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As a Corporate Partner of the Philharmonia Orchestra Aon Hewitt have enjoyed two very different client entertaining experiences.
Royal Festival Hall Concert Partnership
In November 2012 the Philharmonia presented the James Bond 50th Anniversary Gala concert at the Royal Festival Hall. As the world's most recorded Orchestra, film and movie scores are an historic part of the Philharmonia legacy and hearing these iconic melodies live is a thrilling experience.
For this one-off evening Aon Hewitt invited clients to enjoy private pre, interval and post-concert receptions in a première hospitality space within the Hall overlooking the Thames and London Eye before joining a packed auditorium of concert goers. The Orchestra, conducted by Carl Davis, performed a selection of well-known hits from the films across the 5 decades celebrating the huge popularity of the James Bond franchise. The evening was hosted and narrated by, arguably the most iconic Bond Girl of them all, Honour Blackman. After the concert, the Maestro Davis, the singers and Honour Blackman all joined Aon Hewitt's guests for drinks at their post-concert reception.
"This type of opportunity is both great fun and enormously impressive. Our clients, and the consultants who hosted, them shared a fantastic evening with unparalleled access to the artists – making it memorable for everyone. The surroundings of the hall, the facilities and the catering were all excellent and the format of the event was straightforward yet effective. The feedback myself and my colleagues received was overwhelmingly positive and a true indicator of just how inspiring an occasion this was and how different it was to many other corporate events."
Jackie Daldorph Managing Principal, Aon Hewitt
Private Event Partnership
In January 2013 Aon Hewitt worked with the team at the Philharmonia to create a private event for 50 guests at a central London location. Co-hosted by the Philharmonia Managing Director and a senior Aon Hewitt representative, "Inspiring Performance – Diversity and Collaboration" drew on the history of women players within the Orchestra to highlight the importance of diversity within an organisation. Following an enlightening discussion, where David shared his thoughts and experience, a string quartet of female players performed and then answered questions about their work and lives. The evening was incredibly well-received by guests who thought it cleverly framed a business topic; and, it gave them direct access and insight to how the Philharmonia works and they enjoyed the way in which the members of the orchestra shared their experiences.
"Working in partnership with the Orchestra allowed us to work creatively and deliver a very enjoyable and unique networking evening that stood out from the usual programme of business-to-business events. The scope and flexibility of working with the Philharmonia Orchestra works very well, their team guided us through the event, providing detailed information and creative suggestions. Working with the Managing Director of the Orchestra was hugely valuable and brought together two very different worlds in an informative and imaginative way. Our guests particularly liked hearing from the musicians and seeing working life through their eyes – a unique experience."
Jackie Daldorph Managing Principal, Aon Hewitt
Statements of Support from our Corporate Partners
"Having a cello ensemble from the Philharmonia Orchestra perform at our event was very special. We were presented with a variety of musical options to fit our brief and which worked with the unusual acoustic of the venue. The recital was a perfect post dinner moment allowing our guests to relax and hear the excellent technical ability of the musicians in an intimate surrounding. Working with this calibre of organisation matches our own hospitality aims and objectives, and allowed us to concentrate on the other aspects of the evening."
Julia Zilberman, Global Marketing Head, Citi Markets, Citigroup
"Bosch in the UK has supported the Philharmonia Orchestra for 15 years and thoroughly enjoys the association the membership brings. The pleasure of watching a renowned Orchestra in such a prestigious setting is a great experience. The concerts are a good opportunity for us to entertain clients in a relaxed environment and we have the assurance that we will always be well looked after by the Philharmonia Orchestra team."
Dr Peter Fouquet, President, Bosch UK
"Elephant Communications is proud to be a partner of one of the world's finest orchestras. The quality and originality of the music making, the originality of the trail-blazing digital programme and the footprint of the orchesta's touring both across the UK and abroad make the Philharmonia Orchestra one of the most exciting UK organisations to work with. Over the last year we have provided PR advice and training to the development team, served as a member of the dynamic business development team and regularly take guests and clients to the Royal Festival Hall for wonderful live performances. Mahler 2, the semi-staged performance of blue beard, and the Gala Bond Night...there have been so many live performances that have profoundly moved our guests and clients and we are keen to ensure that the broadest possible audience can be encouraged to experience engaging, world leading and highly exciting concert performances that the Philharmonia Orchestra deliver week-in week-out in the heart of London."
Guy Bellamy, Managing Director, Elephant Communications


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3 – "Enhanced thermogenesis and diminished deposition of fat in response to overfeeding with diet containing medium chain triglyceride" American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Apr 1982
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
"He almost has to start. Do You Believe In Miracles?"
These words from manager John Gibbons after announcing that Josh Towers will take over the "mildly" inured AJ Burnett's next start. Priceless.
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- Tao of Stieb said...
I can't wait to see Towers take on the Nats this weekend! It'll be like watching a tee-ball game.
We'll just have to hope that Washington keeps smacking the tee instead of the ball.
- June 15, 2007 at 12:33 PM
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|Letters to the editor, numbers 114-166, 1980-1981
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Curtis, Margaret Miller, 1935-
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|The Margaret Miller Curtis Papers, organized into six series, consists of material from the mid-1970s to 1996. These materials, including printed materials, speeches, and correspondence, reflect her involvement with the Council on Battered Women, as well as her efforts to ratify the ERA in Georgia through her work as president of People of Faith for the ERA, chair of the Speaker's Bureau for ERA Georgia, and her membership in ERA Georgia, the National Women's Political Caucus, the League of Women Voters, and the Georgia Women's Political Caucus. Manuscript materials (notes, correspondence, news clippings, printed materials and publications) in this collection document not only her involvement with these organizations, but her attendance at major conferences concerning women and the ERA, as well as her involvement in politics and religion. Series I contains Curtis' personal and public correspondence and Series II contains speeches and writings both produced and collected by Curtis concerning battered women, People of Faith for the ERA, and feminism and Christianity. Series III contains information from the various organizations Curtis was involved with during the 1970s and 1980s. Series IV consists of printed material and personal notes from conferences Curtis attended, including the White House Conferences on Families in 1980. Series V is material filed by subject, including ERA pamphlets and brochures as well as ERA opposition material. Finally, Series VI consists of Curtis' personal materials, including writings and news clippings.
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|Margaret Miller Curtis, born in Marianna, Florida on 1 November 1935, earned a bachelor's degree in education from Florida State University and taught elementary school in Florida and Ohio. In 1973 she moved to Georgia and became active in the Women's Movement centering her Christian faith in her activism for women's rights. During the 1970's and 1980's she functioned as a writer, lobbyist, and fund-raiser for a number of organizations, including People of Faith for the ERA, ERA Georgia, Inc., and the Council on Battered Women. Curtis traveled and spoke extensively to religious groups, at community meetings, and at organizational conferences throughout Georgia, advocating for the ratification of the ERA. Curtis was chair of the Speaker's Bureau for ERA Georgia, Inc. (1979-1980), was president of People of Faith for the ERA in Georgia (1980-1982), and has served on the board of directors for the Council on Battered Women (1975, 1986-88). Curtis "specialized" in newspaper publicity and letter writing and has had over 500 letters to the editor published in addition to those she authored for others. Many of these, which she continues to write, address the ERA and other women's issues. Her cartoons and creative writings, some of which have also been published, reflect her activism and interest in these issues. Curtis resides in Vinings, Georgia.
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While information processes in general have been systematically examined with respect to the individual, the same cannot be said for groups. This conceptual paper starts from existing models that represent an individual, and examines how research on group intertwines with the information world to identify an emerging framework for the study of groups from an information-centric perspective.
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I am always inspired by the colorful quilts made by Rita of Red Pepper Quilts so I just picked some random bright colors from my fabric stash. Initially I just had a white border, but when I was auditioning fabrics for the back, I realized the additional turquoise border would really frame out the quilt nicely.
To offset the brights on the front, I chose Kona Ash and White for the back. The binding is a wonderful Tula Nest print.
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Hollins University is joining Emory & Henry College, Lynchburg College, Randolph College, and Sweet Briar College to become the first institutions of higher learning in Virginia to provide 100 percent renewable electricity to their respective campuses.
As a result, the independent colleges are offsetting between 50 and 70 percent of their total carbon footprints and establishing a new standard for sustainability at colleges and universities in the Commonwealth. The colleges estimate a combined savings of between $3.2 million and $6.4 million over the next 12 years.
The five schools have entered into agreements with Collegiate Clean Energy (CCE), which provides colleges, universities, and businesses with renewable energy products, and is an affiliate of Ingenco, Virginia's largest landfill gas (LFG) to energy operator. Landfills account for 35 percent of all manmade methane emissions in the United States, and by capturing those emissions, LFG to energy projects preserve the environment while reducing the need for fossil fuel.
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"The leads are weak," Jack Lemmon's character, Shelley Levene, tells Alec Baldwin in "Glengarry Glen Ross."
B2B buyer behavior has changed dramatically, yet many sales managers are struggling to make sure their reps got the memo. With basic product and services information readily available on the Web, buyers invite reps in for a sales meeting because they want more. They're looking for a partner in solving their business need – a partner with market context on best practices, trends, competitors, compliance, risk and other information that can help them frame the best path to a solution for their own business.
Trouble is, many reps arrive simply prepared to disseminate rote information instead of ready to solve problems that win deals. A recent Forrester Research Executive Buyer Insight survey found that only 20% of customers felt that sales reps were adequately prepared for the sort of value-added conversions that not only lead to second meetings, but also drive purchasing decisions.
What's more, offering that context often allows reps to deepen engagement with senior managers, instead of keeping the dialogue at the level of the organizational gatekeepers like purchasing managers whose primary focus is to achieve lower pricing.
Sales managers may think they have the pulse on what their reps know – after all, they arranged for training, provided coaching and may even have done a ride-along. But when the rep is out alone, how do managers really know sales reps are prepared to win in this new contextual-selling environment?
Original brain science research done at Harvard and replicated elsewhere shows that continual, small doses of reinforcement has been scientifically proven to change even ingrained behavior and substantially increase retention on even complex skills. Through the application of game, reputation and social mechanics, such as scoring and competitive leaderboards, this approach substantially increases engagement and user satisfaction.
This research is being applied to both improving sales force performance and allowing sales managers to better understand what reps know, and how managers can help. This is particularly true as mobile devices offer the opportunity to reach reps in new and measurable ways – and as data analytics deliver a more precise understanding of areas where the sales manager's limited coaching time would have the greatest impact.
For example, at Intuitive Surgical formal sales training on a new offering could often end up taking place months before the actual product launch, due to timing of national sales meetings, engineering delays, etc. This lag time usually meant that managers had no idea if important selling skills, competitive responses or client approaches were retained during the gap – a situation that could limit the effectiveness of the launch.
Intuitive recently explored the new mobile, game-based, analytics platform called Qstream that evolved from the Harvard research. Qstream's platform delivered brand manager-approved challenges that reps would answer in three minutes or less a day, several times a week – often while waiting in line for a cup of coffee. Typical question-based challenges are designed to go beyond rote product information, and into the broader context needed to engage with different buyer-types – or to problem solve during a sales call. Once a rep answers a challenge correctly at least twice, it is retired ensuring that the rep has mastered a particular response or skill.
Perhaps more importantly, the platform aggregates and delivers to sales executives a real-time view of reps' performance data. This is done not in the spirit of heavy-handed monitoring – but to allow sales managers to manage the investment of their time with reps. For instance, managers can identify at a glance those sales reps who clearly get it and therefore needed less coaching. Conversely the approach flags individuals perhaps in need of extra coaching on objection-handling or other sales skills.
As for Intuitive, they even went so far as to do a three-way benchmark comparing information retention scores from those who attended the national sales meeting without ongoing reinforcement, those who attended and received 1:1 coaching with a subject matter expert, and those who experienced the Qstream mobile platform approach. The results were dramatic. Intuitive found that the mobile, game-mechanics driven approach delivered the same retention as access to a 1:1 coach, and better retention than the training program alone upon retest – with far less investment of time, money and resources.
Furthermore the Qstream platform provided managers with a plethora of data they could use to drill down into each individual's performance. Finally, when an executive would ask, "How effective is our sales support investment?" Intuitive could provide insight using data, not hunches.
Sales managers who differentiate their sales force by making sure it focuses on buyers' needs first – and company needs second – are the ones who land atop annual rankings of best sales forces or best companies to sell for. They have adapted their selling process to the economic shifts, changing government regulations, competitive landscape, and more.
It's time sales managers go beyond annual kickoff meeting training sessions and 1:1 chats with reps to gauge their preparedness for the new world of selling – and leverage ongoing, measurable approaches to monitoring what reps know, so they can better equip sales reps and indeed the entire organization to win.
Lisa Clark is Vice President of Marketing at Qstream, which provides mobile sales enablement and analytics for driving high-performance teams.


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Like many of you, I went through school learning history from books written by Anglo men educated in the European tradition. The stories of settling the American West were exciting tales of heroic men fighting Indians, foreigners, and Mother Nature. Subdue and conquer. Since then I've learned, as have you, that those history texts told only part of the story. I've learned that history belongs to those who write it.
Jennifer Nez Dentdale also figured that out. She is a descendant of Chief Manuelito and his wife Juanita, two well-known Navajo leaders who experienced the Trail of Tears and incarceration at the Bosque Redondo.
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By looking at the ways in which Chief Manuelito and Juanita confronted the loss of their homeland then helped rebuilt it after their return from the Bosque Redondo, Dentdale highlights the importance of the land, spiritual traditions, and the family.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – It was a dominating first night for the No. 4 ranked MIT men's swimming and diving team as the Engineers won five of six events to score 323 points. Going into Day 2 the Engineers hold a 161-point edge over second-place Coast Guard.
In the men's 200 Free Relay it was the MIT team of sophomore Colby Dunn (Weston, Mass.), freshman Austin Fathman (Hamilton, Mich.), junior Brendan Deveney (Newton, Conn.), and junior Wyatt Ubellacker (Georgetown, Ky.) that blazed to the win, setting a new meet record of 1:21.86 that was also an NCAA A cut.
On the men's side MIT dominated the race, finishing 1-2-3-4 in the final. Sophomore Carlo Biedenharn (Loveland, Ohio) led a 1-2-3-4 MIT sweep in the 500 Free, winning the event in a school record time of 4:31.19, with sophomore Remy Mock (Victoria, British Columbia) right behind in 4:34.02. Both of those times were NCAA B cuts. Junior Max Pruner (Sioux Falls, S.D.) and sophomore Tim Wall (Newtown, Pa.) completed the sweep for the Engineers.
Deveney turned in an NCAA A time of 1:51.18, another school record, in winning the 200 IM and leading a 1-2-3 MIT finish. Senior Matthew Chapa (Baytown, Texas) had a B time of 1:53.58, with freshman Ben Bauchwitz (Hershey, Pa.) taking third.
Ubellacker led an MIT assault in the 50 Free where the Engineers took the top five places. He won the event in an NCAA B time of 20.66, with Fathman taking second in 20.85.
MIT closed out the evening with another relay win, this time taking the team title in the 400 Medley Relay. The team of junior Ron Rosenberg (Newton, Mass.), sophomore Michael Liao (Newport Beach, Calif.), Ubellacker and junior Tony Chen (Clemmons, N.C.) turned in an NCAA B cut time of 3:21.63 to take their race.


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Senate Finance Committee member Maria Cantwell said she won't vote for a bill without a public option, such as the Baucus bill. She said to McClatchy Newspapers, "I wouldn't vote for a bill that doesn't have Medicare reform and the public option. What would I tell the people in Washington state?"
After Sen. Jay Rockefeller, that makes two Democratic members on the Senate Finance Committee who have pledged to vote against the Baucus bill as drafted.
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Depression in Dogs
The benefits that a dog can bring to a human in terms of depression are well known – dogs can help alleviate and mitigate the symptoms of depression. They lower blood pressure, promote touch, provide a much needed distraction and their ability to alter our behavior is obvious to any pet owner. Can dogs experience depression? Obviously, we cannot get them a therapists couch and tell us how they feel but their behavior will tell us a lot if we pay attention. Some dogs are excited and enthusiastic
Dogs in Clothes
I was never really a fan of putting dogs in clothes. Maybe a funny or cute headband or sunglasses for a holiday, but in general, I was not a fan. Dogs use their bodies to communicate with other dogs and animals and when they are wearing clothes, this can hinder that communication. My dog Oscar is not a fan of costumes and will tolerate me putting sunglasses on him for a single picture, but then it's over. Then my dog Ollie came along and I just defaulted to no clothes on pets. One day, we went


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So says Tom Silverstein in today's Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. "The level of inactivity the Green Bay Packers have shown the past five weeks might be the least predictable aspect of the National Football League's free-agency period thus far."
I am perplexed. How was this not predictable? Last year, the Packers were coming off an 8-8 season and did virtually nothing in free agency. This year, the Packers are coming off a 13-3 season and while they lost Brett Favre it's clear that Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy believe that Aaron Rodgers is a capable replacement.
If we know anything about Ted Thompson right now, it's how little regard he has for free agency. He says he's not averse to going there to add key players at key times, but he's done it only a couple times — Charles Woodson comes to mind — and even then only after the price on those free agents has come down a bit.
You want hard to predict? How about the Washington Redskins, who have spent lavishly for the past several years on big-name agents and did virtually nothing this year. That is surprising. But the Packers' inactivity in free agency not only wasn't surprising it was, to borrow a phrase, entirely predictable.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fortification of foods with additional nutrients does have an impact on kids' intake of vitamins and minerals, but many children and teens are still not getting adequate nutrition, according to a new U.S. study.
Based on a large national dietary survey, the researchers found that without fortification, the diets of a large number of children and teens would be nutritionally inadequate. With fortification the picture is better, but not perfect.
"Foods with added nutrients (most notably breakfast cereals, enriched grain foods, fluid milks) supplied important amounts of many but not all vitamins and minerals in diets of U.S. children and adolescents," Louise Berner told Reuters Health in an email.
Berner is a food science and nutrition researcher at Cal Poly State University in San Luis Obispo, California.
Currently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requires some fortification of food, such as enriching refined flour with vitamins and iron and adding vitamin A to low- and non-fat milk.
Food manufacturers may also add nutrients to food voluntarily - some brands of orange juice, for example, are fortified with added calcium.
Berner and colleagues wanted to find out both how much of an impact fortification has on kids' nutrition and determine which foods were providing the added nutrients.
The researchers used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to analyze the diets of 7,250 children and adolescents ages 2 to 18 years old.
Berner's team looked at the types of food eaten and any supplements taken and assessed the nutrient content of each food. Then they assessed how nutritionally adequate each kid's diet was by seeing whether it met Estimated Average Requirements (EAR).
The EAR is the average daily nutrient intake level estimated to meet the requirement of half the healthy individuals in a particular group based on age or gender.
On average, girls ages 14 to 18 years old were most likely to fall short of the EAR for their age, while boys and girls 2 to 8 years old had the lowest rates of inadequate nutrient intakes.
The study team found that fortified foods contributed half or more of the intakes of vitamin D, thiamin, and folate to children's diets; 20 to 47 percent of the intakes of vitamin A, vitamin C, riboflavin, niacin, B-6, B-12, and iron; 12 to 18 percent of the intake of zinc; but only 4.5 to 6.6 percent of calcium.
Even with the increased nutrients from fortified sources, a substantial percentage of kids still had intakes of vitamins A, C and D that were less than the EAR for their age and sex.
The fortified foods also did not appear to lead to excessive intakes of any nutrients, which is a concern others have expressed in the past, Berner and her colleagues note in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
The fortified foods that provided the most nutrients were breakfast cereals, milk and milk drinks, breads, rolls and other products made with enriched grains.
"This research study provides a good picture of the contribution of fortified foods to kids' diets in the U.S.," Berner said, "but, it should not be misinterpreted as a dietary recommendation to consumers - that was not the intent of the research."
So many unfortified foods, including fruits, vegetables, meats, fish and so forth, are critically important parts of healthful diets yet are often under-consumed, Berner said.
"But, selectively, I think it makes sense - for example, choosing a fortified breakfast cereal instead of an unfortified one," she said.
Berner and her coauthors advise consumers to obtain nutrients primarily from foods that are naturally nutrient-dense. And, they point out, not all fortified foods are healthy foods.
"The trouble with fortification is that while it can increase the 'good,' it doesn't necessarily do anything to decrease the 'bad'," Dr. David Katz told Reuters Health in an email.
Katz is the founding director of the Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine and medical director for the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital in Derby, CT. He was not involved in the new study.
Katz said there are examples of fortification that are very important no matter what the diet is like. Vitamin D in a population that doesn't get a lot of sun exposure is perhaps the best example.
Katz said the paper demonstrates that in a culture that eats very poorly, we need fortification to have adequate nutrient intake.
"But what this paper does not address at all is: what would happen if we actually ate well," he added.
Katz said it's a mistake to think that preventing nutrient deficiencies with fortified "junk" foods is in any way the same as eating truly good foods.
"Eating a variety of wholesome foods would provide those same nutrients, along with many others, and without the sugar, salt, refined starch, unhealthy oils, excess calories and so on," Katz said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/1iq2L5M Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Online January 27, 2014.


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Chip Kelly now is locked in with the Philadelphia Eagles. A top order of business is deciding what to do with quarterback Michael Vick.
Kelly apparently is wasting no time trying to figure that out. Citing a source with knowledge of the situation, ProFootballTalk reported that Kelly and Vick met Friday, though no decision was made on the quarterback's future. The Eagles aren't expected to make a decision in the "immediate future."
This process won't extend too long, however. The Eagles will be locked into $3 million of Vick's $15.5 million base salary if he's still on the roster by Feb. 6. That deadline might double as Kelly's deadline for deciding if he wants Vick leading his offense on his maiden voyage in the NFL.
The Eagles could hold on to Vick, then try to trade him when the new league year kicks off March 12, though Vick's unwillingness to renegotiate his salary could make him a hard sell to another team. One potential landing spot is the New York Jets, who hired former Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg in the same position Friday. The New York Daily News reports a reunion between Vick and Mornhinweg is "unlikely as of right now."
Kelly and Vick have the potential to make sweet music. Of course, that all depends which version of Vick we're talking about.
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Roberto Clemente Memorial Scholarship
Amount: $1,700
Due Date: Friday, February 22, 2019
Keep this scholarship funded for future generations.
Offered to a new or currently enrolled student attending full time who is pursuing a career in Puerto Rican or Central American studies. Applicants should have proficiency in conversational Spanish. The scholarship will be awarded on the basis of a demonstrable commitment to public service, scholastic achievement and financial need. Other things being equal, preference will be given to students of Latin American and Puerto Rican heritage who will be the first of their family to graduate from a four-year college and to students intending to study abroad in Central America or Puerto Rico.
- Letter of application addressing your qualifications and why you wish to be considered for the scholarship. Your letter should include a description of your academic achievements, public service experience and a description of how your academic plan will help you achieve your goal of pursuing Puerto Rican or Central American studies. Include a statement related to your financial need.
- Two letters of recommendation from individuals, other than relatives, who are familiar with your achievements.
- New Students must submit unofficial transcripts from high school and/or previous colleges (see How to Apply #3A and B). These are in addition to transcripts submitted for admission.
- Current Evergreen students must submit copies of Evergreen evaluations (see How to Apply #3C) or letters from program faculty specifically addressing academic achievement. The letters from faculty will not substitute for letters of recommendation if used to replace evaluations.
- FAFSA or WASFA (How to Apply #4).


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Call it a mini-crisis. It was my fourth day of skiing — ever — and Vail Mountain was getting pounded with snow.
Standing at the base, I watched my buddies charge hard for the iconic back bowls. As a newbie and still unsure on skis, I struggled to make sense of the trail map with its spider web of green, blue and black runs.
"Big day for powder," someone in the lift line said.
Another guy told his friend, "Not a great day to learn how to ski."
True on both counts. Because Vail is so large and I wasn't sure where the terrain and my skill level coincided, I was frustrated much of the day, although I still count it as a success. But as I developed into a skier, I realized that navigating a mountain is more than just memorizing a trail map.
The real skill is the ability to assess terrain and mountain infrastructure and relate it to your skiing ability.
"Skiing a mountain can be intimidating," Vail ski patroller Chris Reeder told me recently while we huddled next to a mid-mountain fireplace as a blizzard raged outside. "Especially a mountain for the first time."
The 5,239 acres of Vail are a good example. The resort has 31 lifts that service 193 conventional trails. Fifty-three percent of the trails are expert or advanced, 29% intermediate and 18% beginner. Add in the mountain's seven bowls, and you have virtually an infinite number of runs, thanks to the wide-open terrain.
"I've been skiing at Vail for years, and I still find new stuff," longtime Vail resident Jack Hunn told me. "The mountain just has so many ways to get around."
That brings me back to standing alone as the snow piled up faster than I would have liked. New skiers and those who might be looking at the mountain for the first time can easily become overwhelmed as they try to choose the best runs without getting in over their heads.
With each season I learned the art of skiing (or boarding) was more than just showing up and heading to a favorite run. It is about choosing the ideal way to approach the mountain to get fresh powder in the morning, untouched stashes by lunchtime and to avoid ice during the afternoon.
Then there is the art of avoiding the half-hour lines that form around well-used lifts that inexperienced skiers use. (These are usually the same people who have trouble getting on and off the lifts).
"Many times people don't think about what went into all the infrastructure and planning of a resort and how it helps them get around the mountain," said Kent Sharp of the ski resort design firm SE Group.
Before I got into skiing, I also never imagined that I would be chatting about the fine art of grooming styles, lift placements, fall lines and the not-so-subtle differences between fixed and detachable lifts.
First, let's talk about the lifts. Both types — fixed and detachable — put skiers on the mountain, but they do so in a slightly different way.
Take, for example, this year's new high-speed lift at Arapahoe Basin, a resort on the Continental Divide in Colorado.
The old fixed lift, which operated by using only one cable to move skiers up and down the mountain, caused bottlenecks and skier error, mostly with the beginner and intermediate ski crowd. The one-cable system meant skiers were loaded and unloaded at the same speed at which they were transported up the mountain. Essentially if the chair was moving at a speed of 500 feet per second, skiers had to be comfortable navigating the load/unload process with a chair moving that fast.
Here's the rub: At Arapahoe Basin (and many other resorts with fixed lifts) skiers want to spend as little time as possible on the lift, but not all skiers can load and unload safely if the cable is moving that fast.
The solution? Slow down the cable speed enough to make it safe and easy for skiers to get on and off without unduly delaying the trip up the slope.
"It's a juggling act," Sharp said.
Thus the new high-speed detachable lifts, which are prevalent at resorts today, use two separate cables. That means chairs can be transferred to a slower-moving cable at the loading and unloading zones, allowing the skiers to load at a speed that differs from their ascent speed.
"Because detachable lifts are so much easier to load and unload for people learning to ski," Alan Henceroth, vice president and chief operating officer for Arapahoe Basin, wrote in an early-season blog post, "we anticipate way fewer stops and slows."
As for lift placement, resorts rely on repeat business, so they feel pressure to open new terrain. But, Hunn noted, "It's easy to get lost or spend lots of time on moving around a mountain. Knowing how to read terrain and what type of a lift services it is what helps."
Experts say new skiers should rely less on trail designations and more on their assessment of their own abilities (assuming their view is realistic). A quick look at Vail's map, for instance, shows that a beginning skier can get to the top of the mountain but not into the back bowls on a beginner run.
There are intermediate runs that can take you there if you are comfortable doing so and think it's a manageable risk. As in most things in life, honesty with oneself is key, as is seeking advice.
"One of the best things new skiers can do is ask for help," Reeder told me. "I enjoy it when someone asks how to get somewhere."
Other tricks to navigating a resort include choosing a section of the mountain that is served by one lift but offers a range of terrain. That way, groups can stay together while new skiers take easier runs down and more advanced skiers take steeper trails.
Then there is the ultimate resource for skiers wanting to learn the small stuff about a new resort or favorite local hill. This document, known as a master plan, deconstructs why a tree island may have been left in the middle of a favorite run or why a particular lift is where it is.
Buried deep inside hundreds of pages, a skier or boarder can find a slew of information about how the mountain comes together. Some of the information includes fall line analysis, usually considered the fastest way down a mountain and determined by the line a ball would roll if rolled down the trail; slope analysis, which measures the gradient of each potential trail; and a snow analysis, which maps the snow collection each trail may have and how winds and weather patterns change the snow pack.
To access a master plan, contact the resort's media or public relations department. It may take a bit of sleuthing, but it's worth it.
"Skiing is a journey," Hunn said. "Some days I just go out and ride lifts, while other days I focus hard on skiing. But one thing stays the same. I love to be out there regardless.
"Just be ready to have fun and be challenged."


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Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs.
|Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. prints, Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Printmaker Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr.'s posters and artists' books memorialize and celebrate African American history and culture. His work, housed in the Kennedy & Sons Collection in Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL), tells complex, personal, and painful stories that contribute to a new vernacular in the depiction and description of African American experience in the United States. In describing his work, Kennedy writes, "I am a SOCIAL PRINTER! Whatever I print—because my work is dedicated to the documentation of Negro culture—whatever I print is political."1 Kennedy's posters, on which he literally spells out his messages, are the most blatant example of the political nature of his work. The two posters that bear the text "Equality is a Privilege Reserved for Blacks" and "Coffee Makes You Black" demonstrate that Kennedy's voice is both witty and insistent, challenging the viewer to reconsider perceptions of black culture, history, and art.
A self-described "humble negro printer," Kennedy creates many of his letterpress posters and postcards on commission. In the 2008 documentary Proceed and Be Bold!, which explores Kennedy's life and artistic output, Kennedy stated, "I don't believe in the thing called art . . . I think people just make stuff."2 Following this artistic vision, many of Kennedy's prints function as both advertisements and art, emerging from and responding to the idiosyncratic needs of the communities they illustrate and inhabit. As an artist, Kennedy has lived and worked in the rural towns of Gordo and York, Alabama, as well as the urban center of Detroit, Michigan, where he currently resides.
|Print from The Children Don't Count Exhibit, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.
Kennedy relies less on traditional locales for exhibiting his art, such as galleries or museum spaces, and instead prefers more direct and democratic communication with the public. He sells prints online for $25 and in-person at local fairs. When he exhibits his work in museum spaces, Kennedy utilizes the space in both creative and political ways. For example, viewing the gallery exhibition of Kennedy's The Children Don't Count, a multiyear project dedicated to children killed in Chicago in the early 1990s, required visitors to walk over a series of prints bearing the name of a child and how his or her death occurred. Sample prints from the first instance of The Children Don't Count in MARBL's Kennedy & Sons collection remembers Chicago children who died in 1992.
The activist motivations that undergird much of Kennedy's work inflect his artist's book sculpture of a burned church included in MARBL's Kennedy and Sons collection. This piece takes its inspiration from the series of arsons of African American churches that swept the southern United States in the 1990s, echoing similar church burnings that took place during the civil rights movement. These incidents, which occurred at predominantly black rural churches from Arkansas to Virginia, targeted the very places that writer Amiri Baraka has described as the "social focal points" of black life.3 Kennedy's "Burnt Church" is part of a series he is creating to commemorate these recent burnings; "One . . . for every church," Kennedy writes about the project that is at once art, protest, and community rebuilding.4
|Burned church artist's book, exterior, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
|Burned church artist's book, interior, Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., Kennedy and Sons Collection, Emory University Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library.
Kennedy's artists' books combine the written word he privileges in his posters with the provocative space of a church building decorated with long strips of bible pages that leap almost flame-like across the model building and onto its roof. The words of varying size and font wrap the building with flowing ribbons of text. While some of the text is legible, its function here is not to represent a literal, scriptural message, but rather to emphasize the power of the biblical words that survived the church burnings. The building itself, despite the ruin and decline suggested by the ashes scattered below it, emanates an otherworldly power. Upon close examination of the model building, it is apparent that the roof of the church can be lifted, revealing a charred Bible nestled in its core. The experience of opening the church sculpture is akin to that of opening a treasure chest: awe, disbelief and a certain reverence. In addition to highlighting the power of the violence that resulted in the series of fires the model church commemorates, Kennedy's sculpture emphasizes the imminent power of the communities and their sacred texts that have survived.
MARBL's collecting strength in black print culture also includes the papers of Carter G. Woodson and Kelly Miller, both notable African American artists and intellectuals. Kennedy's addition of this living memorial to MARBL joins the numerous collections in the archives documenting African American history and culture, all of which are available for further reexamination, interpretation, and study by researchers, scholars, and the general public.
About the Author
Claire Ittner graduated from Davidson College with a degree in English and Art History. She worked as a project researcher at MARBL until May 2014, and is now working in the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University.
- 1. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., "Social Book Binding," in Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts, ed. Charles Alexander (Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1995), 47.
- 2. Proceed and be Bold!, directed by Laura Zinger (Chicago: Brown Finch Films, 2008), DVD.
- 3. LeRoi Jones, Blues People: Negro Music in White America (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1963), 40-41.
- 4. Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr., letter to author, March 14, 2014, Kennedy and Sons Collection, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University Archives.


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John Sickels' Baseball Prospect Book Available for Pre-Order
Baseball analyst John Sickels sent out an e-mail today reminding us to pre-order his Baseball Prospect Book 2008:
The book will go to the printer on Monday or Tuesday, and should be shipped the first Saturday in February. As always, those who order early will get an email copy of John's Top 50 lists.
Don't delay! We are basing the number of books we print on the number of preorders we get, and we don't want anyone to be left out.
Thanks! And remember, Catchers and Pitchers report next month!
To order, go to John's site at www.johnsickels.com. There are only two prospect annuals I keep on my bookshelf — Baseball America and John Sickels.


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Spotify + Tinder… It's a match! We've taken our relationship to the next level so you can too.
Let potential matches know what music you're into by linking your Spotify account to your Tinder profile.
- Show your favorite artists and music preferences.
- Pin an Anthem that you think defines you to your Tinder profile.
- Listen to other people's Anthems.
With or without a Spotify account, you can set your Anthem, and play previews of other people's top songs right from their Tinder profiles.
- Tap Edit Info in Tinder to view your Spotify options.
- To connect your Spotify account for more options, tap Show your music interests, then CONNECT SPOTIFY.
Happy swiping!