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He's already debunked the myths that shroud our Viking ancestors, eating, sleeping and fighting like one of them, now Neil Delamere is about to take on the world's most famous Irishman – who wasn't Irish at all – Saint Patrick.
Every year on March 17th millions of people worldwide take to the streets to celebrate our patron saint – he banished snakes, brought Christianity to Ireland and explained it with shamrock, all the while dressed in green, carrying a gold crozier and sporting a flowing beard that would make Santa jealous…. But in reality – he was probably a Welshman, there were never any snakes to banish, the shamrock was more likely a pagan symbol, St Patrick's colour was blue and Christianity reached Ireland while Patrick was still a slave on an Irish hillside… Oh, and technically he's not even a Saint. So who is the real St Patrick and is he worth raising a glass to this March 17th?
There's Something About Patrick will see Neil Delamere travel the length and breadth of the country (and beyond) to meet experts, historians and St Patrick's Day revellers, to discover the truth about our patron saint. Along the way he'll take to the stand-up stage to share his hilarious and often irreverent observations about St Patrick, while comedy sketches starring some of Ireland's best comedic talent, will show us an entirely new side to the Patrick we thought we knew.
Not content to just separate the truth about Patrick from the myth, Neil will physically get to grips with life in Ireland during Patrick's time. He'll experience pagan customs, wrangle snakes, get kidnapped and taken across rough seas, climb Croagh Patrick barefoot, eat, dress and travel like Patrick, all in an attempt to figure out the man behind the Mitre.


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Just when we were really loving her asymmetrical bob, Rihanna went and switched up her style again! The Cover Girl showed off a new flapper-style blunt bob with heavy straight bangs at Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards. Turns out that her stylist Ursula Stephen cut it that day. She tells PEOPLE "We definitely had to do something different and fresh for the Movie Awards of course. So I just figured bangs would be the perfect choice — and the perfect step instead of going too short. [Rihanna] wanted to go even shorter than that!" But this won't be the last new 'do we see from the singer. Stephens tells us "We don't know if she's going to keep this cut for the tour. We just have to keep surprising you guys!" We can't wait. Tell us: What do you think of Rihanna's new 'do? Love it or miss the old cut?
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But then we all sort of moved away from it. I don't remember any big group decision that we should give up alcohol. It just sort of petered out, and, before long, we were scarcely drinking it.
We didn't give it up for the obvious health reasons: that it is addictive in about one in six teenagers; that drinking and driving is a good way to get yourself killed; that young people who drink go on to suffer I.Q. loss and perform worse on other cognitive tests.
I think we gave it up, first, because we each had had a few embarrassing incidents. Drunk people do stupid things (that's basically the point). I drank one day during lunch and then had to give a presentation in English class. I stumbled through it, incapable of putting together simple phrases, feeling like a total loser. It is still one of those embarrassing memories that pop up unbidden at 4 in the morning.
We gave it up, second, I think, because one member of our clique became a full-on alcoholic. He may have been the smartest of us, but something sad happened to him as he sunk deeper into alcohol-soaked life.
Third, most of us developed higher pleasures. Drinking was fun, for a bit, but it was kind of repetitive. Most of us figured out early on that drinking alcohol doesn't really make you funnier or more creative (academic studies more or less confirm this). We graduated to more satisfying pleasures. The deeper sources of happiness usually involve a state of going somewhere, becoming better at something, learning more about something, overcoming difficulty and experiencing a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.
One close friend devoted himself to track. Others fell deeply in love and got thrills from the enlargements of the heart. A few developed passions for science or literature.
Finally, I think we had a vague sense that drinking alcohol was not exactly something you were proud of yourself for. It's not something people admire. We were in the stage, which I guess all of us are still in, of trying to become more integrated, coherent and responsible people. This process usually involves using the powers of reason, temperance and self-control — not qualities one associates with being drunk.
I think we had a sense, which all people have, or should have, that the actions you take change you inside, making you a little more or a little less coherent. Not drinking, or only drinking sporadically, gave you a better shot at becoming a little more integrated and interesting. Drinking all the time seemed likely to cumulatively fragment a person's deep center, or at least not do much to enhance it.
So, like the vast majority of people who drink, we aged out. We left alcohol behind. I don't have any problem with somebody who gets drunk from time to time, but I guess, on the whole, I think being drunk is not a particularly uplifting form of pleasure and should be discouraged more than encouraged.
We now have a couple states — actually, all of them — that have gone into the business of effectively encouraging alcohol use. By making alcohol legal, they are creating a situation in which the price will drop substantially. As prices drop and legal fears go away, usage is bound to increase. This is simple economics, and it is confirmed by much research. The United States of America, in other words, are producing more alcohol drinkers.
The people who debate these policy changes usually cite the health risks users would face or the tax revenues the state might realize. Many people these days shy away from talk about the moral status of alcohol use because that would imply that one sort of life you might choose is better than another sort of life.
But, of course, these are the core questions: Laws profoundly mold culture, so what sort of community do we want our laws to nurture? What sort of individuals and behaviors do our governments want to encourage? I'd say that in healthy societies government wants to subtly tip the scale to favor temperate, prudent, self-governing citizenship. In those societies, government subtly encourages the highest pleasures, like enjoying the arts or being in nature, and discourages lesser pleasures, like being drunk.
In legalizing alcohol, citizens of the United States are, indeed, enhancing individual freedom. But they are also nurturing a moral ecology in which it is a bit harder to be the sort of person most of us want to be.


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25th annual Conference on Not-For-Profit Organizations
On Friday, June 9, 2006, the law school will host the 25th
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and not-for-profit executives and board members up-to-date
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Law students (JD only) enrolled at Chicago-Kent
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If you believe everything a pet owner could ever want or need has already been dreamed up, think again.
Americans shell out more than $40 billion a year to make their beloved pets happy. And if they can't find just the right product to do the trick? Well, some entrepreneurial pet owners roll up their sleeves and create the product themselves.
The result is a crop of small businesses that has sprung up around these products, and others that have expanded their offerings to meet pet-related interests.
We asked the owners of innovative and quirky pet products about their inspiration, and the growing appeal of their products.
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BETHLEHEM -- Nnamdi Asomugha can't practice with the Eagles yet, but he met with the media following Sunday morning's practice and spoke engagingly about the future he envisions.
Asomugha, 30, the top free agent prize in the NFL, signed a five-year deal with the Eagles Friday, stunning the football world.
He said today he had the Eagles in mind as a prime destination from March on, but they didn't seem to be heavily invested until the last day or so before he signed. He said he was as surprised as reporters covering the team were that he ended up an Eagle.
Asomugha said the organization has "a championship feel to it."
He acknowledged his style is more aggressive than that of the Eagles' incumbent Pro Bowl corner, Asante Samuel, but said: "It'll mesh. I'll make it mesh."
More highlights from Asomugha's lengthy first session with Philadelphia-area reporters, but first, an injury update. Before you hyperventilate, the Eagles swear up and down none of these is serious.
*Brent Celek left practice with a lower back problem.
*Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie tweaked his right Achilles. (He stayed out for the whole practice and was walking normally when he entered the locker room.)
*Dion Lewis pulled his right hamstring.
*Antonio Dixon suffered cramps.
*Juqua Parker got dehydrated.
*Darryl Tapp had cramps.
*Victor Abiamiri pulled a calf.
All are day-to-day, the Eagles said.
Now back to Nnamdi:
*He said Michael Vick made a "mini recruiting pitch" at the Pro Bowl, and DeSean Jackson texted and called him frequently about joining the Eagles. (No word on whether Nnamdi plans to text and call DeSean about Jackson joining the Eagles.)
*Asked about the Birds' flurry of moves, he said: "We might not be done yet."
*Asomugha didn't get too specific, but he did not dispute reports that other teams, such as the Jets, might have offered more money than he took to come to the Eagles. "There was money out there," he said.
*Asomugha said he wouldn't try to pry his familiar No. 21 jersey away from Joselio Hanson, He will wear No. 24. He seemed to be saying he really was attached to 21, but was willing to move on.
*Asomugha on Asante: "I've always said if there's a playmaker at the cornerback position, that's him. He really knows how to go after that ball, and I've always admired him."


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Modern Feminine: Pink Ombre
The tales from the trenches tell of many pink-hating mothers who somehow manage to spawn pink-loving little girls. I'm one of them. I used to hate pink - I think it was some kind of feminist reaction to the entire idea of being girly. But, now I have a four-year-old girl. As you may have guessed, she likes pink.
The funny thing is, she's started to brainwash me into liking pink too. After all, I do want her to be happy and sometimes pink is the way to do that. I'm finding, for me, moderation is the key. She can have her pink moments, but I won't dress her or her room in head-to-toe pink. My designer genes hope and pray that she loves every color of the rainbow. (and lucky for me - she does love rainbows!)
- Apricot Ombre Ikea Dresser DIY from the IKEA blog
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Boy, there was a time when finding out any information on classic cartoons was almost impossible.
Leonard Maltin's Of Mice and Magic - an excellent overview of each classic studio
Funnyworld had a few great interviews with animators, but was hard to find.
Leslie Cabarga wrote a good primer book on the Fleischers.
Animation Blast was the first animation magazine that gave people who were interested in animation what they really wanted - interviews with animators, lots of art and a wider variety of views on classic cartoons - and some new ones.
In the 80s we started seeing some Warner Bros. books that had some information on the other great studio and that was encouraging.
It was all lawyer-approved history though; you had to take the views and history with a grain of salt but at least these super talents were finally being acknowledged.
Most Other Studios Deemed Worthless
Moral Content
Character Arcs
Unfortunately, if you bother to compare these secondary aspects of animation to their counterparts in other mediums, you see quickly how very weak most cartoons have been in these areas - especially the ones that are hailed for them.
Cartoons have other wonderful attributes that are unique to the medium - that nothing else can compete with. These qualities are exciting, imaginative, magical, sophisticated, artistic and generally beyond the critical faculties of people who don't practice the medium - people who can't draw.
All kinds of animators and animation fanatics who love the old stuff have started up blogs and they offer tons of lost artwork, story notes, old articles and uncensored views and insights from the artists' and fans' points of view on classic cartoons.
Every day I find more amazing lost information and art, and new ideas to mull around. Of course some bloggers are still married to the pre-approved by lawyers versions of cartoon history and commentary, but they are being overwhelmed by the weight of all the evidence from the past that is turning up, the analysis of experienced animators views...and the views of sincere fans.
Just a few years ago if you read an animation book, you wouldn't be familiar with 75% of the films the author was talking about, so you would just have to take his word for what he thought was good or bad and who were the top talents and why they were.
I used to hear people's "opinions" about classic cartoons paraphrased out of an old animation book. I would show old cartoons that disputed common opinion to people and they would be shocked to have their prejudices shattered. ... once they actually saw what was being written about.
2 of the best sites:
Clips from classic cartoons and lots of inside info on the making of them. Model sheets, storyboards, layouts, animation drawings give you a great insight into how the best cartoons were made. What true cartoon fanatics have wanted from books all along.
A very wide all-inclusive library of info, art and interviews about not only classic cartoons, but the other arts that influenced them: comic strips, illustration, music and tons more.
Cartoons are a much wider world than you ever imagined.
If you love classic Disney and basic cartoon acting, animator and instructor Mark Mayerson has a great blog for you. He also puts up many interesting posts about other cartoons and the animators' plight against the system.
Here's one that has an article written by Chuck Jones in the early 60s. He tells you what he thinks UPA did to the animation industry.
It's interesting that 2 of the people most responsible for the UPA style, Chuck Jones and Bobe Cannon, both started out animating together in similar styles. This article suggests that their philosophies of cartoon-making ended up at odds with each other.
(The editor of the mag is from UPA and he tells you what he thinks of Chuck Jones too!)
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Work together as a community to restore the Vasona Creek and its surroundings creating a vibrant natural ecosystem, a living laboratory and classroom, and an inviting recreational resource for all to enjoy.
To inform and engage the community in the Vasona Creek restoration and trail building efforts at West Valley College, a Vasona Creek Restoration Workshop was held on December 12, 2013. Click here to view the information presented. Stay tuned for future workshops and opportunities for community involvement.
For millennia, the Vasona Creek cut a path through the heart of what is now West Valley College. Undisturbed, the creek thrived. Surrounded by a beautiful Oak Woodland and part of a watershed that flows from the Santa Cruz Mountains to the San Francisco Bay, the Vasona Creek corridor was home to an abundant and diverse wildlife.
Through the 1940s and 1950s, the site remained open pasture and orchards.
As the area began to urbanize in the 1950s and 1960s, both upstream and down, much of the rain and spring runoff was collected and concentrated in man-made underground storm drains instead of being allowed to naturally flow through the soil and into the creek.
The development of West Valley College in 1960s further concentrated the storm water and dumped it directly into one of the last remaining open sections of the pristine little Vasona Creek.
Virtually all of the rain that falls on the parking lots, roads, roofs, and pathways of West Valley College and surrounding areas, is channeled into pipes that discharge directly into the creek. This has resulted in a super-concentration of hydro energy that has accelerated the erosion of the banks, undermined ancient Heritage Oak Trees, and cut away at the creek bottom. The damage is increasing at an exponential rate. As the water cuts deeper into the creek, it carves out a narrower and deeper channel. This increases the energy and velocity of the water even more, providing more cutting power.
In addition to the concentration of the runoff, West Valley College, including its seven athletic fields, acres of turf area, parking lots, roads, paths, and roofs, has become a huge collector of pesticides, fertilizers, petroleum products, heavy metals and other pollutants. When the rains come, these pollutants get washed into the storm drain system and directly into Vasona Creek and on to the San Francisco Bay! Much of this runoff is toxic to the microscopic life forming the first link in our creek food chain.
Our ages old creek is dying a slow death by a thousand cuts.
But there is hope!
Restoration of the Vasona Creek has been a college priority for many years and has been specifically noted in both the 2005 Long Range Development Master Plan EIR (Environmental Impact Report) and the 2009 West Valley College Educational & Facilities Master Plan.
In 2010, the West Valley College administration applied for several creek restoration grants from the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD). We were successful in obtaining FIVE of the seven SCVWD grants applied for, with a total value of close to $600,000. These include:
In 2014, West Valley College obtained two more grants from SCVWD totaling another $500,000. These include:
For more information about the grant projects, see the Projects page.
To support our "in-kind" obligations under these grants, the leadership of the West Valley Mission Community College District, allocated $1,500,000 in funding under the Measure C Bond, passed by local voters in 2013.
This provides a total of $2,600,000 of committed funding. These funds will go a long way toward the restoration and conservation efforts required for Vasona Creek, but unfortunately not ALL the way.
The problem is, these funds are for "specific projects" in "specific areas" of the creek. They do not take into consideration the ENTIRE creek.
A group of forward thinking administrators, students, faculty and community members, are looking for help to "complete the vision". This group, known as the " Stream Team ", is looking to gain community support to finish the project and fully develop the Vasona Creek Master Plan.
The Vasona Creek Master Plan includes:
The good news is that we're more than half way there! With the current grants and bond funding, we have more than half the capital required to complete the dream. We finish the job by:
a. seeking additional grant monies
b. seeking donations from private individuals and corporations.
An account specific to the Vasona Creek Restoration is set up with the West Valley College Foundation. Our goal is to raise an additional $1,000,000! Opportunities for donors to be memorialized along the "Vasona Creek Legacy Trail" include:


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Original Brit label, Ben Sherman and Gibson Guitar the world's premier musical instrument manufacturer have collaborated to create the ultimate range of money-can't-buy collectable Gibson guitars to celebrate their love for British music and style through the decades.
These one of a kind, bespoke designs will be showcased individually in all Ben Sherman stores globally from 15th October to 26th November 2007. Each unique Ben Sherman design was carefully decorated on a variety of Gibson models including the Les Paul, SG, Firebird, Thunderbird Bass and Flying V guitars.
Exhibited in its own dedicated window space, all 20 customised Gibson guitars can be viewed online at the Ben Sherman website and will be available to own via auction by placing bids at the website www.bensherman.com
Designed in collaboration with renowned guitar artist Philippe Dubreuille, the range of guitars are decorated with archival Ben Sherman prints including its iconic hounds tooth check, target logo and the Paul Weller Candy stripe.
Famed for making magical guitars for legends such as Iggy Pop, Noel Gallagher and The Clash for more than 20 years, Dubreuille creations are destined to become exclusive collectables for fashion and music lovers alike.
All UK Ben Sherman stores, located in Carnaby Street, Manchester, Lakeside and Birmingham, will auction the guitars in aid of the inspirational Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity. The other Gibson customized guitars can be seen in the Ben Sherman store windows in the following cities; New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Sydney – Australia, Melbourne – Australia, Dubai –UAE, Abi Dhabi –UAE, Seef Mall – Bahrain, Manila – Philippines, Paragon – Singapore, Sofia – Bulgaria and Al Manshar – Kuwait.
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The Bluffton High School Lady Bobcats volleyball team had a busy week to open the season, ending the week with a 4-2 match record.
BHS hosted the St. Vincent's Academy team from Savannah for both the season inaugural and first home match on Thursday. The Lady Bobcats responded with a convincing 25-18, 25-17, 25-19 victory.
Leaders for this match were Mackenzie Cooler with 13 kills followed by Abby Roulston with 8. Grace Collins had 24 assists and Morgan Delaplane and Dani Bothe led the defense with 8 digs each. Roulston and Collins both served a perfect 100 percent on the evening.
BHS traveled Saturday to Savannah Christian Prep School to play in the annual Labor Day Weekend Tournament. All of the opponents were from Georgia, primarily the Atlanta area. BHS finished the day with a 3-2 record against some formidable teams.
The first was Clarke Central, which BHS beat 25-17, 25-19. Next was Providence Christian, which was a 25-22, 25-18 Bobcat victory. St. Pius X from Atlanta, the best team BHS has faced all year, won 25-16, 25-11.
The Lady Bobcats returned to their winning ways in the next match, beating Heritage School 25-20, 25-21. The day ended with a loss to Blessed Trinity, defending Georgia 2A State Champions, 27-25, 12-25, 8-15.
In tournament play Saturday, Roulston led the team in kills with 39 followed by Bothe with 30, Jordan Franklin with 22 and Cooler with 20. Cooler and Roulston led in blocks with 5 and 4, respectively; and Collins led in assists with 65 followed by Haley Kohler with 15 and Cooler with 13. Once again Delaplane and Bothe led the team on defense with 29 and 18 digs, respectively; and Delaplane served a perfect 100 percent on the day.
The Lady Bobcats were scheduled to play South Effingham and Glenn Hills at South Effingham on Tuesday, followed by a home match against Savannah Christian on Wednesday. BHS travels Friday to Glynn Academy in Brunswick for a two-day tournament.
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The results are in! Thanks to those of you who voted and helped to choose this year's reading list for R.E.A.D. (Read, Eat, and Discuss), the Andrews University campus-wide book club.
Below are the books that were selected and the dates of the upcoming discussions:
November 15 - The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson
"An inspiring and hilarious account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. 'The kind of book Steinbeck might have written if he'd traveled with David Letterman.'" New York Magazine (publisher)
December 13 - Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott
"In 2001, Anne Lamott's Traveling Mercies established its author as a popular, idiosyncratic commentator on matters of faith. In this collection of essays, Lamott writes about scary times in a post-9/11 world, where terrorism, environmental disaster, and personal tragedy seem close at hand. Plan B offers hope in the midst of despair, mixing Lamott's crazy wisdom ("I think we are diamond hearts, wrapped in meatballs") with starkly honest insights about aging, Alzheimer's, and death." (barnesandnoble.com)
January 17 - The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
"The God of Small Things heralds a voice so powerful and original that it burns itself into the reader's memory. Set mainly in Kerala, India, in 1969, it is the story of Rahel and her twin brother Estha, who learn that their whole world can change in a single day, that love and life can be lost in a moment. Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they seek to craft a childhood for themselves amid the wreckage that constitutes their family. Sweet and heartbreaking, ribald and profound, this is a novel to set beside those of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez." (publisher)
February 21 - The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride
"Around the narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a powerful portrait of growing up, a meditation on race and identity, and a poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his mother." (barnesandnoble.com)
March 14 - Night by Elie Wiesel
"In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believed in have allowed these monstrous events to occur? There are no easy answers in this harrowing book, which probes life's essential riddles with the lucid anguish only great literature achieves. It marks the crucial first step in Wiesel's lifelong project to bear witness for those who died." (amazon.com)
April 18 - Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
"To understand life beyond boom-time America, Barbara Ehrenreich spent months laboring as a cleaning woman; as a waitress; and as a Wal-Mart sales clerk. Her revelations about these hard, supposedly "unskilled" jobs and the difficulty of making ends meet in the U.S. gives this book a powerful, personal edge." (barnesandnoble.com)
May 16 - Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan
"Labrador retrievers are generally considered even-tempered, calm and reliable-and then there's Marley, the subject of this delightful tribute to one Lab who doesn't fit the mold. Grogan, a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and his wife, Jenny, were newly married and living in West Palm Beach when they decided that owning a dog would give them a foretaste of the parenthood they anticipated. Marley was a sweet, affectionate puppy who grew into a lovably naughty, hyperactive dog. With a light touch, the author details how Marley was kicked out of obedience school after humiliating his instructor and swallowed an 18-karat solid gold necklace. With the arrival of children in the family, Marley became so incorrigible that Jenny, stressed out by a new baby, ordered her husband to get rid of him; she eventually recovered her equilibrium and relented. Grogan's chronicle of the adventures parents and children enjoyed with the overly energetic but endearing dog is delivered with great humor. Dog lovers will love this account of Grogan's much loved canine." (Publisher's Weekly)
June 20 - March by Geraldine Brooks (winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for fiction)
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you classic downstate NJ , PA attitude of entitlement & me me me me me , this is mine . is why I never gave up the goods long ago. Jan was nice enough to share his good fortune ( and his very hard work & networking skills ) ... I knew better ( FYI we were killing it up on tug hill while you will still in your nappies )
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Why You Haven't Strategically Defaulted Yet
Last week The Consumerist had a post telling readers to Go Ahead, Strategically Default On Your Underwater Mortgage. This was based, more or less, on a paper from a law professor at the University of Arizona which addressed the legitimate conundrum of why strategic defaults are not more common.
A strategic default on a mortgage is when a borrower can make the payments but chooses not to. In other words, the borrower hands the keys over to the lender and walks away. It is important to remember that, despite much play in the media and academia, this is still a rather exotic maneuver. In order for a borrower to even begin considering such a move two things need to be true.
First, obviously, the house has to be worth a lot less than the outstanding mortgage balance. Or, in current slang, it needs to be substantially underwater. Swapping ownership of the house for extinguishing the debt is, essentially, selling the house for what is owed, and if what is owed is not meaningfully higher than what the house is worth, this would be a bad deal.
Second, less obviously but perhaps more importantly, the borrower needs to be sure that the lender cannot, or will not, come after him for the "deficiency", the difference between what the house is worth and what is owed. And this is generally a matter of state law.
The question is often simplified into dividing states into "recourse", where lenders are allowed to go after borrowers for the deficiency, and "non-recourse" where they are not. Most states (39 of them) are recourse, meaning that, in most of the country, strategic default is a no-go. (Of course, this is a gross simplification. Another academic paper, put out by the Richmond Fed, did an exhaustive survey of state laws and found no two alike.)
Not at all coincidentally, two non-recourse states, California and Arizona, are also states with very high proportions of underwater houses, 42% and 51% respectively. More than half of those underwater houses are worth less than 75% of what is owed. California and Arizona do have high mortgage delinquency rates, around 10% are more than 60 days past due as against 6.25% nationally, but it is clear that the majority of seriously underwater homeowners are passing up their option to walk away.
Why is this? Brent White, the Arizona law professor, blames it on homeowner emotions of fear, guilt, and shame which are in turn caused by a conspiracy of evil-doing elites.
these emotional constraints are actively cultivated by the government, the financial industry, and other social control agents in order to induce individual homeowners to act in ways that are against their own self interest….
Although White's paper brings up a good question, his answers are left-wing by academic standards, which is to say pretty far out there relative to mainstream discourse. In his view, the lenders are responsible for the whole mess and should bear as much of the financial burden as possible. Homeowners are hapless victims, sensitive creatures who relied on the lenders to ensure the house was worth what they paid and are now being emotionally manipulated into giving up what meager rights they have.
In White's view, the commonly discussed moral objections to walking away are merely a false consciousness. Homeowners have been deceived into thinking that living up to their mortgage obligations is some kind of ethical issue, forgetting the money lesson taught us all by Michael Corleone: "It's not personal, it's just business."
I will not wade into the moral issues. Not today. But I can think of three good, non-emotional, non-ethical, reasons why most significantly underwater homeowners in California and Arizona do not strategically default.
First, and I think at some level White would agree with this, they do not know any better. It is not that they have been subliminally trained by the ever present social control agents to think that strategic default is wrong, they just do not understand the option. It is, let us remind ourselves, a complex, counterintuitive, objectively scary procedure that at the very least involves hiring a lawyer. In a nation where Roth IRAs and leveraged ETFs are considered deeply confusing, it is no wonder that not many homeowners realize they have an in-the-money put option on the house.
Second, a strategic default will trash your credit rating. The whole point of a credit rating is to gauge a person's likelihood of repaying future loans, and the fact that you stiffed a bank for some serious money, just because you could, will be a serious mark against you. As it should. White simultaneously says this side effect is exaggerated and that the credit reporting agencies are the thuggish enforcers of the social control agents. He proposes new legislation to prohibit them from reporting mortgage defaults and foreclosures.
Third, and this ought to be more obvious than it is, most people like their houses and do not want to move. Even if exchanging the house for the mortgage amounts to selling the house for considerably more than it is worth, most folks are not interested in selling the house they live in, even for considerably more than it is worth. Would you be interested in selling your house, today, for, say, a third more than the going rate? You have to clear out in a month and because of your newly bad credit score you will not be able to buy another place for a few years.
Moreover, it is worth observing that for homeowners who are not having trouble making the monthly payment, the housing crisis is relatively abstract and far from a pressing matter they need to do something about now. The house may be worth a lot less than what they paid, but that would only be a practical issue if they needed to sell it. In the meantime, the house and the mortgage are exactly what they signed up for. And if strategic default is an option now, it will presumably still be an option next year and the year after as well. Why not wait until you need to move anyway? And if you never need to move, well, then who cares?
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Oh Postern! One of the finest buttresses on the Apostles complete with a straight forward walk in and easy escape on generally fantastic rock.
Most guide books break the buttress in two, based on access, with the left side (approached from Kasteel Poort) being called Champs Elysees, and the Right, (approached from a path off the pipe track) called Postern Main Sector.
The two sectors will be broadly described below, however there is one long Halfway Ledge that runs almost the entire length of the buttress- from where Champs/Jongosi/Boulevard East join it at a large open book (slab on the right, vertical face on the left separated by a small corner angle). This ledge is useful for approaching or bailing, and from time to time a party will even leave tat around the left termination for an abseil to the ground (50 m ropes are fine). many of the routes, (especially the older ones) will traverse along it making many of the lines quite disjointed.
Champs Elysees Sector
Jongosi *** 19
R. De Decker, A. Hall, R.White A.Wood 30 Jan 2012
Start: about 20m left of Champ Elysees, right next to a large bush and a spacious sloped boulder below the middle of a brown face, immediately right of a blunt arete with a cairn.
Pitch 1. 30m (19) Make a dynamic move to a prong to get established on the face, then climb up on spaced holds to traverse left. Cross the blunt arete and traverse 6m left until it's possible to move up and right on spaced but positive holds with better pro. Climb an obvious traverse right before heading up a recess to pass the overhang to reach a stance behind a huge block.
Pitch 2. 34m (14) from the block climb to the second rail. Traverse right and swing airily around a corner above a shallow recess. Continue rightwards 4m before climbing straight up the wall to below a roof. Move right to a ledge ( below Champs Ramp Pitch).
Pitch 3. 25m (18) Climb the ramp 3m until able to move onto the left wall. Traverse left easily over the yawning void for 10m to where the wall becomes quite steep. Continue traversing with your feet on the lip of a big overhang to pass under a small overlap, then up a large layback flake to easier ground. Climb straight up to a large ledge.
Pitch 5. 25m (16) Do the stunning layback up to Champs's bottomless chimney and at the first hand rail climb left for the skyline then breezily up juglets to a large ledge.
Boulevard East *** 19
D. Brown, B. de Bruin, D. Mclachlan 1976
"A Motorway for sports models only, Some excellent, hard pitches" 1978 RD
Start:Up a clean, scalloped ri rising out of the trees 30m left of Champs Elysees
Pitch 1. 18m (16) Climb the rib on superb holds to a ledge. Move up over a wet grassy "knee-pad" into a tight leaning chimney-crack to gain another ledge.
Pitch 2. 25m (17) Climb a steep wall behind the stance for 5m (a groove on the left) then do an awkward move onto a little stance with two stout old pegs. Continue to the corner beneath overhangs and pull up as high as possible before traversing right to Boulevard Ledge, similar to that on Champs but narrower. Climb over an exposed corner before descending diagonally right to a stance.
Pitch 3. 20m (14) Lower yourself off the ledge before traversing right beneath some blocks to a recess. Climb this to the big ledge below the ramp on Champs, and move right to below a hard looking crack.
Pitch 4. 20m (19) Pull up to a slab and cross this from left to right to gain the bottom of a twisted crack. Take the crack to beneath the roof, then move right across a smooth orange slab to the second gap between blocks to reach the Halfway Ledge.
Pitch 5. 10m (14) A strenuous pull up from the top of a sloping block using small grips enables one to reach large flakes int the left crack. Climb to a stance next to a yellowwood tree.This pitch belongs to Frasers Frontal.
Pitch 6. 20m (16) step off the tree onto the under cut sidewall of the left hand buttress int he chimney. Swing around left onto a steep wall, then up and around left to pull up to a ledge. Continue up a boulder and fight a bush to share a stance with Frasers. Scramble to the top.
Champs Elysees **** 17
C. Inglis, A. McCrindle, A. Schoon, R. Williams 1960
One of the buttress's classic lines.
Start: From some blocks rising above the forest beneath the wall. Scramble up to the next ledge where a cairn will be found below a green Lichen-covered face.
Pitch 1. 25m (16) Climb the face 12m to a ledge beneath the overhang (the Boulevard). Traverse right to clear the overhang then up 3m to a ledge.
Pitch 2. 34m (14) Traverse right along the ledge then climb out onto a nose then up to a large stance. Climb the crack 12m, then move left and climb the face to a broad ledge.
Pitch 3. 35m (14) Climb the left side of the ramp and exit to the right at the top into a cubbyhole. Traverse right as far as possible along the ledge, then climb up to the Halfway Ledge.
Pitch 4. 28m (17) Directly above the last pitch, climb the recess 4m, hand swing right the climb up to a ledge beneath an overhang, or step off a boulder onto the face and climb up to the ledge. Traverse left 10m into the base of a chimney. Layback up the crack on the left face until it's possible to chimney up to the pulpit.
Pitch 5. 15m (16) Step across the gap between the Pulpit and the left face, move up 3m to a handrail. Swing left, then continue along the traverse to the skyline and up the corner to the top.
Cameron's Frontal
Postern Wall *** D
D.G. Andrews, W.H Crump, L.M Kay 1932
Full RD available in the 1978 MCSA guide.
D- Day ** F1
G. Lacey, M. Roberts, M. Scott
Great for large parties.
Start:high up KP at the Pinnacle against the side of the cliffs. Postern Wall Starts on the right side of the pinnacle, just left of Pinnacle the route.
Pitch 1. 15m (E3) Step straight up onto the steep wall, then climb past a flake and up a bulge to get into a rounded off chimney. Last few moves at the top force one right over the drop.
Pitch 2. 25m (E2 or F3) From the ledge, step up into a recess, which is climbed to a ledge, then head up a monstrous angled block. Climb up and left an overhanging face above on good holds, to a long ledge 3m below the main ledge. Here one has two choices:
1. The official route uses a block on the ledge to gain height for the start. Move up to the dassie ledge stance.
2. Walk left and scramble up next to a pitch on "D" route, a traverse back to the right can be made on an open dassie ledge to reach a stance.
Pitch 3. 15m (F2) Climb the recess behind the stance to a long ledge. A blank barrier now runs below an overhang on the left, which ends to form a grassy crack. Using two horizontal cracks one can reach an ear on the right wall and get to some high edges. Lay - away to the ledge. The stance is in the corner next to a large loose flake with the beacon on it.
Pitch 4. 8m (E1) Follow the deidre behind the stance to the overhang, then traverse left and up to the ledge.
Pitch 5. 10 (D) Climb a chimney on the left for a few meters until a step left onto a weathered face is possible. Great climbing takes you to the top of the buttress.
Ripcord ** F3 or 18
Unfortunately overshadowed by Champs Elysees, this is none the less a good route.
Start: there is a starting beacon 10m up KP from the large tree near the north-Western Corner of the buttress.
Pitch 1. 10m (D) climb about 3m until a 7m traverse right can be made to a rock which juts out.
Pitch 2. 6m (F2) Traverse right into the corner which is descended 5m onto a broad ledge running out right.
Pitch 3. 24m (F2) Starting on the right end of the ledge traverse right for 6m, then diagonally right to stance at the top right corner of the face. One is now under a large overhang.
Pitch 4. 15m (F3) take the corner behind the beacon until a handrail below the overhang is reached, then traverse left 5m and up to a small platform. Move left into a vert crack to a small stance.
Pitch 5. 9m (F2) take the crack for 6m, move onto the face on the left when the crack closes in. There is a broad ledge jutting farr out at the top of the pitch.
Pitch 6. 25m (F3) Move past the boulder on the right of the ledge, then descend 3m to a lichen covered ledge which ends 3m further. Step across the gap between the ledge and the face on the right, and swing around he bulging corner onto the face. Traverse right with feet on the lip of a huge overhang the is so prominent from the KP path for 4m, then move up 3m before a 6m traverse left to the base of two vertical cracks. Climb the left crack 6m before emerging left of the dassie traverse bisecting the buttress.
Pitch 7. 8m (E2) Start 3m right of Crag, move diagonally right 6m to a ledge. behind a loose flake is a stance.
Pitch 8. 12m (F2) Move along the ledge (which direction??) then traverse left for 4m to stand on a loose block. climb up via a vert crack to a stance.
Pitch 9. 12m (E2) Continue up the chimney for 12m then exit right to a broad ledge (this brings the hut into view).
Pitch 10. 18m (F2) From the top of a large block climb diagonally right to a small ledge beneath an overhang. traverse 6m right and up to a ledge.
Postern Main
This part of the crag is best approached by a path off the pipetrack that starts just over the ridge line of the buttress itself-effectively walking back left.
Being west facing the crag sees morning shade and afternoon sun.
The sector have 4 distinctive features that are used a reference :3 boulders which sit left of Postern Cave. These features however only cover the left half the sector (with the cave being the middle), and so hopefully we can find a good reference point on the right of the crag to work off.
Again I have tried to put these routes in order of left to right, if I'm not sure of the routes location relative to others I will say as much.
Left block:
Postern Crag *** E2
J.M. Klosser and M. Versveld 1935
"E'-ternal wondering, but clean, interesting pitches"
Start: Begin at the huge square block a the left extremity of the long ledge below the final cliff, some 45m away from the cave. Further on the ledge drops to a lower level and becomes very narrow.
Pitch 1. 8m (E2) Step off the block into the smooth, steep recess. An awkward move is made onto a narrow ledge. Stance on the left of the ledge.
Pitch 2. 15m (F1) The normal route does a strenuous traverse across to easier ground. Some easy ground leads to a big ledge below a round corner, which is mostly undercut except for one break on the left.
The originally this pitch started from the ledge with an intricate pitch of abseiling, and grotty climbing to bypass the blank section on the traverse to the left.
Pitch 3. 20m (E2) A Pull up onto a ramp enables a broken line to be followed up the large corner to gain the Halfway Ledge.
Pitch 4. 25m (C/D) Follow the halfway Ledge left for 20m (C/D scrambling and an awkward exit) down to the ledge below. A short wall behind the ledge is climbed to stance in a narrow corner further on.
Pitch 5. 12m (D/E) Step up the face and into another dassie traverse, follow left for 2m at 2 pillars, then up into steep faces over looking the KP.
Pitch 6. 50m (E2) Sensational climbing on clean, sound rock now lies up the faces. The line can be varied and stances made at a number of places. The Final stance is next to the prominent angled slab of smooth rock, lying on the top tree covered ledge.
Postscript *** 22
R. Behne, M. Scott, 1993
Start: Behind the left block, close to the start of Posternation (not sure if its left or right of the start)
Pitch 1. 15m (14) Step off the block onto an arete and climb up to the ledge.
Pitch 2. 25m (20) Climb the crack on flaky rock, then make an awkward and powerful pull through the bulge using hidden slit far to the right to gain the Halfway Ledge.
Pitch 3. 25m (22) Take the right of two lines of pockets on the undercut white slab above to a ledge. This section is steep and desperately thin on little finger pockets. Traverse awkwardly right past some horrible blocks before moving up to the ledge at the end of plumb line traverse.
Pitch 4. 25m (20) From the middle of the ledge, climb a tall, vertical knobbly face by reaches and pulls on good grips (may be some lichen at the top)
Pitch 5. 25m (19) From the cave/ledge with the yellow wood tree pull up onto grey rock on the left ledge of the overhang and swing out right to the spectacularly undercut corner. Above this it is steep, but straightforward to climb.
Middle Block
The Middle Black is the smallest, and lowest of the 3 blocks
Plumbline Face **** 17 A0
H. Curry. J. Davies, E. Keen, L. Schaff, O. Shipley 1947
"A Classic line"
Start: Start behind the middle block.
Pitch 1. 30m (17) Move up left and do an awkward mantelshelf to gain a narrow ledge. Traverse right 8m along the ledge to an obvious recess and limb this to another ledge about 14m above. Immediately behind is a sloping ramp which is climbed to a stance with a large flake on it.
Pitch 2. 34m (16) Traverse 2m right and climb to a small ledge. Traverse right 5m, then climb a sloping ramp to a small pinnacle. Traverse left along the ledge until it is possible to move up to the Halfway Ledge.
Walk left about 30m to a large block.
Pitch 3. 10m (17 A0) Using a sling to reach a bollard protruding from the face, pull up and continue to the ledge beneath the large overhang.
Pitch 4. 26m (16) Traverse right over some loose blocks. where the ledge ends move up 3m to a small stance with a loose block on it.
Pitch 5. 37m (13) Move left onto an exposed corner, then traverse 13m left into a chimney. Climb the chimney, then continue up over a very large detached block on the right and climb the recess immediately above, exiting left onto a ledge. Move along the ledge and climb up to a broad ledge and the end of the route.
Bokenham's Corner * G1 or 19
D. Berrisford, K. Flecher and P. Sanderson-Smith 1964
"An intimidating route and a bit grotty in places"
Start:From the fireplace at Postern Cave traverse left to the start of Postern Crag, then descend about 7m to reach a stance overlooking Kasteel Poort. The first Beacon is for Posternation, the next left is for this route.
Pitch 1. 15m (F2) Climb up the slightly recessed face above the beacon 6m. reach left to a handrail, swing across, pull up and continue straight up the face to a stance.
Pitch 2. 5m (F1) Climb up the smooth white face.
Pitch 3. 6m (E2) Move up the bulging corner to the left of the stance to a beacon.
Pitch 4. 12m (F2) Climb 3m above the beacon and then continue left into a recess which is climbed for 2m. Traverse right onto the point of a small nose and continue straight up to the Halfway Ledge.
Pitch 5. 8m (G1) Start climbing 2m right of a grassy corner, (about 15m right of the crux pitch of Champs). Although the rock is completely undercut, by taking a shoulder it is possible to reach the higher of 2 hand rails. Traverse right 2m, then lay-back into the bottom of a recess (Tricky). Ascend the recess for 3m, then a short traverse and ascend to a stance.
Pitch 6. 6m (E3) Climb up and out left form under the overhang. Traverse left to a wide crack int he left wall. Ascend 2-3m then traverse right to an obvious stance.
Pitch 7. 14m (F3)From the back of the stance climb a short distance up a dirty crack, then traverse left into a wide crack. Climb out of the crack, then continue up the face until its possible to squeeze back in to the crack. Climb out of the crack anc continue up, keeping slightly left until a good stance.
Walk left and climb to a large tree.
Pitch 8. Nondescript climbing takes one to the top of the buttress.
Posternation ** F3
T. Hughes and J. Levy 1970
Start:This route starts below two narrow overhangs which are about 10 up the face. There should be a cairn at its base.
Pitch 1. 40m (F3) Climb diagonally left to a thin ledge below the left hand overhang. Move left upto a grassy ledge. Continue up to a higher ledge on the right. Some delicate climbing to the overhang above enables one to step right, and up to another ledge (With old peg). Climb up, traverse left on a thin rail for 2m and climb straight up (Hard) to a ledge.
Pitch 2. 20m (E2) Climb the right wall of the open book to the Halfway Ledge. This pitch ends directly below the upper sections of Frasers Frontal.
Walk left along the ledge 30m to where the ledge narrows. Start underneath an undercut recess with some suspicious looking rock.
Pitch 3. 27m (F3) A sensational pitch: Move left and up into the recess (nuts and old pegs provide pro). Climb the recess to the ceiling, or use the face on the right. Traverse out along the narrow foot-rail below the ceiling to a tiny stance. 2 large angles are used to gain the lip of the overhang where a good pull up onto a large block breaks the overhang and gives way to a very airy stance.
Pitch 4. 30m (F1) Climb the face above, moving diagonally left on good holds to a ledge. Easier climbing above leads to the top
Super Power *** 25
A De Klerk, 1983
Start: while this route does have lower pitches, they are not worth doing (if anyone has these descriptions please add). the route starts beneath a 7m roof just left of the upper pitches of Frasers Frontal, and so taking the first two pitches of Posternation would be about the most direct line there however as it starts on the halfway ledge most any route-or indeed walking from the right- will get you to the start.
Pitch 1. 15m (25) Climb the roof crack and stance on the right.
Pitch 2. 20m (19) Head diagonally left to gain a recess, which is climbed to the top.
Postscript *** 22
Deliberation Frasers Frontal Hot Dogger
Natal Fever Paper Tiger Plumbline Postern Corner Postern Crest Postern "D" Postern Face
Postern Nose Postern Ravine
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You might not know this, but Peter Molyneux is a genius (well, according to Managing Editor Leila Brillson, since they are best friends). The man behind 'Black & White' and the 'Fable' series isn't content to hand gamers a controller, and tell them to mash buttons until the baddies are gone. He wants you to empathize with the characters, engage emotionally with the game, and consider the moral implications of the choices made in the virtual world. According to Molyneux, himself, his latest project, 'Milo,' is less of a game and more of a "very, very big tech demo." After seeing it in action, we can safely say it's one of the most compelling "tech demos" ever.
After the break, you'll find Molyneux's recent TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) talk, wherein he gives a lengthy demonstration of interaction with Milo, a virtual child who has just moved to America, through words and motions courtesy of Kinect. The really interesting stuff is the AI; Milo (or Kate, if you choose his female counterpart) are completely unique creations. These highly interactive and emotive characters are different (even if just slightly) every time you play the game. What's more, thanks to the power of the cloud, Milo will grow and become smarter over time, able to recognize more words and objects as you introduce them to his world. We do wonder if Molyneux is purposely building a Skynet-like computer that will one day turn on us and enslave the human race... but we also can't help wanting to hang out with Milo before that day comes. [From: TED, via: Engadget]
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The Kiwanis Club of Lewiston recently held its installation banquet at the Niagara Frontier Country Club in Youngstown. Pictured above is newly elected President Jeff Sanderson. He is executive director for Rivershore Inc.
Other elected officers are President-elect Dean Beltrano, Vice President Pastor Thomas Mason, Treasurer Harry Buckholtz and Secretary Jack Hanrahan.
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GONZALEZ FERNANDEZ, Antonio. Reflections on the international public health. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2011, vol.37, n.4, pp.372-379. ISSN 0864-3466.
The objective of this paper is to analyze the most universally accepted concepts and fundamentals on International Public Health. This can provide one utilitarian dimension since their application in a particular country could contribute to better adjust the public health system to the particularities of the health problems affecting its society and to the influence of the international situation over these problems. It was found that data about the use of this term for the first time was inaccurate and that there was not one universally accepted concept on International Public Health; as a matter of fact, some authors prefer the term Global Health. For the analysis, international health should be divided into two poles: international dimension of health on one hand and health as international issue on the other; both make up an intrincate dialectical relation but the overlapping of these two aspects determines the final result. international public health is based on certain ideology and once accepted as a part cut out from the international relations, it is up to every state to determine the scope and range of application of this concept in its territory. It was observed that the International Public Health aspects are not systematically included in the curricula of the schools of public health in the region; therefore, it is suggested that regional events be held in order to reach consensus with respect to a coherent definition on the term international public health and its conceptual framework.
Palabras clave : International public health; Global Health; public health; international relations; neoliberal globalization; ideology.


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NEW ORLEANS – Four related national construction companies -- Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services, Inc., Brand Services, LLC, Brand Energy Solutions, LLC, and Brand Scaffold Services, LLC (Brand) -- will pay $110,000 to settle a suit for sexual harassment and retaliation filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The court-approved settlement resolves the charge of a former employee, Jauronice Hayes, who worked for Brand at its Conoco Phillips facility in Belle Chasse, La.
In its suit, the EEOC charged that Hayes was sexually harassed by her male supervisor. The harassment included inappropriate sexual statements, requests and demands for sexual favors, and sexual touching, the EEOC said. The suit also charged that he exposed his genitals to Hayes and informed Hayes that if she did not have sex with him, she would be laid off. Hayes anonymously complained about the sexual harassment to a company hotline and also repeatedly opposed the sexual harassment and rejected her supervisor's sexual advances, according to the suit.
As a result of her complaint, her opposition to this harassment and her rejection of his sexual advances, Brand fired Hayes, the EEOC said. After Brand terminated Hayes, her supervisor left the company's employment.
The EEOC also alleges that this supervisor had previously harassed another female employee, who no longer works for the company.
"Egregious sexual harassment, including unwanted touching and demands for sex with the threat of being fired, fundamentally violates the notion of a fair workplace and is unlawful," said EEOC General Counsel P. David Lopez. "When an employee is fired in retaliation for complaining about that kind of conduct, it is especially troubling. Employers must understand that if they subject employees to sexual harassment or fire them for complaining, there will be serious consequences."
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
"I just wanted to do my job and be left alone," said Hayes. "My boss touching my body and trying to pressure me to have sex with him really hurt me. No woman should have to choose between putting up with this kind of abuse or losing her job and not being able to support her family. I could not stand the idea that the company or this man might do this again to someone else. I felt that if I did not stand up for myself, I would be letting others down and setting a bad example for my kids. People out there need to know that they have rights and that the EEOC can help them. The fact that the company will have to change the way it does things in the future was very important to me."
Under the court-ordered consent decree settling the suit, which was filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (Case No. 10:3306 ), Brand will pay Hayes $100,000, and $10,000 to the second victim. The company will also provide annual training to more than 450 personnel in its Gulf Region, encompassing Texas and Louisiana, covering its operations involving about 6,500 employees. Brand will also report to the EEOC for two years on all complaints of sexual harassment and retaliation in the Gulf Region.
In 2008, the EEOC filed another suit against Brand in Texas, alleging similar harassment and retaliation (Case number 08-3305, Southern District of Texas, Corpus Christi Division). Brand settled that case with the EEOC for $175,000 in 2009.
Jim Sacher, the EEOC's regional attorney for the Houston District Office, which oversees all litigation in Louisiana, commented, "When a supervisor touches an employee repeatedly in sexually inappropriate ways, and takes away her job because she won't have sex with him, it is a gross violation of the law, and is totally unacceptable. We are hopeful that with the training and reporting requirements under the settlement, problems like this will not happen again within this company. If they do, we will take appropriate action."
The EEOC was represented in the case by trial attorneys Gregory T. Juge and Tanya L. Goldman.
The EEOC enforces federal law prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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What happens to sea turtles during hurricanes?
Q: What happens to sea turtles during hurricanes?
A: If the turtles are adults or juveniles and are at sea during storms, they are seldom impacted. However, sea turtles nest on East Coast beaches during hurricane season, and damage to nests can be a different story.
In North Carolina, sea turtles can begin nesting as early as late April and continue into early September. Hurricane season runs June through November.
Storm tides can wash nests from beaches, inundate them with sea water, pile sand on top or wash sand away.
Excessive sand deposited on nests makes it difficult for hatchlings to dig out. Eroded sand depletes the protective covering. Heavy rain can also reduce the viability of eggs and storm-ravaged nests are more susceptible to scavenging by birds, crabs, raccoons, fox and even human tampering.
Of the five sea turtle species that travel the U.S. waters of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the loggerhead is the most common. Adult loggerheads weigh between 200 and 300 pounds.
Loggerheads reach sexual maturity between 20 and 30 years of age. Females lay three to five nests every two to four years. Each nest contains 100 to 125 ping-pong size eggs, which hatch after an incubation of 50 to 90 days, with 60 days being the average.
Biologists theorize that sea turtles lay a large number of eggs to account for natural impacts such as storms and predators.
Information provided by the N.C. Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores. The state operates three public aquariums; one in Pine Knoll Shores, another at Fort Fisher and a third on Roanoke Island. The aquariums are administered by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and are designed to inspire appreciation and conservation of North Carolina's aquatic environment. For more information about the aquariums, log onto www.ncaquariums.com, or call 800-832-FISH.


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So I've been soldering boards for the last month and I'm about 85-90% done. Here's a picture (See the 9/03/2003 picture on the right). OK, I might have taken a little-bit of time and upgraded my computer system to 2.4GHz P4 on an 800 MHz bus with 1Gig of RAM, 6 - USB 2.0 ports and an Ethernet port on board, a 7200 RPM 160Gig HD, DVD Rom Burner, WinTV, Windows and Office XP professional (yes, I $upport the empire), etc. - I kept my Matrox video card with the dual monitors. I'm pretty happy with it. Now understand, I didn't WANT to build this computer system, I HAD to build it - to support the robotics GUI for the Robocities ;-).
Speaking of Robocities - this month I want to get the first set of city-building robots done and build the first proto-city. I also have to test all boards I've put together. My goal is to have something to show for our next TCRG robotics meeting.


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A unique tool that protects the herbicide investment of cereal crop growers when a natural disaster wipes out crops now is available nationwide.
The DuPont Crop Protection Plus herbicide cost replacement program, which had been available to growers purchasing DuPont herbicides in the Western United States, has been extended to provide extra peace of mind to cereal growers throughout the continental United States.
With the Crop Protection Plus program, wheat (durum and other varieties), barley, oats and triticale growers who purchase and apply eligible DuPont herbicides from their local DuPont retailers may receive product cost replacement credit when the treated field becomes uneconomical to harvest due to drought, hail, flood, frost/freeze or fire (restrictions apply).
"The Crop Protection Plus program is another way DuPont Crop Protection is helping growers by taking some of the uncertainty out of farming during these challenging economic times," said Marty Wojcik, portfolio manager for DuPont Crop Protection. "Production agriculture is a business that carries inherent risks. DuPont is committed to providing products and services that help contribute to our customers' long-term success. Since 2000, thousands of growers have benefited from the peace of mind provided by the Crop Protection Plus program," Wojcik said. "We wanted to offer those benefits to the rest of our cereal herbicides customers.
"It's easy to participate in the Crop Protection Plus program," Wojcik added. "Growers are automatically enrolled when they purchase an eligible DuPont cereal herbicide from a local DuPont retailer. No paperwork is needed until a product cost replacement request is filed."
Byron Bergkamp of Mount Hope, Kan., was one of the many growers who benefited from the Crop Protection Plus program when a freeze destroyed his crop. "I had used DuPont Finesse herbicide prior to the freeze, so I was covered by Crop Protection Plus," Bergkamp said. "The program provides real security and peace of mind. Every little bit helps, especially when you're faced with a total crop loss."
Qualifying DuPont cereal products include DuPont Affinity, Agility, Ally, Express, Finesse, Glean and Harmony brand herbicides.
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Volume 16 Issue 38 | February 20 - 26, 2004
Pioneer of American avant-garde film soldiers on
By Aileen Torres
Lithuanian born Jonas Mekas is widely considered to be the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. Born in 1922, Mekas immigrated to New York in his 20s, settling first in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and later on Orchard Street on the Lower East Side.
One of the founders of Anthology Film Archives, at 32 Second Ave., Mekas is still an active director there. Because he enjoys young people he has cultivated a small staff of young cineastes knowledgeable about all periods and styles of cinema, a point of pride for Mekas.
Hes the oldest of us in age, but the youngest in spirit, said John Mhiripiri, the director of administration and exhibitions.
Mekas, whose signature piece of clothing is a corduroy blazer which he has worn for decades, has been advocating for U.S. avant-garde filmmaking since the 1950s. In 1954, he founded the magazine Film Culture, a counterpart to the seminal French journal, Cahiers du Cinema.
Film Culture was a voice in the black hole said Robert Haller, Anthologys director of collections and special projects.
In 1958, Mekas became the first film critic of The Village Voice, for which he wrote a column for 18 years. He quit when the Voice was bought by the publisher of Life magazine in the mid-1970s because he felt that he wasnt wanted there anymore. He subsequently wrote for Soho Weekly News.
Mekas founded the Anthology Film Archives in 1964, then known as Filmmakers Cinémathèque. Today the museum and theater house one of the worlds largest collections of avant-garde films.
Mekas founding partners were Jerome Hill, P. Adams Sitney, and Peter Kubelka,. In the 1960s, Hill, an artist from a wealthy railroad family, developed an interest in filmmaking. He befriended Mekas, who introduced him to the others.
Hill financed the renovation of an empty wing at Joseph Papps Public Theater to create the first home of Anthology, at 425 Lafayette St.
The unorthodox theater was called The Invisible Cinema by Kubelka, who designed the space in a manner that he thought would maximize individual viewing concentration. Everything was black: the walls, the seats, the ceiling, and the floor. The headrests were high, and there were flaps on the sides of each seat to prevent distractions from other viewers.
In 1974, after the death of Hill, Anthologys financial supporter, the museum was forced to move to 80 Wooster St, and the Invisible Cinema set-up had to be abandoned. With its finances still shaky, Anthology moved yet again to 491 Broadway. In 1979, it finally settled into Manhattans Second Avenue Courthouse building, bought from the city for $50,000. They spent $1.7 million to renovate the gutted structure, which now houses two theaters (one with 66 seats and another with 200), a library, a film preservation department, and a gallery.
Anthology shows and promotes new avant-garde movies, such as Millennium Mambo, by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, which runs in February. This month it will also be showing Big Animal, by Jerzy Stuhr.
It also has a permanent collection called, The Essential Cinema Repertory put together by Mekas, Kubelka, Sitney, the avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage, and the critic Ken Kelman. Their original policy called for a unanimous vote for a film to make it into the repertory, but establishing a consensus became too difficult, so the policy became one of majority rule.
Brakhage then quit the committee because he thought that not having every single members approval per film would compromise the integrity of the permanent collection. James Broughton, a poet and filmmaker, stepped in to take Brakhages place on the committee.
According to Mekas, there is no set criteria for The Essential Cinema: It was always a question of taste.
By 1972, the committee had created a list of 330 titles, including films by Andy Warhol, Roberto Rossellini, Man Ray, Leni Riefenstahl, Jean Cocteau, Robert Bresson, and Charlie Chaplin.
Unfortunately, when Hill died, the Essential Cinema project had to be put on hold because of lack of funding.
Nothing happened after Jerome died because we had no money to purchase the [film] prints, said Mekas. The project was broke. He continues to hope that another visionary philanthropist will come to rescue.
There is an abundance of extremely valuable historical materials housed at Anthology, much of which sits unclassified and unorganized in the rooms of its labyrinthine basement. Currently, there are approximately 30,000 reels of films from the 1890s to the present in the building alone, said Mekas, with more in storage in New Jersey.
The reference library contains the worlds largest collection of literature and other written records of avant garde and independent cinema. An astounding array of books, periodicals, photographs, posters, audio material, catalogs, and profiles of filmmakers and film-related organizations also sits, disheveled, in the basement.
There are plans to create an expanded library in the adjacent building that Anthology already owns.
Its my spring project to try to raise three million dollars, said Mekas. Thats what it will cost to build.
He maintains faith in Anthologys ability to survive, despite its persistent financial limitations. Mekas may not yet have a plan for raising money to build the library, but he is not worried. As he said, So far, I have not failed on any of my projects.
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