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Case Study: Humana Tackles Compliance Early and Often
By Michael Fitzgerald | Posted 06-19-2006Case Study: Humana Tackles Compliance Early and Often
Ah, compliance. Regulation comes in many shapes and sizes. And though it has been with us for hundreds of years, it seems that every new wave of government oversight sends even the most organized and scrupulous companies scrambling for cover. Somehow, they never see it coming.
"Our clients call us because the pain and the cost and the inability to meet all of their obligations is, in a sense, a perfect storm," says Alex Fowler, a director in IT risk and compliance at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A perfect storm that hits every decade or so, and lasts for years at a time.
But it doesn't have to be this way. Some companies, believe it or not, have learned to live with compliance on an ongoing basis, incorporating the costly and time-consuming tasks associated with regulation into their very business models. These organizations view the most recent wave of regulation as merely a continuation of an endless string of government demands; they see compliance as not just a necessary evil, but as an internal business benefit and a selling point to customers. Humana Inc., the $14 billion, Louisville, Ky.-based healthcare firm, is one of them. While other firms gripe about the financial impact Sarbanes-Oxley is having on their bottom lines, falling all over themselves to explain the difficulties of compliance to shareholders and regulators, Humana's president and CEO, Mike McAllister said in a recent interview, "As things have heated up over the last two years, there hasn't been a major change at Humanabecause compliance was part of our corporate culture already."
Humana, with 9.3 million medical members in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, has adhered to a litany of federal, state and local regulations for decades, including Medicare, state insurance requirements, accreditation such as the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission, and TriCare (which provides healthcare for the Department of Defense). And when the federal government rolled out the most onerous piece of healthcare regulation in recent yearsthe Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAAHumana tackled the challenges early and often. By comparison, SOX has been a walk in the park.
"Don't get me wrong. We had to do a lot of work to make sure we were compliant," says Humana CIO Bruce Goodman. "But it wasn't like, 'Oh my god, it's the end of the world.'"
Indeed, Humana faced some problems in meeting the HIPAA requirements. But because of an organizational structure that incorporates compliance into every part of the business, and a corporate culture that constantly reminds employees at all levels to be aware of regulations, the company had a far easier time than most. The model Humana has developed is one that any company could achieve, if they would just stop kicking and screaming long enough to figure it out. Essentially, Humana is speaking to us from the future, where regulation is accepted as a fact of life, adopted into business operations, and occasionally even used as a competitive advantage. As futures go, that's not such a bad place to be.
Story Guide: ."> Goodman joined Humana in 1999, coming over from the consultancy and systems integrator C2K Technology Partners, where he had been CEO. At the time, Humana had some compliance issues that were of a rather immediate nature: Y2K was front and center for every major company in the world. And while the Year 2000 bug failed to deliver on some very dire predictions, the effort Humana marshaled to deal with it produced a model for future compliance challenges.
To run its Y2K compliance projects Humana appointed a "tiger team." Originally a military term that has been co-opted by IT professionals, Humana's Y2K tiger team pulled together the relevant people from different departments to run critical projects with definite deadlines. In effect, the team became a project management office, analyzing the business problem that needed to be addressed, figuring out what work needed to be done and who would do it, and then managing the project throughout its lifetime. When Humana started gearing up for HIPAA, in early 2001, the company went back to the tiger team concept.
Passed in 1996, HIPAA is a broad piece of legislation designed to let Americans keep their health insurance if they change jobs or become unemployed. It also sets standards for the healthcare industry for such disparate concerns as patient health, data exchange and data privacy. HIPAA thus represents a blueprint for going digital for the entire healthcare industry. The law includes a series of compliance deadlines that began in 2003 and were staggered depending on the size of the organization involved.
To meet its compliance goals, Humana pulled together three tiger teamsone to ensure that electronic-data interchange met the standards established in HIPAA, one to handle the development of privacy policies and practices, and one to handle data security and make sure it complied with HIPAA guidelines. Then the company interlocked the teams by staffing them with people from a variety of departments: internal audit, compliance, privacy, security, EDI, legal, and service providers.
Overall, each tiger team consisted of roughly a dozen people who met weekly, and sometimes more frequently, depending on the immediacy of the issues at hand.
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Humana also put together a fourth teama kind of über-tiger teammade up of six senior managers: two vice presidents within information technology, the head of its senior management team, and the heads of compliance, service operations and provider operations. Known as the HIPAA Steering Committee, it met with each tiger team on a monthly basis. The teams would present their progress, compare it to what they were supposed to be accomplishing, and the steering committee would then reset priorities if necessary.
Some organizational restructuring was necessary as well. Humana already had a regulatory compliance department, a Medicare department, a department for state insurers and various groups making sure its health plans were accredited by quality-assurance bodies. It adapted these into HIPAA compliance centers for the company, with each establishing the policies needed for Humana to comply with the HIPAA rules that applied to its organization. Humana then extended the compliance center concept to its internal-audit group for handling Sarbanes-Oxley issues.
As another step in Humana's compliance strategy, Moore decided he'd need a new IT security group, separate from his existing operation. The group already in place would continue to handle day-to-day operationsdefending the perimeter, keeping the lights on. But he felt he needed an additional group that could develop a data-security strategy with compliance in mind. "One of the things we really struggled with was the old IT security model," Moore says. "It was solely focused on keeping the bad guys out." That wasn't going to be enough to comply with HIPAA, where data needed to be protected from internal eyes as well. Hence, the new strategic security department was designed to deal with new security questions driven by regulatory environments, like HIPAA, and also with the expanding use of the Web, interactive voice systems and wireless connectivity. Moore has hired almost 40 people to staff the group.
Story Guide: 's Role in Compliance"> Theiss wasn't the only one getting closely engaged with IT. Says Laura Kelley, Humana's corporate director of regulatory compliance: "I talk several times a day with the IT folks. In fact, I literally will have two or three meetings with them today. And I have staff all over the country that meet with IT." The meetings might cover anything from how to handle electronic signatures to new state regulations for online policy documents.
Kelley and Goodman have the same goal in mind: to use technology to make operations run more efficiently, without running afoul of regulators. So Goodman might come to her and suggest using e-mail to respond to customer complaints, and her department will research which states allow that. Interactive voice-response systems are also high on Humana's priority list, but bring with them privacy concerns that Humana must thoroughly investigate.
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On the plus side, the security and privacy policies developed to help Humana comply with HIPAA work well for other aspects of the businessand Goodman believes that compliance enhances Humana's overall operations. That's because HIPAA sets standards for data exchange, and as more doctors and hospitals adopt the standards, it will smooth the back-end process needed to handle transactions.
"When you're fully HIPAA compliant, it should make it easier for payers and providers to communicate," says Goodman. "We all have these codestransaction type 73 or whatever. If we know that a hospital is going to comply with that transaction code, then exchanging information is easier."
The return on HIPAA investments will increase over time, Goodman says. For instance, at some point each of the nation's 600,000-plus doctors will receive a unique provider ID that they will then use for their entire career. "Right now we have all sorts of issues trying to keep track of doctors, like all payers do," Goodman says. "So that will absolutely have bottom-line benefits."
That's as it should be, says Eric Brown, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. "Look, HIPAA is a big piece of work. But if you're an IT guy you would look at it and say, 'This is good hygiene.' It's stuff you're going to do anyway."
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It helps to have top executives deeply involved with projects such as the HIPAA steering committee. That shows the company is serious about compliance. But Humana knows that it needs buy-in at every level of the company to comply with sweeping initiatives like HIPAA and SOX.
"Really, at the end of the day, compliance with these initiatives begins and ends with our employees," Moore says. "We had to reshape the way people thought about protecting information."
Humana's privacy tiger team drew up a plan of action that started with something called the "clean-desk policy," which states that no one can leave patient information on their desk at the end of the day. Enforcing this policy has meant beefing up security staff in facilities, so that all desks are checked after working hours each day.
Employees are also told they must memorize passwords, instead of writing them down. HIPAA suggests changing passwords regularly, and those passwords must meet certain complexity requirements. Humana's size meant that automating the password-generation process was key to compliance. The company's existing system generated passwords from a dictionary of terms, which wouldn't cut it for HIPAA. So Humana purchased M-Tech Information Technology Inc.'s P-Synch system, which automatically generates new passwords for each of its stakeholders as they log in for the day.
Employee training on how to handle patient data in a way that complies with HIPAA has also been crucial. Annual compliance training for all employees is a mandate at Humana. Laura Kelley's compliance staff develops the training curricula, which can be taken in person or online. Goodman's staff created a dashboard-style tracking system for Kelley. "I can come back to it each day and see who still needs to take the training," she says. As compliance deadlines loom, her department starts placing calls directly to employees who have not yet completed the course.
Humana has added plasma screens to the lobbies of its facilities, on which the company broadcasts regulatory updates and company news, constantly reminding employees that they work in a culture of compliance. (A scroll bar lists compliance tips for Humana employees.) Compliance e-mails go out on what Theiss called "a regular basis" and help keep employees abreast of security policies. Meanwhile,
Humana rotates company policies and procedures on the front page of its intranet throughout the year.
Humana's privacy tiger team even held Privacy Month, a sort of extended corporate pep rally to reinforce privacy practices. Privacy Month featured security training and education for all employees, privacy articles on the intranet, privacy posters placed at visible points in buildings, and contests for employees built around privacy protections.
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Regulated"> What that transition has meant, in practice, is there is nothing usual about business as usual at Humana. Somebody, somewhere is always changing a rule and redefining what it means to comply, and Humana must continually adjust.
The saving grace for Humana is that while the company must accommodate itself to the twists and turns of regulation, it no longer requires reinvention of the compliance wheel. "All these regulations are not rocket science. They have common themes," says Moore. All of them require controls, ways to prove those controls are in place, security both on the perimeter and inside an organization, privacy and data-access management, the need for security, and ways to track and measure individual behavior, such as who's had training, who's changed passwords and the like.
Even Humana's customers have gotten into the act: "They're much more concerned about how we're protecting their information," Moore says. "And they have a fairly rigid set of requirements they're evolving that they're expecting us to be able to meet." That makes compliance a selling point for Humana's services, yet another reason to stay in line.
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Compliance Inc.
A legacy of compliance is to be expected from a company founded by a pair of lawyers. Humana got its start in 1961, when two attorneys had an idea for a better way to run a nursing home, figuring they could provide more personalized care than was typically offered. Their firm went public in 1968 as a nursing-home operator called Extendicare, shifted to running hospitals in 1972, and changed its name to Humana in 1974. The company got into the benefit business in 1984; it was a natural offshoot of Humana's emergence as the nation's largest operator of hospitals at the time. Then, in 1993, Humana spun off the hospitals to focus exclusively on the benefits business.
New Security Director
New Security Director
Still, Goodman quickly realized that he needed someone who would act as his overall security director for HIPAA. So he tabbed Jonathan Moore, director of IT security and regulatory compliance, to fill the job. Moore became Goodman's go-to guy for all HIPAA-related issues, a kind of IT liaison for compliance and security concerns, and he has continued in that capacity for subsequent rollouts such as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. He also led the security tiger team. Jim Theiss, Humana's chief privacy official and a veteran executive with experience in both IT and compliance, led the privacy team.
IT's Role in Compliance
Like most companies, IT is central to Humana's compliance program. For matters such as electronic-data interchange and information security, the impact is obvious. And it's a strong support leg on the privacy side of Humanaboth Chief Privacy Official Theiss and Director of IT Security Moore say they have effectively been joined at the hip since 2001. "I really engaged IT security on that piece early on," says Theiss. "We felt IT security went hand-in-hand with privacy."
Good Corporate Hygiene
Good Corporate Hygiene
Like many pieces of government regulation, HIPAA has a few areas open to interpretation, and Humana hasn't gotten everything right. It has erred in several cases by being too conservative with patient data. Initially, for instance, the company disclosed almost no patient health information to agents and brokers, which made it difficult for them to act on behalf of members they represented. Humana also started out with a very difficult process of authenticating the identity of people trying to access accounts on the Web, which made it too laborious to do something as simple as check the status of a claim.
The Culture of Compliance
The Culture of Compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and other recent legislation have managed to scare the pants off high-level executives, consequently spurring them to action, however misguided. But what is far more difficult for many companies is creating a culture of compliance that pervades the organization and filters all the way down to the most menial jobs. For Humana, that has meant getting every one of its 20,000 employees to care about compliance.
From Regulated to Heavily
From Regulated To Heavily Regulated
Moore likes to say that the difference between Humana before and after HIPAA and SOX is that the company went "from regulated to heavily regulated."


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CROATIAN ISLAND HOPPING 27th July???
17 Jan 2013 Danny asked
Planning to do a second Contiki...just wondering who's planning to do this Croatian one
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Im doing the departure date leaving on june 27 actually starting on the 28th. Beginning from Split.
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Ah thats great! You ever been on a Contiki before?
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yes i have and i loved it! im doing the croatian island hopping starting the south route in SPLIT ending up on DUBROVNIK. It begins for departure on June 27th. Did you book?
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Hi Lexer! You'll be on a different one to us – this is July :)
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Yep. Booked and paid. But unfortunately you will be on a different one. Switch over to ours ;) haha
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My Project 5 Pan isn't going quite as well as I expected and for a very simple reason. I'm having a school break and I'm mostly staying at home, which means going bare-faced most of the time. So, no make-up is being used up, not only the items nearing their drawer life...
I did manage however to tick the following items off my list: Wet n'Wild Megaliner in Plum as well as MaxFactor 2000 Calorie curved brush mascara. Both of these are far too dry to use for any longer. I didn't enjoy using the mascara too much; I thought it was just ok but have noticed no particular curling action. I did like the liquid liner though; the pigmentation could have been better, but I really liked the thin brush it came with which made the application very easy and even. In the photo you can also see my Coastal Scents mineral foundation with 2-3 uses left in it. So the total will come up to 3 items used up, 2 more items to go.
As for the post's mysterious title, no it doesn't refer to the state of my skin, it's something much more interesting, as you'll see below... Some nations celebrate the end of carnival by dancing samba, others by wearing masks and amazing costumes, but Polish people feast in the best way possible: we eat pastry, and lots of it.
So the last Thursday of carnival in Poland is called the Greasy Thursday (Tłusty Czwartek). Apparently in the past the feast extended to a whole week and our ancestors would drink litres of vodka and stuff themselves with meats such as bacon, hence the name; nowadays, the whole country is enjoying these little beauties; they're called pączki (singular: pączek [ponchek]) and the closest counterpart for you, English speaking peeps, would be doughnuts. The dough for pączki is slightly different though and they come with various fillings, usually of jam, the most classic one being rose jam, and they have icing and candied orange peel sprinkled on top. The depicted ones come from a famous Warsaw confectioner, Blikle; this family has been in the business since the 19th century, so if you happen to be in Warsaw, I strongly encourage you to check their stores out!
I'll leave you now, happily dreaming of pączki, and have a great end of the week!
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First published in 2007 in Mathematics Magazine, Caleb Emmons' poem "Dearest Blaise" has the form of (Blaise) Pascal's Triangle. That original publication offered also a challenge: what is the next line of Emmons' poem? What is your guess?
DEAREST BLAISE by Caleb Emmons
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1 truly distilling arithmetic later 1
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Emmons is a member of the mathematics department at Oregon's Pacific University; prior postings of his work in this blog include: 4 March 2011 and 6 May 2011.
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A further line for Caleb Emmon's poem? Well, it's a stretch (literally), but:
semianachronistically necropyrogeohydrocheirocoscinomancy; hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia psychotherapeutically
Which describes the application of somewhat outdated magickal techniques to deal with a fear of long words after modern methods failed.
(Must have worked...)
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Everything quintessentially Sixties eccentric London is present and correct in The Look of Love, an absorbing biopic of Paul Raymond, the impressario, porn king and property magnate once dubbed 'the richest man in England'.
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Southwest Virginia law blog.
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Steve Emmert analyzes Friday's opinions by the Virginia Supreme Court
Virginia lawyer Steve Emmert has an essay
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Magnet will be releasing a movie about a manned mission to Jupiter's moon, Europa, to look for life. The movie stars Sharlto Copley (District 9) and is said to be a hard science fiction story that was developed with NASA's input.
It seems this movie will therefore be a bit more realistic than your usual Sci-Fi blockbusters of late.
The movie is slated for release later this year but one can imagine this type of film may make it to larger markets and art house theaters and not main stream venues. Also it may show up on Video On Demand.
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The Sierra Club is intervening in Virginia State proceedings to consider approval of a $1.9 billion high-voltage transmission line project that would bring coal-fired power to new markets in the Northeast. The Sierra Club, represented by Earthjustice, will try to block construction of these new, unnecessary power lines which would only help dirty coal plants in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Ohio to ramp up production and dangerous emissions of air pollution, including carbon dioxide (CO2). The power lines are proposed by two of the country's most powerful coal producers: American Electric Power and Allegheny Energy.
"This is the worst possible investment we could make in energy development at this moment," said Earthjustice attorney Abigail Dillen. "We need new investments to help develop wind, solar, and other renewable energy resources -- not a hugely expensive project that helps polluting old coal plants to make even more money."
The Potomac-Appalachian Transmission Highline (PATH) calls for construction of high-voltage transmission lines starting in West Virginia near the John E. Amos coal-fired power plant, which is ranked as one of the dirtiest coal plants in the country for mercury, sulfur dioxide, and CO2 pollution. The lines would extend east for 275 miles, cutting through Virginia to end up in Maryland.
In papers filed today with the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Sierra Club and Earthjustice stressed that the proposed power lines are not needed to satisfy any unmet needs for electricity. Instead, the lines will only give coal a greater market share of the power mix in the Northeast. According to a recent statement from the West Virginia Coal Association, the new lines will help "preserve the future" of aging coal plants, encourage development of new coal plants, and increase coal mining in Appalachia. All of this increased coal use would mean more dangerous air pollution and more environmental devastation from mountaintop removal mining, which already has transformed the landscape and historically rich natural system in West Virginia and Virginia, leveling and deforesting an area the size of Delaware and burying an estimated 1,200 miles of streams.
"This country can no longer afford to depend on dirty fossil fuel sources to generate energy," said Glen Besa, Director of the Sierra Club-Virginia Chapter. "Instead of building a giant extension cord that links the East Coast with distant coal plants, eastern states could be developing clean, renewable -- and profitable -- energy sources closer to home."
Kathleen Sutcliffe, Earthjustice, (202) 667-4500, ext. 235
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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld's Uglies is a futuristic teen adventure book that will keep even adult readers enthralled from the first page.
Tally is ready to be pretty. When you turn sixteen in this futuristic world, you are plucked from school and taken to have the "operation" that turns you from an Ugly into a Pretty. When you're pretty you can do anything. You get to move to New Pretty Town and party all night long if you choose and Tally can't wait to join her friends who have already "turned."
By turn of chance Tally meets Shay. Another "Ugly" like herself who happens to share her birthday. As their friendship grows and they embark on new adventures together, Shay lets Tally in on her secret: She doesn't want to be pretty. Tally can't understand her new friend's defiance and refuses to run away with her. When the au... Read More
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Uglies — (2005-2007) Young adult. Publisher: Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license — for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world — and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
Uglies: Recommended for teens with issues
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Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
Finally, a sequel that does not disappoint!
Tally finally has all she ever wanted: She's pretty, she's popular, she's in the coolest clique in New Pretty Town. What could possibly go wrong now?
Nothing does... until the night of the coolest costume party ever when a blast from the past shows up and leaves her a mystery to follow. All of a sudden Tally and her new friend Zane not only have a mystery to solve, but two tiny white pills to take...and no clue what they will do to them.
Once again, Scott Westerfeld has whisked us off to a sci-fi adventure world with more twists and turns that even a Hoverboard can handle. I can't wait to read the next book!
Julie Waineo, one of our earliest guest reviewers, earned an MBA at Bowling Green State University. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts... Read More
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Tally has changed since she was caught by Special Circumstances. She has become one of them: a Special. Her body and mind have been altered and she is now an elite fighting machine with super-fast reflexes and a hardened body that can withstand almost anything…but none of this can really make her happy. Tally is surrounded by "friends," but none of them can take away her memories of her friends from the Smoke and the lessons they taught her. Then she and Shay get a breakthrough and once again whiz off into the wild on their hoverboards searching for the elusive "New Smoke" where the rebels are said to be hiding. If they can find the New Smoke and bring their boss Dr. Cable to it, their lives will be easy at last…or so they think.
Although it was great to be back in Scott Westerfeld's futuristic world which I have come to know and love, Special... Read More
Leviathan — (2009-2011) Young adult. Available from Audible. Publisher: Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way… taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.
Leviathan: A wonderful mix of the utterly original and the familiar
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Leviathan is the beginning of a new steampunk YA series by Scott Westerfeld, author of other well-known (and highly recommended) YA series such as Uglies and Midnighters, along with one of my favorite non-YA science fiction works of recent memory, The Risen Empire (even more highly recommended). As is usual with good YA, don't let the label turn you away; Westerfeld knows how to write for a younger audience without dumbing things down and without excluding older readers.
Leviathan is set in a mostly familiar historical world just on the cusp of World War I. Familiar as in the geography, population... Read More
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Behemoth is Scott Westerfeld's follow-up to Leviathan, the first book in a new steampunk series set in an alternative Europe on the edge of WWI with the Austro-Hungarians and Germans ("Clankers") using steam-driven machines and the British and their allies ("Darwinists") using genetic engineering. Leviathan was one of my best reads of 2009, and Behemoth would have been on my list for 2010 had I gotten around to reading it by the time I compiled my list. It has all the usual Westerfeld strengths and it keeps this series rolling along.
The setting for Behemoth has shifted to Constantinople/Istanbul (depending on who is speaking, and I defy you not to have the They Might Be Giants song not playing i... Read More
Goliath: The thrilling conclusion to the trilogy…
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Goliath is the concluding third book in Scott Westerfeld's LEVIATHAN trilogy (imagine that — a trilogy with only three books) and it brings a wonderfully entertaining YA steampunk/alternate WWI series to a suitably strong close. I won't bother recapping the world or background since you really need to read books one and two first, so read my review of Leviathan (above) to catch up on the backstory if you'd like.
Goliath picks up shortly after the events of Behemoth, with the British airship Leviathan cruising over the frozen waste of Siberia, having been diverted there on a top-secret rescue mission. Our two heroes — airman Dylan/Deryn Sharp (recall she's masquerading as a boy... Read More
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Please allow me to introduce Sympathy for the Devil, a fine new anthology filled entirely with short stories about the devil... who is, as we all know, a man of style and taste. However, you won't just find the smooth-talking stealer of souls here. In addition to that famous version of His Grand Infernal Majesty, you'll also find funny devils, monstrous devils, abstract devils and strangely realistic ones. Devils scary and not-so-scary, devils who are after children's souls and others going after old men. Devils with a surprising amount of business acumen, and devils who try to get what they want, no matter the cost. There's even one who engages in a competitive eating contest — the prize is, of course, someone's soul.
Sympathy for the Devil, edited by Tim Pratt, of... Read More
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Back in 2007, Holly Black and Justine Larabalestier got in an argument about which fiction creature was superior — zombies or unicorns. Spurred on by that debate, they each recruited some of their author friends to write short tales in which they present the storytelling possibilities of the two mythic beasts. With header notes for each story in which they discuss the historical background for the different takes on the creatures, Holly Black heads up Team Unicorn, and Justine Larbalestier heads up Team Zombie.
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Succession — (2003) Publisher: From the acclaimed author of Fine Prey, Polymorph, and Evolution's Darling (Philip K. Dick Award special citation and a New York Times Notable Book) comes a sweeping epic, The Risen Empire, Scott Westerfeld's dazzling hardcover debut. The undead Emperor has ruled his mighty interstellar empire of eighty human worlds for sixteen hundred years. Because he can grant a form of eternal life, creating an elite known as the Risen, his power has been absolute. He and his sister, the Child Empress, who is eternally a little girl, are worshiped as living gods. No one can touch them. Not until the Rix, machine-augmented humans who worship very different gods: AI compound minds of planetary extent. The Rix are cool, relentless fanatics, and their only goal is to propagate such AIs throughout the galaxy. They seek to end, by any means necessary, the Emperor's prolonged tyranny of one and supplant it with an eternal cybernetic dynasty of their own. They begin by taking the Child Empress hostage. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is tasked with her rescue. Separated by light-years, bound by an unlikely love, Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham must each in their own way, face the challenge of the Rix, and they each will hold the fate of the empire in their hands. The Risen Empire is the first great space opera of the twenty-first century.
Midnighters — (2004-2006) Young adult. Publisher: A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to find the entire world frozen, except for her and a few others who call themselves 'midnighters'. Dark things haunt this midnight hour — dark things with a mysterious interest in Jessica. The question is why; The Secret Hour is a compelling tale of dark secrets, midnight romance, eerie creatures, courage, destiny, and unexpected peril.
Peeps — (2005-2006) Young adult. Publisher: One year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying in New York City than in attending his biology classes. Now, after a fateful encounter with a mysterious woman named Morgan, biology has become, literally, Cal's life. Cal was infected by a parasite that has a truly horrifying effect on its host. Cal himself is a carrier, unchanged by the parasite, but he's infected the girlfriends he's had since Morgan — and all have turned into the ravening ghouls Cal calls peeps. The rest of us know them as vampires. And it's Cal's job to hunt them down before they can create even more of their kind… Bursting with the sharp intelligence and sly humor that are fast becoming his trademark, Scott Westerfeld's new novel is an utterly original take on an archetype of horror.
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Fine Prey — (1997) Publisher: At the Aya School, human children learn alien culture in a completely restricted environment to enable them to compete in the politics and economy of an alien-influenced Earth. The finest student of the school is a member of the Fine Hunt circuit, an outgrowth of traditional horse racing. As one of the up-and-coming "riders", the student is lured into the seedier world of the Claw Hunt, and discovers what the Aya aliens have really been teaching!
Evolution's Darling — (2000) Publisher: Does a clone have a soul? Darling, an astronavigational control unit and personal companion, achieves sentience and wants to know. Now, 200 years and an artificial body later, he is off in search of a dead artist, a living artwork, and the forces behind a mystery that spans the universe. Accompanied by a female assassin, he'll confront the Maker and get the answer.
So Yesterday — (2004) Publisher: We are all around you. You don't think about us much, because we are invisible. Well, not exactly invisible. A lot of us have hair dyed in four colours, or wear five-inch platform sneakers, or carry enough metal in our skin that it's a hassle getting on an airplane. Quite visible, actually, come to think of it. But we don't wear signs saying what we are. After all, if you knew what we were up to, we couldn't work our magic. We have to observe carefully, and push and prompt you in ways you don't notice. Like good teachers, we let you think you've discovered the truth on your own.And you need us. Someone has to guide you, to mould you, to make sure that today turns into yesterday on schedule. Because frankly, without us to monitor the situation, who knows what would get crammed down your throats? It's not like you can just start making your own decisions, after all.
Stupid Perfect World — (2000) Publisher: In this future-set novella by bestselling author Scott Westerfeld, Kieran Black lives in a "perfect" world. Disease and starvation have been eradicated, sleep is unnecessary, and it takes no time at all to go from the Bahamas to the moon. But now Kieran has to take Scarcity, a class about how people lived in the bad old days. And as if sitting through an hour of Scarcity every day wasn't depressing enough, it's final projects time. Each student must choose some form of ancient hardship to experience for two whole weeks. Kieran chooses having to sleep eight hours a night, which doesn't seem too annoying. Maria Borsotti has never thought much of Kieran, but she decides to take pity on him and help him out with his project. Soon, Kieran is sleeping and having vivid dreams, while Maria, whose Scarcity project is to give up all teenage hormone regulation, is experiencing emotions she never knew she had. As their assignments draw them closer together, they begin to wonder if the olden days weren't so bad. Maybe something has been missing from their perfect lives after all?


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ATDD pioneer Markus Gärtner walks readers step by step through deriving the right systems from business users, and then implementing fully automated, functional tests that accurately reflect business requirements, are intelligible to stakeholders, and promote more effective development.
Through two end-to-end case studies, Gärtner demonstrates how ATDD can be applied using diverse frameworks and languages. Each case study is accompanied by an extensive set of artifacts, including test automation classes, step definitions, and full sample implementations. These realistic examples illuminate ATDD's fundamental principles, show how ATDD fits into the broader development process, highlight tips from Gärtner's extensive experience, and identify crucial pitfalls to avoid. Readers will learn to
- Master the thought processes associated with successful ATDD implementation
- Use ATDD with Cucumber to describe software in ways businesspeople can understand
- Test web pages using ATDD tools
- Bring ATDD to Java with the FitNesse wiki-based acceptance test framework
- Use examples more effectively in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
- Specify software collaboratively through innovative workshops
- Implement more user-friendly and collaborative test automation
- Test more cleanly, listen to test results, and refactor tests for greater value
If you're a tester, analyst, developer, or project manager, this book offers a concrete foundation for achieving real benefits with ATDD now–and it will help you reap even more value as you gain experience.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Dale Emery xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Author xxiii
Part I: Airport Parking Lot 1
Chapter 1: Parking Cost Calculator Workshop 3
Valet Parking 3
Short-Term Parking 5
Economy and Long-Term Parking 6
Essential Examples 9
Summary 12
Chapter 2: Valet Parking Automation 17
The First Example 18
Pairing for the First Test 25
Tabulated Tests 36
Summary 39
Chapter 3: Automating the Remaining Parking Lots 41
Short-Term Parking Lot 41
Economy Parking Lot 44
Summary 46
Chapter 4: Wish and Collaborate 47
Specification Workshops 48
Wishful Thinking 49
Collaboration 50
Summary 52
Part II: Traffic Light Software System 53
Chapter 5: Getting Started 55
Traffic Lights 55
FitNesse 58
Supporting Code 59
Summary 60
Chapter 6: Light States 61
State Specifications 61
The First Test 62
Diving into the Code 66
Refactoring 70
Summary 90
Chapter 7: First Crossing 93
Controller Specifications 93
Driving the Controller 94
Summary 118
Chapter 8: Discover and Explore 119
Discover the Domain 120
Drive the Production Code 121
Test Your Glue Code 122
Value Your Glue Code 124
Summary 125
Part III: Principles of Acceptance Test-Driven Development 127
Chapter 9: Use Examples 129
Use a Proper Format 130
Refine the Examples 142
Cut Examples 146
Consider Gaps 149
Summary 151
Chapter 10: Specify Collaboratively 153
Meet the Power of Three 153
Hold Workshops 155
Trawl Requirements 158
Summary 159
Chapter 11: Automate Literally 161
Use Friendly Automation 162
Collaborate on Automation 164
Discover the Domain 166
Summary 167
Chapter 12: Test Cleanly 169
Develop Test Automation 170
Listen to the Tests 172
Refactor Tests 176
Summary 180
Chapter 13: Successful ATDD 183
Appendix A: Cucumber 187
Feature Files 187
Step Definitions 188
Production Code 189
Appendix B: FitNesse 191
Wiki Structure 191
SLiM Tables 192
Support Code 193
Appendix C: Robot Framework 195
Sections 195
Library Code 199
References 201
Index 205
ATDD by Example: A Practical Guide to Acceptance Test-Driven Development
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Reverend Cotton Marcus is an evangelical minister who has spent his life convincing others that he's able to perform exorcisms. Thinking his final exorcism is behind him the Reverend allows a film crew to document his final days in the ministry but when a desperate and distraught father contacts the reverend asking him to remove the demons from his possessed daughters body, the reverend has no choice but to accept. As the film crew reveal Reverend Cotton as a fraud, he is faced with the true evil that appears to be worsening in the farmers daughter.
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James Rosen's 'Homage' at GTU Library
James Rosen's paintings at the Graduate Theological Union library are called "Homage." They are indeed in praise of the old masters as chosen by the painter, who sees himself as a messenger, detecting his signals from the past so that he can employ his artistic talent to send them on to us, the viewers. Rosen, like all good artists, is aware that his work is part of a flow which goes back to Paleolithic times. -more-
Goines Posters on Display at Hillside Club
See 100 posters by David Lance Goines at the Hillside Club this weekend. -more-
Jazz Drummer Roy Haines at Yoshis
In the 1940s, jazz drummer extraordinaire Roy Haynes worked with Lester Young, Charlie Parker ("My Little Suede Shoes"), Bud Powell ("Dance of the Infidels") and Miles Davis. -more-
Moving Pictures: Early Cinema's Grandest Spectacle
Though he is often credited with more than he contributed, D.W. Griffith is undoubtedly the first of the great cinematic artists. He did not create the tools of the trade, nor invent its techniques, but he imbued them with meaning, gave significance and weight to them, and thus established the grammar of motion pictures. -more-
Moving Pictures: 'True Heart Susie' Shows Griffith's Softer Side
D.W. Griffith is known these days primarily for his large-scale epics Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916). And while these films contributed greatly to the history and art of motion pictures, they do not fully convey the range and power of Griffith's talent, nor are they his most enjoyable films. -more-
Moving Pictures: The Movie Heard 'Round the World
The great thing about DVD is that it has given the major studios the opportunity to finally do right by the classics in their archives. For the first six or seven years of the format's existence, the studios were, for the most part, content to simply reissue their back catalogues in cheap editions, often without any attempt to remaster the image. -more-
Moving Pictures: The Talkies Learn to Move: Pabst's 'Threepenny Opera'
When Bertolt Brecht and G.W. Pabst decided to collaborate in bringing the former's Threepenny Opera to the screen, both men were at the peak of their careers. But the collaboration would be anything but smooth. Indeed it was fraught with conflict, as so many Brecht projects were. -more-
Lorna K. to Record First CD Live At San Francisco's Plush Room
Vocalist and Berkeley resident Lorna Kollmeyer—Lorna K. to her many Bay Area fans—is topping off her 15-year "overnight success" career of singing the American songbook with a live recording session for her first CD at the Plush Room in San Francisco Monday evening, Dec. 3. -more-
East Bay: Then and Now: North Gables: Early Exemplar of Equal Opportunity Housing
In 1948, University of California enrollment at the Berkeley campus reached 22,000 students, making adequate housing the number-one problem facing the student body. That year, the California Alumni Association published the book Students at Berkeley, which contained a large chapter devoted to housing and analyzed potential student housing sites. -more-
Garden Variety: Shopping for the Gardener On Your List, Part 1
It's post-Thanksgiving: socially, it's December. Time to think about holiday shopping. -more-
About the House: A Resident's Guide to Our Mushy Landscape
Welcome to my watershed. I really like it here but it is, basically, a big clay bowl and we're all salad. -more-
Vincent, Reed Talk Poetry at Pegasus
Poets Stephen Vincent (author of the newly published Junction Press collection, Walking Theory) and Pat Reed, both Bay Area poets noted for close observation of landscapes, will read 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Pegasus Books, at 2349 Shattuck Ave. -more-
Books: Looking Beyond Ken Burns' 'The War'
Ken Burns' latest monumental television production is currently being shown on PBS channels. The War follows more than 40 people from 1941 to 1945, focusing on the citizens of Luverne, Minnesota; Sacramento, California; Waterbury, Connecticut; and Mobile, Alabama. The book companion to the series, The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945, is available in public libraries. -more-
Wild Neighbors: Thanksgiving with the Grebes and Scoters
Chopped fish and mealworms: not your classic Thanksgiving menu. But that's what the eared and horned grebes at the International Bird Rescue Research Center (IBRCC) were getting. The larger birds—surf scoters, greater scaup, western grebes, common murres—were fed whole fish. The coots, according to a whiteboard notation, got a side of bloodworms "if we have any bloodworms." -more-


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We all know that Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath have changed lives and national politics. Did you know that there is a blog devoted to tracking how hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the recovery effort are also changing the face of the law? Hurricane Law Blog, published by the law firm of McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC, provides a "single online destination for hurricane-related developments in this rapidly-evolving legal landscape." The Gulf Coast firm maintains the blog as a searchable up-to-date repository for news and information about hurricane-related legislation, litigation, federal and state regulatory issues, opinion and commentary. Hurricane Law Blog is a great way to keep up with post-Katrina legal developments in many key areas, including financial services, insurance, real estate, environmental, government contracts, health care and employment.
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Rector of St. Magnus, and Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament exegesis at Kings College in London. Brother of John McCaul. |
- The Ancient Interpretation of Leviticus XVIII. 18: Holding that Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister is Lawful
- An Examination of Bishop Colenso's Difficulties with Regard to the Pentateuch
Works about McCaul[edit]
- "M'Caul, Alexander," in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- Memorial Sketch of the Rev. Alexander McCaul
- Last Days of the Rev. Alexander McCaul, published in the Church of England Magazine
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Back in January 2007, MARQUES -- the Association of European Trade Mark Owners -- published on its website a Review of the First 150 Decisions on the Validity of Registered Community Designs. Today a revised second edition, Review of the First 300 Decisions on the Validity of Registered Community Designs, was launched on the MARQUES website.
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One hundred fifty years ago, Walt Whitman published the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a collection of twelve poems that shattered existing notions of poetry and broke all existing conventions in terms of subject matter, language, and style. During Victorian times, Whitman broke taboos: he wrote about slaves, prisoners, prostitutes, sexuality, his love for men, and his vision for a utopian America.
"Walt Whitman: Song of Myself" explores how a 36-year old freelance journalist and part-time house-builder living in Brooklyn created his outrageous, groundbreaking work that irrevocably altered the development of poetry—and literature—that followed. One of the nation's first media hounds, he styled his image and his persona throughout his lifetime in search of fame and the broadest possible audience. He even hoped to heal a divided nation with this poetry, a lofty goal he would not reach. Despite never reaching a mass public during Whitman's lifetime, his work's tremendous impact is being felt a century and a half later.
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Composer John Adams, who has set Whitman's elegiac poem "The Wound-Dresser" to music and finds power in Whitman's "great simplicity and directness and sincerity." | ||
Novelist Michael Cunningham, who recently included Whitman in his novel Specimen Days. | ||
Puerto Rican poet Martín Espada, hailed by some as a contemporary Walt Whitman, who says that Whitman's poetry "has found its way into the air we breathe." | ||
Choreographer Bill T. Jones, who appreciates Whitman's open embrace of the body as well as the mind and says he feels "in some ways a descendent of Walt Whitman." | ||
Whitman scholar Karen Karbiener, who edited the Barnes & Noble edition of Leaves of Grass and recently co-curated the South Street Seaport's exhibition, "Walt Whitman and the Promise of Democracy, 1855-2005" (on display until December 31st). | ||
Writer Phillip Lopate, who explains how the poet gave permission for him and others to "go for broke." | ||
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"This hour I tell things in confidence" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Mary Myers |
"Closer yet I approach you" Excerpt from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" Read by Jeffrey Wright |
"The blab of the pave" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Bob Holman |
"To a Stranger" Read by Phillip Lopate & anonymous New Yorkers |
"This is the city" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Mary Myers |
The peddler sweats with his pack on his back" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Mike Daisey |
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"And I say to mankind" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Michael Stuhlbarg |
"I hear the trained soprano" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Mike Daisey |
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"Walt Whitman, an American" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Michael Stuhlberg |
"Through me many long dumb voices" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Jeffrey Wright |
"The runaway slave came to my house" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Paul Giamatti |
"I am the hounded slave" Excerpt from "Song of Myself" Read by Christina Kirk |
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John Adams: "The Chairman Dances" from "Nixon in China" conducted by Edo de Waart, performed by the San Francisco Symphony [The John Adams Earbox/Nonesuch] |
Lanny Meyers: "Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun," performed by Jonathan Meyers; courtesy Isaiah Sheffer & Symphony Space [1992 live recording] |
John Adams: "The Chairman Dances" from "Nixon in China" conducted by Edo de Waart, performed by the San Francisco Symphony [The John Adams Earbox/Nonesuch] |
John Zorn: "Work-A-Day World" (Anton's Theme) [Filmworks VI:1996/Tzadik) |
Stephen Foster: "Slumber my Darling" performed by Allison Krauss with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Mark O'Connor [Beautiful Dreamer - The Songs of Stephen Foster/Emergent] |
Vincenzo Bellini: "Innocente, e a noi più cara" from "La Sonnambula," conducted by Antonino Votto and the Orchestra and Chorus of the Piccola Scala [La Sonnambula/Virtuoso] |
Gaetano Donizetti: "Verranno a te sull'aure" from "Lucia di Lammermoor," performed by Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano with the RIAS Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Herbert von Karajan [Lucia di Lammermoor/EMI] |
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Events and Exhibitions:
"Leaves of Grass at 150"
92nd Street Y
December 12
On December 12, Harold Bloom, Michael Cunningham and J.D. McClatchy will participate in a celebration of Whitman's poetry. Cunningham just based his new book of three novellas, Fine Specimen, on Whitman. Live music and historical recordings of Whitman's poems will be included.
For more information, visit www.92y.org
"Revising Himself: Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass"
Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Southwest Gallery, 2nd Floor
Through December 2, 2005 and available online
A special installation within the American Treasures exhibition celebrates 150 years of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. This exhibition traces the different occupations and preparations that led Whitman to become the author of that seminal work, as well as his subsequent evolution as a poet. Displayed are selected Whitman manuscript drafts and notes for poems written across the stages of his career. This exhibition is free and open to the public. No reservations are needed.
For more information, visit www.loc.gov or view this exhibition online
"Walt Whitman and the Promise of Democracy, 1855-2005"
South Street Seaport Museum, New York City
Through December 2005
Timed to the 150th anniversary of the publication of Leaves of Grass in 1855, this exhibit includes a timeline, photographs of Whitman, a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass, and six main sections that depict Whitman's "passionate democracy."
For more information, visit www.southstseaport.org
"'I Am With You': Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855-2005)"
New York Public Library
Through January 6, 2006
Featuring first and rare editions of Leaves of Grass, manuscript drafts, books, and trial proofs annotated in the poet's hand. Also includes manuscripts and rare books of Whitman's literary heirs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and others.
For more information, visit www.nypl.org
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Carl Hancock Rux is a multi-disciplinary writer selected by the New York Times Magazine as "One of Thirty Artists Under The Age of Thirty Most Likely To Influence Culture Over The Next Thirty Years" (1994). Rux, a New York City Foster Care alumnus and Columbia University graduate, is the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Asphalt, the Village Voice Literary prize-winning collection of poetry, Pagan Operetta, and the OBIE award-winning play, Talk.
"Walt Whitman: Song of Myself" was produced by Curtis Fox. Julie Subrin was the associate producer, and the assistant producer was James Murdock. Elena Park was editor and executive producer.
The readers were Mike Daisey, Paul Giammatti, Bob Holman, Bill T. Jones, Christina Kirk, Jonathan Meyers, Mary Myers, Michael Stuhlbarg, Joao do Souza and Jeffery Wright.
Special thanks to Isaiah Sheffer and Symphony Space, Lanny Meyers, Karen Koonrad, Karen Karbiener, Richard Tayson, Chyrstalline Wright. Production support from Ed Haber, Dean Cappello, George Preston, Chris Bannon, and Howard Carolan.
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» NYU Professor Karen Karbiener discusses Walt Whitman on Soundcheck
» WNYC's Galway Kinnell reads Walt Whitman "To The States"
» Walt Whitman's Notebooks from the Library of Congress
» The Whitman Project celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Leaves of Grass
» Walt Whitman's Birthplace in Long Island, New York
» Recording of Whitman's voice from the Whitman Archive
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Fisk American Bowie project - 1 layer for every US citizen
It's big, and bold to boot. Beautifully executed by Jerry. Read below how he built the blade billet and what the knife is all about. Pretty impressive, IMHO.
"The American Bowie….A 13 inch blade, one for each of the colonies America started out with. The client wanted a layer for each man, woman and child according to the American census talley. The American Bowie has 318, 477.740 layers of steels. The steels consist of steels from Building #2 of the World Trade Center The bombing of Pearl Harbor USS Cole, [outer hull] Statue of Liberty Golden Gate Bridge Wrought iron wheel from Civil war cannon Rail Road date nails from early 20 century [1908 and 1916] A spike from were Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil so he could play the blues music [were the Southern crosses the Dawg] Spring holder from a Model T Ford 50 caliber sniper barrel Steel from Aldo A saw blade from the pulp wood saw that my father made his living with as a young man A wrench used by my wife's father that he made his living with as a young man There is an etching of George Washington tying his horse up to the tree this wood came from. He tied his horse to this walnut tree when he checked on his distillery. He made both rye whiskey and a peach Brandy. The knife comes with a bottle of George Washington recipe rye whiskey. It took me off and on two years to get it welded up. When I started the layer count was just a bit over the actual census number for USA. During that time we now have more people, I guess I should have made a add on spacer area. One of the problems that I faced was of course seeing a pattern, so to overcome that I inserted 3 of pieces of 15n20 about 5 welds from the tail end of the welding process. BUT, when I did a flash etch after grinding I found that I just had a watering of steel, not a defined pattern. Given the amount of welds and the loss of steel from scaling during these many welds I ended up with just enough steel to make the 13 inch bowie blade. So, I welded up a smaller billet but with the same layer count and welded a 208 count piece of Damascus on each side for the outer skins and used the second billet as a core, hence the wide band which is the one with the actual high layer count and the fact that you can see a pattern. The client will also receive the bad blade. No flaws, just a light watering of the pattern. Jerry" Jerry always asks me to do a version of the knife images on a plain white background. Publishers and editors like it - saves them time and work extracting the knife from the fancy background so it can be placed in their particular layout. |
It's possible that no knife has ever been produced with more significance in terms of materials.
It is as if Jerry just cleaned out the closet of historic and meaningful items that he wanted to use in knives and went for the gusto! Very impressive! Very pretty! Congratulations! __________________ Andy Garrett https://www.facebook.com/GarrettKnives?ref=hl Charter Member - Kansas Custom Knifemaker's Association www.kansasknives.org "Life is too short to waste time cursing a dull knife." |
What can I say? Nothing could match this work by Jerry, Paul and Buddy.
Nothing I can think of expresses the way I feel about this one.
Wow, that is eye candy!! I find myself going back to look over and over again, and each time I see something new!! That knife and the story about the making of it, leaves you speechless. To say the least!!!!! __________________ C Craft Customs With every custom knife I build I try to accomplish three things. I want that knife to look so good you just have to pick it up, feel so good in your hand you can't wait to try it, and once you use it, you never want to put it down ! If I capture those three factors in each knife I build, I am assured the knife will become a piece that is used and treasured by its owner! C Craft |
The markings on this blade are, well I don't think there is a word for how amazing they are.
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As predictable as complaints about the British summer weather is the annual ritual conducted to mark the publication of the A-level results. Just as we cannot be sure whether we are having a "barbecue summer" or not, there seems to be a radical uncertainty about what to think about A-levels. It doesn't help that the Conservative Party has performed another of its detoxification ceremonies. David Willetts, the shadow universities minister, yesterday criticised the Government for blocking progress towards its "target" of 50 per cent of the A-level age-group going to university.
Target? The Conservatives do not approve of targets – even if they have been downgraded to deadline-free aspirations. They specially did not approve of this one, suggesting (a) that it would devalue degrees and (b) that it was nanny-state bossiness for Whitehall to decide how many young people should go into higher education. But the heat has gone out of that dispute, with everyone agreeing on a new warm, fuzzy consensus that it is a jolly good thing for lots of young people to go to university, but it is up to each individual student to decide if they want to.
It was only earlier this week that Mr Cameron was condemning in tones of high moral outrage the profligacy of the Labour Government in managing the public finances. If public spending has to be cut, and cut deeply, as indeed it has been, it is posturing to the point of dishonesty to suggest that the Government ought to be spending more in accommodating this year's unexpected peak demand for university places.
But none of the main parties has been notably honest in saying where the public spending axe might fall (or where taxes might rise), so perhaps Mr Willetts should not be judged too harshly. The more serious issue is that a public spending crisis coincides with a turning point in the history of public exams in this country. At the top end of the scale, which attracts a disproportionate amount of attention, this is the last year of the undifferentiated three As.
Yesterday, about 40,000 A-level students, one eighth of the total, obtained straight As. Next year, results will be broken down by module: that may bring its own problems, in that private schools may gain an even greater advantage, but this newspaper believes that the solution to almost any problem is to publish more information rather than less. More fundamentally, we are reaching the point as a country where we cannot afford to ignore any longer the mis-match between A-levels and the educational needs of the greater number of students and the vast majority of employers. Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, has tried bravely to reverse the cowardly mistake made by Tony Blair in rejecting the Tomlinson proposals to replace A-levels with a set of diplomas covering a much broader range of vocational and academic subjects.
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Friends of MnWest Granite Falls Campus will meet to continue recent discussions involving the Minnesota Community and Technical College '300 Building', and the Minnesota West––Granite Falls campus in general. All interested community individuals are encouraged to attend the meeting in the Minnesota West Cafeteria on Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m.
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Finals week has come and gone and so have the students.
Fewer students means fewer people are depending on Gainesville's regional transit system to get around town and while the change can be inconvenient, RTS says it's necessary to stay afloat.
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