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by John Calvin (compiled by John H. Kromminga)
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It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. —Psalm 133:2, 3
There can be no doubt that the Holy Spirit is to be viewed as commending in this passage that mutual harmony which should subsist amongst all God's children, and exhorting us to make every endeavor to maintain it.
So long as animosities divide us, and heart-burnings prevail amongst us, we may be brethren no doubt still by common relation to God, but cannot be judged one so long as we present the appearance of a broken and dismembered body. As we are one in God the Father, and in Christ, the union must be ratified amongst us by a reciprocal harmony and fraternal love.
Let us then, as much as lies in us, study to walk in brotherly love, that we may secure the divine blessing. Let us even stretch out our arms to those who differ from us, desiring to bid them welcome if they will but return to the unity of the faith. Do they refuse? Then let them go. We recognize no brotherhood, as I have said already, except amongst the children of God. —Commentaries
John Calvin was the premier theologian of the Reformation, but also a pious and godly Christian pastor who endeavored throughout his life to point men and women to Christ. We are grateful to Reformation Heritage Books for permission to use John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart as our daily devotional for 2013 on the OPC Web site. You can currently obtain a printed copy of that book from Reformation Heritage Books.
Dr. Joel Beeke, who is editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, has this to say:
"Calvin shows us the piety of a Reformed theologian who speaks from the heart. Having tasted the goodness and grace of God in Jesus Christ, he pursued piety by seeking to know and do God's will every day. He communed with Christ, practicing repentance, self-denial, and cross-bearing. Moreover, his theology worked itself out in heart-felt, Christ-honoring piety. The selections of this devotional bear this out, and hopefully will be used by God to direct pious hearts in our own day."
These devotional readings from John Calvin were compiled by John H. Kromminga. Be sure to read his "Introduction" to John Calvin's Thine Is My Heart.
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Great stuff, this has completely changed the way I develop concepts into games. Allows me to rapidly try out new ideas, and to tweak them to my heart's content.
I am a programmer by trade, and I will say that PlayMaker is an essential tool in my arsenal. Just being good at programming doesn't guarantee you will have the time, energy, or speed that PlayMaker will allow you to iterate on your design and ideas quickly.
If only you knew exactly what you wanted to do when you start writing code in C#, a lot of tools you'll never need. But game design isn't so straightforward, you have to be able to work as close to the speed that you generate ideas as you can. PlayMaker gives me that. Excellent work! Jeez, if only Unity bought these fine folks' company already so it comes as standard for every Unity installation, there would be more quality games on the market!
It is.. everything to me. If I should chose between this and Unity itself, I'd chose this.. which of course does not make any sense at all, but point being that if Unity is the house, then Playmaker is the ocean view. Nah, that did not come out right either.. Love - is that too big a word? No, love it is.
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BY Lindsey Klein6/25/2012
Connecticut's small town economic development directors envision creating and expanding downtown revitalization programs with funds from the state's newest infrastructure improvement grant program.
The Main Street Investment Fund, created during last fall's jobs special session, has received $5 million and is accepting applications for small town redevelopment projects. The money will be awarded after the Sept. 28 deadline.
Applications are available for grants up to $500,000 to towns with less than 30,000 residents, or those eligible for Connecticut's Small Town Economic Assistance Program.
The Rocky Hill economic development director, Ray Carpentino, sees a possible expansion of the town's main streetscape program under Main Street funds.
"Thinking as a planner, this program pushes the town to look closer at a project and see how it would fit into a long-term infrastructure plan," said Carpentino. "The STEAP program doesn't require the same depth of planning."
Rocky Hill is in the midst of a six-year renovation plan — the Silas Deane Streetscape — funded by five STEAP grants totaling $1.7 million. The town is looking to apply for Main Street money to help fund the Silas Deane Streetscape, or provide additional funding for future infrastructure renovation projects.
The Silas Deane Streetscape's purposes are to identify and re-create a town center, establish a gateway to the government center and the historical Rocky Hill Ferry, and establish and improve the pedestrian experience.
Kevin Maloney, spokesman of Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, is anticipating that the Main Street Investment Fund will work to the advantage of many communities.
"This program will provide another avenue for towns to bolster their commercial centers, specifically suburban and rural communities that continuously struggle to access funding for business and job growth," said Maloney.
Smaller communities are challenged with attempting to grow their commercial centers into robust, successful, and profitable downtown areas, he said. The Main Street Investment Fund targets these small towns, where it aims to promote commercial activity and increase local job numbers by providing grants to finance infrastructure renovations.
Eligible towns can fund a variety of projects, including building and façade renovations, improved street lighting, sidewalk construction, signage, recreational space, and any other necessary renovations to the economic success of the municipality.
The Town of Plainville is renovating its business district, focusing on pedestrian lighting, renovated curbing and sidewalks, and new landscaping.
With Main Street funds, Plainville officials envision this project expanding into other areas, or simply make the existing renovation area nicer.
"Improvements to any downtown district pay off in dividends," said Mark DeVoe, director of planning and economic development in Plainville. "The downtown business district is a core investment in any town, and maintaining the area benefits the entire municipality."
Enhancements such as streetscape improvements, sidewalk renovations, and increased street lighting can help to spur other types of private investments, DeVoe said.
"We want pedestrians to cross the road comfortably, utilize enhanced parking facilities for their vehicles, and ultimately provide a community for people and businesses to thrive happily together," said John Bossi, director of technical services in Plainville.
Commercial property owners who support and enhance a qualified town project will receive financial incentives for expenditures used toward their Main Street Investment Fund contributions.
"Creating a sense of place for residents and visitors is important," said DeVoe. "The vibrancy of any downtown is a reflection of the town as a whole."


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Identity, Language, and Discrimination
As I mentioned in my prior post, I am thinking a lot right now about the intersection between identity and linguistic meaning as it impacts employment discrimination. In my last post, I wrote about the Seventh Circuit's view of the word "bitch" and its failure to mention the relevance of the gender identity of the speaker of that word when considering its contextual meaning. I recently posted a draft of my article on this topic, "The N-Word at Work: Contextualizing Language in the Workplace," on SSRN. The article primarily deals with the "n-word" but makes the broader point that linguistic meaning is a product of numerous contextual factors including the racial, gender, religious, etc. identity of the speaker and listeners.
"The N-Word at Work" argues that there is a widening gap between the use and meaning of words in modern American culture and courts' treatment of those words. This is particularly true in the case of derogatory slurs and phrases but is equally true for discriminatory language in general. For example, in American culture, it is a virtually universally accepted reality that a word, like the "n-word," can have horrific or endearing meanings depending on the identity of the speaker and other contextual factors. There is a striking difference between a white man using the word with his colleagues and a black man using it among his friends. But given Title VII's prohibition of different treatment on the basis of race, the white man's use of the term raises difficult questions about whether he can claim protection from discipline under Title VII's reverse race discrimination jurisprudence.
Nonetheless, both the legal literature and judicial system have largely ignored this problem of language in discrimination cases. Perhaps sensing an emerging problem in the lower courts, in its 2006 decision in Ash v. Tyson, the Supreme Court devoted a single, vague sentence to the meaning of language in discrimination cases. Despite this, the problem persists among appellate and district courts alike.
My article calls attention to this issue by examining the uses and meanings of discriminatory language in modern culture and advocates a theory of meaning that relies on the context in which it is used, the identity of the user, and the social, historical, and cultural framework in which the language developed. The article highlights the mistreatment of language by trial and appellate courts and tracks the troubling history of Ash, which was finally resolved in December 2011 after two trials, a trip to the Supreme Court and four reviews by the Eleventh Circuit. Finally, the article suggests solutions to this seemingly intractable problem, including the need to (1) recall the purposes of anti-discrimination law and the permissible non-literal applications of that law, and (2) permit and encourage the use of extra-legal expert testimony akin to social framework evidence that could translate the cultural realities of language for courts.
Any comments on the topic in general and the solutions I offer would be helpful as I am currently revising the article and am working on my next project, which deals with the changing nature of identity and the "protected class" paradigm in discrimination law.


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2013-01-14 • The Adams Will
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Seventies: Good morning, Daviss!
Daviss: Good Afternoon to you!
Seventies: Come join me for a cup of java. :}
Daviss: I am completely out here thinking about warming up some broth
Seventies: sick?
Daviss: I need something lol its cold here
Seventies: oh oatmeal, brown sugar, raisins and cinnamon with hot tea would hit the spot.
Daviss: I love oatmeal and just may take you up on that idea
Seventies: Herbal tea, so you don't get sick. Mint would be good. I know y'all don't have much of a winter out there. So these temps have to be a shock to your system.
Daviss: we start the first day of winter just like you do lol lol lol
Seventies: lol whatever.
Daviss: lol
Seventies: Calendar day only. lol
Daviss: and....
Seventies: Its a fluke that y'all hit a night time low of 28... lol
Daviss: quit peepin
Seventies: lol I didn't have to peep to know that! lol So what's new in genealogy? I was working on re-importing and expanding my tree yesterday. ugh so mad I broke my laptop. This new one is cr@p good morning alt
alt: Hello daviss & Seventies, hope you two are doing well today.
Daviss: well you had to do what you had to do to get another one for the start of school Hello there alt!
Seventies: Yes I did. Can't wait for tax time...
Daviss: So what did you use to transfer from one puter to the other?
Seventies: didn't yet. Need to get my supplies together.
Daviss: what do you mean supplies?
Seventies: I need a special cord to do the transfer.
Daviss: Is it a disc oh ok
Seventies: I am planning a day trip down to D.C. I want to finish getting all 5 microfilms of M1914
Daviss: hmmm so this cord plugs in to each computer?
Seventies: No from a hard drive to a usb outlet... its a special cord Before I take off, I need to make sure I get with my IT folks to get the right equipment.
Daviss: ok one other question...is it easy to do
Seventies: lol it depends. Its been a LONG time since I've done that type of Transfer.
Daviss: alt have you moved info from one puter to another?
alt: once or twice Daviss
Seventies: alt, I saw that you posted your ancestors will on facebook. What sort of new information were you able to get? did you take a second look at the docs you already had?
alt: the Will was all new to me Seventies I didn't know one existed until a couple of months ago.
Seventies: So it didn't fill in any blanks or questions you had about the previous information that you had on this ancestor? Or other ancestors?
Daviss: next stop alt is hopefully for you to get the transcript of the law suit was filed against the theft of the wagon and supplies
alt: oh yes, it gave me new information Seventies on his life style in California.. assets, burial information,etc.
Seventies: Nice
alt: Daviss, not even sure of how to go about finding out how to investigate the disposition (theft) of the assets...
Seventies: Hi Selma
alt: hello Selma... hope you're feeling better today. Hi Khathu
Selma: Good Monday afternoon alt, daviss, and seventies.. Yep doing good
Seventies: Hi Khathu...
Selma: Afternoon khathu
Daviss: Hello Selma and Khathu
khathu: Hello everyone I'm chatting from my phone
Daviss: They mentioned something like that in the papers you had did't they alt?
Seventies: I was sharing with my FB friends and family that I was surprised that there is a Confederate/Confederacy holiday celebrated in MS. Children are excused from school and everything is pretty much closed.
alt: oh you guys and your techie 'toys' LOL
Seventies: what just happened?? lol
Daviss: How How's it going Selma?
Selma: Pretty good Daviss..
Seventies: alt, see you could've done this if you kept your IPad...
alt: the papers mentioned that the 'stable owner' had sold William Adams wagon(s) and horses without the permission of the executor of the Will ... and he (exceutor) had his lawyers file a claim against the stable owner for lost property Daviss
Seventies: There should be a courtcase on that...
Selma: I better buy another laptop before they stop making em
Seventies: Selma, I know that's right.
Selma: Or maybe there is something in the newspaper alt
Daviss: lol Selma as fast as things change its possible
Seventies: My brother FINALLY brought my mom her laptop this weekend!
alt: I'm sure there is one Seventies...... just not sure I want to follow up on what might of happened.
Daviss: Do you have the stable owners name alt
Seventies: I saw some laptops now with a Terrabyte. I remember when you could only get that on a server! Times have changed!
alt: yes Daviss, he is named in the papers and the attorneys that were hired are also named.
Seventies: Selma, I am ready to get those Pre-Freedman's Bureau records M1914! I'm planning that as my first official trip of 2013. Awaiting my 64GB flashdrive.
Selma: Great project for 2013 seventies..should keep you might busy
Daviss: then there should be something on file after the date the excutor ordered it
alt: Khathu, do you have the final accounting for the Will and Probate case for your Dorsey ancestor?
Seventies: It will. I'm going donate the records to Ser Boxley or NAPAC. I'll be down in June/July as my brother will be getting married.
Daviss: He is not here alt
Seventies: Khathu got kicked off, i think.
alt: Oops, he was on his phone LOL
Daviss: what is NAPAC
Seventies: Natchez African American preservation ..blah blah blah... lol
Daviss: ok
Seventies: they are asking for donated records. They need additional docs and histories. Many of their docs and photos came from LSU's library
alt: good that you can help them out Seventies every little bit helps
Seventies: Yes, absolutely. They should be the center of AA history for Natchez and for the area... IMO
Daviss: do you have the equiptment to change the microfilm over to paper or are you donating the microfilm
Seventies: That's why I'm going to download onto the flash drive.. it should save as pdf or jpg. I need to verify this... If so, I will buy a cheap pack of flash drives and donate to the organization.
Selma: Thats what I did at the FHC seventies
Seventies: I see the Nat'l Archives has the same thing now. They even sell flash drives at College Park.
Selma: I wasn't doing a whole roll...but quite a number of images
alt: you donated flash drives or microfilm Selma .. or both?
Seventies: Selma, how large was your flash drive? 2gb's are pretty cheap these days.
Selma: I ordered the microfilm at FHC, took my flash drive and saved the images I wanted to the flash drive I had about a 2 or 4 GB
Seventies: okay did you fill it with your images, or had quite a bit of space remaining.
alt: ah so Selma, good thinking ... and you said you weren't techie saavy LOL LOL
Daviss: lol lol
Seventies: lol
Selma: The folks at the place told me that this was the best way to do it..they have one set up that allows you to do so They showed me how
alt: ah so Selma....
Seventies: It is the best way, who wants to carry a bunch of papers around... lol
Selma: I wasn't trying to copy the roll seventies..just doing some of this and that as examples..
Seventies: that's what I did with M1914...
Selma: I did half of the Alabama 1865 census...
Seventies: oh really?
Selma: Some bounty claims..for Alabama...FB report for some county in Mississippi
alt: You can get a whole lot of images in 2-4GB...... I mean a WHOLE LOT!!!!
Seventies: right alt. depending on the resolution...
Selma: I am over run by paper..so this is probably the way for me to go for somethings
Seventies: Was it Franklin, Amite, Adams or Wilkinson Co. Selma?? :}
Daviss: I wish the center here had that machine.....They have one only so I doubt if a person could consume a lot of time using it to copy a whole reel
Selma: Bolivar I think...
Seventies: Oh..
alt: hello HistoryBuff
Daviss: Hello HistoryBuff
Seventies: Nobody likes Adams Co. MS or Wilkinson Co. MS!
Selma: Afternoon History Buff..
Seventies: Hi HistoryBuff
HistoryBuff: Hey all What's shaking ?
Seventies: Nothing.
Selma: I thought the report was interesting cause it was talking about folks who had moved to Miss from Arkansas in the 1865-1867 time frame to work
Daviss: nothing here HistoryBuff
Seventies: Next weekend I'll be working with my cousin on her North Carolina family tree and getting her started on some basics.
HistoryBuff: Very nice, 70s.
Seventies: She's been bugging me for about 6 months on this.
alt: Roots Magic has a feature "Roots Magi to-go" you can have your entire database on a 4 GB flashdrive and take it with you and load to someone else's computer... fantastic feature... it has the database and all of the 'software' to operate the RM application on the flash drive.
Seventies: now that things are settling in her home, all the kids are off to college, she can dedicate a little more time to doing things like this.
HistoryBuff: That's on my to-do list with my cousin in Virginia.
Seventies: Yep alt, giving her Roots Magic is on my list of to-do's.
alt: that would be a great gift Seventies
Seventies: of course it will be the FREE edition! lol
HistoryBuff: Good looking out, Alt.
alt: oh, well okay!!!! I guess
Selma: Hey the real gift is showing her how to USE it
Seventies: I want to give her the free stuff first. so she won't have any financial loss if she decides she doesn't want to continue on. absolutely Selma. Also that reminds me I need to send her a link to Afrigeneas beginners guide as an assignment to read before I go up this weekend.
alt: dunno Seventies, if you have notes & images the 29.00 investment is the way to go..
Selma: Kids going off to college and you are giving her HOMEWORK
Seventies: Believe it or not alt, there's a lot of functionality in the free edition... I tried to do every feature I could, believe that! lol lol Selma.. she needs some reading, goodness knows she'll be doing a lot of it anyways!
Selma: BRB..son stopped by
alt: tip of the iceberg Seventies, the Free version
Daviss: ok back
Seventies: okay maybe before I hit the road this summer, I'll buy the full copy I am determined to take about 2 1/2 weeks off this summer to dedicate to my research. Holidays and all! lol
Daviss: sounds good seventies
Seventies: I gotta run to take care of som business. Have a good day all!
Daviss: stopped me in my tracks to ask seventies something lol
HistoryBuff: Someone always has something else form me to do. Cya 70s.
Daviss: oops kathu was bumped out now alt Even when you retire HB you will always be asked lol
Selma: Time for me to run too folks..have a nice day
Daviss: ok Selma take care HistoryBuff
HistoryBuff: Sorry I missed Khathu I see.
Daviss: yes but he was not in long see ya later HistoryBuff take care
HistoryBuff: OK


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by Bruce Kravetz
Yet another art gallery has opened in Chestnut Hill. The Gravers Lane Gallery (GLG) made its debut on April 8 at 8405 Germantown Ave., formerly the home of Intermission for many years.
I was there an hour before the first show and was surprised how relaxed the atmosphere was. As a former gallery owner myself, I definitely know how stressful an opening can be. At 6 o'clock the party began, and after a short while it was shoulder to shoulder. One could hardly move when the NBC 10 news network cameras arrived along with anchor Dawn Timmeney, who just happens to be married to one of the owners, Mike Tracy. They live in Mt. Airy.
The first one-person show at GLG last month consisted of paintings by Felice Saldutti, 61, who was born in Italy, grew up in Philadelphia and currently lives in Mt. Airy.
The Gravers Lane Gallery is the creation of four people with a dream:
•Mike Tracy, 58, has been involved extensively in marketing and has lived in several countries, including 10 years in Amsterdam, Holland. Mike also lived for a few years just outside Antwerp, Belgium, plus another three years in Tehran, Iran, and during the height of the 1960s' youth movement in the storied Haight Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco.
•Robert L. Smith, 58, is a photographer originally from Yorkshire, England. He has had an impressive number of shows in well-established galleries throughout Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and has won many awards. He lived in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, for 10 years, where he owned an art photography gallery.
•Ken Goldenberg, 55, founder and president of the Goldenberg Group TGG, is a real estate developer. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he was an environmental attorney during the 1980s. He travels often to Kenya, where he donates his time and money helping women with AIDS, assisting with building centers that help the handicapped, and raising money to help children go to school.
•Amse Hammershaimb, 31, a resident of Chestnut Hill, is a consultant to Gravers Lane Gallery. Her father is Danish, and her grandmother is a direct descendent of Samuel Adams. Her mother is from the Philippines. Amse is primarily active as a gallerist in the visual arts. She began her career in her teens, cataloguing and consulting for private and corporate collections, universities and galleries both internationally and in the U.S. She continued her consulting while completing her studies in art history at Bryn Mawr College and founding her own arts consulting company, EAH Gallery, Inc.
The gallery's second show, exhibiting the work of David Moore, opened May 14 and will run through June 5. Moore has a reputation in Boston that was built on exhibitions of glowing reductive paintings that have a beautiful nuanced surface. He earned his MFA degree in painting at Bard College, NY, where he also studied Theosophy, Sufism, music, photography and the luminist paintings of the Hudson Valley.
David's musical experience has also influenced his paintings. For the past 35 years he has revived the lost art of playing the Musical Saw. He performs and records across the country, and has been featured at Boston Symphony Hall, on "The Today Show" and on NPR. More information at 215-247-1603, firstname.lastname@example.com or www.graverslanegallery.com
Bruce Kravetz, who wrote this article, owned an art gallery in Rochester, New York, from 1965 to 1975 and produced two shows for public television, one in this country and the other in Perth, Australia. He has had exhibits of his own photographs at galleries in Philadelphia and elsewhere. He says that in his 71 years he "could not even begin to count the number of gallery openings I have been to, in addition to the ones I had with my own gallery."


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Ole and Mari Finnestad's granddaughter, Elabata "Ella" Bertina Vallem was born on December 26, 1885 to Rachel (Finnestad) and Lewis Vallem in Lee county, Illinois.
Ella was married to George Olson in Indiana sometime in November 1908. Ella passed away May 21, 1975 in Aurora, Kane county, Illinois.
Ella and George were buried at the Union Cemetery in Lee County, Illinois. Here is a photo of their plot. Unfortunately a bush has grown over the monument so it is difficult to locate, however their headstones are clearly visible to the west.
Here is a photo of the monument hidden by the bushes.
Here is a more visible photo of the monument.
Here is a photo of Ella's headstone.
George was born in Illinois in 1886 and died in 1947. Here is a photo of his headstone.
And another shot of Ella and George's headstones together.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Elabata "Ella" Bertina (Vallem) Olson - burial
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The Rome Hotel Villa Morgagni is an elegant Liberty Villa built at the beginning of the 19th century and recently refurbished to unite warm hospitality with a tasteful ambience, a mixture which has created an exclusive atmosphere and refined hospitality.
Positioned off the main road, thanks to its long driveway, it offers the advantage of an environment particularly silent and relaxing.
For the business traveller, Villa Morgagni has a conference room furnished with video conference.?Start the day with a view while enjoying a gourmet breakfast in our Roof-top garden or finish it by relaxing in our Turkish bath and sauna or just lounging in our bar and lounge.
Private parking is also available and the area is also and well served by the subway, bus line and taxi services to arrive to the historical center not far away.


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Frosty blue dunes on Mars
It's been a while since I've posted a jaw-dropping high-res picture from Mars, so how about this one: a gorgeous shot of frost coating dunes on the surface of the Red Planet?
[Oh yes, you want to click that to enaresenate.]
This picture was taken by the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which takes extremely detailed images of the surface of the planet. It shows wind-driven sand dunes on Mars, rippling in a similar way as on Earth. The sunlight is coming from the upper left direction, and where the light hits the surface you can see the familiar reddish cast; that's actually from very fine-grain dust laden with iron oxide — rust!
But the shadows, where the Sun doesn't reach, it's cold enough that carbon dioxide in the Martian air freezes out, forming a thin layer of dry ice on the surface. In this image — where the colors have been enhanced so you can see the effects better — this shades the dunes blue. You can see the frost not just covering the dunes in general, but hiding in the troughs of the ripples too (which I think is why the sunward facing parts of the dunes can look blue; that's from the ripple shadows). The non-color-enhanced version showing the entire dune region can be found here — and is stunning in its own right.
These dunes fascinate me. The sand on Mars is actually basaltic, making it look grey to the eye. Those grains are big enough that they don't move as easily as the finer dust, and they pile up to form the big dunes, with the redder dust coating them. The color can change when frost forms, as in the picture above, but you also get incredibly dramatic and simply stunning patterns when dust devils — tornado-like vortices that form when wind blows over warm air rising off the surface — lift up the red dust and expose the grey basalt underneath. The swirling patterns are intricate and incredible, as you can see in this picture here (click to embiggen and get more details).
Pictures like this remind me viscerally that these objects we see in the sky are not just some distant lights, they are whole worlds. They have fantastic details and are as diverse and have complex interactive systems as any we find on Earth. This makes their study important, fascinating… and of course, astonishingly beautiful.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Tip o' the heat shield to HiRISE on Twitter.
Related posts:
– The artwork of the Martian landscape
– Martian dunes under the microscope
– The Devil is in the details
– Happy first day of spring… Mars!
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10 on the scale of awesomeness
That second one looks like it would make a good tattoo.
What has this to do with compounds of arsenic?
(Yes, I know that it's spelt arsenate not aresenate, but that was too good a straight line to let go.)
What a fine desktop background image!
Both of those pictures are life-altering. My head literally swims from looking at the full page images and "Across the Universe" plays inside. Thanks so much for your site.
Those aren't dust devil tracks in the second picture, they're crop circles. 😉
Nigel Depledge, I was thinking encyanate. 😀
Interesting and awesome as always!
Wow… is that a sort of interference pattern to be seen on the center dune? Phil, this is so beautiful. Thank you for all you do.
With all that sand likely building up static, any astronauts visiting could end up charged with basalt…..
My new desktop background. Many thanks!
Clearly Mars believes that acid-washed denim will be making a comeback this spring fashion season.
To be serious though, I DO remember reading about one of the rover designers, who was concerned about possible electrostatic discharges from the Martian dust devils. There was no documentation at the time about electrostatics with Terrestrial dust devils, so he went into the desert with some instruments and documented thoroughly.
A lot of people who initially had disparaged the notion were shocked, so the rovers received extra protection against ESD and were shut down in the early mission when dust devils came their way.
I don't know if they still shut down Opportunity when dust devils are heading its way.
The picture is beautiful. I love the dunes and the blue ripples. The ripples make me want to go swimming.
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Where are the expert comments from Richard C Hoagland ?
What is that artefact on the lower left? In the shadow in the left corner? It looks like an termite hill with tentacles? Maybe there are mites on mars, which ate all the plants?
Umm, body paint,,,
,,,or tattoos. Either is good for me,,,
Great pics,,,
Gary 7
A new quilt top – that's what the first photo looked like to me without thinking about it. So I'm glad to know Mars looks beautiful in blue. O my gosh.
Great image – although it could almost easily be a photo from above the Sahara, Namib or Great Sandy Deserts here on Earth as much as Mars.
Where are those tell-tale martian
canalscraters? 😉
Pictures like this remind me viscerally that these objects we see in the sky are not just some distant lights, they are whole worlds. They have fantastic details and are as diverse and have complex interactive systems as any we find on Earth. This makes their study important, fascinating… and of course, astonishingly beautiful.
Quoted for truth – very well said and seconded by me.
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Nigel Depledge, I was thinking encyanate
Heh. So were you thinking of the colour or the cyanate anion?
Enaresenate? I thought it was enbarsoomenate for Mars?


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LONDON — Zee Entertainment Enterprises, India's largest media and entertainment company, has appointed Bhaskar Das as chief exec of its digital and news businesses.
Das will be in charge of Zee's news channels and web portal India.com. He will report to Zee's group chairman Subhash Chandra.
Das quit the Times of India group earlier this month after 32 years with the group.
Launched in 1992, Zee is a pioneer of the TV industry in India. It now has 500 million viewers spread across 167 countries, and a library of more than 100,000 hours of TV content, and 3,000 films.
The company had revenues of $596 million in 2011, and is hoping to make inroads into the U.S. with wellness channel Veria Living, which launched in 2010 with $250 million invested to date.
India.com is a joint venture with the Penske Media Corp., which also owns Variety.


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A rights activist close to Liu Xia, the wife of jailed Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, has hit out at her continued incarceration at the couple's Beijing home, calling it "inhumane" and against Chinese law, while her lawyer says there are no signs the authorities are easing restrictions on her.
Their comments came as a crying and trembling Liu gave her first media interview in 26 months, speaking out for the first time about her ill-health and extreme isolation.
"We live in such an absurd place," she told a journalist from the Associated Press, who managed to get to her front door while her guards were on their lunch break.
"It is so absurd," she said, in the brief interview during which she said she has lost count of the days she has been confined, and feels as if her situation is "almost" the same as her husband's.
Liu said that apart from an escorted monthly visit to see Liu Xiaobo in prison, she hasn't left the couple's apartment since his Nobel Peace Prize was announced in October 2010, a move which infuriated Beijing.
"He understands more or less," she said. "I told him: 'I am almost going through what you are going through.'"
"I felt I was a person emotionally prepared to respond to the consequences of Liu Xiaobo winning the prize. But after he won the prize, I really never imagined that after he won, I would not be able to leave my home," Liu Xia said.
"This is too absurd. I think Kafka could not have written anything more absurd and unbelievable than this."
Guards 'sloppy'
Liu Xia's lawyer Shang Baojun said he has been unable to visit her since her period of house arrest began, and is only able to learn how she is via her family.
He said it is unlikely that the interview was deliberately allowed to take place.
"The guards probably just got sloppy," he said. "The journalist was pretty lucky. If they had let her out, she would definitely have gotten in touch with me."
Fellow activist Hu Jia, who has himself tried without success to visit Liu Xia at her apartment, said her continued detention there is "inhumane."
"Liu Xia is another kind of political prisoner; one that is even more vulnerable than regular prisoners of conscience," he said.
"In name, she is a free person, but in fact she is in the same situation as her husband. She has been cut off from contact with the outside world."
"It must be very hard for her, as a woman, to see nothing but police guards every day and to have no way to communicate with society."
"This is even more inhumane and is a clear violation of the law," Hu said.
Frail, injured
According to the Associated Press report, Liu appeared frail and said she suffers from a back injury that has kept her confined to her bed.
She wore her hair in the same close-shaved style she adopted before Liu Xiabo's detention in 2009.
Liu is a poet, photographer, and painter, as well as a rights activist in her own right.
She told AP she spends her time reading and sometimes painting.
She said that Liu Xiaobo was in good health during her last visit, but that she couldn't remember the date of the trip.
"I can't remember," she said. "I don't keep track of the days anymore. That's how it is."
Open letter
Liu's brief contact with the outside world came shortly after an open letter signed by 134 Nobel laureates across all disciplines called on Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping to release Liu Xiaobo, who has served four years of an 11-year jail term for subversion, and to free Liu Xia from house arrest.
Winners of Nobel prizes for peace, but also for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and economics, signed an open letter to Xi, who will be sworn in as China's new president in March, calling for the immediate and unconditional release of the couple.
"No government can restrict freedom of thought and association without having a negative effect on ... important human innovation," said the letter, which was signed by Nobel peace laureates Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama, as well as by authors Mario Vargas Llosa and Toni Morrison.
"Across all disciplines, the distinguishing feature which led to our recognition as Nobel Laureates is that we have embraced the power of our intellectual freedom and creative inspiration to do our part to advance the human condition," said the letter.
The international campaign to release Liu Xiaobo and Liu Xia is being led by Archbishop Tutu and medicine laureate Sir Richard Roberts, backed by the U.S.-based group Freedom Now, which acts internationally as legal counsel to the couple.
Reported by Grace Kei Lai-see for RFA's Cantonese service, and by the Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.


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wow, look great, i like wood wood the most because of patterns!ReplyDelete
menswear is always inspiring!!ReplyDelete
Like the mixing of snowflake, plaids and stripes of Wood wood.ReplyDelete
thw bomber jacket and light mint cardigan from Acne are amazing!highly demand!
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I really like the Acne collection as well, especially the "hairy" red-ish sweater. The colours and cuts are great as always too.ReplyDelete
I guess I would like some singl pieces but I do not like to mix too many patterns and the trousers remind me too much of training pants.
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Acne just keeps getting better. I'm considering that long textured black coat for myself - we'll see how silly it looks in real life, though. Also, that mohair-on-mohair look seems divinely comfy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 27, 2012 at 12:49 AM
Calvin Klein, Jonathan Saunders, Raf Simons and Valentino were quite good. And Kenzo was at least interesting.ReplyDelete
I can't decide which collection I like better. I love the polka dots at Acne and the winter wear at Wood Wood. Actually, I've never heard of Wood Wood before, so thanks for that...I like what I seeReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2012 at 1:06 PM
the wood wood outfit in the middle is my fav - expecially the pants (their color!) and i love the dot print like on the current/elliott pants from the new collection (do you know it?)ReplyDelete
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wow, acne amazing !!ReplyDelete
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awesome selection as always,.. ah yah the Acne Sweater was really Charming ^^ thanks for sharing Pascal ^^ReplyDelete
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the only thing of note is the boulder headed straight for the Motorbike without headlights.
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Like rats they swarmed the train, and kicked the car away.
Their attacks, they did nothing.
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The guy with the dynamite ran to the side of the train.
Got ready to throw it.
And rolled a one for skill.
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And fell in the path of the other motorbike. (Even if he doesn't get run over there is no way he will be able to get back onto a vehicle.)
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Archiveology: Five Hungry Men
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I know the blogosphere values currency, so as a small gesture against our impulse to only highlight the links du jour, I'm starting up a new feature called Archiveology devoted to unearthing valuable writing on the web that is not brand new. Today: an homage to five voracious cinephiles whose curiosity, open-mindedness, energy, intelligence and appetite I find truly inspirational. Reading them is like catching a bug that galvanizes me: to watch more, read more, think more, write more. Now to share that bug with you—in alphabetical order:
Zach Campbell: Yes, he's only 23. And no, I'm not kidding. I'd say more but Zach's a friend and I wouldn't want to embarrass him with my praise. Links: Ten underrated films; Key cinephile texts; Peter Greenaway; One of his favorite filmmakers, John Ford; Circumnavigating the cinema; On certain long movies; Ruiz, De Palma and Allan Moyle's Times Square; Argument, treatise, experience; and here's a list of his non-blog writings at his site Elusive Lucidity.
Raymond Durgnat: One of the all-time great film critics, the Swiss-born Durgnat died in 2002. Here is a large festschrift in his honor at Senses of Cinema, which contains links to several essays on him by Jonathan Rosenbaum, Adrian Martin, Chris Fujiwara, etc. Matt Zoller Seitz wrote about Durgnat a while back. Durgnat's Films and Feelings is one of my favorite movie books; unfortunately it's out of print but can be picked up used for a few bucks.
Adrian Martin: See Matthew Clayfield's terrific recent post about Martin. Links: Rotterdam '02 festival report; John Cassavetes; Roman Polanski; Samuel Fuller; "Bressonian"; On short films; "Delirious Enchantment". Martin co-edits the amazing Rouge.
Olaf Möller: Based in Cologne, he writes for Film Comment and Cinema Scope and has an admirably vast field of cinephilic interest. Links: Nigerian videofilm culture; Torino '05 festival report; Venice '03; Berlin '04; British filmmaker Laura Waddington; German film magazine Filmkritik; and a "Books Around" column on Japanese cinema in Cinema-Scope.
Michael Sicinski: One of the hardest-working—and best—film critics in America today! (No exaggeration.) His website, The Academic Hack, contains a small mountain of great, thoughtful writing on film. I love how Sicinski wrestles, on a nearly daily basis, with every single film he sees (and he sees a lot), using it as an occasion to reflect both about cinema and larger issues, aesthetic, social and political. And he has a biting self-deprecating wit. I wish I had a tenth of his discipline, not to mention his erudition. Links: Toronto '06 festival report; A letter to his students about Peter Kubelka and Craig Baldwin; NYFF '06 Avant-Garde films; A letter to Caveh Zahedi; An example month of reviews.
Sicinski's latest review, of Fred Worden's Everyday Bad Dream, begins thus:
Isn't there anybody out there who isn't afraid of pissing off his or her audience? Of doling out what at first may seem like "punishment," that in fact is just forceful re-education of the senses? I can't believe I need to say this in 2006, but here goes: powerful cinema must not only address our minds. It has to engage our bodies, and while sometimes that physical challenge can be lyrical and poignant, sometimes it has to pierce our eyes with a light we simply cannot shut out. Within this aggressive modernist logic, only by diving into the wreck of our previous perceptual habits can we round the corner into a new, skull-shaking version of beauty. Brakhage knew this. So did Sharits, Menken, Harry Smith. Peter Kubelka and Rose Lowder and Luther Price and Lynn Marie Kirby still know this. And by God, so does Fred Worden.
The first chapter of the book Movie Mutations (2003), co-edited by Adrian Martin and Jonathan Rosenbaum, consists of letters exchanged between a half dozen cinephile/critics around the world. The following passages from Martin's letters struck a profoundly inspiring (and liberating!) chord in me. I've re-read them many times:
It is hard to recapture, to describe adequately, the overwhelming shock that came with key movie events [...] like Marker's Sunless (1983), Wim Wenders' The State of Things (1982), Godard's Passion (1982), Chantal Akerman's Toute une nuit (1982), and Raul Ruiz's Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978). Suddenly here were the films playing right outside the maps of 70s' theory: free, lyrical, tender, poetic films, but also tough, savage, cruel, perverse, sometimes violent; films that were open diagrams, unashamed to link up raw fragments of human (or humanist) experience with the most severe or expansive kinds of experiments with form.
[...] Later, my love for an open cinema, for the ideal of a truly open, inclusive and above all impure cinema form, came to be crystallized in my personal discoveries of Cassavetes and Garrel – the single screenings in my hometown of Melbourne of Love Streams (1984) in 1985 and Les Baisers de Secours (Emergency Kisses, 1989) in 1994 count as primal scenes in my cinephile life. Cassavetes and Garrel stand for one sort of extreme that I love and cherish in cinema: a kind of arte povera fixed on the minute fluctuations of intimate life, on the effervescence of mood and emotion, and the instability of all lived meaning. A cinema which is a kind of documentary event where the energies of bodily performance, of gesture and utterance and movement, collide willy-nilly, in ways not always foreseen or proscribed, with the dynamic, formal, figurative work of shooting, framing, cutting, sound recording. A cinema open to the energies and intensities of life – and perpetually transformed by them.
I have always sought such life-affirming, life-enhancing energies and intensities from cinema, but I'm aware that the energies that I like, the energies which feed me, do not come in just one form, from one stream. The arte povera of Cassavetes and Garrel gives me a quiet, clear, minimalist intensity. But I get a different kind of energy, no less necessary for the soul's survival, from a completely commercial kind of cinema, a cinema of spectacle decried still today by so many of even a slightly Situationist bent. I mean a kind of pop cinema that includes De Palma's Mission: Impossible (1996), Tim Burton's movies, Joe Dante's Gremlins 2 (1990) – kinetic, sometimes cartoonish, extremely artificial and technologically mutated movies with no small claim on the cinematic language of tomorrow. I have cultivated my own particular, somewhat minor taste (in the sense of Deleuze and Guattari's notion of a troublesome, minor literature) within the halls of contemporary pop cinema – a taste for teen movies, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) to Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997), films completely comprised of pop quotes, clichés and stereotypes, but blessed with the will and the inventiveness to animate these tokens, to combine and revive and spin them at dizzy rate.
[...] There is a recourse to the high moral ground – and to a certain lamentable purism – in a lot of film criticism today, even some of the most advanced. We read or hear far too often that there are only half a dozen directors working today who fulfill – or might one day fulfill, if we're all lucky – the potential, the promise of this dazzling medium. We keep getting familiar-looking canons of the greatest Top 100 titles worth preserving, even as we pretend to have gotten beyond all canons, hierarchies and evaluations. We keep looking for the authentic personal voice in film, the true lone poet, the accursed seer and the discarded rebel, decades after the movies let us know that even the sleaziest, most ideologically compromised fantasies of Blake Edwards are also – and who can doubt it? – beautiful, moving, lucidly autobiographical testaments.
[...] I like the sentiment of Deleuze's casual prefatory remark in Cinema 1: The Movement-Image: 'The cinema is always as perfect as it can be'. Meaning that its potentiality, its virtuality is, in some ways, right here now – if we know where to look for it, how to maximize it, why it matters, and how to make it dance, for us and in us, like Rouch's privileged, shamanic figure of the dancing Socrates.


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Thank you, Provost Para, and welcome students, faculty, staff, 49er Foundation Board Members, Board of Governors, Alumni Association Board of Trustees and honored guests to the 2012-2013 academic year at The Beach. I first would like to thank our new Chair of the Academic Senate, Professor Dan O'Connor, and Provost Don Para for their timely remarks and for working collaboratively with shared purpose and vision to move our university forward despite the external fiscal challenges that have become far too common for all public education in California.
It also is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to the 2012-2013 California State University, Long Beach Convocation. Convocation always gives me an opportunity to share with you some of our recent and notable achievements while also attempting to forecast what we should expect in the coming academic year, which even Las Vegas odds-makers refuse to bet on.
First, however, I would like to welcome our new cohort of tenure-track faculty, visiting faculty and lecturers who bring to us very impressive academic credentials, backgrounds, and diverse talents. Please know that all of our dedicated faculty and staff will certainly do our best to ensure that you get off to a great start in your new careers at The Beach.
I also would like to welcome a small cohort of new staff members to our campus family. Our people, our faculty and staff, are the reason over 78,000 students applied to our campus this year. And it is our faculty and staff who are the reason why we continue to set new graduation records each and every year.
I also would like to use this opportunity to invite you to our campus "move in" day tomorrow morning. On this special day we will welcome and help more than 2,500 of our residential students and their parents relocate to their new campus homes. We will start around 9 a.m. and continue until 5 p.m. If you join us, you too will find yourself mesmerized by witnessing how six to eight car loads of junk get crammed into these little dorm rooms.
This year also is going to be very special for our residential campus students because we are initiating a new Residential College system much like that used at Oxford, Cambridge, Rice, UC San Diego, and SUNY Binghamton. This new Residential College system, where students will be members of either Beachside College, Hillside College or Parkside College, will provide our students with many new governing, athletic, academic and public service opportunities. Each of these colleges will compete with the others in a variety of learning-based programs further linking our students to many additional college and university-based opportunities. As we all know, learning on a university campus is not confined to the classroom but occurs at all hours of the day wherever our students reside.
Prior to getting into our current budgetary situation I would like to briefly highlight some major accomplishments by our university faculty, staff and students. Before this, however, and before I share with you some of these important numbers and data as I usually do, I would like to warn you, as I have done on previous occasions, that since this is a major presidential election year, and I did grow up in the state of Florida, that there are three kinds of people from the state of Florida: those who can count and those who cannot.
Looking back at last year I would like to first begin by expressing my sincerest gratitude to all of our and faculty and staff members who helped our university set a new record in external grants and contracts through their research and research-related activities. In 2011-12 we generated nearly $50 million in external research funding, which is nearly 15 percent more than previously generated.
I would also like to thank our development and university relations staff and the thousands of donors who raised nearly $28 million in private philanthropic dollars for our campus. As we continue to proceed with our first capital campaign, last year's gifts pushed us over the $200 million mark and has allowed our university endowment to exceed $45 million.
Due to a continued pattern of rapid state funding disinvestment in California, which I will talk more about later, external funding in the form of research grants and contracts and private giving support will only increase in significance. This is one reason why Provost Para and I decided to reallocate more funding to promote faculty research activities this year.
I would also like to thank all of you for your continued commitment to our campus' "Highly Valued Degree Initiative" which places our students at the center of attention as we all collaboratively work to ensure that they have the best possible opportunity to graduate. We embarked on this initiative over six years ago and the results speak for themselves. Despite our horrible state budget, we have maintained our highest graduation rates in our history and continue to graduate some of the largest graduating classes in our 63-year history.
It was because of your commitment, collaboration, and sacrifices these last couple of academic years that our university was named by The Education Trust organization in Washington D.C. as one of only five colleges and universities in the nation for our affordability, graduation success, and continued commitment to low income students.
Furthermore, our graduation success, low comparative tuition and fees, and our very low student loan indebtedness, which ranks among the lowest in the nation, allowed Cal State Long Beach to be invited with only six other public universities to meet with President Obama and Secretary Duncan. On December 4 we met in the Roosevelt Room of the West Wing to advise the President about new policies that could reward campuses such as ours while also putting federal pressure on other institutions that do not prioritize graduating students, remaining affordable, and keeping students out of debt. Last year, student loan indebtedness was $1 trillion and surpassed total credit card debt in America.
This avenue to work with the President, Secretary of Education and the White House Domestic Policy Staff, which has been going on since December, has given me a degree of optimism that many federal higher education reforms are on the way and campuses such as ours could very well be at the center of the new solutions.
From my perspective, it really does not matter to me if we are closely working with Democrats or Republicans on the Hill. If they want to promote the kinds of federal policies that help the Cal State Long Beaches of this nation to continue forging forward with our public mission, while also putting federal funding pressures on states to remain engaged in their public education funding responsibilities, then we welcome their efforts and support.
Without your hard work, we would not be at the table or in a position to help shape new federal policies. More importantly, though, it has been your dedication and hard work that has changed tens of thousands of lives. It is a moral and economic imperative that we help our students understand the lifelong significance of their degrees. Despite what some politicians and columnists have recently stated about how going to college is not a universal need, reducing educational investment in future human capital restricts not only access, but lifelong opportunity. Anthony Carnevale at the Georgetown University Center for Education and the Workforce stated in a recent report, The College Advantage: Weathering the Economic Storm, "College has proven to be the best umbrella in this historic economic storm and the best preparation for the economy that is emerging in recovery." So thank you for all your efforts and commitment.
Furthermore, there are a couple of other areas that I would like to recognize for their efforts this past year. First, I would also like to thank our university police and security officers for keeping our campus among the safest in the nation. Also, we are grateful to all of those working in an ongoing capacity to make our university "greener" and more environmentally friendly. For our ASI and the new water bottle stations to our bike rental stations and new bike paths to the nearly 9,000 students, faculty, and staff who utilize the free UPASS through Long Beach City Transit, we are all grateful. Imagine 9,000 more cars coming and going from campus each day. For my office, that means 9,000 less parking complaints.
Finally, I am also pleased to recognize for the fourth consecutive year that our Intercollegiate Athletic Program was one of a very small number of public universities in California to have every one of our 18 athletic teams meet the NCAA's Academic Progress Ratings standard. This measures a team's progress toward graduation and has become the "gold standard" academic measurement used by the NCAA. Not only did our student athletes excel in the classroom, but we won six of 18 Big West Conference championships and for the third time in four years brought home the Big West Commissioners Cup which is given to the most successful university athletic program.
Also, I must congratulate our three Long Beach State graduates who brought home one gold and two silver medals. Overall, 79 nations won medals in London. If Cal State Long Beach were considered a country by itself, we would have tied for 41st in the world medal count, above countries like Greece, Portugal and Saudi Arabia.
As for the London Olympics, I must also add that thanks to an early rather controversial federal law more commonly known as Title IX, the women of the U.S. Olympic Team by themselves won enough medals to finish third in the world in overall medal standings.
Prior to discussing our university and state budget, I want to share with you a couple of improvements that should benefit most of our campus this year. First, our day care situation has been stressed some for many years and due to our new collaboration with the VA Medical Center and their director Isabell Duff, we will be opening a new day care center that they have constructed and we will manage through our College of Health and Human Services. This center will provide nearly three times the day care spaces for the children of our faculty and staff that are currently available. This project also ushers in a new model of collaboration between the VA Medical Center and Cal State Long Beach that is unprecedented. We share the same campus, why don't we share everything else?
Also, some summer campus construction projects will make walking and biking through campus easier, and eventually make teaching in the LA buildings safer and more technologically advanced. Forty percent of the university's classes are taught in our LA classrooms and with seismic and other upgrades, the teaching and learning environment should improve significantly by the end of this academic year.
As you probably already know as well, in July the CSU Board of Trustees officially endorsed the Governor's Tax Initiative, Proposition 30, and will possibly adopt some additional measures in September that could help to mitigate the funding hole that will be created if this initiative does not pass. We also believe that in September the Board will ratify the new contract agreement with the CFA that was recently agreed upon.
As for our new academic year, the 2012-2013 academic year, we start as we have begun four of the last five years, without knowing the full extent of our state budget.
As usual, there are many balls still in the air and we continue to work collectively to plan for the possible worst case scenario which is another major mid-year reduction, a $250 million cut to the CSU and around a $30 million reduction for our campus. The best case scenario, which is a much lower reduction but still a $132 million budgetary reduction to the CSU and over $10 million reduction for our campus in the form of a student fee give back, is also a possibility after November.
We do not know which of these scenarios will play out and they hinge on a November 6 vote by the citizens of California on Proposition 30, the Governor's Tax Initiative. As you know, I cannot tell you to vote yes or no as a state employee. But I can tell you that a "yes" vote certainly protects our budget better than a "no" vote.
Then as we move into the mid-year, January will bring an entirely new state budget and a new federal budget with substantial ramifications for higher education. This tax referendum that will slightly raise the state sales tax and increase taxes on the wealthiest Californians—or millionaires as some have called them, or the "job creators" as others have begun calling them—has and will continue to gain significant attention in the coming months.
With reference to the term "job creators," all I know is that it was not Mr. Peabody's coal train or Mr. Buck Duke's tobacco wagons that led my grandparents out of Noy Hollow, Kentucky. It was public education and an opportunity to attend a public university with a mission very much like ours.
What can't get lost in this discourse of the day is that the CSU has already been cut $750 million, or 30 percent during the last 16 months.
Overall, for our university alone, we have witnessed a decline in state support from $205 million in 2007-08 to $131 million this fall with the potential of losing $31 million additional dollars if the Governors Tax Initiative fails. This means we have gone from receiving nearly 42 percent of all our revenues from the state in 2007-08 to 24 percent this fall, and with the potential of this dropping to 19 percent this November. Although student tuition and fees have helped to mitigate these draconian reductions, student contributions have only replaced a bit less than half of these state cuts.
However, despite the urgency of this immediate issue, we can't lose sight of the more macro-considerations at stake here. The fact that California, like many other states, has decided to abandon its previous commitments to public higher education and affordable access is the major challenge for all of us. Currently, based on its tax effort or the wealth of the state compared to previous years, the last time California spent less on higher education was 1965. For the nation, however, it was 1966. Californians everywhere should be discomforted to know that this state now spends less on higher education in tax effort than Kentucky, Mississippi, Arkansas, New Mexico, West Virginia, Alabama, and North Dakota.
In fact, if these trends do not change, states will be out of the higher education investment business entirely by 2045. Colorado will be the first to not spend a single penny on higher education or its students in the year 2022. California is following a very dangerous national trend that is leading to its own economic demise.
You see, as Carnevale's "The College Advantage" report indicates, "nearly 200,000 jobs for workers with at least a bachelor's degree were added during this last recession, and 2 million jobs for college-educated workers have been added during the recovery." In other words, "more than half of the jobs created in the recovery have gone to workers with a bachelor's degree or better, even though these highly educated workers make up just a little more than only one third of the labor force." Or as The Economist stated in the late 1990s and you have probably heard me say, when asked does Horatio Alger exist in America today, the response was yes, "but Horatio has to go to college first."
We must continue to fight together to help society fully understand what is at stake here. Do we really want to be a part of the first generation in U.S. history to leave the next generation with less economic and educational opportunity and a lower standard of living? We all play a role in working to ensure this does not happen.
In conclusion, I would like to thank you again for your commitment to our students and your dedication to public education. These are not easy times but I do remain optimistic because the detrimental trends that we are living through are not inevitable and are simply based on societal choices. If we can put a dune buggy on Mars that shoots lasers through rocks, as a society we can easily choose to reinvest in our children and students. We have the wealth as a nation and the knowledge. In fact, how did we get the Mars Rover to Mars safely? Education, that's how!
From my perspective, the wealthy or millionaires of this country have been mislabeled by some as "the job creators." The real job creators are in our kindergartens, middle schools, high schools, and all of you in this room. You are the real job creators!
This room is full of this nation's job creators because you believe that the greatest natural resource of any nation is its human capital and the ability of an educated person to build and create new ideas, economies, and advanced societies. This is not a new concept.
Let me finish with this point. On July 2, a little over a month ago, I joined around 60 other public university presidents at the Library of Congress in Washington to place a wreath at the base of the Lincoln Memorial in our caps and gowns later that afternoon. You see, July 2 marked the 150th anniversary of the signing of the great 1862 Morrill Act, or the Land-Grant Act as it is more commonly known. This federal legislation created a federal/state partnership whereby the federal government grants thousands of acres of land to each state to be used to generate funding to build new public universities.
For most states, these became their first public universities which led to the creation of hundreds more in decades to come including the Los Angeles/Orange County State College—or Cal State Long Beach. It took federal pressure to force states to build public higher education institutions and we should all call on the federal government to place the same kind of pressure on states, like California, to keep them from abandoning these important public obligations.
If you recall, in President Obama's State of Union Address this past January he stated "that we are putting colleges and universities on notice" regarding their tuition and fee escalation, but he also stated "that we are putting states on notice as well with future federal funding penalties to those states that continue to abandon public higher education."
For those who say these are too difficult times economically to reinvest in public higher education, let me remind them that these times are nothing compared to what President Lincoln and the Congress faced in 1862. In fact, just two months prior to the Morrill Act's passage, 24,000 U.S. citizens lost their lives on the Shiloh battlefield and just one day before this monumental educational Act was passed, 36,000 U.S. citizens died in the Seven Days Battles in Virginia. And during the next year, two months prior to Gettysburg, the Act of Incorporation was signed into law which created the National Academy of Sciences.
You see, these are simply choices we can make as a state and nation, and we are going to need all of your help to get us back on the right track. Abraham Lincoln believed in the power of human capital as one of our nation's greatest natural resources, and in public higher education's ability to transform our economy.
Never forget that you are this nation's real "job creators" because you believe in the human mind, which is every nation's greatest natural resource.
Thank you for your dedication to our students and to public education.Good luck this year and thank you for your patience.
Go Beach!
F. King Alexander


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The stock opened Wednesday at $895.75 and continued climbing. At last check it was trading at $907.35, up $20.25, or 2.3%, from Tuesday's close.
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