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As you may know, schools throughout the United States are getting excited about the Makerspace as a place of creativity and expansion for students of all ages, but how do you fund your Makerspace? When it comes to improving education in STEM subjects, Makerspaces have been touted as a fantastic way to get students involved in hands on learning from physics to computer programming and much more. While it can seem daunting to get a new Makerspace up and running, there are actually many resources out there for funding your new space. From government grants to private sponsorship, this blog post takes you through some of the best ways to fund your Makerspace.
Funding Your Makerspace with Government Grants
The government is ready to help all students prepare for the STEM jobs that will help build our nation into a stronger, more competitive market in the fields of science and technology.
For example, Title I Funding gives financial assistance to elementary and secondary schools with low-achieving students to boost their ability to meet academic standards. For students with special needs, IDEA is a great resource to help fund projects that will go towards helping these students.
While it will take time and effort, government-sponsored grants can go a long way into helping provide resources for your Makerspace that will keep students engaged. Here are more great grant resources to explore:
- Become a California Partnership Academy
- US Department of Education Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program
- NEA Student Achievement Grants
- US Department of Missile Defense STEM Outreach Grants
Corporate Sponsorship and Competitions for Your Makerspace
Corporate sponsorship is a great way to get funding for your Makerspace. Searching online for local STEM competitions is a great way to showcase the potential of any Makerspace and a way to possibly win a monetary prize to boost student pride. National competitions include the Google Science Fair, and the STEM Video Game Challenge for middle and high schoolers.
Other corporate sponsorships come in the form of grants, such as the Lowe's Toolbox for Education. A great place to start is to research local businesses, and larger corporations who have offices near you, to find out what types of programs may fit your needs. The next step is outreach. It can be an involved process, but corporate support is one of the best ways to get your Makerspace up and running.
Check out this great Blog Post on how to prepare applications and outreach materials for private funding.
Crowdfunding Your Makerspace
Students can be encouraged to take initiative and create a crowdfunding campaign with the help of their Makerspace leader. Usually this entails a creative video, which can be done on any smartphone, information about how the money will be used, and incentives for donations.
- Kickstarter is the original crowd-funding website. Projects have 30 days to get a set amount of money or everyone gets their donation back. This gives the project a sense of urgency, which makes people want to invest sooner rather than later. Two tricks: be as specific as possible about what the money will be used for, and try to raise a lot of money upfront – the more money a project has within the first week, the better chances it will succeed.
- GoFundMe does not have an all-or-nothing outlook nor does it have deadlines. However, this does mean that people may not be in a hurry to donate, and whatever you promise to them you must deliver, whether you are fully funded or not. There are also fees involved for using the service, so many programs ask that larger donations are made directly, rather than through a platform like GoFundMe.
- On Indiegogo, you can choose to have a deadline or not. They have a more diverse base of donors, but statistically, people donate less than to other sites.
Go Out and Make!
Makerspaces are about being creative and getting into the DIY spirit. Not every Makerspace has to involve expensive tools and 3D printers. These types of spaces can provide a place to draw, sew, hammer, build or program. There are so many configurations and ideas to explore, and the ways in which funding comes together can depend on the specific plan for your Makerspace. We hope these resources help you to get started.

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Dorint Strandhotel Binz/Rügen
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Located in Ostseebad Binz (Ruegen), Dorint Strandhotel Binz/Rügen is minutes from Binz Beach and Kurhaus Binz. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Binz Pier and Schmachter Lake Promenade.
Make yourself at home in one of the 62 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring minibars and LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with bathtubs or showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and blackout drapes/curtains, and housekeeping is provided daily.
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Good deal.
If it is working OK, the basic maintenance procedure is this:
Clean lint and debris from bobbin and hook area.
SEWING MACHINE OIL in oil holes and lube points (see owner's manual.)
Grease (no oil!) where gears mesh. Vaseline can be used if you can't find sewing machine grease.
Decent car wax on painted parts. I use (orange bottle) Nu-Finish.
New rubber bobbin winder tire and broken spool pin can be purchased from Jenny at Sew-Classic blog (from earlier message.)
PROtip: If the stitch selection knobs resist going into some combinations, push on the needle bar towards the right lightly, and the knobs will move much easier. (BTW: You can also put TWO standard needles in the machine at the same time, rather than buy expensive twin needles.)
Enjoy. Don't be surprised if you start looking to buy another one soon.
THANks Querty!
I paid 125 for it, with the table and drawers with needles, thread, bobbins.... great deal! I will check all the links you sent me and see if i can join the group and learn how to do the cleaning myself
You're welcome.
Looks good. How much did you end up paying?
Now join this forum:
and look through the "Bill Holman" files section. There you will find loads of step-by-step info on the rehab/care and repair of these machines.
Search the messages, and you'll find every question you're likely to have about the machine. They even have the original service tech manual for the units, which makes working on it easy.
Oil, heat, and time will limber everything up. Use real sewing machine oil, NOT 3-in-1, which is what causes most of these problems for old machines.
Don't be afraid to work on it yourself, they are really well-built but simple machines. (It will easily last another generation with just simple care and basic handtools.)
At the bottom of this page, you can date your machine's serial number:
Other forums of note to a new 401 owner:
Good luck.
Thanks you Querty!
I got the sewing machine.. and as you said the knob wouldn't move at all to change the stitches and they went down 75 dollars!!!!!!!!! i have cleaned it and now is working perfect! I will probably send it to be serviced tho.. I think that sewing machine has never been cleaned or serviced and I am just scared I might ruin it instead of fixing it! thank you so much for your advice! here is the picture of my new old singer 401A I am sooo happy!
i hope i get it!
I am so glad I joined this wonderful site, it has been very helpful for my desicion! thanks for the manual and hopefully they answer me from craigslist and from what I've read I think this is a lifetime sewing machine so I will be happy to get it thanks again.. if I get it.. I'll post a picture
Good deal.
Here is the manual for it:
A common issue with Slant-O-Matics is the knobs for selecting stitches get sticky. The secret to fixing it is sewing machine oil on the posts either side of the cam stack, a hair dryer, and some time. (You can use that to your advantage to negotiate a possible better price, since it is such a trivial fix.)
Avoid sewing machines on eBay, as they often arrive damaged due to poor packing. IF you can try it in person, you're much better off.
Good luck.
think i am making up my mind
i read about the old singer models and i just found one in craigslist a 401 for 200 dollars, it looks like it's in perfect condition but i will try it before buying it. I save money this way and i can look into getting maybe a coverstitch or a blindstitch as well.. I don't do lots of sewing but i like to have a bit of everything when i do... it is my only hobby so might as well spend a bit of money on it. I loved the Silrite but if I am going to get pretty much the same with an older cheaper sewing machine, then that sounds much better.. maybe if i get really good someday and start selling my work i can start my search again for an industrial sewing machine. thank you all for your help... now.. what coverstitch and/or blindstich could I get? i think i have about 1000 to spend on toys... thanks again for all your help!
Modern Singers are not the same as older Singers.
If you want to use a home grade sewing machine, I would look for older all-metal singers from the 1950s-1960s. Models of note would be 401, 403, 411, 500, 503. Used Kenmore all-metal gear machines from the same era are also a good bet. These can be had for $5 at a yard sale, to a couple hundred rehabed on eBay. Good info here:
A compound feed (walking foot, feed dogs, and needle pull fabric together) is probably overkill for making felt backpacks. These machines are best when multiple layers of thick material must be kept aligned and fed evenly through the machine. These are large, heavy and have big tables, so unless you plan on doing serious work with it, this machine is overkill for your needs, esspecially because it will not work well on light-weight fabric without significant adjustments.
I would suggest a Sailrite LSZ-1 http://www.sailrite.com/Ultrafeed-LS...Sewing-Machine sewing machine. It is basically a home machine on steroids and is simple, tough, and durable. It is also easy to store when not in use, something not true with industrial machines. There are videos on that website of the Sailrite sewing through 10 layers of Sunbrella, a heavy acrylic outdoor fabric.
The price may seem a little high, especially compared the the computerized plastic wonders at Walmart, but this is an investment in a lifetime tool that will work on everything from light fabric to moderately heavy projects without problems.
thanks for the replies
i have been looking in craigslist for the consew 206rb5 haven't found one yet.. they are about 1000 new... the heavy duty machines from that site seems like they do the job as well... i have a sewing machine that sews thin fabric, i just don;t want to kill it with too heavy weight.. i actually think both could work (heavy duty or industrial).. and the price of the heavy duty ones are nicer too.. unless i find the industrial one on craigslist does any one have a heavy duty machine and have used it with a few layers of fleece or denim.. by a few I mean 4 or more... i am lost in brands... i know singer was good back then, and the serger brother i have is awsome.. any recommendations on heavy duty sewing machines? thanks
I just purchased a Consew 206RB-1 off of Craig's list for $750 dollars and it was perfect... So the deals are out there. I had an industrial Singer without the walking foot and it did not like multiple layer of medium material at all. The Consew 206RB has a walking foot and can sew thru 1/8" plywood with the correct needle and thread. I've sewn some lighter fabrics with the Consew with good results. I think the trick will be in the setup of the machine. Use a smaller, rounded tip needle and lighter weight thread, and be sure to reset the tensions on the thread feed and bobbin case lighter and I think you'll be fine.
Good luck,
Bobby V
|The Consew 206RB-5 is too heavy duty for what you want to use it for. I am certainly not an expert on the kind of machine you would need, but I would look at machines like these: CLICK HERE Good luck.
how about the consew 206rb5
thank you for your reply I was just looking to visit a store thy sells industrial sewing machines so I can see one in real life. from all I have read the consew 206rb5 says it sews from light to heavy weight... maybe by light they don't really mean very light... you are right I need to check first. I am working now with a denim needle and it works much better, thread isn't breaking much but still I think I am pushing the machine a bit... maybe it's just my idea... what light industrial machine do you suggest? maybe I read more and find out before I go to the store. thank you again for your reply.
An industrial machine would help you with heavier fabrics, but they don't sew lighter weight fabrics very well at all, and if you need any kind of decorative stitch, you'd be out of luck. Home sewing machines can sew through a lot. If I were you, the first thing I'd look into would be heavier needles for the machine you have now.
The other thing you could look for is a lighter weight industrial machine that is intended for clothing, like blue jeans. I'd start at an industrial sewing machine store and tell them what you want to sew.
finally i was able to upload some pictures.
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[IMG]hi everyone, was hoping to get some help from you. I am not a pro sewing but have made a few dresses, pants, shirts for my daughter and myself, at the moment making dora's backpacks for my daughter's birthday party to give out as favors. My singer facilita intelligent 974 is not liking the layers of fleece. I went to see a few heavy duty machines, Bernini mechanic and elna and even tho I saw wonders with the fleece I am afraid when I try making something else of other material like denim or... idk... I like trying new stuff... it won't handle it. so I was thinking maybe a consew straight stitch or a used pffaff (cause I have seen the prices of the pffaf.. expensive). any suggestions? I would just like to have something that will work with any type of fabric and won't brake or give me a hard time... my husband said yes... so before he changes his mind I'd like to find THE ONE! thank you for all your help. I will post some of the stuff I made for home... If I find out how
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can anyone tell me and ins and outs of the nexami renegade racing seat? i believe some members on here have them installed? the reclinable one... how mcuh do they weight? what fabric are they made out of? are they comfortable, i am a smaller guy, 28 inch waist, would they hug me well? do i need new brackets to make them fit? how would the whole bracket mounting issue work?
and does anyone know anything about the new sparco r100 seat? i think its one of the newest seats that sparco offers, in iother forums it seems to be pretty decent...
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Ghosts in the Attic by Beeezie
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Chapter 3: The Photo Album
April 2002
Narcissas hand stilled on the photo album she had been about to pick up and pack away in a box.
She was kneeling on the floor in a room on the third floor that was used so seldom that everything was covered in a thick layer of dust. She knew that when she rose, her skirt would be absolutely filthy but that was what one had servants for, wasnt it?
It had taken years to find a house-elf to replace Dobby, and she did not miss the days in which shed had to do the cleaning herself or hire a person to do it for her one bit.
Narcissa had avoided this wing of the manor for years; it was largely used as storage space. However, since Draco had announced his engagement to Astoria two weeks prior, Narcissa had become motivated to sort through the belongings that had sat untouched in these out-of-the-way rooms for decades or, in some cases, centuries.
After all, if they were going to hold a wedding here, the manor needed to be absolutely spotless, and there was no way Narcissa or Lucius would allow someone else to sort through items of such a personal nature. Lucius had already found several dark objects that probably would have gotten his pardon revoked had the wrong people found out about them.
And Narcissa, for her part, had found a lovely table and chairs that, once the house-elf had dusted and polished them, would be a perfect addition to Dracos new home not to mention a set of fine china that Draco had scorned but Astoria had loved so much hed relented and agreed to take.
Why, with all of the things she and Lucius were unearthing, Narcissa was sure that there would be very little Draco needed to buy for his new home. Not that affording it was a problem, but anyone could buy new things. Having beautiful, well-cared for antiques were a sign of proper breeding, and thankfully, Draco was marrying a girl of proper breeding. Why, with the war over, some of the children of Narcissas friends had gotten all kinds of ideas.
A few had even married mudbloods. It was a real shame, to see good wizarding blood diluted like that but thankfully, her son was doing nothing of the sort. She could only hope that whatever children he had would be equally sensible.
This particular room was mostly filled with things that she and Lucius had put in it things that they couldnt find a place for, but did not want to throw away. Upon reexamination, shed consigned some of it to the trash without a second thought: the documents from her failed attempt to get Bellatrix released from Azkaban all those years ago, old photographs of Bellatrix and her husband really, most things related to Bellatrix were put directly into the box of things she had no desire to keep.
Narcissa had not yet forgiven her sister for her behavior during the war. Inviting the Dark Lord into their home? Telling her not to worry about her son? Bellatrix had no idea what it was like to have a son.
But this album Narcissa picked it up and waved her wand over the cover. The dust vanished.
She opened it carefully, and then she remembered exactly what it was.
It was the album of her wedding that Andromeda had sent, all those years ago, when shed still hoped to reconcile with her sisters. Bellatrix, of course, had sent it back with several nasty hexes and curses attached, ready to harm anyone stupid enough to open it. Since neither Andromeda nor her husband had ended up in St. Mungos, Narcissa assumed that no one had been stupid enough to open it.
Bella had told her to do the same with hers, but Narcissa had kept it. She couldnt remember why; shed looked through it several times in the months following the wedding, and then left it in this dark and dusty room, not ready to let it go and too sick with hurt and betrayal to want to see it again.
Here was a picture of Andromeda and her husband, standing in front of a gate Narcissa didnt recognize and gazing happily into each others eyes. As she looked at the picture, Andromeda turned away toward the camera and waved happily; her husband caught her around her waist and pulled her close, and they both laughed.
Narcissa turned the page. Here was a picture of Andromeda dancing with their cousin Sirius, the two of them grinning madly as he made a comment that no one else would ever hear.
She swallowed hard. Their stupid, muggle-obsessed cousin was the only family member whod shown up. She regretted that now. Maybe if shed gone, Andromeda would feel more inclined to forgive her now.
It had been well over a year since Narcissa had gone to Andromedas house to apologize, to try and reason with her. Since then, there had not been so much as a Christmas card.
It hurt, more than Narcissa had expected it to. She hadnt been expecting Andromeda to welcome her with open arms, but to scorn her completely?
Narcissa was part of the reason the Dark Lord had been defeated in the first place. She had lost friends over her actions. Didnt she deserve some credit for it?
Lucius said that she should stop thinking about it, and that her blood traitor sister was not worth the heartache she was putting herself through. She knew that he was worried about her, and just trying to make her feel better. She knew that he was probably right.
But she couldnt quite bring herself to let go.
It wasnt that Narcissa no longer cared about blood status. She did. The idea of mudbloods running the country was not one that she relished, and it pained her to see good wizarding blood get diluted.
However, she had also discovered that her idea of what society should look like came at far too high a price. Shed spent two years in agony, fearing for her sons life. Her husband had come back from Azkaban looking tired and haunted. They had all spent a year terrified and being ordered around in their own home.
And all of the deaths and the disappearances
They had not really bothered Narcissa during the First Wizarding War. Shed been younger, more dismissive of lower beings, more immune to their pain. But during the Second Wizarding War mudbloods and blood traitors or not, she could see far too much of herself in the faces of mothers mourning their children or pleading for their lives to be comfortable with all of the killing, and all of the violence.
Lucius, now She did not think that it was the killing or violence that had bothered him. It was the threat to his family.
Narcissa did not delude herself; she knew that Lucius was not a good man, and that he had done terrible things that he didnt really regret.
But it really was amazing how little being good really had to do with who you were. Good was overrated; what mattered to Narcissa was the way his smiles started in his eyes, and his protectiveness, and the way he could find a solution to almost any problem.
She looked back down at the picture just in time to see Sirius step on Andromedas foot.
A few pages later there was a photograph shed never taken much notice of before. Andromeda and her husband were standing with two middle-aged people. Narcissa had always taken them for wedding guests, but as she looked at them more closely, she began to see a resemblance between them and her sisters husband.
They were his parents.
She had not really questioned her parents at the time, but now that she was a mother, she knew that there wasnt anyone her son could marry that would cause her to miss his wedding.
Narcissa felt a tear slide down her cheek.
Narcissa? She looked behind her, and found her husband standing in the doorway. Whats wrong?
She brushed the back of her hand across her face and tried to smile. Nothing. Its just dusty.
He crossed the room and knelt next to her. He gently slid the photo album out of her grip. When he saw what it was, he sighed.
Youre just going to upset yourself, looking at this, he told her, producing a handkerchief from inside his pocket and handing it to her.
She took it and wiped her eyes with it. I know. Lucius started to close the album, and she stopped him. Those are his parents, she said, pointing at the picture.
He peered more closely at it before nodding, once. He clearly wasnt sure what to say.
Our parents didnt go, Narcissa whispered. I didnt go.
Lucius took her hand and squeezed it. That was a long time ago, Narcissa. If she hasnt gotten over it by now his voice trailed off as he collected his thoughts. She made her choice, and its her loss. Narcissa wasnt sure if he was referring to the choice to marry Ted in the first place or Andromedas recent silence.
Shes my sister, Narcissa said, staring into his eyes and willing him to understand.
Shed spent so many years being so angry at Andromeda for marrying the Mudblood, for having a child with him, for allowing her child to marry a werewolf.
Those concerns seemed so petty and foolish now. Andromeda had made mistakes, yes, but Narcissa no longer thought that those mistakes were worth losing her sister over. After all, she had made her own mistakes, and really, compared to Bellatrix
I know she is, he said softly. But if
I can understand why shes so angry, Narcissa said, talking over him. He stopped, but continued to run his thumb along her hand, trying to comfort her. She lost almost everything, and I Her voice trailed off.
A shadow of a grimace crossed Luciuss face, but he waited a moment to make sure she was finished before he spoke. Your sisters always expected too much of you. She shook her head, uncomprehending, and he sighed. Bellatrix resented you she resented both of us because we hadnt suffered enough. The distaste in his voice was apparent; he had never much liked her sister Bellatrix, and the year leading up to the Dark Lords defeat had only deepened his antipathy. Now Andromeda is telling you that you should feel guilty for still having your family by your side. You dont need sisters in your life who wish misery on you.
I treated her so badly, Lucius, Narcissa whispered. I dont deserve forgiveness.
You dont deserve to be miserable, either, he said. He laid the album aside. Your sister conveniently forgets that you helped her side in the end, and more than she ever did. He squeezed her hand again. Come. Youve done enough for the day.
He rose, and Narcissa let him help her to her feet. Before they left the room, however, she bent down and picked the album up. He raised his eyebrows slightly, but refrained from commenting as they made their way down the hall.
She stopped in their bedroom on the way downstairs, and shelved the album on the bookshelf that stood next to the large window as he waited in the doorway. When she turned back to him, he held out his hand. Lets go for a walk, he suggested.
Narcissa took his hand and allowed him to lead her down to the first floor and out onto the manors grounds.
A/N: I was originally just going to write this from Andromeda's point of view, but then Narcissa jumped into my head and wouldn't leave. This is my first attempt writing from Narcissa's PoV - how do you think I did?
I would love it if you took a moment to leave me a review. Most of all, thanks so much for reading! :)


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By Dave Spencer
While it has been Quebec that has traditionally fuelled the Canadian boxing engine, a handful of the province's cross-border rivals from Ontario are facing pivotal showcase fights in the very near future. Starting tonight with super-lightweight Tony Luis who will be featured on ESPN's Friday Night Fights, Ontario pugilists are stepping up both profile wise and competition wise in what will be huge contests for a number of fighters.
Luis of Cornwall Ontario along with Tyler Asselstine, Logan McGuinness, Denton Daley, and Ottawa based Andrew Gardiner all face pivotal battles in the next month that will go a long way in telling just where they stand moving forward.
When 25 year-old Tony Luis (15-0 7KO) signed with American promoter Greg Cohen last year, it was exactly for fights like tonight's contest with Jose Hernandez that the undefeated fighter needed to jump-start his nearly five year old career; a national television appearance in a co-starring role against a formidable opponent in Jose Hernandez. More…


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As she was being recruited to play tennis at USC Upstate, she did her research about the university, its curriculum and programs. She discovered was that it was a university with a good reputation, as well as a great business program, which helped her make the decision to come
to Spartanburg from her native Germany.
Over the course of her successful tennis career, von Stryk has learned the value of developing a strategy for each match. As a business and administration major, she's taken that knowledge and understanding to the next level in charting a course that has led to success in the classroom.
Of course, as a student-athlete she's had to learn to balance the demands of her studies and her sport, but she also has found a way to get involved in as many extracurricular activities as her time allows.
"It is very important to get involved in organizations or clubs you're interested in," she stressed. "It helps you build up your own network of people and also helps you find yourself and develop your own skills."
In addition, she noted that participating in events such as the Business Professional Series, for example, provides insight on how to engage in the real world, as well as gives you an appreciation for the opportunities you've been offered by the school and the value they add
to your experience.
Whether having to juggle her class schedule around her tennis schedule, or work around both to become involved in clubs and organizations relative to her major, von Stryk acknowledges that the reward is well worth the challenge.
"The most rewarding aspect has been to realize that the hard work in tennis and the classroom, giving my best no matter what the situation is, leads to making it into Beta Gamma Sigma honor society or being named First Team All-Conference in tennis," she said.
Set to graduate in May, she has her sights set on a summer internship in New York followed by graduate school in her home country.
"In the long run, I hope to find an interesting position in a major company being involved in some type of business strategy and development," she said.
Congratulations to Mario Blessing on being named Student of the Month for March at The George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics.
For many students, working around class schedules, labs, and oftentimes a job is standard operating procedure each semester. For student-athletes like Blessing, there's that and doing so around the added component of a sports schedule.
Despite the challenges, this standout basketball player for the Spartans recognizes the importance of learning to balance both school and sports.
"Finding time to do homework or study for a test while on a road trip is not always easy," said Blessing. "It takes good time management and discipline."
Though his decision to attend USC Upstate was directly tied to playing basketball, the Kusterdingen, Germany, native knew he had made a wise choice when he stepped onto campus.
"When I got here, got to see The George and take a couple of business courses, it was clear that this was what I wanted to do," noted Blessing. "There are a lot of things I really like about Upstate; one is definitely The George and the professors here."
Beyond meeting the immediate demands of his sport and his classes, he also values the extracurricular activities he's been involved in and knows all the hard work has been worth the effort.
"Being able to step on the basketball court and play against some of the best competition in the country, and at the same time being able to get a degree and take in all the things that college has to offer has been most rewarding," emphasized Blessing.
Set to graduate in May, this finance and economics major hopes to further his studies in graduate school after he's explored life as a professional basketball player in Europe.
Congratulations to Dillon Swayngim on being named Student of the Month for February at The George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics.
To study physics or economics, that was the question for Swayngim upon graduation from high school. Not sure he could measure up to the brilliance of the physicists like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Niels Bohr who had inspired his love of the science; he opted for
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"I decided that economics was something that interested me and chose to attend The George Dean Johnson, Jr. School of Business and Economics," said Swayngim. "I like that USC Upstate is a smaller school where you can start a dialogue after, during or before classes with
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Majoring in business administration with a concentration in economics/finance, he is set to graduate in May. He has appreciated the many opportunities he's had to get involved in various aspects in college life from meeting new friends to learning new things, as well
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Congratulations to Gaffney native Kiersten James on being named Student of the Month for January at the George Dean Johnson, Jr. College of Business and Economics.
"I always knew I wanted to do something with math," said the junior accounting major. "So when I started at USC Upstate, the decision to work toward a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting was an easy one."
In navigating her way through the challenges of learning to balance study, work and a social life, James has also learned to fully appreciate the rewards of that dedication; to fully appreciate when, as she noted, "you find that all the studying paid off and you earn an A or you get the internship you want and are confident that you know what you're doing."
Part of that confidence, according to James, has come from the encouragement and support received from faculty since she's been at USC Upstate, especially from those in the accounting department. Professors, like Dr. Michael Cipriano, are willing to meet with you to help in any way; to make sure you know what you need to know when you graduate.
Participating in extracurricular activities, such as Accounting Club and serving with VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance), has also helped James gain a greater appreciation of her field with real world perspective.
"It has been extremely important for me to get involved in clubs and professional organizations relative to my major in order to connect the dots, so to speak, between classroom lessons and practical experience," emphasized James. "In addition, my internship with Broad River Electric in Gaffney has allowed me to actually apply the classroom lessons of budget forecasting and reconciling bank statements."
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"I'm not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws on this issue," said then-Sen. Barack Obama from the campaign trail of 2008.
The issue? Medical marijuana.
At the 41st annual NORML national conference in Los Angeles, Stephen Gutwillig, Deputy Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, called out President Obama for going back on his word after taking office.
"We have every right to be enraged at the Obama administration," he said. "They knew what the right thing to do on medical marijuana policy in this country was, and they've broken their promise in so many different ways. We have every reason to feel betrayed by this president."
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Connecticut Begins Registering Medical Marijuana Patients
For more than a year, Obama's Department of Justice has overseen efforts to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries in states that have legalized the alternative therapy. U.S. Attorneys have gone so far as to threaten the arrest, prosecution and imprisonment of landlords who rent to dispensaries and government employees who work for state-run medical marijuana programs.
The candidate who campaigned on compassionate cannabis policy has become the president who closed more dispensaries than George W. Bush, and the count continues to rise. Gutwillig said that Obama didn't know what he was bargaining for when the Department of Justice released the Ogden memo in 2009, which recommended that medical marijuana entities operating in "clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state law" should not be considered top candidates for the "limited investigative and prosecutorial resources" of federal drug warriors.
"They didn't know what would transpire," he said. "They didn't know a whole lot about medical marijuana."
"The Ogden Memo was about good policy and good politics. What has transpired after is bad policy and bad politics. And it's really bad faith. He's pissed off a lot of people including high level donors."
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When pressed on his about-face in a Rolling Stone interview earlier this year, the president refused to acknowledge his own promise, insisting that he only meant his Department of Justice would not aggressively pursue individual medical marijuana patients:
"What I specifically said was that we were not going to prioritize prosecutions of persons who are using medical marijuana. I never made a commitment that somehow we were going to give carte blanche to large-scale producers and operators of marijuana – and the reason is, because it's against federal law. I can't nullify congressional law. I can't ask the Justice Department to say, 'Ignore completely a federal law that's on the books.' What I can say is, 'Use your prosecutorial discretion and properly prioritize your resources to go after things that are really doing folks damage.' As a consequence, there haven't been prosecutions of users of marijuana for medical purposes."
Obama's revised answer not only amounts precisely to "using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws" on medical marijuana, it's cold comfort to the patients watching their sources of medication disappear, according to Don Duncan, California Director of Americans for Safe Access.
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A buddy of mine gave me a Quadrajet that was professional rebuilt, I figure I might as well put it on and see how it works since its probably way better then the Quad that I have on it right now which is leaking from the base plate and is not responsive. Today I put the New Quad on and it fired up right away but I need help with tuning it, I spent all day messing around, I put some timing Tape on and my timing was way off, I timed her and set her at 12* Initial and set the mixture screws to about 4 turns but as soon as revved her up it would backfire and I got a flame coming out of the carb, so I backed off one turn and then took her out for a drive, when I tried to step on it there was no power so I increased my timing to 16* initial and 35* total, I didnt have enough time to take her out for a test drive again, but she was very hot and when I went to shut her off it was running on for a bout 1 minute and then would backfire, At idle I'm running 950 RPM and in gear it drops down to 500 RPM and wants to stall, I tried hooking up the vacuum advanced but the RPM skyrocket from 950 RPM to 2000 RPM, the Vacuum advanced was never hooked up since Ive bought the car it has always been plugged. I hooked up a Vacuum Gauge and Im getting a reading of 8, the engine has been rebuilt before i got the car and has pretty radical cam in it.
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Laura Stedman is a 65-year-old woman of average height and build, with straight brown hair and a kind face. She is garrulous, but thoughtful and polite. She's outlandish, but there is something very English about her eccentricity. Her personality is eclectic. She is by turns superstitious and sentimental, paying close attention to tarot cards and astrology, and doting on her pet dogs and cats, yet she has the sensible head of a professional businesswoman and a puritan drive for self-improvement. Her politics are of the right: she is a member of UKIP. In the early 1990s she ran a greengrocer's in Lincoln, before that she owned a restaurant in Henley-on-Thames which made her £100,000, and prior to that she ran a successful transportation company in London. Above all, she is a woman of boundless optimism.
Her story started when she was 48 years old, and it started because of a supermarket. The supermarket in question was a branch of Tesco that opened in Lincoln in the early 1990s. Like many small enterprises, her greengrocer's lost customers to the new store. She began to lose money every week and was eventually forced to close down. The situation was tough, even for a woman of her energy. She had been left with just £2000 from her endeavours. Her father had recently died, and she was looking after a teenage daughter who was suffering a number of physical and mental ailments, including learning difficulties, epilepsy and a debilitating form of psoriatic arthritis. She tried to work for her sister, an estate agent, but due to a family spat that relationship soured. Her boyfriend, a middle-aged Geordie named Tom, was looking for ways to earn money. He had a background in fitness training, and so he decided to try his hand at being a masseur. Laura paid £250 for him to go on two weekend courses.
"Of course, we'd entered a whole new world," she laughs. "We had absolutely no idea what we were doing." All we'd done was put an advert in a newsagent's window, and we were getting these odd calls. Guys would phone up and ask if he did extras, if he did relief. Well, after a while, Tom says 'I'm not doing any of that, but if they really want, they can touch me.' And then I got involved. I didn't see what harm it could do, and I thought, who would want me at my age?
"One of my first clients was a guy called David. This guy with a lovely accent phoned me up and said, 'Would you be interested in spanking me?' He liked to put on a wig and a skirt and become a woman he called 'Jill'. He would come round, clean the place and make tea, and then he'd say, 'Jill's been naughty. I want you to spank her.' He was a very kind man, an ex-public school boy who'd worked as a Samaritan. I think like a lot of public school boys he suffered from the 'matron syndrome' – his first sexual experience had been being spanked by a woman. It was a good initiation for me. David wrote me a letter, in which he told me what Jill wanted. He taught me about the correct apparatus and I started to read up on it – we had a paddle, a cane, a slipper, a safe word.
"I started to see more clients, and became a professional dominatrix – there was no way I wanted to be on the receiving end. I made them all write me a letter explaining what they wanted – it was a kind of vetting process. Looking back it's strange. Tom didn't want me to do it, but we needed the money. I used to switch off, enter a state outside myself; in my head, I used to pretend that I was making a film. I was so naive about what this world entailed, but what I knew that what I wanted to get out of it had to be my vision – this was going to be my world, something I created. It's how I've always lived my life, how I've operated with every business. "
Laura began to put adverts in the local papers. She had a goal, which was to raise £10,000 for a deposit for a house. The phone never stopped ringing. Tom started to overcome his reservations about the work, and one day, Laura returned home to find him sitting in the front room with a girl she did not know. She was an unassuming little thing in her early 20s. She was wearing a cagoule. Unknown to Laura, Tom had placed an advert for someone to work with her, and this girl, Christine, had responded. She had previously been doing a sex show on stage, but now she would become "Christine du Bres," and Laura would be "Miss Sims". Christine moved in.
"It was the happiest year of my life," says Laura. "We'd get up, have a big salad, and the first thing we'd do would be to go to the gym. We'd work between 12 and 8pm, then go swimming at night. I felt free and empowered. We'd do threesomes and foursomes. I never once felt nervous, because I'd always had bisexual leanings – we'd go and see a couple and have a great evening, and come away with a load of money. Girls read our adverts in the local paper and began to ask for jobs. We recruited one girl who until then had been working in a nursing home, and she brought her cousin along to work with us. I'd learned so much that year, especially about how men's sexuality works – when I started, I didn't even know how to put a condom on.
"Soon I'd learned a lot about sex, and a lot about drugs. I was a middle-aged woman who knew nothing of these things. One of the most important experiences I had was with a girl I was introduced to called Rebecca. Tom introduced me to her: she was walking the streets at the time, and she was on heroin. She was only 20 years old, and such a sweet girl, from a good family and everything, so I said I'd help her. She was such a mess, so I took her to a clinic. They found her hair was full of lice, and they told me she'd have to go cold turkey. So I looked after her. For days I thought I was winning the battle, and then the next thing I'd know she was back on the drugs. The lowest point was when she asked me if I could help her inject herself, and I saw her body was just covered in bruises. Then I didn't see her for months; the next thing I know, she's in a psychiatric hospital. We went to see her, and she'd got presents for Tom and I. Like I say, she was so sweet-natured. And then the next thing I heard was that one day she'd hailed a taxi, taken it to Beachy Head, and jumped off the cliffs. I felt like I'd failed her, but I also realised that you can't win the battle against an addiction; it was more powerful than I could cope with. I would never knowingly employ a girl who was on hard drugs, but sometimes they'd slip through the net – there are a lot of heroin addicts, especially in Boscombe, who haven't been rehabilitated."
By this time, Laura's commercial instincts were beginning to take over. She was in the industry, and now she saw how she could make a business of it. She rented another flat, and over the course of the next ten years she expanded her empire. By the time she had finished, she employed 25 girls, eight maids, and four drivers for when the girls needed to do outcalls (visiting a client's house). They operated from a large flat and a huge detached house.
It is in the flat, incidentally, that I am conducting my interview. It is situated above a shop, and as such one enters it from the rear, up a staircase set back a little from an innocuous road that is part residential, part industrial. She shows me around. The first room is the kitchen, which is unremarkable, but once one has passed through it the attention and investment that Laura put into the place is everywhere. The master bedroom (formerly the VIP Suite) is the most striking. There is a Jacuzzi bath with coloured lights and gold taps, a huge plasma screen TV on the wall, a black fireplace with gold leaf painting, a deep red carpet, pink wallpaper, satin bed sheets on the huge antique bed, and ornate furniture. The rooms are not subtly decorated, but the force of Laura's will to do things properly shines through, and they are more tasteful than tacky. The lounge was where clients would be introduced to the girls; it is rather more homely, with a thick carpet, coral coloured walls and a large fireplace. The flat has not operated as a brothel for the last couple of years, and is now a family home. As such it has a schizophrenic, cluttered air: the Jacuzzi is filled with cuddly toys, there are two Pekinese (one of which, to Laura's horror, has left a turd in one of the bedrooms) and several cats roaming around, while Laura, ever the hostess, insists on running to the kitchen to fetch me sandwiches and cups of tea. "I don't want to carry on living here," she says. "Too many memories."
The girls that Laura employed came from a wide array of backgrounds. One had been an air hostess, another a teacher, another was studying to be a psychologist. When the latter wasn't working for Laura, she would relocate to Nevada for a while to work in one of the bunny ranches there. Their ages ranged – some were in their early 20s, but the majority were between 30 and 40, with some between 40 and 50, and this last group were often the most popular. One of the best, she says, was a girl who had been a shoplifter but who was trying to rebuild her life. As Laura says: "She wasn't much to look at, but often the less good-looking girls are the most successful, because they're the ones who'll look after their clients the best. I always told them to use this job as a stepping stone, not as a career option. I told them I'd had a lot of experience before I started this venture, but that they wouldn't ever become world-wise by just working in a brothel. I built up a good reputation – people knew that I wouldn't employ girls who did drugs, that I had some integrity."
The whole operation was suffused with Laura's values, above all her drive for self-improvement. She describes the operation as being like a boarding school. She kept fitness equipment in each of the brothels and an array of self-help books on the coffee tables. Every week there would be a meeting in one of the flats; minutes would be kept, grievances aired and advice given.
Laura's main role, she felt, was to instil a sense of independence in some of these women: "My parents loved and looked after me. You couldn't say the same about some of the girls. We tried to support each other. I believe in empowering women. Most households – and it was a household – have a matriarch at the top. I had one Asian woman who worked so hard. She earned £10,000 with me and gave it to her husband, who spent it all gambling – how on earth do you alter the mindset of a woman like that? A lot of the girls stayed a long time – some were there for three years. All the girls who had boyfriends kept the work a secret. It was sometimes difficult if you saw them when they were out, because you only knew them by their working name.
"One girl stayed for seven years, and ended up becoming a manager – she even had a baby and came back to work. But it was always my way or no way – obviously some of them thought I was very bossy, because I wouldn't put up with the kind of behaviour you see in some brothels. I wouldn't let them drink, or turn up to shifts late. Two warnings and they were out. But ultimately if they worked elsewhere they realised this was the best place: for a start, 60 per cent of the turn over went to the girls; which is a very rare set up – I was able to cover overheads and pay myself with the rest."
The girls very rarely enjoyed the sex; Laura has no illusions about that. "Some prostitutes do enjoy it but in my experience they're in the minority. Of course one thing you learn – and I've really seen it all – is that male and female sexuality varies a lot. Some girls really liked anal sex, some liked to be submissive, but the vast majority were pretty ambivalent about the whole thing. There were, however, plenty of things they did love about the life. For a start, there's the money – all of the girls would have far rather spent half an hour with a client than work in a shop for the amount of time it would have taken them to earn a comparable amount of cash. Then there's the social side. You'd be surprised how glad some of the girls were to see certain clients – not for the sex, just because they genuinely enjoyed their company. The truth is there was a wonderful atmosphere, the whole time. Hand on heart, I cannot remember a single truly unpleasant experience with the clients. They knew they were dealing with strong, organised, robust women. Occasionally, on a stag night, you might get some boisterousness, but that was all I can remember.
"No, the real downside, above all, is the fact that you can become very cynical about men. When you walk in a pub and see a client putting his arm around his wife – it makes you feel like they're all hypocrites. We used to service a number of MPs whenever there was a party conference in Lincoln. They used to send scouts ahead to check the premises – the scouts would pay for a session and every so often one of them would let slip to the girls that there was another reason for their visit – to check the place out for their boss. I was getting involved in local politics at one point – I turned up at the local Conservative Club and gave a very passionate speech. One of the councillors told me he thought I'd be a great asset to the party. Then he found out what I did, and I didn't see him for dust. But at the same time, we kept marriages together. I remember one client we had, a very hunky fireman – well he used to take his clothes off, and underneath he'd have his wife's frilly knickers on. We'd see all sorts of perversions that our clients were ashamed of revealing to their wives."
About six years into this period in her life, Laura heard a knock at the door. She assumed it was another client, but was greeted by a woman and a man: they were plain-clothed police officers. A harmless enough conversation ensued; Laura remembered they spoke about good spots for deep sea diving, and the officers interviewed one of the girls to make sure she was not being coerced. A year or so later, while she was on holiday, one of the houses suffered an armed robbery. A group of men came in with knives and guns and took all the money they could, though as most of the transactions took place on credit card there was very little. The police came round and took finger prints, and said they would try to catch the culprits. They said they had no problem with Laura's business. Her relationship with the authorities seemed solid. As she says: "I'll never forget what one of them said: 'We're not interested in you, Laura.' How that would come back to haunt me." The local Working Women's Project came round with an 'ugly mugs' list of dangerous punters, with pictures of men who'd recently been let out of prison for sex offences and who might pose a threat to her girls, and supplied her with condoms.
Her businesses were robbed twice more, and each time the police said they weren't interested in her: "They said, 'We can can tell you run a good place, and you get people off the streets.' Time and again, they told me they weren't bothered about me, just the robbers." But Laura was beginning to feel worried. A rival brothel owner claimed one of her girls was being trafficked. The police said they believed she was selling condoms that were issued by the Working Women's Project to her girls, so she bought several thousand from a wholesaler. After the third robbery, the police told her she needed to get a video camera and an early warning system. Their attitude towards her had seemed to harden. An officer told her that if one of her girls were to be killed by a robber then she could be charged with corporate manslaughter.
By 2005 Laura was getting tired of the life. She was planning to move away from the business and form a beauty salon in partnership with one of her beauticians. She had put the funds forward for premises and was soon to sign the lease. She was also planning to move to San Francisco for six months in order to write her memoirs. One evening she was sitting in a wine bar with three of her friends when a private number called her mobile. She went outside to take the call. The man on the end of the line was a Detective Sergeant Monaghan. He told her that the police had arrested Carol and Lisa, her two maids, along with several of the girls working for her. He told her to come to the police station for an interview. Laura was in a state of shock. She told him that she'd call back, and wandered back into the bar. She sat down, unable to speak, the possibilities implied by the phone call echoing around her mind. The policeman phoned back, and told her they weren't going away – they could send a car to pick her up. She hung up. She phoned Tom, who had been arrested many times as a young man. He told her she should tell them to fuck off. She replied she couldn't do that. "Okay, just keep your head down and say, 'No comment'," he suggested. She phoned both of her houses. The police answered both lines.
Laura's phone rang again; it was her daughter, Elizabeth. She told her the police were at their house, and begged her to come home: the situation was terrifying for a woman with her mental difficulties. Laura began to cry. She phoned one of her girls on her mobile to find out what was going on. It seemed the police had swooped at about seven p.m. and were still filming in the rooms now, at 10.30. By now the shock had subsided. Laura simply felt exhausted. She caught a taxi with one of her friends to her house. As she got out, several male and female officers grabbed her and cuffed her hands behind her back. She screamed at them to let her see Elizabeth, but she was pushed into a car and taken to the station, where she was read her rights, searched, photographed and charged with running a brothel.
For some reason Laura couldn't understand – perhaps a manifestation of the instinctive optimism that had brought her to this point – she turned to one of the policemen and told him that this could be the best thing that had ever happened to her. "I can't quite see that Laura," he replied. To her surprise, she realised the officer was one of many plain-clothed policemen who had visited when the business was running. The jailer took her to a cell and locked the door. Laura stared at the room's white, tiled walls and suddenly felt a surge of rage. She hammered at the door, screaming "Why me?" again and again. Eventually, she settled onto the blue plastic mattress of the cell's bed. She felt betrayed, and that she had been made to look a fool by the police, by their claims they weren't interested in her and their advice to get more CCTV. Finally, she thought about her daughter.
The Lincoln Echo splashed with "BROTHEL BUST" the next day, accompanied by a huge picture of two policemen with items they had taken from Laura's brothels. The story began: "It's an industry generating millions of pounds a year in Lincoln. It employs hundreds of people and thousands of men use its services. But it also helps to fuel the drug trade, as well as people smuggling and organised crime." It continued: "Operation Sail is the biggest investigation into the seedy underworld and follows an increase in brothels being run in the area and a rise in the number men using them. Intelligence gathered has revealed that there are at least 60 premises in Lincoln selling sex. Since January 27, a team of 28 officers have been carrying out surveillance and last week they carried out simultaneous raids at three premises in the town – including two brothels."
In June 2006, Laura appeared in court. Her defence counsel explained that Laura was the sole carer for her daughter and asked what the point would be of sending a 60-year-old woman to prison. The judge threw out these objections. Laura was sentenced to eight months in prison, and spent her sixtieth birthday behind bars. Her assets were frozen, and she was ordered to pay back £80,000 in profits she had made. She is currently surviving off benefits and caring for her daughter. While in jail, she was evicted from her home, hence her living in the empty brothel now. Like a modern Miss Haversham, her memories are all around her.
She claims a friend in the police force told her the local constabulary were short of funds. The police can freeze assets of brothel owners and sell the assets for money which goes to them, the Home Office, the CPS and Courts Service. In 2004/5 £2.5 million was seized. As the academic Belinda Brooks Gordon points out: "[this] has given the police a powerful vested interest in maintaining the criminality of many sex work related activities." "If it was their intention to clamp down on brothels," Laura asks, "Then why is the city still full of them? What happened to the other 58? Or was I just the softest target? How was I supposed to tell nearly forty people they were out of work, just like that? I became depressed – people who I thought were my friends just disappeared out of the picture. I thought – what am I worth as a person?" Her spirit has been battered, but she is nothing if not resilient. She is already exploring other business opportunities, including a scheme to sell organic chocolate, and she is writing a book about her story.
One issue over which Laura remains bitter is the fact that while one arm of the state destroyed her, another, the taxman, was quite happy to see her business as legitimate while she was operating, claiming thousands of pounds from her. The fact that brothels are illegal but ultimately taxable is not, in fact, an unusual state of affairs. For instance, if the owner of an off-license sells alcohol to underage drinkers, he can still be taxed on the money he receives. The police and the tax man do not work hand in hand, but for St Claire, as for sex workers today, the fact they appear to be working to cross purposes only highlights the inconsistency in the way that laws on brothels is applied. A study in 2000 by criminologists Catherine Benson and Roger Matthews showed that most police vice squads did not consider brothels a priority (90 per cent of them spent less than 10 per cent of their time on them) and that the amount of time spent regulating them varied considerably. Half the squads only intervened in response to public complaints: as one senior officer saw it, their job was to 'clean up the streets…not to police sex'. While the majority of forces wanted more measures to extend powers of arrest, a quarter of them favoured some form of legalisation.
What this means is that police forces' actions are not based on any kind of national policy, but on ad-hoc, social arrangements. It's not surprising the likes of Laura feel the law is arbitrary. The reasons behind why a brothel might be shut down vary wildly; at one end of the scale it might use trafficked women, at the other it might simply be for the reasons Laura alleges were behind her prosecution. The most common governmental line is that the law exists to protect the former, but as Belinda Brooks Gordon makes clear: 'The reasoning behind the law on brothels was originally to prevent others from living off (in outmoded language) "immoral earnings". Now that there are laws against coercion and control, there is little justification.'
There is no doubt that the Government is aware of these arguments, but its response to them over the last few years has been contradictory. In 2006 it published its white paper, 'A Coordinated Prostitution Strategy and a Summary of Responses to Paying the Price'. One proposal was for the word 'brothel' to be redefined to enable two or three individuals and a maid to share premises for safety. It was the one of the few proposals in the document that was not a punitive measure (others included enforcement against kerb crawling, the rejection of safety zones for prostitutes and enforced medical treatment of street sex workers), but it was the one which created the bulk of headlines, and they were far from positive.
'Mini-brothel plan to take sex off the streets and into suburbs' reported The Times, while The Telegraph ran with 'Mini-brothels get go-ahead to operate on your doorstep'. The Daily Mail leader said: 'It has been a splendid week, first of all, for pimps and people traffickers. The Government's plan to legalise small brothels gives the Albanian gangsters who dominate the sex trade an unprecedented opportunity to expand their operations , at no risk to themselves.' Fiona MacTaggart, the junior Home Office minister, defended the plan: 'We think that women who work in pairs are safer than those who work alone,' she told the Guardian.
However, this resistance did not last long. The idea was quietly dropped. Instead, a new set of proposals were made in November 2008, which included a move to create a civil order that would let the police close brothels that were 'linked to exploitation'. It received a great deal of criticism. Campaigners asked what 'linked to exploitation' actually meant, and as the International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW) pointed out – a 'brothel' can be anything from two women working as equals to a huge sauna. Since these definitions were so vague, the IUSW feared it could open the door for a wholesale clamping down on brothels, rather than targeted actions against establishments involved in trafficking and the use of children. The argument was that this could, in theory, force the whole indoor industry further underground, making it even more difficult for sex work projects to identify, gain trust and deliver outreach and support services to workers – whether they were forced or controlled, or working voluntarily and with choice over their working conditions. Campaigners said that if powers were to be used against responsibly managed premises that did not tolerate exploitative practices then workers would only move to less salubrious workplaces. They argued it was better to encourage a responsible attitude to brothel management so that workers would better protected and that projects could work with those in the industry to gather intelligence that would be of help to the police in targeting practices which are already against the law.
The UK Network of Sex Workers' Projects (UKNSWP), an umbrella organisation which brings together projects that offer frontline support services to people involved in sex work, raised a number of issues from its among its ranks which gave credence to the concerns. It claimed projects were reporting women leaving established brothels and instead going to work in hidden flats as a result of the withdrawal of massage parlour licences to the saunas. It added: 'Some member projects are already reporting that they are seeing a new way of organizing female sex work evolving where women are not based in any particular premises but are moving frequently from one hotel to another or via mini cabs as agents to avoid discovery."
These were strong and passionate arguments. Ultimately, there seemed to be neither rhyme nor reason to the proposal. Brothels had been illegal since 1885 and there were already a huge number of laws to cover them. This final statement by the IUSW is vital: what makes prostitution different to any other industry? Are there as many well-run brothels as claimed? The question is central to all debates on the matter: therein lies the rub.


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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Liriano takes the mound in winter ball
Liriano has been asked to pitch in the offseason winter leagues in the past. At the end of the 2009 season, Liriano had pitched close to the same amount of innings he pitched in 2011. This meant the Twins wanted him to get a little extra work in during the offseason. He pitched over 50 innings in the Dominican to regain some of his confidence and the results were evident on the field during the next season. The 2010 season was his best since returning from Tommy John surgery as he pitched 191.2 innings with a 3.62 ERA and a 1.263 WHIP. The first season at Target Field was kind to Liriano and he managed to strikeout over 200 batters for the first time in his career.
On Tuesday night, he made his debut with the Leones del Escogldo of the Dominican Winter League. He was scheduled to pitch two innings but was forced to exit after making the second out of his last inning on the mound. For the night against the Tigres del Licey, he finished with 1.2 innings pitched, two hits, one walk, one earned run and two strikeouts. But his stat line for the night does not tell the whole story of his performance.
1st Inning: Liriano started off with a bang by getting Brad Coon to strike out swinging for the first out of the bottom half of the inning. Anderson Hernandez stepped into the box next and smacked a double into center field. The next batter hit a slow roller in front of the plate so the catcher was able to retire him for the the second out of the inning. Ronny Paulino served as the clean-up hitter for his team and he came through with a double to right field. The runner scored to put Liriano in an early hole and he was flustered enough to walk the next batter. With runners at first and second and two outs in the inning, Liriano got Christian Marrero to pop out to the second baseman to end the inning.
2nd Inning: The bottom of the second started with a weird play as the right fielder, Eury Perez, dropped a foul pop and was charged with an error. Liriano was still able to retire the batter on a ground out to the shortstop. With Liriano's closing in on his pitch count for the evening, Jordany Valdespin would represent the last batter he would face. He ended his time on the mound with the same results as the first batter of the game, a strike-out swinging. Liriano's night was book-ended by strikeouts and a little bit of chaos in the middle.
The Twins are strictly limiting the amount of innings Liriano will pitch during the end of the winter league season. Joe Christensen wrote on the Star Tribune website last night, "Liriano will not pitch more than 20 innings the rest of the Dominican season." It also sounds like Liriano regretted not being able to pitch in the winter league last offseason. He feels it is the best way for him to get prepared for spring training.
For Twins fans, the hope is the Liriano of 2010 will make a reemergence in 2012. If pitching in winter ball is all that it takes to get that version of Liriano back, I'm all for it.
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The University of Southern Mississippi wants the new director of the Trent Lott National Center for Economic Development and Entrepreneurship to have both an academic and business development background.
USM is about two weeks into its search for a replacement for Rick Duke, who left his director post in July two years after arriving from Atlanta, where he published a lifestyles magazine and served in a several capacities at Georgia Tech, including economic development. After leaving the two-year-old Lott Center, Duke declined a request to talk about either his tenure or the direction in which the Lott Center is headed.
Duke has since taken on consulting work in the region, most recently helping McComb develop a plan to capitalize on its community and economic development assets.
The dual background sought for Duke's replacement would provide leadership for the university's master's degree program in economic development while enhancing cooperative efforts statewide for business creation, expansion and retention, USM says.
Chad Driskell, executive assistant to the president for external affairs, is heading the search. "Ideally we would like someone with the academic credentials that could hold a faculty rank," Driskell said in a recent interview.
Driskell acknowledged the Lott Center had not expected Duke's departure so soon after his arrival. "Rick felt it was time for him to seek other opportunities," Driskell said.
The Lott Center grew out of former president Shelby Thames' desire for the university to link its expertise in economic development and scientific research with job creation efforts in South Mississippi and elsewhere in the state. Thames, a polymer scientist who served as president from 2002 to 2007, also led efforts toward creation of the off-campus Polymer Science Research Center. Thames recently retired as a research faculty member, ending 46 years with the university.
Driskell said in the Lott Center has worked closely with the university's academic units to provide "human capital" for economic development projects across Mississippi. The Center is a front door of sorts for businesses that need help from professionals within the university, he said.
"We make sure they get what they need and follow-up to make sure everything gets connected."
The center is also home to the state's lone graduate program in economic development. "That's a reason we're looking for a director with educational credentials who can teach" but also has "real world training" to bring to the job.
Many of the Lott Center students are professionals in economic development who have returned to the classroom to receive a master's degree. Some take part an executive format curriculum that involves online instruction and Saturday classes, according to Driskell.
The students seek to expand "their tool kit" by obtaining both the credentials and experience to flourish in the highly competitive field, he said.
Driskell said an on-campus search committee will participate in the selection of Duke's replacement. He said the hiring decision will probably be "a collaborative effort between myself and the university president."
Duke is the third high-profile USM official to resign in the last few months.
President Martha Saunders resigned at the end of April and Lance Nail departed his post this month as dean of the Business College for a similar post at Texas Tech.