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My name is Maurice Guest, Jr. I will be serving as the Director of the new East Village Junior High (Opening Summer 2018). eStem is built on a legacy of excellence and acceptance, and I look forward to driving East Village Junior High to continue to build upon that legacy.
As a native of Little Rock, I graduated from Hall High School and went on to obtain my Bachelors Degree from Philander Smith College and my Master's Degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. I spent eight years as an accomplished science teacher at Horace Mann before transitioning to eStem to serve as the Dean of Students. After three years, I was promoted to Assistant Director at eStem Junior High Downtown.
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We are, I'm getting the impression, having a human moment. At least, some of the online commentariat seem to be. Umair Haque – whose Betterness: Economics for Humans was an intriguing read – is pondering the socio-economic reboot most people seem to be muttering about us needing, and directing our thoughts to starting with the purpose. Or, as he put it his Next Big Thing blog post at Harvard Business Review:
I'd bet the farm, the house, and the Apple shares on the following proposition: Our institutions are failing not merely because they're bankrupting us financially, but because they're bankrupting us in human terms — that, having become something like Alcatrazes for the human soul, they fail to ignite within us the searing potential for the towering accomplishments necessary to answer today's titanic challenges."
This is heady stuff, ripe with the whiff of heavy lifting undertaken in the search for meaning, or ways of creating and unearthing it. Umair is adamant that the first great concern is with what makes us "searingly, painfully, achingly, enduringly, joyously human" – not with enhancing productivity or efficiency. As he argues, we've been pretty inventive at those over the centuries – even over the last few years (imagine how bewildering today would look if you stepped directly through a door from, say, 1987) – but it's a lot less clear-cut as to what we've 'solved' has been what most needed fixing.
Of course, you could dismiss as philosophical baloney. And you might get a populist cheer for doing so: philosophy is not our most thriving discipline. The latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency seem to show a slight decline or slowest growth in applications for most of what I've always thought of as somewhere between 'the classics' and 'the professions' – law, education, medicine, architecture. Delving deeper into their websites downloadable files, my amateur statistical skills suggest that, while philosophy might have been the founding discipline of the cradle of civilisation, less than 1% of our undergraduates are pursuing it now. There's an interest parable about Greek as a metaphor for the trajectory of the modern man there for someone wanting to write a more profound blog post than this.
But perhaps Umair isn't just a voice in the wilderness. (Although he might need to tone down the swearing on the Twitter feed and ask less clever-dick questions to get some of those he's talking about to listen. "First three songs on your mixtape for the end of the world?" might be a bit arch for some people's tastes. Although I can think of a couple of Elvis Costello songs if Umair's reading …) Over at HR Fishbowl, the same human-centric urge also seems to be breaking the surface, as they attempt to mould The Future of Work: A Manifesto.
In the spirit of social media, and in response to their comment that:
[…] it's only in its infancy and we've purposely kept the clay wet so we could further mold it as we gathered feedback from people like you […]"
my equally infant, similarly roughly-shaped-from-wet-clay thoughts ran something like the following.
Value: under a heading that boldly asserts that "Human beings are the most important asset we have", each of the 14 points maintain that each of 14 abstract nouns 'has value for the organisation'. I don't doubt that they do, but I wondered if that was the point. If we want work to 'suck less', is it the organisation that we need these things to have value for, or is it the individual? If we want work to create 'something for the purpose of human flourishing', I think it has to be the latter.
Identity: a follow-on point. The fledgling manifesto bears a few traces of Richard Sennett's arguments about work being a means of creating identity and personal meaning. Unless our identities are to be shaped around creating value for not just something abstract but something other, work has to create value for us if the identities it shapes for us are to have value to us.
Boundaries: seeking to dissolve boundaries between 'work' and 'life', and between 'I' and 'we', is admirably optimistic, bordering possibly on the Utopian. And yes, we probably do all – at least at some stage – aspire to love what we do, but we will need to change more than HR practices to create nations of workplaces where everyone gets that opportunity. I'm not sure there are enough love-inspiring economically-viable opportunities to share between us to give everyone a crack at total satisfaction. As long as there are (metaphorical) toilets, they will need cleaners.
If "new human workplace has a responsibility for the sustainability of all the resources it uses, including human beings", that has to include all the human beings who will still struggle to have opportunities to find value beyond remaining economically viable. Judging by the quantities that our species has written about the human condition since we invented writing systems, the transition period may be lengthy.
Markets: "If markets are conversations, then the people who are doing the talking and the listening and the sharing are the most important asset we have." Fine talk, but customers and investors matter too. Yes, we need to be market-friendly, but the market needs to be friendly to us too. If we fancifully describe human organisational history as a vast, tangled vine, it's littered with crops that withered before they found a buyer. You can't sell pipe-dreams to non-smokers.
Language: I'd encourage the draft's authors to go back and try re-wording it in plain English. Ban words like 'monetarize' or 'social capital' or 'connectedness'. I tried re-wording this:
The role of management is to release the flow of information and data and to get it to the right people at the right time. The new workplace is data-driven; but information is not wisdom. It's the human analysis of the data that drives value."
I wound up with: "The role of management is to ensure wisdom is applied in the right place at the right time." Perhaps, but is wisdom the chicken or the egg?
"We need to bring our whole true selves to work": I hear echoes of Will Hutton and The Work Foundation here – the phrase is as familiar as the sentiment (see this earlier post as well as this one). Again, I don't necessarily disagree, but I can easily see why many might. Surely we bring to work what we think is appropriate or acceptable there, what will be recognised and rewarded. Our whole true selves are messier, more complex and contradictory, and we may not be thanked for following through on this ideal.
Work is a context, and we edit ourselves for it just as we edit ourselves for weddings, parties, first dates and so on. And some of us value the vestiges of separation we have left between 'work' and 'life'. Ownership might be up for debate with the former, but most of us would – I suspect – rather the latter was less negotiable.
There isn't anything explicit in the Manifesto about two aspects of 'design' that will be very much in play if we do bring our whole true selves to work – job design or organisational design. If work and organisations are vessels and containers, bringing more inside them might make them less rather than more comfortable unless they change their shapes to accommodate us.
What gives: carrying on from the previous point, I'm much less clear how organisations will change than individuals. To me, there's a non-sequitor in the following sentence, masquerading as a full-stop:
We will feel a sense of belonging and purpose if we're involved in the direction and purpose of the system. Ownership has value for the organization."
Ownership and belonging are not the same thing, and conflating them in the unspoken name of engagement doesn't strike me as helpful. Yes, the manifesto is a draft but I reach the end of it still living in a framework where leaders and managers have responsibilities (and status) within organisations that determine the role and inputs of employees. 'Value' is mentioned, but not defined: in places it could be fiscal, in others social. I can see what's in it for organisations, but not for the individuals for whom things are intended to suck less in the future.
The text bears the tyre marks of several contemporary bandwagons – virtual communication, networks, agility – but it doesn't provide them with a sat-nav. There's more wool than knitting-pattern, and there are gaps in the thinking that the bridges don't cross. "Let's empower ourselves and each other to make our lives better, and thereby make our societies better" is a lovely sentiment, but until I've got a route map from a happier job to a better society I'm not much clearer on how I get from A to B. Like many a blue sky, it contains a fair bit of warm air.
So, a constructive suggestion. Take the draft manifesto and rework it in plain English. Aim to produce something a twelve-year old can not only read but can explain to someone in their twenties who's performing satisfactorily if not dazzlingly in a job that is keeping them afloat, and who will feel more optimistic for hearing it. Then work out how to achieve it.
There will always be boxes, and many of us will spend a lot of our lives in them. The boxes make things more manageable for those who manage. Re-decorating the inside of the box is not the solution. Human beings – our starting point – don't necessarily want to be defined solely by their work. If you don't start by asking how life, society and the human experience of them could be and then redesign work accordingly, you might be lighting the wrong end of the firework.
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- Britney Spears spent New Year's Eve with beau, Sam Asghari
- Asghari is a male model, personal trainer and is the leading man in Spears' latest music video, 'Slumber Party'
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Yesterday I mentioned my miserable attitude this weekend and how the realization that I needed to take time to stop and listen to God. So this morning I made it a priority to do so.
Recently a good friend has been talking a lot about Revelation, so I decided to spend the month of May really diving into the book. (I am currently listening through Fresh Life Church's series "At The World's end".) And while I was reading and listening this morning? I had some real wake up calls. (I love when God does that! He just gives us a little nudge, but it's enough to pull us in the right direction!)
Between yesterday's prompting to spend time in the Word? To sit back and really listen? And then this message this morning? I think it's safe to say that the point has been driven home for me!
Paul was reminding the church of Ephesus that Jesus noticed the good works they were doing, that they were working hard in His name. But that he also noticed they had failed to keep him at the center of it all.
This was one of thus "Ah-ha" moments for me as well! I am lucky enough that I have a part-time job in ministry. That I am able to spend my time as a stay at home mom, and spend my weekends doing what I love; serving God with my love for technology in the church sound booth! But I also am quick to forget WHY I am called to do this.
God called me to the audio/visual team. He uses the gifts He blessed me with to help others to have an enjoyable worship experience. (And when I doubt that what I'm doing makes a difference? I remind myself that one of the reasons I kept coming back to church when I first started attending was because I enjoyed the music.)
But here's the problem, at least where my life is concerned! Revelation 2:4 reminds us: You have forsaken the love you had at first. The church of Ephesus had forgotten to leave Christ at the center of things. They were doing all the right things, and their hearts may have even been in the right place for the most part. But they weren't 100% in love with Christ. They weren't doing all things with that love in their hearts.
What a harsh realization. I love God. I love serving Him. And for the most part, I think I do a good job at keeping that in check and not letting my flesh get too involved.
As I listened to the Fresh Life Sermon from so long ago, something really jumped at me. Am I Mary? Or am I Martha? (Luke 10:38-42)
Am I going through the motions to impress Jesus? Serving Him but not really loving Him? Or am I so in love with Him that all the other priorities take a back row seat? For me, I realized it was time to fall back in love with Jesus.


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I had my IV antibiotics earlier today (administered at a local hospital per insurance requirements), came home and slept for several hours, then woke with "Suddenly Seymour" rattling around my brain. Several hours later it's stuck in a loop. I watched the movie (Little Shop of Horrors), the day of the eclipse, so a week ago yesterday, and hadn't consciously thought about the song since then. What strange things our brains are!
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Russian Deployments in Syria Complicate U.S. Policy
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National strategy is overseen by the party's new leader, Lord Pearson, and the campaign director, James Pryor, who formerly advised Margaret Thatcher and John Major. No doubt it is Mr Pryor's involvement that has led Ukip to focus on Tory heartland issues such as grammar schools and clamping down on crime, as well as on its popular anti-EU message. However, the profile that Mr Farage has built for himself, through the odd outburst in Brussels and his aggressive performances on Question Time, means that he is largely left to run his own show in his quest to win the Buckingham seat. The party reckons it is his strong performance at hustings that will win him crucial Tory votes, so the strategy is simple – long days on the campaign trail.A fair wind behind UKIP?
Recent successes have buoyed party officials. They believe Ukip's strong performance in the Norwich North by-election last year went largely unreported. All the attention was on how the Greens would perform, but it was Ukip that made the biggest leap, with a swing in their favour of nine per cent. The party secured more than 4,000 votes – only 800 behind the Liberal Democrats, and enough for them to beat the Greens to fourth place. Resources have already been found to fight a high-profile campaign in Buckingham, with Stuart Wheeler, the spread-betting millionaire who has previously donated to the Tories, handing around £100,000 to Mr Farage's campaign.
Lord Pearson of Rannoch is the Leader of UKIP and a working member of the House of Lords. This site will follow his various activities
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
The Indy reluctantly acknowledges UKIP's achievements
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- Anonymous6 April 2010 at 20:03
I would urge all Conservative voters to examine their consciences before voting in the next General Election. The EU is the greatest threat to Britain to govern ourselves since Adolf Hitler. Ask yourself this question. What would Churchill have done? I most sincerely urge you all to follow your consciences and vote UKIP at the next general election, particularly in Conservative/Labour marginal seats.ReplyDelete
- SandyRham7 April 2010 at 10:27
Please, please get some forums up, they're more effective than door-knocking!ReplyDelete
>>Please, please get some forums up, they're more effective than door-knocking!ReplyDelete
No they're not. Nothing is more effective than face to face encounters. Online forums have their place but it's a serious mistake to put that much faith in them - unless of course ones intention is to deliberately distract the party.
UKIP's greatest achievement online has been its own website featuring easily accessible details of its many policies. That alone has silenced many critics who can no longer claim the party is a single issue one when a simple mouse click will show otherwise.
- SandyRham7 April 2010 at 16:14
"No they're not. Nothing is more effective than face to face encounters. Online forums have their place but it's a serious mistake to put that much faith in them "ReplyDelete
The Swedish rejected the euro and the French and Dutch rejected the Lisbon Treaty all in the face of a united political front and a media blitz.
Was this achieved by door-knocking or the internet??
You'd better let me have the last word or this will begin to look like a forum thread ;)
>>Pearson has a plan. He advocates cutting the number of MPs in the House of Commons from 646 to just 250 part-timers, paid a maximum of £30,000 a year.ReplyDelete
From Jonathan Ford's profile of Lord Pearson in the 19 March edition of the FT. I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more traction. Cameron allegedly has a plan to reduce the number by 10% - the so-called '585 project' - but Lord Pearson's plan is dynamite stuff & would, I think, play like gangbusters with the general public. Perhaps we could hear a bit more about this from Lord Pearson on this site or could it be flagged up on UKIP's site?
I know a number of people who would feel like a boil had been lanced were they aware of a political party advocating this kind of measure to clean up its own house. Can someone point me to where this can be found in UKIP's policy documents? Thanks.
Surely this cannot be a credible plan. To expect someone to be an MP, doing a totally thankless job, with, presently, little or no perks, for £30k per annum. What type of person do you think we will get running the Country? You cannot be serious!ReplyDelete
If UKIP wish to become a Party to be taken seriously, they need to carefully consider the type of resolutions that carry their backing.
Maybe a better one would be to pay all MPs a flat £100k per annum, this would at least entice people from the private sector, who probably have had a modicum of success in business life and therefore have some knowledge and experience to offer!
I don't feel UKIP should fall into the "we can please everyone" Cameron type thinking. If so, I may just as well stick with the Tories!
"Surely this cannot be a credible plan. To expect someone to be an MP, doing a totally thankless job, with, presently, little or no perks, for £30k per annum. What type of person do you think we will get running the Country? You cannot be serious!"ReplyDelete
What planet are you on, Ken? Assuming you ever visit planet Earth try asking one of the residents what kind of people we have running the country now? You may find the answer enlightening.
There is an overwhelming case for reform. The question is not how many hours MP's work but what they actually achieve. On the legislative side MP's are sheep, fodder for a party machine that whips them into voting for whatever has been decided in advance. There are a few honourable exceptions - MP's prepared to follow their consciences in defiance of their party whip - but most of the 656 MP's don't even bother to think about the legislation passing in front of them. They simply vote as they're expected to. The situation is a farce & a dangerous one for our democracy.
On the constituency side, although the old image is of a local MP getting things done, the truth is that local power resides with housing, council & health authorities. So even there an MP has very little power. What then are we paying these puffed up drones hundreds of thousands of pounds a year for?
As Lord Pearson's suggestion indicates, there is no reason in the world why MP's could not achieve on a part-time basis what they currently manage on a full-time basis for a wholly undeserved salary & a slew of perks that has outraged the country & which most private sector employers/ees can only dream about.
But then behind Lord Pearson's suggestion is the assumption - widely shared by the public - that representative democracy has failed & so it is a matter of urgency that the business of political decision-making be devolved to the public on the Swiss model of Direct Democracy. Much less will we be forced to rely on the pre-election promises of politicians who proceed to act in their own best interests once elected. Throw the bums out. We don't need them (or at least not 656 of 'em).
Aside from anything else the sheer number of MP's is quite absurd. America - a country vastly larger than Britain - has far fewer politicians than we do!
Oh, & Ken, if you want to pay MP's £100,000k a year for their underachieving efforts then you can slash their number from 656 to 400+ & that way you'll be able to pay them the extra you think is essential for attracting 'private sector types' without having to take anything more away from the poor taxpayer.


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Cowgill Hits For Cycle, Aces Walk-Off With 8-7 Win Over Bees
By Reno Aces | June 7, 2011 10:03 PM
Cowgill doubled in the first, singled in the third and fifth, homered in the sixth and tripled in the eighth to hit for the second cycle in Reno Aces history and just the third in the Pacific Coast League this season. He also ended the game with a ground ball to short in the 10th inning that was misplayed by Bees shortstop Andrew Romine, allowing Mark Hallberg to score the game-winning run.
Reno trailed 7-0 after three innings before chipping away at the lead with two runs in the fourth and four more in the sixth. The Aces tied the game in the eighth on Cowgill's RBI triple before ending the game on the error in the 10th. The comeback win marked the Aces' biggest comeback victory in franchise history.
Aces starter Tom Layne took a no decision, allowing seven early runs before settling down to give Reno 6.2 innings of work. Three Aces relievers combined to toss 3.1 shutout innings, with Bryan Shaw (1-0) hurling the final two frames to earn his first-career Triple-A victory. Eric Junge started for Salt Lake but did not figure in the decision, surrendering six runs in six innings. Bobby Cassevah (1-3) took the loss after giving up one unearned run in the 10th.
In addition to Cowgill's heroics, Cole Gillespie and Cody Ransom finished with two hits apiece. Mark Hallberg and Kyle Green combined to go four-for-eight out of the bottom two spots in the order, with Hallberg starting the game-winning rally with an opposite-field double in the 10th.
The Aces will enjoy a day off Wednesday before hitting the road for a four-game set against the Colorado Springs Sky Sox at Security Service Field. In Thursday's series opener, Reno RHP Matt Torra (4-0, 4.64 ERA) will square off against Sky Sox RHP Esmil Rogers (0-0, No ERA), on a Major League rehab assignment. First pitch is set for 6:05 p.m. PT, and all the action can be heard in Northern Nevada on Fox Sports Radio 630 AM or online at RenoAces.com.
The Aces return home Monday, June 13 for a four game series against the Tucson Padres, with the series opener set for 7:05 p.m. PT. Tickets can be purchased at the Aces Ballpark Box Office, online at www.RenoAces.com or by phone at (775) 334-7000. A variety of partial season ticket plans as well as prorated full-season tickets are available today.
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* Or toured a building or neighborhood for its historic or design value.
Source: National Endowment for the Arts, Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (1982, 1992, 2002, 2008, 2012). Estimates generated using the National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture online data analysis system.
Data for this indicator are drawn from the following question in the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts: "Did you [in the past year] visit an historic park or monument, or tour buildings or neighborhoods for their historic or design value?" Measuring historic site visitation based on such a question is one of two possible means of gauging the extent to which Americans make use of the nation's historical resources. Another approach is to seek visitation data not from individuals but from the sites they visit. No organization or individual researcher has yet produced a reliable estimate of total visitation for U.S. historic sites, but information on levels of visitation to National Park Service (NPS) historic sites and monuments are available for years 1975–present.
The NPS reports that visitation to its historic sites (including battlefields, memorials, and military parks) rose from approximately 89.5 million in 2002 to 105.6 million in 2012.* These counts are of visits to historic sites, not the people who visited them. Because a single person can make multiple visits to a historical destination, site visitation levels usually exceed the number of individuals who visited the site in any given year. Also, such data capture visits made by people from other nations and do not take into account the growth of the U.S. population over the 10-year period. As a result of these two sets of issues, site visitation data tell only a partial story about Americans' embrace of their historical resources, although they do speak to the demands made of such sites' physical infrastructure and staff.
* Calculated using the online data tools available at https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/. Included in the NPS visitation counts provided here are visits to what NPS terms "national historic sites," "national historical parks," "national battlefields," "national battlefield parks," "national military parks," "national monuments," and "national memorials."
Other history-related items in the Humanities Indicators can be found under "Knowledge of U.S. History," "Advanced Placement Exams Taken in the Humanities," "Qualifications of Humanities Teachers in U.S. Public Middle Schools," "Qualifications of Humanities Teachers in U.S. Public High Schools," and "History Degree Completions."
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I'm writing this on behalf of my son George. He would like to say a very big thank you to Debbi and Jonny for making his diving very enjoyable. "I'm going to use the experience I have gained for my Junior Open Water next month."
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Personally from me ( Dad ) I have dived with Marine Divers for the last couple of years and their help, patience and understanding both with children and us grown ups is secondary. We both have made some very good friends for life.
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U.S. Congress Puts SOPA/PIPA Copyright Bills on Hold
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, lead supporter of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), said on Friday that the bill will be redrafted. According to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Smith said the United States Congress "will postpone consideration of the legislation until there is wider agreement on a solution." However, the U.S. Representative said he still intends to pursue legislation that combats online piracy and protects American intellectual property.
The U.S. Senate also postponed the vote the companion bill Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) that was scheduled for next Tuesday. Several Senators withdrew their support for the bill on Wednesday in light of the widespread internet protests against SOPA and PIPA. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, chief sponsor of the bill, said that he remains committed to passing a revised version of PIPA.
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Compensating to the right or left.
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Diana L. Hayes, who grew up on Buffalo's East Side, has been a trailblazer all her life.
After starting life a devout Methodist, she converted to Catholicism and went on to become the first African-American woman to earn a Pontifical Doctorate in Sacred Theology.
Now an emerita professor of systematic theology at Georgetown University and author or co-author of many books, Hayes will give the inaugural talk in a new Women Wisdom lecture series starting at 7 p.m. Monday in the Newman Center on UB's North Campus.
In a phone interview from her home in Stone Mountain, Ga., Hayes said her talk, "Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: The Making of a Womanist Theologian," will appeal to anyone, no matter what their level of education.
"I have a pontificate degree, but I don't pontificate," she said, laughing. "I bring in my scholarship, but I try to write and speak in such a way that people with no Ds after their name will understand."
Sponsored by the Newman Centers at UB, the series has been on the mind of the Newman Center's director, Monsignor J. Patrick Keleher, for a while. "I have been wanting to bring a famous theologian here for years," Keleher said. "It's important for us to be thinking at a deeper level. And when the pope called upon the church to develop a new theology of women, I got this idea. I said what we need is a theology from women, we don't need men doing a theology of women.
"This lecture and the series it inaugurates are the beginning of our response to that call; to hear the stories of women and let them shape this new theology," Keleher said. Organizers hope that the lectures will happen twice annually.
Hayes has led what she calls "an eclectic life." After graduating from East High School, she studied chemistry for a year at the University of Rochester, then shifted to the University at Buffalo and studied language, with an eye to working in the State Department's Foreign Service. In the summer of 1968, inspired by Robert F. Kennedy, she changed to pre-law, and attended New York University and George Washington National Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she earned her law degree. While working as an attorney in consumer protection in Albany, she said, "I just sort of slowly came to the realization that I needed to check out the Catholic church."
Because she "didn't even know any Catholics," she called the diocesan offices in Albany. "Apparently nobody in history had ever called the chancellery and asked how does one become a Catholic, so I was transferred to almost every division except I think budget, and I ended up in vocations. I said, 'No, I don't want to be a nun.' But we had a nice chat and they said one usually speaks to a priest, and I said, 'OK, where do I find one?' "
Eventually Hayes was connected with the Rev. Nellis Tremblay, the priest who would become her mentor and spiritual adviser. During their months of meetings before her confirmation as a Catholic, she said, "I was praying to become a good Catholic lawyer and he was praying that I would become a theologian, and his prayers were canceling mine out!"
She applied and was accepted to work in the Foreign Service of the Department of State, but an ailment that affected the cartilage in her knees led to her delaying that step. "In the meantime, God continued to work on me so that I never did enter the State Department, and next thing I found myself going to Catholic University and studying theology," she said. "Just bizarre, I always say."
After eight years of study, Hayes had a bachelor's degree and a licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Catholic University of America, as well as a doctorate in Religious Studies and pontifical degree from the Catholic University of Louvain. After graduation in 1988, Hayes was hired by Georgetown University, where she taught theology before retiring in May 2011. She was made an emerita professor in August 2011.
Hayes is the author or co-author of eight books and more than 75 articles. Her book "Standing in the Shoes My Mother Made: A Womanist Theology" will be available for sale and to be signed after her UB lecture.
"The talk is basically about my journey in becoming a Catholic womanist theologian and what womanist theology is," Hayes said. "It will combine autobiography, theology, and some history, because I am African-American I always have to bring in some African-American history, just to show my context and ground it in that, and my hopes for the future."
"Womanist" is a term coined by author Alice Walker to describe a feminist of color. Walker's four-part definition of the term says, "A womanist is to a feminist as purple is to lavender."
Hayes said that for her, "reading this definition was like an 'aha' moment. She was looking for a word to describe women of African descent who were interested in writing about, talking about, studying about, teaching about race, class and gender as they all impacted on black women. She wanted to find a term where you didn't have to put a color in front of a term that is broadly defined."
Keleher said he is pleased to have Hayes inaugurate the lecture series. "She is an original Buffalonian, and it's exciting to have her back."
Hayes said she was "deeply honored" to be asked to deliver the first lecture in the Women Wisdom series, and is looking forward to touring the North Campus. During her undergraduate years, she said, the Main Street campus "was to me such a beautiful campus, especially with Hayes Hall there, I used to always say I must have a relative there somewhere."
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University of Arizona astronomer Chris Impey has gone from teaching University students to teaching the world.
Impey, a University Distinguished Professor and deputy department head of astronomy, developed a special course, "Astronomy: State of the Art" – the University's first massive open online class, or MOOC.
Launched in March, Impey's free astronomy survey course now has more than 4,400 students enrolled, with about 40 percent coming from outside the United States.
"I've always taught diverse groups outside of the University where you get to present your subject in different ways," said Impey, mentioning both NASA engineers and Tibetan monks. "I used all of those experiences teaching outside groups to figure out what I thought was the best way to teach a MOOC."
The course, delivered online through video lectures, hundreds of PowerPoint slides, discussion and live Q&A sessions, is offered in conjunction with the training platform, Udemy.
"You put up a course and people keep coming to it as they want, so our enrollment has just continued to grow," Impey says. "For the synchronous part, people are all over the world, so you can never do a live session at a time they can all be happy with, so we move the times around."


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The week long course kicked off on Monday June 22nd at the CIFA Matavera Complex to assist the CIFA referees education and improve the quality of refereeing.
Referees, Assistant Referees and Referee Technical Instructors will be updated with FIFA Laws of the Game, Match Analysis, Modern Football, Tactical Approach, and Physical Preparations in time for 2015 Football Season that kicks off in August.
Hester encouraged all participants to continue to build their knowledge and laws of the game, improving their skills through regular practice and fitness.
"I want to be exhausted when I leave here from all of your questions, presentations and participation" Hester advised.
He inspired all participants to utilize FIFA information and tools provided and to continually refresh themselves.
"This course is replicated the world over by FIFA. The information you will receive this week is the same as that was given to the referees at the FIFA U20 in New Zealand and FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. It is FIFA's goal that the refereeing be the same no matter the country or level of competition" continued Hester.
Assisting Hester during the course are Cook Islands Football Association Development Officer Lai Gukisuva and CIFA Referee Instructors Maara Kaukura, Mike Mouauri and Robert Savage.
The course is being conducted at the Cook Islands Football Association which commenced on Monday 22nd of June with a welcoming address by CIFA General Secretary Mii Piri and will wrap up on Friday evening with a presentation of certificates to the participants.
The participants will focus on the main areas of Technical Session, Communication, Practical Session on injury prevention, testing on Laws of the Game, Match Analysis, FIFA 11+ and Fitness Test during the five days.
"The aim of the course is to give tools for referees to prepare and communicate with a uniformity of the laws of the game. This is a great opportunity for our referees to learn and update their knowledge on the FIFA Laws of the Game. It is not easy to be a referee and we thank our participants for their willingness to come out and be part of this course" said CIFA RDO Lai Gukisuva.
With Hester's extensive background and fostering the aspirations of referees in Oceania football, CIFA is pleased to have him on-board to grow and continue to develop our football referees in the
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Almost 2 years ago I had a post about a fabulous food cart called Gaufre Gourmet. This food cart was, and still is, cranking out some pretty awesome Liege waffles in Downtown Portland. But the story doesn't end there. This is another great story of a food cart that grew up and into something fantastic. For those of you that want that leisurely sit down meal with your waffle, check out Gigi's Cafe.
You know me and my benedicts, well Gigi's enticed me with a weekend special of Duck Egg Benedict with Duck Bacon. I know it sounds crazy, but [Read more…]


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With active attacks taking advantage of a .ANI file vulnerability affecting Windows operating systems up through Windows Vista, Microsoft has prepared and released a patch, MS07-17, ahead of its regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday next week.
Internetnews.com reports this morning that the attacks are coming out of China and seem to be targeting the online credentials of online game players. An Australian IT piece reports that the main target may be the game World of Warcraft; hackers can sell virtual items within the game with the stolen IDs. The hack, of course, could expand beyond games to other, more enterprise-relevant vectors.
An iDefense VeriSign exec says in the internetnews.com piece that the problem will turn out to be one of the most significant threats seen for several years.


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Thursday, 30 September 2010
JOY IN THE MORNING by PG Wodehouse
I've been meaning to read some Wodehouse for ages, and this was it: JOY IN THE MORNING.
It is the fourth of Wodehouse's eleven wildly popular Jeeves and Wooster stories. Bertie Wooster is a dim but wealthy gentleman living in London in the 1930s. Jeeves is his butler, who is very much the brains of the operation, and is constantly having to get Wooster out of what I can only describe as - this being a nineteen thirties comic novel - scrapes. In JOY IN THE MORNING, Bertie has to go down to Steeple Bumpleigh, the home of his terrifying aunt, to help his friend secure the hand of the girl he loves. There's all sorts of hijinks (I use the word advisedly), involving explosions, fancy dress balls, boy scouts and drunken uncles, and eventually Jeeves saves the day.
In general, I love these establishment English Lit figures. This is no doubt because I have been so colonized mentally, and Bob Marley would be ashamed of me. Thus, I expected to love Wodehouse. I'm really sorry to say that this is not the case. It all seemed horribly overwritten - every sentence was crammed to the brim with ironic, slangy language; and the comic idea (idiot rich man, clever servant) seemed rather old hat. It might only seem old hat now of course, because Wodehouse was the milliner who first made this particular hat, and now we've seen it repeated over and over.
So perhaps while it does appear derivative, it is only derivative of itself. Whatever. I was bored.
As a side point, JOY IN THE MORNING alludes to Psalm 30:5: "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning." Which I think is rather lovely. And interesingly, the title has actually been used for two other novels. You must just read the write-up for the 1950s one below, especially if you want to barf:
"In Brooklyn, New York, in 1927, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law to marry him. Little did they know how difficult their first year of marriage would be, in a faraway place with little money and few friends. But Carl and Annie come to realize that the struggles and uncertainty of poverty and hardship can be overcome by the strength of a loving, loyal relationship. An unsentimental yet uplifting story, Joy in the Morning is a timeless and radiant novel of marriage and young love."
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Mannings Hotel is a listed Georgian Townhouse slap bang in the centre of the historic town of Truro in Cornwall.
After spending several weeks under wraps, the owners of the ever-popular Mannings Bar & Restaurant on Lemon Street in Truro are ready to throw open their doors and reveal a cosmopolitan new look, set to put the establishment at the epicenter of the Truro style stage. Following a major transformation, thanks to extensive internal works, Mannings now feels twice the size of its previous incarnation and offers a beautifully elegant and relaxed location for those looking for outstanding food and inspirational drinks at any time of the day or evening.
Over the years, both Mannings hotel and restaurant have gone through a process of stylish and astute development, garnering a loyal clientele and becoming one of Truro's most popular places to eat, meet and drink. The new refurbishment is the final piece in the jigsaw for the owners; mother and daughter team Lynn and Nicky Manning. The dynamic duo have spent a number of years of travelling, researching and garnering ideas and inspiration and their vision for this key part of their business. To achieve their luxurious concept, the Mannings turned to Falmouth based agency Absolute, the creators of the interiors at the St Moritz Hotel near Rock and Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Cornwall at Watergate Bay. As a result, founder Helen Blake and her team have taken inspiration from classic Hollywood movies to create an open, flowing space, bedecked in cool classic colours and timeless furniture, completely recreating Mannings and ensuring it is the ultimate destination for flowing conversation and memorable occasions in Truro.
The building is Grade II listed so the restaurant and bar area have been opened up sympathetically to create a more accessible space and the surroundings retain an intimate and welcoming feel through the use of lighting, tactile materials and fabrics and a muted colour palette of blues, silver and gold. Key to the new look is a sense of timeless and effortless elegance and a small champagne room, sponsored by Bollinger, mixes seamlessly with the replanned bar and restaurant areas.
The build team, which included Luscombe Construction, Ace Flooring & Carpets Cornish Cooling and Heating Services, Gardner Electrical, Reward Consultancy, Shaker BarConsultancy®, RMW Decorators, WT Flockhart Plumbing and South West Shopfitters, has worked relentlessly to ensure the entire transformation has taken just six weeks.
Great service underpins everything at Mannings and customer loyalty has always at the very top of the agenda for Lynn, Nicky and the team. In an unprecedented move, throughout the six week refurbishment, all of the staff members were kept on – a testament to Lynn and Nicky's commitment to their team and its development. This means that regular customers will be greeted by the same friendly faces and receive the same high standard of service in the beautiful new surroundings. Mannings regulars will also be happy to hear that the ever-popular menu will stay true to its classic best of British style fare, with everything from prime rib steaks butchered on the premises to fresh local fish, from aromatic sizzling platters to lighter snacks and as always the menu will change to reflect the best of what's seasonal and local. Keeping with the cosmopolitan feel, the new look Mannings will be open from early in the morning for breakfast and brunch and then will be serving food all afternoon and evening long, ensuring guests can eat whenever their stomach tells them its time.
However in another innovative development move, Mannings is set to become the ultimate Cornish destination for those who appreciate the finest of cocktails. Lynn and Nicky have been working with internationally renowned bar consultants Shaker BarConsultancy® whom are responsible for the bar design and training program and have created a concise, classic, drinks offering that befits the luxurious new surroundings. Founder Adam Freeth and his team has been delivering in-depth training for the Mannings bar and restaurant staff including; product knowledge, customer service, classic and contemporary cocktails. And the opening also sees the launch of a range of signature cocktails including; SpringBerry Martini, Earl Grey Martini and the PP Margarita. Freeth commented "Shaker have taken a classic approach to the seasonal drinks menu introducing fresh spring and summer ingredients along with some staple classics…its all about quality here…not quantity. We are making our own homemade fiery ginger beer and lemonades, all our juices are freshly squeezed, and we are making our own range of Mannings Bitters with our very own Alembic still.â€
Amit Sood, Head of Training for Shaker BarConsultancy® said "Truro is the London of Cornwall and is a vibrant and exciting city, we intend to bring a little of the capital and the soul of this region to the drinks that are created here. One of the signature drinks will be the Mannings Bloody Mary Buffet which will take breakfast and lunch guests through a myriad of flavours to personalize their own Maryâ€
As ever with Mannings, a range of crisp international beers and an extensive and varied selection of wines, from different countries and regions around the world, will always be on offer.
Nicky Manning says, "We are super delighted with the transformation of the bar and restaurant and as I'm sure everyone will agree, it is hard to believe this that is the same space that we had before. The work has opened up the entire area and it feels twice the size. All our team is completely in love with it and very excited about opening the doors to all of our loyal and new customers alike. For some time now, Truro has been in need of a seriously chic, all day long destination, and now we have it we're looking forward to seeing everyone enjoying it and making the most of the elegant new surroundings.â€
Nicky continues, "We must however thank our staff and the building and design team behind our transformation. Their loyalty, relentless hard work and dedication has meant that the whole job has been completed in an extremely short timescale and it all looks amazing!â€
To find out more about Mannings or to make a reservation please visit www.manningshotels.co.uk and to join the Mannings 'transformation tribe' and receive a complementary signature cocktail before the end of April, please email email@example.com.


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Mastodon punishes a big crowd with its adventurous, heavy and ultra-progressive rock
The band Mastodon lives up to and defies its name: a four-piece rock band with a mammoth sound that can be as finessed as it is large, loud and heavy.
Wednesday night, Mastodon headlined a diverse three-band bill at the Uptown Theater, drawing a crowd of about 2,000 that withstood 90 minutes of frenetic and complex music delivered in punishing volumes but with jazz-like precision and, at times, with pop sensibilities.
Mastodon is a four-piece from Atlanta, a heavy, sludgy and adventurous progressive-metal band that takes chances other bands in its genre don't. Its vocals set it apart immediately.
To the uninitiated, Troy Sanders appears to be the band's lead vocalist, but all four members contribute vocally, including hyper-energetic drummer Brann Dailor, who does much of his band's heavy lifting. At times he sounds like two high-speed drummers executing and navigating complex rhythms and shifting time signatures yet remaining in pocket all the while. A Mastodon song can sound like two or three songs in one, a series of modes that can change so abruptly it can seem unclear whether they've swerved into a new song or are pursuing new directions abruptly within the same song, and Dailor is the component that keeps all that energy and motion on the rails.
Their musicianship and execution are impressive. Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher deliver the guitars by the tonnage, and a substantial part of their sound feels like well-orchestrated chaos: barrages of percussion and propulsive or shredding guitars that veer off on forays of their own but also stay precariously attached to the song's narrative. The vocals stitch it all together, infusing the blitzkrieg with melody lines that resound deepest when three or four of them are singing together.
Mastodon is touring on "Emperor of Sand," its seventh full-length, released in March. With a garish light show popping and exploding from behind them, they performed more than half of its 11 tracks, songs like "Ancient Kingdom," "Roots Remain" and "Precious Stones."
They also visited songs from previous albums, like "Ember City" from "Once More 'Round the Sun," showcasing the ever-changing sound of a 15-year-old band that has figured out that the sure way to avoid extinction is to continue to evolve.
Eagles of Death Metal: They followed an opening set from the instrumental trio Russian Circles. EODM will forever be associated with the deadly terrorist attack at Bataclan in Paris in November 2015, when gunmen killed about 90 fans inside the nightclub before an EODM show. On this night, however, they were in a spirited mood, taking the stage to Pilot's "Magic," a novelty pop hit from 1974.
Throughout the 45-minute set, frontman Jesse Hughes bounced about the stage, leading his band through a series of sludgy, blues-based rock songs, some with kitschy titles, that weren't written to be taken completely seriously. Their cover of David Bowie's "Moonage Daydream" was the exception.
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The above title describes how I personally experienced Bizarre, which began airing in 1980 (when cable television first became available in our neighborhood). Staying over at a friend's house, watching a premium channel I didn't have at home, late at night on a weekend, with the volume way down so his parents wouldn't hear, slogging through unfunny skits just for those couple seconds of nudity at the end. It was quite the treat in the pre-internet era for a kid in the sixth grade, let me tell you.
Amazingly, this show was produced by CTV in Canada. It was broadcast there without nakedness or swears (they filmed alternate takes, with the actresses wearing bras or shot from the back) and sold the uncensored version to the Showtime network here in the states for syndication. But without the "adult" content, there seems to be no point. The script is just a means to an end. Witness these three examples, below. They're the Showtime versions, but nudity is obscured by the uploader in accordance with Youtube policy. Even so, if your co-workers see you watching this, they'll think you're a creep. And a dumbass. Enjoy!
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