tragedies are always the last to know their fates."
The only problem? She never existed! She's the brainchild of artist Josh Gosfield who invented her entire existence. The ephemera, the stories, the persona... all fictional.
Genius, no?
*Gigi Gaston: The Black Flower will be on view October 22nd through November 25th, 2009. Steven Kasher Gallery is located at 521 W. 23rd St., New York, NY 10011.Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 to 6pm.