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Implementation Status and Results Report ISR38540 OCT 22, 2019
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Implementation Status and Results Report ISR37482 JUN 28, 2019
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Implementation Status and Results Report ISR33709 NOV 30, 2018
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Sri Lanka is a lower-middle income country with an impressive record of achievementsin economic and human development. Despite 26 years of conflict, Sri Lanka, an island countrywith a population of 20.6 million has stood out from its regional counterparts with high levels ofhuman development. ... See More + Sri Lanka's score in the Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.766—whichput the country in the high human development category (UNDP 2016). The country has also hasalso witnessed significant economic growth in recent years: in 2017, its per capita income was3,842 (UDS), more than four times that of its GPD in 2002. With these achievements, it has nowadvanced the economic ladder, from a low to a middle-income country.2. Policy makers are keen to build on the country's successes and to ensure that the benefitseconomic growth are distributed equitably in the population. Sri Lanka is poised to grow, witha development strategy expressly aimed at fostering strong and equitable growth for its entirepopulation (Bhatta, Ebenezer and Nyugen 2014). Despite its achievements in human development,the country has had persistent pockets of inequity, by region, as well as population sub-group- andsocial inequity, whether caused by gender, economic disadvantage, or any other factor, over a longperiod of time, that has limited the potential benefits of growth (Aturupane 1999a; Dundar, Millot,Riboud, Shojo, Aturupane, Goyal, and Raju 2017). Sri Lanka's policy makers recognize this andunderstand the importance of ensuring equitable growth. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 130655 AUG 01, 2018
Aturupane,Harsha; Shojo,Mari; Ebenezer,Roshini Mary Disclosed
Implementation Status and Results Report ISR31743 MAY 29, 2018
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Implementation Status and Results Report ISR29722 NOV 21, 2017
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A country's education system plays a pivotal role in promoting economic growth and shared prosperity.Sri Lanka has enjoyed high school-attainment and enrollment rates for several decades. ... See More + However, it still faces major challenges in the education sector, and these challenges undermine the country's inclusive growth goal and its ambition to become a competitive upper-middle-income country.The authors of Sri Lanka Education Sector Assessment: Achievements, Challenges, and Policy Options offer a thorough review of Sri Lanka's education sector—from early childhood education through higher education.With this book, they attempt to answer three questions: • How is Sri Lanka's education system performing, especially with respect to participation rates, learning outcomes, and labor market outcomes? • How can the country address the challenges at each stage of the education process, taking into account both country and international experience and also best practices? • Which policy actions should Sri Lanka make a priority for the short and medium term? The authors identify the most critical constraints on performance and present strategic priorities and policy options to address them. To attain inclusive growth and become globally competitive, Sri Lanka needs to embark on integrated reforms across all levels of education. These reforms must address both short-term skill shortages and long-term productivity. As Sri Lanka moves up the development ladder, the priorities of primary, secondary, and post secondary education must be aligned to meet the increasingly complex education and skill requirements. See Less -
Dundar,Halil; Millot,Benoît; Riboud,Michelle; Shojo,Mari; Aturupane,Harsha; Goyal,Sangeeta; Raju,Dhushyanth Disclosed
Implementation Status and Results Report ISR27706 MAY 22, 2017
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Implementation Status and Results Report ISR25529 NOV 18, 2016
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Education is one of the most important determinants of economic performance in the modern world. This is true of both countries and individuals. ... See More + The main characteristic which distinguishes between advanced economies, middle-income economies and low-income countries, is the knowledge content of their production activities and processes. Economic activities and products have become increasingly knowledge and skill-intensive in recent years. In addition, the importance of knowledge and skills is growing at an accelerating pace. Education is at the heart of human capital accumulation and economic growth. Education increases cognitive skills and soft skills of individuals. In addition, education improves the capacity of individuals to be trained for specific occupations and to acquire job-related skills. These effects of education enable individuals to accumulate human capital, improve labor productivity and increase life-cycle earnings. In the aggregate, this process generates economic growth. Investment in education produces a broad range of social benefits. Well-educated individuals, especially women, are better able to control their fertility and family health, resulting in reduced child, infant and maternal mortality, and higher life expectancy. Education also facilitates social mobility by creating opportunities for poor and disadvantaged groups to raise their economic and social status. A broad range of further externality benefits of education have been identified in the economic literature. These cover aspects of social well-being such as better political decision making, reduced incidence of crime, and higher quality public services. Education also produces inter-generational economic and social benefits: increased education in one generation improves schooling, labor productivity and income in the next. The public goods, informational imperfections and distributive justice aspects of education provide the economic justification for state investment in the education sector. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 89923 MAY 01, 2014
Aturupane, Harsha ; Savchenko, Yevgeniya ; Shojo, Mari ; Larsen, Kurt Disclosed
Education is universally recognized as one of the key determinants of socio-economic security and welfare. The link between education and increased individual earnings has been widely documented: there is a large body of cross-country evidence that education enhances the employability, productivity and income earning capacity of individuals. ... See More + The impact of educational attainment on these various socio-economic indicators has been shown to vary by region, sub-region, gender, age, by income levels, and other variables. In this paper, we focus on the socio-economic impact of educational attainment in Afghanistan. Afghanistan presents a fairly unique context for examining the association between education and the socio-economic variable discussed above. It is a conflict-affected country, with strong and rich cultural and religious traditions. It also has some of the worst developmental indicators and in the world. Using data from the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA) survey of 2007/08, authors investigate the extent to which the educational attainment of men and women is associated with greater economic welfare and less likelihood of being poor. The analysis is divided into four parts: part one looks education and other factors associated with household economic welfare and the probability of being poor; part two focuses on the education and other factors associated with women's participation in the labor force; part three looks at the association of mother's education with health-related outcomes of children; and part four looks at the association between educational attainment of girls and women, and their perceptions of well-being. Afghanistan's education indicators are among the worst in the world and girls and rural communities are particularly disadvantaged. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 80122 JUL 01, 2013
Auturupane, Harsha; Gunatilake, Ramani; Shojo, Mari; Ebenezer, Roshini Disclosed
Afghanistan's ability to enhance its human capital resources will determine the course of the nation's future economic, human and social development. ... See More + Recognizing this, the Government of Afghanistan is committed to implementing policies aimed at getting children, particularly girls, into the education system. This paper aims to inform this process by investigating a variety of characteristics of children, such as their households, educational facilities, community factors, and spatial variables that are associated with education enrollment in urban and rural Afghanistan. This paper aims to investigate the factors underlying these low school enrollment figures and is structured as follows. Section one reviews previous research in this area. Section two provides a brief description the data and the methodology used in this analysis. In section three authors present the results which are then discussed in section four. In fact this study found that while the availability of appropriate schools is significantly correlated with primary and mid-school enrollment, they have a significant impact only on the enrollment of rural girls in high school. Right now, Afghanistan appears to be in a paradoxical situation: while education and better human capital needs to power economic growth, incomes need to expand to ease the constraints on education enrollment that are currently imposed by economic backwardness. To break out of this circle of constraints against enrollment, policy makers need to aggressively pursue policies that concentrate on easing the economic costs to households of children attending school, while enhancing the supply and quality of the facilities provided. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 80121 JUL 01, 2013
Auturupane, Harsha; Gunatilake, Ramani; Shojo, Mari; Ebenezer, Roshini Disclosed
Sri Lanka is a lower-middle income country with a per capita income of approximately US$ 2,400, and a population of around 20 million people. Sri Lanka's high rate of literacy is due to its sustained growth through the twentieth century. ... See More + Primary education spans the first five grades of schooling, grades 1-5. Student's progress automatically to lower secondary education for four years of education in grades 6-9 and then on to upper secondary education in grades 10-11 for a two year course that culminates in the General Certificate of Education Ordinary level examination (GCE O-L). The curriculum for primary education is designed separately from those for subsequent stages of education. The primary education curriculum stage is encapsulated in a primary curriculum framework that derives from extensive debate during the 1990s in connection with the recommendations in 1997 of the national education commission, the work of the technical committee on primary education appointed by the presidential task force and detailed implementation work by the primary education unit of the national institute of education. Since 2003 the National Educational Research Centre (NEREC) based at the University of Colombo has administered tests in first Language, Mathematics and English to grade 4 children in a sample of schools country-wide. In the 2009 assessments a cut-off percentage of 80 percent rather than 50 percent were 48 percent in First Language, 53 percent in Mathematics and just 19 percent in English. The budget of the national Ministry of education includes a separate budget line for primary education but this money is allocated only to the primary sections of national schools. Province, zone, division and school budget do not separate allocations and expenditure for primary and secondary. There is no reason in principle why separate budget lines could not be created for most types of expenditure. See Less -
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Most developing countries following independence opted for strong central control and direction of the education system, partly because of limited resources and the need to plan carefully and partly because of a felt need to create a sense of national unity among diverse ethnic and linguistic groups. ... See More + This meant that key areas of control and decision making, such as management of resources and personnel, curriculum, evaluation of performance, and accountability, were under central rather than local control. The empowerment of schools has two major components: school-based management and the involvement of parents and communities in the work of schools. The emphasis given to one or other of these components depends on general national policy, local traditions, and context, with the result that almost every system is unique when one considers who makes decisions, the actual decisions that are made, the nature of those decisions, the level at which they are made, and relationships between levels. Thus, there are 'strong' and 'weak' versions of school empowerment. In some, only a single area of autonomy is granted to schools, while in others the community management of schools, even the establishment of schools, is encouraged (World Bank, 2007). In this paper, the author will briefly outline the history of school empowerment in Sri Lanka with particular reference to the Program for School Improvement (PSI), which commenced in 2006. The final section of the paper contains suggestions designed to strengthen process of empowering Sri Lankan schools and improving education outcomes. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 77759 MAY 01, 2013
Aturupane, Harsha; Kellaghan, Thomas; Shojo, Mari Disclosed
Human capital is the central determinant of economic well-being and social advancement in the modern global economy. The key characteristic that distinguishes between advanced economies, middle-income economies and low-income economies is the knowledge content of their economic activities and production processes. ... See More + Industry, agriculture and especially services have become increasingly knowledge and skill intensive in recent years. Further, the dominance of knowledge and skills is increasing at an accelerating rate. Among advanced economies, for instance, the education levels of their populations is the single most important factor determining their economic performance [Hanushek and Welch (2006), Hanushek and Woessmann (2008)]. Among middle-income and low-income countries, too, economies that have high education attainment enjoy considerable welfare gains [Fasih (2008), Patrinos and Psacharopoulos (2011)]. Human resource development is particularly important for the economic development of small states [Martin and Bray (2011)]. Education also produces a variety of social benefits. These include healthier and better nourished families and children; the creation of the enlightened citizenry needed for a modern liberal democracy; and the promotion of social mobility [OECD (2012)]. This paper offers an overview of the general education system and the current status of access and participation in the Maldives. This is followed by a discussion of the economic and social benefits of investment in education. The paper concludes by discussing options to expand access and participation at education levels where the Maldives lags behind other comparable small island economies. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 68615 MAY 01, 2012
Aturupane, Harsha; Shojo, Mari Disclosed
The quality of education is a major policy challenge facing the Maldives. The country achieved the first generation objective of providing universal access to basic education through rapid expansion of enrollment.
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As is frequently the case with such countries, the second generation challenge is to provide education of adequate quality. Evidence from a variety of sources shows that education quality in the Maldives is weak, and needs urgent improvement. Learning outcomes in both primary and secondary education are modest. National assessments of learning outcomes at Grade 4 and Grade 7 show that learning levels are unsatisfactory. The low average scores suggest that learning levels in both primary education and lower secondary education are weak. There are several dimensions of education quality which Maldivian policy makers consider to be of vital importance. Among these, the quality of school teachers is central to the improvement of education quality. Hence, the Ministry of Education (MOE) is concerned to develop the skills, motivation and performance of teachers. A second key policy initiative is the establishment of a sound quality assurance framework for the school system. The MOE has developed a quality assurance mechanism, which now needs to be pilot tested, refined and scaled up throughout the country. A third strategic policy initiative is the development of a system of regular national assessments of learning outcomes, which can then feed into policy formulation and program development. These three strategic policy initiatives are discussed in the subsequent sections of this report.
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Working Paper (Numbered Series) 67918 FEB 01, 2012
Aturupane, Harsha; Shojo, Mari Disclosed
Scientific literacy is essential to stimulate an environment conducive to new knowledge generation, discovery and innovation. A quality school science education is central to building a scientifically literate population. ... See More + Science education in Sri Lanka has progressed both quantitatively and qualitatively since the 1950s. Access to science education has grown steadily. This paper addresses the challenges to providing a good science education and considers pathways to the future. Policy initiatives supporting science education at present are considered. The science programme in schools is reviewed taking into account parameters such as curriculum, teaching and learning methods, learning assessments, teaching material and deployment and training of science teachers. First, learning achievements in science are assessed in the context of test scores in national assessments administered at grade eight. It is assumed that the national examinations are a suitable instrument to test learning outcomes and that at least in part reflect the quality of education. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 64527 AUG 01, 2011
Aturupane, Harsha; Dissanayake, Visaka; Jayewardene, Romaine; Shojo, Mari; Sonnadara, Upul Disclosed
A well-informed and knowledgeable community is of vital importance for the economic and social development of a modem society. The knowledge and skills required for present day activities are much more complex than those required in the past. ... See More + Today, many jobs require expert thinking and non-routine analytical skills, to identify and solve problems. Mathematics education focuses on developing a person's analytical and problem solving abilities. Thus a high quality mathematics education win ensure that students develop the skills that are essential not only in science and technology, but also in everyday life and the workplace. The government of Sri Lanka, recognizing the need for a high quality mathematics education has implemented several reforms in the recent past. Although the progress achieved is commendable, there is still room for improvement in certain important aspects of the learning teaching process. The main aim of the mathematics curriculum under these reforms is to create individuals who are able to think mathematically and apply mathematical knowledge effectively and responsibly in problem solving and decision making. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 64526 JUL 01, 2011
Aturupane, Harsha; Dissanayake, Visaka; Jayewardene, Romaine; Shojo, Mari; Sonnadara, Upul Disclosed
The Republic of Maldives, a middle-income country of extraordinary natural beauty, is one of the most advanced nations in South Asia. The Maldives consists of an archipelago of nearly 1,200 islands and a population of approximately 400,000 inhabitants; 310,000 Maldivians and 90,000 expatriate workers. ... See More + More than 25 percent of the population live in Male', the capital, while the rest are distributed among just under 200 other inhabited islands. The Maldives had attained a national income per capita of USD 2,786 in 2009. The Government of Maldives (GOM) is seeking to accelerate human development and economic prosperity within the political framework of a modern liberal democracy. The government's reform program to achieve this goal, outlined in the policy statement 'the other Maldives' [GOM 2009a)] contains five pillars: good governance to strengthen democratic institutions and processes; expansion and development of human capital; climate change and adaptation; public sector reform to streamline the delivery of services and improve efficiency; and macroeconomic reform to promote private-sector led growth. See Less -
Working Paper (Numbered Series) 63489 MAY 01, 2011
Aturupane, Harsha; Fielden, John; Mikhail, Samih; Shojo, Mari Disclosed
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Way back when, before life went splat, we cheered him, feared him, Iron Mike Tyson, heavyweight champion of the world. But then: drugs, prison, bankruptcy, punchline. Our most genial response to the pugilistic powerhouse was pity. More often, we lobbed disgust like a haymaker from a safe distance.
But take a look at this: In a classic case of American reinvention, not only have we forgotten, forgiven Tyson, but we're laughing with him, cheering once more. The 46-year-old iconoclast is now a star not in the ring but on the stage, with his one-man show, the Spike Lee-directed Undisputed Truth, making a Wednesday stop at Ruth Eckerd Hall.
So was it a trainwreck, a ploy for money from the cash-strapped star? Well, top tickets were $500. That said, it was often a fascinating, at times mesmerizing two hours. Sure, it felt sideshow here and there — is Mike Tyson really wearing a bad wig up there? — but the Brooklyn lug has scads of charisma. And he was even charming referencing his lisp.
Plus, if some parts of his sprawling monologue felt rehearsed (acting is definitely not his sweet science), he excelled when losing himself in absurdist tales, such as an epic street fight with old foe Mitch Green, who refuses to stay down, "like Jason, Friday the 13th sh--!"
Dressed all in white, Tyson first appeared motionless, crouched on a tiny stool, not unlike Rodin's Thinker. As the decent-sized crowd of 1,322 roared louder, that wide face with the Maori tattoo broke into a grin. "I should have called this show "Boxing, B------ and Lawsuits,"' he quipped. Then another zinger: "I promise you're all going to leave here with two ears," referencing his famous chomping of Evander Holyfield in 1997.
Backed by a simple video screen, and with the occasional music cues (a shot of ex-wife Robin Givens was synced with Kanye West's Gold Digger), Tyson touched on select, and not always obvious, moments from his epic life, from never knowing who was his real father to having a mother with substance problems to just being a really messed-up kid for great chunks of his youth: "By the time I was 12, I had been arrested over 30 times."
But he found a savior and a mentor in boxing trainer Cus D'Amato.
The show's goosebumpiest moment was when Tyson recalled D'Amato teaching him a lethal punch combo — and then, the shadow-boxing former champ showed he could still pummel 98 percent of the population. Awesome, just awesome.
Oddly enough, Tyson didn't elaborate on many of his boxing exploits. Instead he picked moments that showed how his lapses in judgment were often matched by others'.
The Givens stuff was wickedly funny, especially when he recalled spotting his estranged wife with a terrified Brad Pitt. But Tyson said all is forgiven. "Brad, give me a job!" he bellowed. "Or better yet, adopt me!"
He ripped Givens pretty good, but others get it worse: "I made a deal with the devil and signed my life away to Don King." He said he should have gone to prison for a lot of things, but in addressing his lowest moment — a rape conviction in 1992 — he claimed, looking straight into the audience: "I did not rape Desiree Washington and that's all I'm going to say about that."
Credit Tyson with blending the tragic with the tragicomic.
For instance, about his face tattoo, he said: "I got a tramp stamp on my face because I wanted to." And the show had a sort-of happy ending. He's sober now, proud of his kids, trying to lead a good life. Oh, and he's a vegan, too, which is just as well: "People taste like sh--."
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The plot of Avi's novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?" features radio shows. Not only do protagonists Frankie and Mario listen to radio shows constantly, but they also act out scenarios similar to radio shows and include themselves as characters.
After reading or listening to the novel, students chart the plot of the story and discuss how it differs from other novels they have read. They research the history of radio shows, using an online tool. After discussing the character of Frankie, students create an alter ego for themselves and write a character sketch of the alter ego. They create a setting in which their alter ego might have an adventure after discussing setting in the novel. Finally, they examine scripts, and use their alter ego and setting to write their own radio show, similar to the scenarios that Frankie and Mario perform in the novel.
Short Story Prewriting: This handout can be used as a prewriting activity for any short story.
Radio Research: This online tool guides students in an Internet search for historical information about radio.
The bottom of the last page of Janet Ewell's article "Convention Memoir: Bringing a Little 'Significance' Back to the Trenches" features a paragraph that was originally published in an issue of English Journal from 60 years ago. Titled "When Radio Ruled," the excerpt states:
"Radio technique has a vital place today in any dramatic program that must define, sometimes instantaneously, American aims, ideals, and traditions. And we must not forget that, with sixty million receiving-sets in the United States, radio becomes the most important medium of communication the world has ever known and must, therefore, occupy a commanding place in the school curriculum."
- Marion W. Kaplan. "Radio Technique in High-School Dramatics." EJ 34.2 (1945): 88-93.
This view in to the past helps to explain why radio shows were so important in 1940s America. Author Avi, who grew up during this time period, was clearly influenced by the popularity of such shows. In "A Sense of Story," an article from Voices from the Middle, Avi shares that he was a fan of radio shows and chose to include them as a major plot element for his novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?" for that reason and because of their narrative structure. In the same ways that radio shows inspired Avi, they can add to the language arts classroom by providing the opportunity to explore "dialogue, narrative bridges, and short episodic beats" (8).
Further Reading
Avi. "A Sense of Story." Voices from the Middle 11.1 (September 2003): 8-14.
Ewell, Janet. "Convention Memoir: Bringing a Little Significance' Back to the Trenches." English Journal 95.1 (September 2005): 14-16.


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Jokinen has 2 goals, Pens beat Lightning 6-3
Jussi Jokinen scored two goals and added an assist, Pascal Dupuis had a goal and two assists, and the Eastern-Conference leading Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-3 Thursday night.
Chris Kunitz, Evgeni Malkin and Tanner Glass had the other Pittsburgh goals. Dupuis has three goals and eight points during a four-game points streak.
Pittsburgh defenseman Kris Letang was back in the lineup and had an assist after missing the previous six games with a lower body injury. The Penguins are still without center Sidney Crosby (broken jaw), left wing James Neal (concussion) and defenseman Paul Martin (hand).
Pittsburgh has a six-game winning streak against the Lightning.
Teddy Purcell had two goals for the Lightning. Brett Connolly had the other Tampa Bay goal.
Early third-period goals by Malkin and Jokinen gave the Penguins a 5-2 lead. Glass got his first goal in 56 games during a late third-period power play.
Kunitz put Pittsburgh up 3-1 with a redirection on the power play early in the second period. But Connolly stopped a personal 54-game goal drought dating back to Nov. 17, 2011 against Pittsburgh, when he got Tampa Bay within 3-2 with a man-advantage goal.
The Penguins had taken a 1-0 lead 4:07 into the game when Jokinen scored from near the post on a rebound. Dupuis made it 2-0 during a power play on another rebound goal.
After Malkin was called for tripping while battling for position in front of the Tampa Bay net, Purcell cut the Lightning deficit to 2-1 from the right circle. He connected off a pass from Steven Stamkos on the ensuing power play.
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Are you getting married and want to protect your assets? A prenuptial agreement may be what you need to do just that. While most people think of these as a bad thing, they can be a good thing if they are entered into by both parties with an open mind and clear understanding. It is merely a contract that usually includes provisions for division of property and spousal support in the event of divorce or separation.
They usually have many different stipulations on it as well, including adultery, etc. A prenuptial agreement can be as basic or as detailed as you can imagine, depending upon your needs and your attorney. In the United States, there are five conditions that must be met for a prenup to be valid. These are:
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Check out this article which includes links to places that will accept broken and unbroken lamps: http://ucsustainability.blogspot.com...and-clean.html
For those unfamiliar: Compact Fluorescent Lamps are those cool new light bulbs that use tons less energy and last years longer than conventional bulbs. However, they do have small amounts of mercury in them, so when broken, they can can be dangerous especially for small children and pregnant women. So try not to break them.


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The poster that caught her attention showed an aborted fetus superimposed over a Native American medicine wheel with eagle feathers. The text on the poster read "Abortion extinction, color the redman gone. Today an Indian boy was killed the Indian way, hey ya hey."
"We did not check the posters for content. We've never had any problems like this before."
Samantha Serrano, CAFE's director
Another poster depicted a pregnant African-American woman with a noose superimposed over her belly. That poster referred to abortion as "Black genocide" and "womb lynching," and stated: "Doctors kill more Blacks every four days than the Klan did in 150 years." Padilla took a picture with her phone and uploaded it to her Facebook page.
Tyrell Skeet was on his way to class, too. He walked past the information table sponsored by the student group Catholic Apologetics Fellowship and Evangelism (CAFE) on behalf of 40 Days for Life, a national anti-abortion campaign. The table was set up next to the stairs leading from the Student Union Building to the plaza in front of Zimmerman Library. There, the posters that had shocked Padilla were being displayed.
Skeet, who studied visual arts at Brown before attending UNM, says he paused to look at the display. "The posters are always colorful," he says. "They're always very, very hyperbolic."
Then he says he spotted the racially charged images and was stopped in his tracks. He says he never thought he'd see racial stereotypes about Native Americans used to promote anti-abortion views. He was taking pictures of the posters when a man approached him and asked if he liked the designs. "I really didn't like it, but I didn't want to push him to the point where it became out of control between me and him." After a few moments spent chatting with the women behind the table, Skeet posted the images to his Facebook page and went to class.
"The Native American community will no longer let their culture and identity be appropriated to further the agenda of outside interests."
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Padilla and Skeet, like 13.5 percent of students at the University of New Mexico, are Native American. And like many others on campus who viewed the offensive images, they assumed the posters were part of the official display set up by the two anti-abortion groups.
Liz Turner, the Albuquerque representative for 40 Days for Life, says a man not affiliated with her organization brought the posters and set them up at the edge of her display. She says she didn't know the man and didn't want to give his name so he wouldn't get "swamped" by the fallout from the signs.
Turner and Samantha Serrano, CAFE's director, say neither organization had any idea about the images portrayed on the signs at the edge of their display Monday—even though it would seem the man who set them up was already known for using the confrontational images.
Serrano says the man in question is a regular at protests in Albuquerque. She says he probably learned of the 40 Days event through his involvement in the anti-abortion movement and wanted to take part, "so he brought his signs, which are what he usually displays in front of the abortion clinics."
Turner says no one responsible for the table previewed the posters before their maker put them alongside the 40 Days display. "I just assumed they were appropriate," she says. Serrano adds: "We did not check the posters for content. We've never had any problems like this before."
Both women say as soon as passersby alerted the group at the table to the offensive content, the posters were removed, and the man who made them was asked to leave.
Padilla says she doesn't believe Turner and others manning the table were unaware of the images, she says. "I think it's an excuse. It doesn't make sense that they didn't look at them."
The man seemed like a member of the group because the people at the 40 Days table "seemed to know him," Skeet says. They also told Skeet that the man he had spoken to was the one who made the posters.
Debbie Morris is the director of the UNM Student Activities Center. All student groups who want to hold a demonstration on campus go must through her office.
The UNM Student Handbook's policy on freedom of expression and dissent places no limits on speech—as long as UNM property isn't being damaged. Enforcing limits beyond that on a public college campus would be nearly impossible, Morris says. The best counter to hurtful speech is more speech, she added.
Morris was "very proud" of what happened after the posters appeared, she says. Within 24 hours, representatives from the Kiva Club applied for a table across the plaza from the spot occupied by 40 Days to protest the group's presence on campus.
The Kiva Club is one of the oldest student organizations at UNM. Its stated purpose is to highlight issues affecting the Native American community and to provide support for Native American students on campus.
Serrano approached from across the plaza. As she listened, Kiva Club President Lane Bird Bear explained: "The Native American community will no longer let their culture and identity be appropriated to further the agenda of outside interests." Regarding abortion debate itself, Bird Bear said, "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. We're standing neutral on the issue."
Serrano told Bird Bear and the demonstrators she took responsibility for the posters. "I just want to extend my heartfelt apology," she said on behalf of CAFE, while Turner of 40 Days for Life waited back near the group's table.
Padilla says an apology was owed, "not just to the students, but to the Native American community as a whole."
Skeet disagrees. "Personally, I really don't care if they apologize or not," he says. When groups try to tie the genocide faced by Native Americans to abortion, "I think their message gets lost."
Plus, the outreach effort can backfire. "I'm still pro-life," Padilla says. "I'm still against abortion, but I won't support that organization."


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The last time we tried Oreos from Asia, including these Mildly Sweet ones I picked up in Singapore, we were...less than impressed. The less-bitter cookie and less-sweet creme just wound up tasting bland, a pale shadow of the Oreo's true self.
In the spirit of further inquiry, hope for the spirit of Asian snack food, and because we kind of have a thing for cookie-fueled masochism at Serious Eats, we scored five more Asian Oreos to try. Happen to live in China or Indonesia? Here's our take on some of the Oreos you can find there.
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Orange Ice Cream
Availability: Indonesia
Ice cream-flavored Oreos have the potential to suck harder than a Dyson. So this one is surprisingly good, even better than the Serious Eats-approved creamsicle Oreo available in the U.S. The difference? The creme filling here lacks that distracting vanilla-cream soda vibe, instead piling on the citrus oil flavors that taste—almost—like freshly zested orange peel. And unlike the creamsicle Oreo, the cookies here are a welcome chocolate, and they bring out all the fruity bitterness of the filling. Bravo, Oreo, this is genius.
Chocolate-Covered Coffee Wafers
Availability: China
Is a chocolate-covered wafer and creme bar really an Oreo? Frankly this has more in common with a Kit Kat than milk's favorite cookie, but I'm surprised at how much I enjoy it. The coffee flavor—and aroma—is like what you'd find in a cheap candy: a little suntan lotion-y, but believable enough if mass-market coffee-flavored sweets are your jam. The chocolate is thinner than on a Kit Kat, allowing you to pay more attention to the cringly crunch of the wafers. The creme inside is toned down, it seems, to match the milder cocoa in this cookie.
In an odd move for Oreo, these little guys are surprisingly portion-controlled. The individually-wrapped cookies come six to a box instead of the 45-or-so sandwich cookies that make up a three-sleeve, one-afternoon's-worth package.
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Coconut Wafers
Availability: China
Similar in style and packaging to the coffee wafers, but nowhere near as tasty. The coconut is all Malibu, the kind of flavor that turns people off coconut forever. The creme is insubstantial and gritty and the wafers suck all the saliva from your mouth. Ardent coconut fans may find something to like here (though I, as a lover of Almond Joy, do not), but the rest can pass.
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Availability: China
Peaches originated in China, and you can find them all over historic tapestries and ceramics, a testament to their role in the country's culinary culture. Now grapes, and the paring of grapes with peaches, I'm less sure about. Beyond the general question of why does this exist, how do they actually taste? Like the only-at-Target candy corn Oreo, you smell these the second you open the package. The intermingling aromas of Robitussin and Nyquil fill the room, and by the time I brought one of these to my lips, inner me was asking just what I did to deserve such punishment. After much prodding, I finally convinced Robyn to try one ("friends don't let friends do terrible things to their taste buds alone!"). This is the face she made:
The creme has the texture of chewable Tylenol, a kind of mealy stiffness that belongs nowhere near an Oreo, and that the chocolate cookie flavor is completely obliterated by the peach-grape poltergeist. Do not want.
Availability: Select countries internationally; Strawberry Milkshake Oreo introduced to U.S. in 2007
Speaking of medicine-flavored things, this stuff is pure Pepto. Like that awful berry ice cream Oreo I mentioned above, this is the kind of fake, nasty stuff of our industrial flavor nightmares. There's the same abrupt chemical perfume here as in the peach-grape, the same chalky-not-creamy filling, and again, the chocolate cookie doesn't stand a fighting chance against it all.
Tell me, Asian Oreo fans—are we missing something here? Is there a cultural divide we're unable to cross? We're having a hard time seeing what people might love in these two cookies.
What Should We Try Next?
This is far from the end of our international Oreo scavenger hunt. Got any flavors we should try next? I'm curious about the green tea Oreo; is it too much to hope for a red bean as well?
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Believers sees A.A. Bondy complete a phoenix-like rise from the flaming fuselage of a stalled career as a major label artist. Having experienced the fickle nature of the music industry with failed grunge experiment Verbena in the late Nineties, the Alabama troubadour retreated, as so many wistful musician types do nowadays, to a barn in the Catskills mountains near New York. There he explored his gentler side, penning an album full of wounded paeans to love, loss and everything in between. That album, American Hearts, was a transformation. This third solo effort, his most assured and intuitive to date, is a revelation: elegiac, tender and often achingly beautiful.
Guided by chiming guitars, soft percussion and near-whispered vocals, Believers is an wonderfully wintery listen. The songs here unfold slowly and quietly, like ice thawing from the branches of an oak tree or melting on the grill of an abandoned car. Bondy's raspy vocals sting with that sad nostalgia that creeps up on you as another year draws to a close. Shut your eyes and the crunching snare hits sound like footsteps on a crisp snowy terrain. "I wanted to make a world, complete with typography, weather and night and day, all that stuff," the musician told NPR in a recent interview. The world he resides in on Believers could be a snow-globe, shaken softly, with Bondy its sole, lonely inhabitant.
This is, at heart, an off-piste country record, its author spurning acoustic guitars for muted electric rumblings and murmurs of organ. There are echoes of Ryan Adams, Bonnie "Prince" Billy and, inevitably, fellow one-time woodland recluse Bon Iver in the mesh of pedal steel and sumptuous harmonies. One of the album's highlights, 'The Twist', is exactly that, a surprise upbeat turn that shares Interpol's brooding intensity. The strange lyrics of 'Surfer King' point to a polished-cum-cryptic Leonard Cohen-esque wordplay, Bondy crooning enigmatically: "Behind the red door in American skin there is a murder of roses and in the midnight hiss come cover me there, where I am electric nothing". But, amid all these similarities and base reference points, there are snatches on the album which suggest Bondy is an original: the ambient soundscapes slotted intermittently between songs, the pensive pacing of songs like 'Scenes From A Circus', the long pregnant pauses within tracks that throb menacingly and fill with unease.
Believers isn't a rousing album. Its allure is slow-burning, almost unnoticeable. There's little sense either of who exactly Bondy is either, A.A. sometimes frustratingly, well, anonymous. But there's something here that leaves you groggy with emotion after an up-close listen, something warm, enveloping and frankly unmissable.
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Don't Make a Wave Committee members and Greenpeace founders (from left) Jim Bohlen, Paul Cote, and Irving Stowe.
In 1970, the Don't Make A Wave Committee was established; its sole objective was to stop a second nuclear weapons test at Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
The committee's founders were Dorothy and Irving Stowe, Marie and Jim Bohlen, Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe, and Bob Hunter. Its first directors were Stowe, Bohlen, and a student named Paul Cote.
Canadian ecologist Bill Darnell came up with the dynamic combination of words to bind together the group's concern for the planet and opposition to nuclear arms. In the words of Bob Hunter, "Somebody flashed two fingers as we were leaving the church basement and said "Peace!" Bill said "Let's make it a Green Peace. And we all went Ommmmmmmm." Jim Bohlen's son Paul, having trouble making the two words fit on a button, linked them together into the committee's new name: Greenpeace.
Marie Bohlen was the first to suggest taking a ship up to Amchitka to oppose the U.S. plans. The group organised a boat, the Phyllis Cormack, and set sail to Amchitka to "bear witness" (a Quaker tradition of silent protest) to the nuclear test. On board were:
Stowe, who suffered from sea-sickness, stayed on shore to coordinate political pressure. Cote stayed behind too, because he was about to represent Canada in an Olympic sailing race.
Bob Hunter would take the lessons of that first voyage forward and improvise upon them to the point that he, more than anyone else, invented Greenpeace's brand of individual activism.
The Amchitka voyage established the group's name in Canada. Greenpeace's next journey spread their reputation across the world.
In 1972, David McTaggart answered an ad placed in a New Zealand newspaper by Ben Metcalfe, calling for a ship to go to Mururoa Atollto protest nuclear weapons testing there. McTaggart chose the following crew:
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Hancock & Kelley - December 4 - Mike Claiborne on Death of Bryan Burwell; AP's Warren Levinson; Minimum Wage to $15/Hr.?; Diversity in the WorkplaceJohn and Michael talks with KMOX and Cardinals Broadcaster Mike Claiborne about the death of his friend, Bryan Burwell; with AP Correspondent Warren Levinson about the Eric Garner case and the Grand Jury decision. Should the minimum wage be raised to $15/hour? John and Michael take listener calls. Nicole Hudson and Eric Ratinoff on their "diversity and inclusion in the workplace" survey.
Hancock & Kelley - Tuesday, November 18 - Gov. Jay Nixon Stammers His Response in Press Conference; Kitty Radcliffe on Tourism and Convention Business in STLJohn and MIchael take listener calls on Mo. Gov. Jay Nixon stammering through a press conference with reporters yesterday; and they take calls on what is the proper response for a possible non-indictment?; and Kitty Radcliffe talks about how the Ferguson upset is affecting convention business and tourism in St. Louis.
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Hancock & Kelley - Friday, September 19 - Emerson CEO David Farr on #Ferguson Forward Initiative; Spanking vs. Child Abuse; Kansas Senate Race; War Funding Agst. ISISJohn and Michael talk with Emerson CEO David Farr about #Ferguson Forward Initiative; they talk about Ferguson protesters protesting at the Cardinals and Rams games; about spanking vs. child abuse; about the Kansas Senate race, whose outcome might determine who will be in control of the U.S. Senate; and about war funding for Syria and Iraq to battle ISIS.
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The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the globe and is experiencing some of the most severe climate impacts on Earth. One of the most notable is the rapid decline in the thickness, age and extent of sea ice. Thiner and younger ice melts much faster, and scientists are predicting that by 2030, the Arctic Ocean will be entirely ice-free in the summer.
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Why is that a problem? Sea ice underpins the entire Arctic marine ecosystem, and as it shrinks and thins, there are major repercussions for the Arctic peoples and wildlife. Many polar species depend on the ice to survive - polar bears are the most famous example, but ringed seals also spend most of their time on ice, travelling North to find thicker, more stable one. The Arctic is still under-explored and many more species could be touched by the melting ice cap than we even know of.
The Arctic is also one of the regions where the feed-back effects from Global Warming are the most dire. As the white ice cap is replaced with dark seas, sun light is less and less reflected by in space, allowing for more warming to happen on the planet. The quantities of methane contained in the permanently frozen ground (permafrost) in the tundra is also a major problem: as the ground melts, more methane (one of the most potent greenhouse gases) is released in the atmosphere, accelerating global warming.
In particular, the ice laying on top of the land mass, like in Greenland, will contribute to sea level rising. The ice sheet has been melting faster than ever in recent years, as the summer 2009 Greenpeace expedition demonstrated.
These are factors humans cannot control, and if we are to solve the climate crisis, we have to do it before these feedback effects get beyond recovery.
Arctic under threat on Prezi
As the sea-ice receeds, oil companies are seeing an opportunity to move into the Arctic and try to exploit the oil reserves - both onshore and offshore. Cairn Energy has already started exploratory drilling, and while it failed to strike oil in 2010, the company is hoping to start again in 2011. Drilling for oil in the Arctic is however extremely dangerous. The sea-ice, as well as extreme weather conditions make clean-up of possible oil spills very difficult.
In addition, the particularities of the Arctic make oil drilling more dangerous than usual. For instance, collisions of icebergs with oil platforms are a very real possibility. The oil industry's way of dealing with icebergs seems careless in comparision with the threat: fireships are used to hose down and melt icebergs that come too close to the platform.
The irony is tragic: if we weren't burning so much fossil fuels like oil, those oil companies wouldn't have to opportunity to move in the Arctic. It is in their interest to keep the tragedy going for as long as possible - and keep the world addicted to oil. Drilling in the Arctic, instead of improving our transport system and forcing car companies to achieve better fuel efficiency, is keeping us addicted to oil, and only makes the problem worse.
As oil companies move into the Arctic, fragile habitats are threatened. The map below highlights where they are going, and their history in the region - as well as the threats they are posing.
View Arctic oil threats in a larger map
As the sea ice melts, more exploitation is possible. Geologists believe that that one third of the planet's crude oil is located under the sea-bed. Unfortunately, the lessons that should be taught on how much disaster is caused by current oil exploitation - from oil spills to the very global warming that opens these oil fields for exploitation. Arctic States are trying to expend their sovereignty over the sea-bed as far as they can.
Close up of the oil still present 15 years after the original Exxon Valdez spill.
Open seas also mean more shipping. More shipping means more risks of grounding, oil spills and chemical spills. Both poles are far more vulnerable than the rest of the planet to oil spills. The low temperatures, lack of light as well the small amount of search and rescue stations means that any accident is going to have a long lasting impact on the environment. Look no further than the infamous Exxon Valdez grounding for this. 20 years after it happened, oil is still leaking from under rocks in the Prince William sound.
Oil can irritate the skin of some Arctic species, and reduce their defenses against the cold. Bird feathers can also become entangled in the oil and prevent them from flying. Most of the time, they laos ingest the oil and inhale some toxic fumes.
Sea otter at rehabilitation centre in Valdez after Exxon Valdez oil spill.
A lot of pollution in the Arctic doesn't orginate there. Air and marine currents bring the toxic chemicals that are emitting in Eurasia and North America. These are then ingested by fauna and flora.
The amount of mercury found in fauna hunted by the aborigene population currently excedes the commonly agreed food-safety levels. These levels also contribute to further endangering species already facing a number of threats.
Persistant organic pollutants like DDT, DDE and other pesticides also find their way to the Arctic, where they are almost never used, since there is no agriculture there.
The greatest tragedy of the Arctic, is that the damage of global warming and transboundary pollution is caused thousands of kilometers away, and the native inhabitants are laregely powerless to stop the destruction of their environment.
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At long last, here's the video of my presentation about my trip to the Creation Museum – yes, the one that Ken Ham is already blogging about. I do warn you, it's long. My talk is about an hour and then there's about 25 minutes of Q&A. The first couple minutes are a little rocky because I was kind of nervous, but then I get in my groove and I think it's pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Overall I received very positive feedback, even from some of the theists in the room. As you'll see if you watch the Q&A, Pastor Brent Aucoin of the Faith Baptist Church in Lafayette attended. He was nice enough to email me and ask if he could come to the event (of course he could!) and disclosed that he helped with the construction of the Creation Museum (and I can only assume he is the supporter that Ken Ham mentions in the post about my talk). He was very civil, and I thank him for that, but he did repeat the same creationist arguments that we hear over and over again. My favorite part is at the 1:09:00 mark. At the very least, watch it for my friend doing a literal *facepalm* twenty seconds later.
Though, the thing that made my talk totally worth it? My former Human Genetics professor (you can see her behind the Pastor) who's 80-something, super liberal, intelligent, hilariously witty, a fan of Stephen Colbert, a non-theist, and a Holocaust survivor came up and shook my hand for about five minutes straight, saying how we needed more people like me who were brave enough to speak out against this stuff. Coming from someone I respect so much, that meant a lot.
Oh, and the tiny little blip about 50 minutes in isn't us hiding something, it's us changing the tape, haha.


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This is a place where you can submit bug reports and suggest changes/features. Why a bug tracker, you ask?
* Makes it easier for users to keep track of what is going on.
* Makes it easier for developers to keep track of what is going on.
* A tracker is designed specifically for this sort of thing whereas shoehorning this role into a forum is a bit awkward.
The tracker became active only in the final days of the 1.6.0 development, but hopefully, it will be used more after this point.
For those of you unfamiliar with Bugzilla, Bug 1 serves as a sort of user guide for this particular Bugzilla installation.


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Rep. Mark Waller "howls" over rival PAC
Rep. Mark Waller was pretty pleased last summer when he came up with the name for his political-action committee: Waller's Outstanding Leadership Fund or WOLF Pac.
"I started with WOLF and worked backward trying to come up with the name. I must have spent all of 25 minutes on it," he said, tongue-in-cheek.
So you can imagine the Colorado Springs Republican's shock/dismay/outrage/indignation when he discovered that Democratic Sen. Mary Hodge of Brighton in October started her own political-action committee called, you might have guessed it, Wolf PAC.
Waller, who will be the minority leader when the session opens in January, said he called Hodge to give her some "grief" over the name. He said Hodge replied that she didn't learn that people called his committee Wolf PAC until she had her fundraiser in October.
"She said she didn't think there would be any confusion, and I said, 'Send me your e-mail list and I'll try to figure that out on my own,'" he said, with a laugh.
Secretary of state records show Waller has raised about $5,000, while Hodge, who started her group in October, has raised $1,300.


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TAMA NEWS-HERALD-The Community of Vining requests your presence for the"heart transplant ceremony" to be held on the south edge of Vining on Sunday, Oct, 16 at 1 p.m.
The event will mark the restoration of the Vining "Heart of the Bohemie?Alps" sign which was stolen and then returned earlier this past summer.
Free hot dogs, baked beans, potato chips and root beer floats will be served in the Mayor's yard just north of ceremony site. Bring your own beverage and lawn chair. Everyone is welcome.


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Ariel Dorfman
Walter Hines Page Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Literature
Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and Latin American Studies; has a Licenciatura in Comparative Literature from the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 1965. He has taught at the Universidad de Chile, the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the University of Amsterdam. His major publications include the essays, How to Read Donald Duck (in collaboration with Armand Mattlelart, 1971), The Empire's Old Clothes (1983), and Someone Writes to the Future: Essays on Contemporary Latin American Fiction (1991). He is also the author of a collection of poetry, Last Waltz in Santiago and Other Poems of Exile and Disappearance (1988), and In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land: New and Collected Poems from Two Languages (2002), and the memoir, Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey (1998). His novels include Widows (1983), The Last Song of Manuel Sendero (1986), Mascara (1988), Hard Rain (1990), Konfidenz (1995), The Nanny and the Iceburg (1999), and Blake's Therapy (2001). His plays include Widows (which won a New American Plays Award from the Kennedy Center), and Reader (winner of the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center) which is in production world wide. Death and the Maiden, winner of many awards and also in production worldwide, was made into a Roman Polanski film. Mascara (with son, Rodrigo Dorfman), premiered in Bonn in 1998, and Who's Who (also with Rodrigo Dorfman) premiered in Frankfurt in 1998. He also has created a collection of his plays, The Resistance Trilogy, which includes Death and the Maiden, Reader, and Widows. His most recent non-fiction works include Exorcising Terror: The Incredible, Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet (2002), Other Septembers, Many Americas (2004), Desert Memories: Journeys through the Chilean North (2004), and he collaborated on the novel The Burning City, with his youngest son, Joaquin Dorfman. His latest plays include The Other Side and Purgatorio. A documentary feature film based on his life, "A Promise to the Dead: the Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman," was directed by Peter Raymont in 2007 and shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. He has recently begun to work with composers, writing the libretto (in verse) for an operatic version of Death and the Maiden (music by Jonas Forssell), which premiered at Malmo in September of 2008; and the book for Dancing Shadows (music by Eric Woolfson, lead singer and composer of the Alan Parsons Project), which opened in Seoul in July 2007 and went on to win five Korean Tonys. He is currently working on another opera, with the Scottish composer Nigel Osborne, based on a legend of the Upanishads. He has just completed Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Uurepentant Exile, the second volume of his memoirs, which will Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish in Fall 2011. Prof. Dorfman continues to write regularly for many of the most important newspapers and magazines in the US and abroad, and in 2010 delivered the 8th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Ph.D., University of Chile 1965
Dorfman, Ariel. Exorcising Terror: The Incredible Unending Trial of General Augusto Pinochet. Seven Stories Press, 2002.
Dorfman, A. In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land (poetry). Duke University Press, 2002.
Dorfman, A. Blake's Therapy. Seven Stories Press, 2001.
Dorfman, A. The Rabbit's Rebellion. Transworld, 2001.
Dorfman, A. The Nanny and the Iceberg. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Dorfman, A. Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998.
Dorfman, A. Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
Dorfman, A. The Resistance Trilogy. Nick Hern Books Limited, 1998.
Dorfman, A. The Resistance Trilogy. Nick Hern Books Limited, 1998.
Dorfman, A. Widows (play). Nick Hern Books Limited, 1997.
Dorfman, A. "Afterword: Where the Buried Flame Burns." Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, edited by Mark Falkoff, University of Iowa Press, 2007.
Dorfman, A. "Breaking Down the Glass Walls of Language." How I Learned English, edited by Tom Miller, National Geographic Books, 2007, pp. 217–20.
Dorfman, A. "The Missing and Photography: The Uses and Misuses of Globalization." Spontaneous Shrines and the Public Memorialization of Death, edited by Jack Santino, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, pp. 255–60.
Dorfman, A. "The Tyranny of Torture: Is Torture Inevitable in Our Century and Beyond?" Torture: A Collection, edited by Sanford Levinson, Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 3–18.
Dorfman, A. "Despedida y amanecer" and "Farewell and Dawn". Edited by Tamsin Mitchell and J. S. Tennant, Pen International, Nov. 2012.
Dorfman, A. "Fragment from the Diary of My Return to Chile in 1990." Diálogo, vol. 15, no. 2, 2012, pp. 23–24.
Dorfman, Ariel. "Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile Returning to Chile three decades after the coup, I was no longer a soldier of the revolution." Nation, vol. 293, no. 22, NATION CO INC, Nov. 2011, pp. 21–24.
Dorfman, A. "Matta el travieso." Pagina/12, Nov. 2011.
Dorfman, A. "Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile." The Nation (November 2011). (Academic Article)
Dorfman, A. "Un purgatorio en busca de autor." El Pais, Oct. 2011.
Dorfman, A. "How Harold Pinter's Kindness Saved My Play." The Daily Telegraph, Oct. 2011.
Dorfman, A. "Death and the Maiden's Haunting Relevance." London Guardian, Oct. 2011.
Dorfman, A. "Epitaph for another september 11." Nation, vol. 293, no. 12, Sept. 2011, pp. 17–18.
Dorfman, Ariel. "Epitaph for Another September 11 Chile and the United States offer contrasting models of how to react to a collective trauma." Nation, vol. 293, no. 12, NATION CO INC, Sept. 2011, pp. 17–18.
Dorfman, A. Afterword: Where the Buried Flame Burns. Edited by Mark Falkoff, University of Iowa Press, July 2007.
Dorfman, A. Dancing with Shadows musical. July 2007.
Dorfman, A. Gringos. Edited by Laura Furman, Anchor Books, June 2007.
Dorfman, A. "Stew." A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer, June 2007.
Dorfman, A. "Gringos." The O. Henry Prize Stories, edited by D. Leavitt, vol. 1, University of Florida Department of English, June 2007.
Dorfman, A. "Goodbye to a Grandfather." Sekai, Mar. 2007.
Dorfman, A. "Una semana con Gabo." El Pais, 2007.
Dorfman, A. "Use What You Learned." The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007.
Dorfman, A. "Are We Really So Fearful?" Washington Post (Washington, D.C. : 1974), 6 Sept. 2006.
Dorfman, A. "Waving the Star Spanglish Banner." Washington Post (Washington, D.C. : 1974), 7 May 2006.
I am a Liar who always tells the Truth: A Roundtable on the Work of Ariel Dorfman. December 20, 2010
Suspect Reconciliation A dialogue between Ariel Dorfman and four young South African writers. December 20, 2010
8th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture: "Whose Memory? Whose Justice? A Meditation on How and When and If to Reconcile". July 31, 2010


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These were devoured!
Unfortunately I don't have any exciting stories to share this time. I have been pretty busy at work lately. As most of you know, I am an auditor and this is my busiest time of year. For those of you who don't know, auditors don't do taxes. I am a CPA, but I don't do taxes. Auditors don't do taxes. People assume I am busy this time of year because tax season. I know it should not annoy me that the general public assumes I am busy doing taxes, but it does. For those of you are are still interested, I took just as many law classes as I took tax classes and I am not a law expert nor do people assume I am. This also means I am not a tax expert. So to conclude, I am really busy at work this time of year and it is not because I am doing taxes.
Anyway, back on topic. This past week I made Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins and they were devoured. This recipe only makes a dozen and within the first three hours of baking them four were eaten and only by two people. I actually hate bananas, so I was not one of those people, but I was told they were incredible. I took the rest to work and they vanished. So this time you can't take my word for it, but you can take Zack's. He says if you like bananas you should make these muffins!
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
recipe from Baked Perfection
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3 ripe bananas*, mashed
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
1/4 cup butter melted
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 tablespoon flour
1 tablespoon turbinado sugar
Preheat over to 375 degrees. Grease or line 12 muffin cups.
In a large bowl mix together 1 1/2 cups flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. In a second bowl beat together bananas, sugars, vanilla, egg, and melted butter. Stir the banana mixture into the flour mixture until just combined. In a small bowl mix together the chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon flour (this will prevent the chocolate chips from sinking). Stir the chocolate chips into the batter. Spoon batter evenly into the prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle the tops of each muffin with turbinado sugar. Bake in preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean.
*Bakers note - My bananas were not ripe when I made these muffins. If you are in the same situation, just pop the peeled bananas in the microwave for 30 seconds and they will be ready for mashing.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
These were devoured!


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Your job: Decide to get out of town and fast. Our job: Help you find where you're headed. This week, NBCLA's Worth the Drive takes us to...
La Jolla Festival of the Arts: Annual two-day affair attracting great artists from across the U.S. and Mexico, selling everything from oil and watercolor to jewelry, glass, brass and wood.
Getting there: The event is a couple of miles east of downtown La Jolla, just the other side of the I-5 and right off the 805. It's easy to find and there's plenty of parking.
Great souvenirs: This event is so renowned even the festival T-Shirt and poster are collector's items and they're pretty cheap ($10) so you know you won't come home empty handed.
Stick around for awhile: Less than a mile away is La Jolla's Golden Triangle with some great restaurants and you can shop till you drop right across the street at UTC - the University Town Center Mall. And, if you're looking for a place to crash close by there's a Hyatt Regency, Marriott and Embassy Suites all within spitting distance.
While you're there: Drive a few minutes further and you're at the coast - can you say: La Jolla, Pacific Beach, Del Mar, etc, etc. What the heck, make a weekend of it and pack the Callaways too. Among the many nearby "duffer destinations" Torrey Pines is about a 10-minute drive. Just to the north of the golf course is Torrey Pines Reserve, miles of pristine trails located right above the blue Pacific.
There's nothing but beach north and south for miles. There's even one you can go to if you forgot to pack a suit. Of course, swimming without one at Black's Beach is no longer legal so don't tell the lifeguard writing you the ticket that we're the ones who sent you.
Days: Saturday and Sunday, June 26 and 27, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day
Price: Admission is $10 unless you're active military, then it's free.
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The Hot Sexxxy Olympics of Sex don't officially begin until tomorrow, with all the hot sexy athlete sex, but some Olympians aren't even waiting for the opening ceremony to start sexing at the Sexlympics. ALLEGEDLY MAYBE.
American swim star Ryan Lochte and Australian swim star Blair Evans were "looking flirty" during a training session and "took the bus back to the athletes' village" together, which totally means they're off to make an Australian-American swim star baby. Maybe they're making it right now.
You would not believe the freaky shit Lochte and Evans got up to in the pool, in front of God and everyone. He "slipped under several lane ropes to say hello." They "stopped to chat and laugh." There was even a "brief underwater hand touching," and these two fiends didn't care who saw.
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We are fortunate to have arrived at a crossroad in the growth of the Museum: For over 40 years, the Dallas Firefighter's Museum has steadfastly chronicled the history in the City of Dallas and has offered tours to schoolchildren, families, and visitors from around the world. The 2,000 artifacts entrusted to the Museum not only tell the story of how fires were fought, but more importantly, documents the innovation, dedication, and courage of the men and women who fought - and continue to fight - fires so that the citizens of Dallas remain safe.
Back in 1872, the City of Dallas was growing. With growth came the need to care for its citizens and its property. An all-volunteer fire fighting force served Dallas in the early days. This dedicated group of civic leaders came together each time the fire bell sounded to help their neighbors, themselves and the City they called home. As one author is quoted, "Firefighting was not a profession in 1873; it was a civic duty." Although firefighting has grown into a great, honorable profession, it has done so through the skills and innovative work of the men and women who fought, and fight, fires daily in the City of Dallas.
What better way to honor the work and valor of these individuals than by expanding the educational outreach of the Museum and by preserving and displaying the tools and equipment that helped Dallas Fire-Rescue grow into the outstanding firefighting organization it is today. Currently, the Dallas Firefighter's Museum serves an average of 2,000 visitors per year. With the creation of an educational center and the planned facility renovations, we anticipate over 6,000+ visitors per year and expanded outreach to more than 15,000 school age children.
A crossroad is a curious place between the past and the future. At this crossroad, we believe we must have the courage of our fallen firefighters, retirees and those currently serving, along with the citizens of Dallas, to preserve the strong legacy of Dallas Fire-Rescue, while preparing our children and their families to be safe. In order to accomplish all this we need $5.6 million for the renovations and the creation of the new educational center expanding outreach to the children of Dallas. In addition, an endowment of $4.4 million would enable the Dallas Firefighters Museum to offer scholarships to children and families, provide funding for innovative exhibits and insure the conservation of the Museum.
We are in the very early stages of preparing for this campaign, but we wanted you to understand the need and the desire for Dallas to have a premier Museum with an exceptional educational center for outreach programs. Together, we will share the legacy of all Dallas Firefighters and prepare our citizens to be safe.
Our goal is to redefine the interior space of the Museum in order to create exhibits and preserve the antique equipment, artifacts and photos for generations to come. Below is the floor plan for the renovation of the first floor exhibit featuring all firefighting equipment and machinery. By changing the interior footprint, The Dallas Firefighters Museum simultaneously will lay the foundation for expanded outreach to thousands of schoolchildren.
Through a unique partnership with Dallas Fire-Rescue educators, the new educational center will enable thousands more children a unique learning opportunity through hands-on exhibits, an IMAX theatre, antique equipment and a life-sized room complete with beds and fire poles, replicating how early firefighters lived and worked at the station. The new educational center will offer children and all visitors the opportunity to learn to prevent fires, as well as, what safety steps to take should be there at a fire.
Warm regards,
Rett Blankenship
President, Museum Board of Directors
Sherwood E. Blount, Jr.
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