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With nostalgic flavours of Nirvana, Oasis, Gomez and Jeff Buckley, the listener is thrown forwards and backwards through musical history to modern day.
The band first formed when drummer Jessica-Louise, saw Frontman Jamie Andrew on an ITV1 Saturday night tv show. Jess took to the internet to hunt Jamie down, and travelled from the edge of Scotland to come and meet Jamie in his hometown of Tunbridge Wells. The 2 instantly hit it off, with Jessica becoming Jamie's biggest fan, following and supporting him on his nomadic busking adventures around the globe.
After a successful trip to Los Angeles, and scoring some credible gigs at the famous Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Jess teamed up musically with Jamie, to form a duo, performing as an acoustic 2 piece, with a guitr/cajon setup.
From there, the pair recorded their first live and unplugged album, 'Unplugged', before touring it across the streets of Europe. One night of inspiration in Milan, brought the idea that Jess should learn the drums, which allowed the option of an electric fuelled band. Subsequently, they recorded their debut full band EP 'Honey Liquor'.
Singer Jamie Andrew has busked all over the world, performing his songs on some of the worlds most famous streets. 'The Great Big Busk', an epic 2 year busking trip around the world, took Jamie through the streets of Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Jamie Hitch-hiked, couchsurfed and busked his way around the clock, writing many hit songs and evolving his craft along the way.
With their captivating energy, blissful melodies, powerful rock drumming, and riffy guitrs; it's unanimous to say, Heyzeus must be seen live! X

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The music of Ernest Bloch
OREGONIANS should be proud of composer Ernest Bloch, who wrote some of his best works while living on the Oregon Coast.
Hear his music for yourself, as students and faculty take on Bloch's lush melodies and rich, textured instrumentation all year as part of the International Bloch Jubilee Festival that marks the 50th anniversary of the composer's death.
Swiss-born Bloch lived in Agate Beach from 1941 until 1959. His many works encompass string and piano solos as well as orchestra and chamber ensembles. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bloch composed music that is considered romantic and reminiscent of Wagner, Mahler, and Strauss.
"Many of our music majors don't know anything about Bloch," says Bryan Johanson, Music Department chair. "It's great music, and much of it is influenced by his Jewish faith. So we are working with the Judaic Studies program to present insightful lectures."
"It shows how we can accomplish something much greater through cooperation," says grandson Ernest "Ernie" Bloch II '62, of the partnership between PSU's Music Department and the Judaic Studies program.
Ernie Bloch, who lives within walking distance of campus, will have close to a hundred public performances and lectures at PSU to chose from, capped by a "Bloch Buster" gala.
For a full schedule, visit the University's Web calendar.
Daring feminist plays
DEPICTING Joan of Arc as an anorexic, cross dressing, teen lesbian, has earned Carolyn Gage '82, MA '84 national recognition.
This past spring, she received the Lambda Literary Award in Drama for The Second Coming of Joan of Arc: and Other Plays. Considered the top literary award for the lesbian and gay community in the United States, the Lambda recognizes a work that Gage originally published 15 years ago. The new collection also includes six other plays in which Gage, a lesbian-feminist, interprets the lives of such famous women as Charlotte Cushman, Calamity Jane, and Harriet Tubman.
Gage also performs her plays around the country, including the award-winning, one-women show, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc. She will be at Pacific University in Forest Grove performing the play on October 16.
Prospero's enchanted isle
THE TEMPEST creates a world where nothing is as it first appears.
With that in mind, director and professor William Tate, plans a PSU Theater Arts production that embraces the full abundance of the play's ending and beginnings and alternately grim and beautiful illusions.
Shakespeare's The Tempest opens November 20, 7:30 p.m., at Artists Repertory Theater, 1515 SW Morrison (Lincoln Hall to reopen in fall 2010). The evening performances continue November 21, 24, 25, 27, 28. A 2 p.m. matinee is planed for Nov. 22. Tickets may be purchased at the PSU Box Office, 503-725-3307, and at TicketMaster outlets.
Alumni art on exhibit
Double Dutch, a mixed-media painting by Anna Fidler '05, is part of the Outlook: Contemporary PSU Art Graduates 2005-09 exhibit November 5-27. The exhibit is in Autzen Gallery, 205 Neuberger Hall, weekdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. James Yood, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is curator.
New Works
The book of William: How Shakespeare's first folio conquered the world
The best dancer
Small town sustainability
Super Sunday in Newport: Notes from my first year in town
New perspectives on technical editing
Journal keeping
Super fun times
Lincoln's daughter
We want to hear about your books and recordings and your future exhibits, performances, and directing ventures. Contact the magazine by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com, sending a fax to 503-725-4465, or mailing Portland State Magazine, Office of University Communications, PO Box 751, Portland OR 97207-0751.


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"For the Scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed" (Romans 10:11).
Just where does the Scripture say this? Paul is apparently quoting here from Isaiah 28:16 which is the following: "Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste."
The question is: Why did Paul change the Hebrew word for "make haste" to the Greek word for "be ashamed"? He did the same thing in Romans 9:33. "As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on Him shall not be ashamed." This verse makes the question even more involved, because here Paul combines the quote with Isaiah 8:14: "And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offense. . . ." Note also I Peter 2:6-8,which combines both verses with Psalm 118:22. "The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner."
The Greek Septuagint translation apparently rendered "make haste" (which is the correct meaning of the Hebrew word, as confirmed by all its other uses in the Old Testament) by a Greek word meaning something like "put to shame." More importantly, however, these passages illustrate the truth that the Holy Spirit (the real Author of the Bible) has a perfect right to interpret His writing however He will. And He interpreted "make haste" to mean "be ashamed."
That is, when we believe on Christ, we never need to flee in haste from His enemies, for we can never be put to shame when anchored on this sure foundation. As the Lord said in another passage: ". . . they shall not be ashamed that wait for me" (Isaiah 49:23). HMM


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Oh Jill Stuart. You create the most beautiful looking lipsticks in glossy textures, that are hard to resist.
The newest lipstick to join the Jill Stuart family is 'Lip Blossom' and debuts with 10 shades. I adored their last lipstick releases – the texture is gorgeous – so I presumed this would be a winner too.
They say:
?Lipstick that gently, lightly spreads across your lips, as though melting, providing a fresh luster and pure, bright color.
?As refreshing as the dew from a flower, leading to you soft lips that feel as though moisture is welling up from inside.
?Provides beautiful, popping color yet with a highly translucent, pure appearance, for full, plump lips that look like delightful tulips.
?A single application can provide lustrous lips, while subsequently tapping your lips with your finger also allows a matte finish to be enjoyed.
?The design is themed in a mixture of Thumbelina, born from a flower, and vintage jewelry. An overall arabesque design of winding vines, and the surface of the lipstick is cut with a diamond shape.
Here are the colours – all very wearable, pretty shades – I chose 01 Ranuculus Veil because…it was the only one left. But you can see there's not really that much between them all anyway and JS lip colours tend to be quite sheer.
Let's talk about the packaging. The silvery case has carving type detail and the lid has a flip up top with a mirror underneath.
Whilst it looks VERY pretty, it was actually a disappointment to me – it feels cheap and lightweight and the mirror is so small that it's pretty useless.
Is anyone's mouth/face that small? Don't answer that.
Ranunculus Veil is a pretty light peachy pink. It's quite light and almost orangey on my skin tone. It's shimmer free and has a watery shine glossy finish which actually lacks the depth and prettiness of previous Jill Stuart lipsticks. On top of that the shine is one dimensional and it's just very….average.
On the plus side the soft texture of this lipstick makes is super comfortable to wear, like a lip balm, HOWEVER, on the downside it barely lasts – within half an hour i have nothing left on my lips.


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By Julie van der Poel Jan 02, 2012 2
New Year, New Resolutions
Happy New Year! It's time for resolutions. I'm going to attempt to branch out from my usual eat and drink less/exercise more standing resolutions. This year I'm going to put together a special set of Transition resolutions.
I resolve to start attending those seminars and workshops I get constant emails about. You know the ones: those seminars about SSI, Transition roadmaps, and the like. It's high time I find out what's out there, apply for services where applicable, and make sure Cameron and I pursue every opportunity available. It's so much easier to just kick back and think that there's plenty of time ahead of us before any of that nasty administrative stuff will be necessary. I'm not kicking back in 2012. I'm getting my Transition on, along with my running shoes.
I resolve to keep Cameron on his toes. He has developed some less than desirable coping skills of late, which have essentially been shortcuts to completing a task. He is not doing himself any favors by choosing the path of least resistance, and I am doing him no favors by allowing him that path. One problem with addressing this situation is that Cameron has gotten quite adept at masking his effort, or lack thereof. As an example of this cop out coping skill, Cameron was asked to walk the dogs and give them water during a holiday road trip gas stop. My husband realized he had forgotten to pack the dogs' water bottle, and we decided to see what Cameron's solution would be. Sadly, Cameron's solution was to lie and tell us he had given the dogs water. When confronted, he apologized and said he had become frustrated when looking for the bottle. But had we not known that the water bottle was not in the car, Cameron would have just lied his way through the task, instead of asking for help in finding another solution. When I think of this type of scenario playing itself out in the classroom, I wonder how many classes is Cameron faking his way through? How many times does he say he gets it just for the sake of ending the pressure of the conversation? I resolve to cut down on those instances, and not overlook them, just because that's MY path of least resistance.
I resolve to keep the short term in sight, as well as the long term. As I begin to project, and maybe obsess a little, about Cameron's future, I need to remember the here and now. I need to keep in mind that as anxious as I may be to chart his future, I shouldn't create anxiety for Cameron. Cameron's father asked him what he wanted for Christmas, and Cameron responded that he didn't want anything. He said he would be moving out soon, and he would be selling all his stuff. Um … Okay, maybe I need to dial it down a notch or two. All my prompting for becoming more independent doesn't need to be interpreted as "Pack your bags buddy, you're outta here."
It looks like 2012 will be quite a year. Cameron will be turning 17, and another year closer to adulthood. I'm going to get our Transition ducks in a row, keep him on his toes, and keep my own toes on the ground. Watch this space to see our progress. Happy New Year, and good luck with your own resolutions.


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Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism available in Paperback, NOOK Book
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- 09/17/2002
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- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism
Walter LaFeber's timely analysis looks at the ways that triumphant capitalism, coupled with high-tech telecommunications, is conquering the nations of the world, one mindone pair of feetat a time.
With Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, Walter LaFeber has written a biography, a social history, and a far-ranging economic critique. From basketball prodigy to international phenomenon to seductive commercial ideal, Michael Jordan is the supreme example of how American corporations have used technology in a brave, massively wired new world to sell their products in every corner of the globe. LaFeber's examination of Nike and its particular dominion over the global marketplace is often scathing, while his fascinating mini-biography of Michael Jordan and the commercial history of basketball reveal much about American society. For this new paperback edition, LaFeber has added a chapter on globalization in a changed world, after mass protests and since September 11. "Bold, riveting....Brilliantly illuminates how hyper-US capitalism has spread its financial wings around the globe."Douglas Brinkley "LaFeber brings an impressive intellect to bear on his subject."Barbara Rudolph, Chicago Tribune
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Walter LaFeber is professor of history at Cornell University and the author of The Clash and Inevitable Revolutions.
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Chapter One
A Century of Preparation
At the end of the twentieth century, Americans, their economy, and their culture seemed to dominate many parts of the globe. A basketball player who lived in Chicago, Michael Jordan, was arguably the most recognized and revered of those Americans to billions of people worldwide. In China, schoolchildren ranked him with Zhou Enlai as the two greatest figures in twentieth-century history. The children knew Zhou because he helped create their Communist Revolution. They knew Jordan because he miraculously floated through the air as both an athlete and as a pitchman for American-produced advertisements for Nike shoes, which the children avidly followed on television. His coach in Chicago, Phil Jackson, believed that Jordan "had somehow been transformed in the public mind from a great athlete to a sports deity"especially when an amazed Jackson saw people kneeling before the statue of Jordan that stands in front of the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls.
Jordan's phenomenal athletic prowess was unquestioned. Indiana University basketball coach Bob Knight (known for his two national championships as well as his blunt style), told sports columnist Mike Lupica: "Michael Jordan is the best that will ever play this game." Sociologist Harry Edwards, an African American who blisteringly attacked professional sports and the roles assigned black players, declared: "If I were charged with introducing an alien life form to the epitome of human potential, creativity, perseverance, and .spirit, I wouldintroduce that alien life form to Michael Jordan."
To Edwards and many others, Jordan personified not only the imaginative, individual skills that Americans dream of displaying in a society that adores graceful and successful individualism, but the all-out competitive spirit and discipline that Americans like to think drove their nation to the peak of world power. Coach Jackson phrased it directly: "Michael is a little bit of a shark. He's competitive to the extent that he'd like to beat you for your last cent and send you home without your clothes."
Such skills quickly translated into money and power in the world, of the late twentieth century. But Jordan was not just an athlete, he was an African-American athlete who earned $30 million a year for playing with the Bulls and twice that amount from his endorsements and personal businesses. Within his own lifetime, African-American athletes had been victimized and exploitednot made multimillionaires. They were also often condemned for choosing merely to dunk basketballs or catch footballs, rather than acting as role models for future doctors, lawyers, or business leaders. That Jordan became a hero for the many races in American society was thus somewhat surprising. That he could transform this role into becoming the most successful advertising figure in the world was historic. His success in good part can be traced back to his family and North Carolina background.
The North Carolina Legacy
Since its founding in 1891, basketball has been dominated by playersAfrican-American and white, male and femalewho came from the playgrounds, YMCAs, YWCAs, and athletic clubs of America's cities. Michael Jordan, however, did not grow up in a large urban area. He was born on February 17, 1963, to parents living temporarily in Brooklyn, New York. James Jordan, a sharecropper's son, was attending a Brooklyn training school so he could pursue his ambition of becoming a supervisor at the General Electric plant outside the small town of Wallace, North Carolina. Deloris Jordan was meanwhile moving steadily up the corporate ladder at United Carolina Bank in Wallace.
Michael grew up in a close-knit middle-class family that revolved around the children's enthusiasms for baseball, football, track, and, to a lesser extent, basketball. He lived in a small town far removed from the violence then shaking much of the South as the nation painfully moved from enforced segregation, which had been in place since the 1890s, to enforced integration of the races. James and Deloris preached, "You just didn't judge people's color." And if ignorant, racist folks hurled insults, you just determined to "move on" rather than let it slow your climb up the middle-class ladder.
In 1970, the Jordans did indeed move up to better jobs in the larger city of Wilmington, North Carolina. Again, they missed the worst of the civil-rights violence. Michael seldom encountered racial taunts, although he once ground a Popsicle into the hair of a girl who called him "nigger." But Laney High School had been integrated before he arrived, and Jordan became a sports starbut only by his senior year. As a sophomore he was cut from the varsity basketball team. "I went to my room and I closed the door and I cried," he later told sportswriter Bob Greene. "For a while I couldn't stop. Even though there was no one else home at the time, I kept the door shut. It was important to me that no one hear me or see me." Nor could he get dates with girls because, as he recalled, he had an odd haircut and drew laughs for his habit of playing basketball with his tongue hanging out.
Within months after being cut, Michael's world changed. In his junior year, he suddenly grew to 6'3". He arose at sunup to push his new body through special drills. This development came too late, however, to attract attention from many top colleges. His biographer, Jim Naughton, noted that Jordan was not even rated among the three hundred leading high-school prospects at the start of his senior year. He did enter a summer basketball camp in Pittsburgh where he played well against some of the nation's best young players and was named Most Valuable Player. His talent drew the attention of Roy Williams, an assistant to the legendary coach at the University of North Carolina, Dean Smith. (Williams later became famous in his own right as coach at the University of Kansas.) Michael had never cared for the state university, but his mother didespecially after Dean Smith visited and talked about the importance of education rather than the glories of basketball. Anyway, there were few other offers, and his sister Roslyn {who graduated after only three years of high school) was also going to Chapel Hill.
For twenty years, Dean Smith's system had been renowned for reaching, but never winning, national championship games. Smith produced superb professional players, employed tough discipline, insisted on nightly study halls, and held the belief that unproven freshmen should devote themselves more to books than to playing time. Jordan's defense and passing skills were weak, but his quickness and imagination on offense, as well as his fire and work ethic, forced Smith to start him alongside two All-Americans (and later pro stars), James Worthy and Sam Perkins. By midseason of his freshman year (1981-1982), North Carolina was ranked number one in the country. Jordan was a leading scorer.
At the end of his freshman season, he suddenly became a national figure. Jordan ignored a painful throat infection to lead his team to the Atlantic Coast Conference championship. Worthy, Perkins, and Jordan then took the Tar Heels through the NCAA Championship tournament until they met Georgetown and the Hoyas' 7'1" All-American, Patrick Ewing, in New Orleans before some 61,000 fans and a huge national television audience.
With 32 seconds to play, Georgetown led 62-61. Dean Smith was again on the verge of missing a national championship. Smith called a time-out and told the players to get the ball to Jordan for a final shot. Smith was trusting a freshman to make the decisive points. Jordan took a pass on the right side of the floor and shot. The ball swished through the net sixteen feet away. Smith had his championship. Worthy led the scoring with 28 points, but Jordan was the hero. North Carolina's assistant coach Eddie Fogler observed: "That kid doesn't even realize it yet, but he's part of history now. People will remember that shot 25 years from now."
The nineteen-year-old thus became famous for grace, and success, under immense pressure. "I've seen other great athletes," Dean Smith later declared, "but Michael also has the intelligence, the court savvy ... he was a hero so many times at the end of gamesit was uncanny." Jordan's professional coach, Phil Jackson, noted that in the many last-second situations from which Michael emerged the hero, "More often than not, he'll replay the last-second shot he took to win the 1982 NCAA championship.... [he] says to himself, 'Okay, I've been here before.'"
After the triumph in New Orleans, Jordan's college career became anticlimactic, if successful. During his sophomore year, North Carolina failed to reach the NCAA finals, although sports journalists named Jordan College Player of the Year. In the summer of 1983, he led the U.S. Pan-American team to a gold medal in Venezuela, a trip that led him to choose cultural geography as his undergraduate major. In his junior year, the Tarheels again fell short of the NCAA finals. But Jordan had become, in the words of Sports Illustrated's Curry Kirkpatrick, "the finest all-around amateur player in the world."
In the spring of 1984, Jordan announced he would delay his senior year to turn professional. He had little left to prove in college. Deloris Jordan wanted her son to remain at Chapel Hill until he obtained a degree. James Jordan and, surprisingly, Dean Smith, sided with Michael. In the National Basketball Association's draft in June 1984, college's best all-around player was not the first pick. Or the second. With the first choice, the lowly Houston Rockets selected Hakeem Olajuwon. (A great center, Olajuwon led Houston to NBA championships in 1994 and 1995, the two years Jordan temporarily retired from the game.) Portland, with the second pick, took 7'1" Sam Bowie of Kentucky. Plagued with injuries, Bowie never became an NBA star.
Chicago, long a losing team, then selected Jordan. Bulls' General Manager Rod Thorn bluntly declared that he wanted a center, not a guard such as Jordan. "We wish he were 7 feet, but he isn't," Thorn griped. "There wasn't a center available. What can you do?" Chicago Tribune columnist Bernie Lincicome suggested that Thorn might count his blessings. Lincicome wrote sarcastically that Thorn and the Bulls "had tried to avoid Jordan" and instead "got stuck with ... maybe the greatest natural basketball talent, inch for inch, in this young decade." Lincicome noted that Jordan was also an attractive person with a sense of humorwhich was fortunate because he "will need a few laughs to ease the shock of moving from a winning team at North Carolina to a loser in Chicago."
Suspicion spread that the Bulls feigned unhappiness so they would not have to pay Jordan as much as he was worth. If so, he quickly destroyed that illusion when he signed a five-year contract for $800,000 annually. Thus Jordan and the Bulls began one of the most successful and profitable journeys in modern sports.
That happy journey could hardly be anticipated, however, in 1984. Jordan joined a deeply troubled professional league. Basketball was at a crossroads in the United States. Few people abroad seemed to care about the NBA at all, certainly not when it competed with soccer, hockey, or home teams in Europe for attention. Jordan and a new era of technology changed all that.
The Naismith Legacy
Most major sports have obscure beginnings, but basketball's can be pinpointed in time and told in detail. Those are not its only unique qualities. No game became so popular and commercialized more rapidly.
James Naismith certainly did not set out to make his game ring cash registers. The Canadian-born teacher merely hoped to keep his job at Springfield College in Massachusetts after his superior, Dr. Luther Gulick, ordered him to do something to keep young men out of trouble between football and baseball seasons. The boys in the class were almost out of control; two of the school's instructors had flatly refused to face them. Because it was Massachusetts, any new winter game would best be played indoors. Because Springfield College was a training school for the worldwide missionary activities of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA), Naismith's answer would have to deal with the "mind, and soul" (as Gulick put it), as well as the body and especially adrenaline of each student.
Naismith first tried variations of football and lacrosse indoors, but these quickly got out of hand. Desperate, he began writing rules for a new game. There was to be no striking or running with the ball (as in lacrosse}. The ball was instead to be passed. Nine players were on each side because Naismith's class had eighteen students. (Five on each side became the rule in 1897.) The goal was placed high above the players so they would not as easily fight each other as they would around a ground-level goal. The goals, peach baskets from a nearby orchard, were placed ten feet high {where they have forever remained), because this happened to be the height of the gymnasium's balcony to which Naismith could most easily attach the baskets.
How new was his sport can be debated. Historians have discovered that for two thousand years the Mayas and Aztecs played a game in which a large ball was to be passed through a ring at the two ends of the court. The losing team's leader was sometimes sacrificed to the gods. In Naismith's home country, the Abnaki of eastern Canada tried to keep an air-filled ball aloft. But no evidence has been found that Naismith knew about these earlier sports.
Named by one of Naismith's first players as Basket Ball (it finally became one word in 1921), the sport's popularity rapidly spread. Within the first week after Naismith introduced the game, audiences collected to watch the play. The shouts attracted female teachers who quickly taught the game to young women. Within three months after basketball appeared, a women's tournament was held. In 1893, the first women's intercollegiate game took place at Smith College in Massachusetts. When the Smith women learned the game, the only male allowed to watch was the college president, one of supposed sufficient dignity and age as to avoid unwholesome thoughts while watching graceful female athletes.
A Smith College star, Maude Sherman, married Naismith. But she and her teammates had not played by her husband's rules. Believing that women were "unaccustomed to exercise, and for the most part adverse to it," the organizers tried to protect players by having nine women on each team and requiring that three stay in one of three sections into which the playing floor was divided. A two-section, six-player women's game would not appear until 1938. By 1896, California women drew hundreds of female fans to games, including a match in which Stanford defeated Berkeley 2-1 {each basket counted one point).
During the 1890s, the YMCA took over the game and spread basketball up and down both coasts. As early as 1892, Brooklyn contracted basketball fever. In Philadelphia it threatened to take over all the city's gymnasiums. Audiences turned violent, especially when referees made unpopular rulings. As historian Keith Myerscough phrased it, YMCA officials began to recoil from Naismith's "Frankenstein-type monster that was now creating havoc in certain quarters." The Frankenstein only grew larger.
And entrepreneurial. In 1896, a group of Trenton, New Jersey, players discovered they could make money from charging admission. Each player received fifteen dollars per game, a princely sum during the economic depression of the mid-1890s. When they defeated a Brooklyn team 16-1, "The Trentons" began an American tradition by entitling themselves "World Champions." Within two years, an entire professional league appearedsix teams in New Jersey and Pennsylvaniawhich lasted until 1903. Basketball, it seemed, could produce profits as well as save souls. This was too much for Naismith's old YMCA boss, Luther Gulick. "When men commence to make money out of sport, it degenerates," Gulick lamented. "It has resulted in men of lower character going into the game." The YMCA would not allow "The Trentons" to play in a Y gymnasium.
It no longer made much difference, however, what the YMCA did. Basketball was not only profiting play-for-pay teams, but producers of equipment. Albert Spalding, for example, had grown wealthy by the 1890s making baseball gloves, balls, and bats. He planned to be the John D. Rockefeller of sports: as Rockefeller ruthlessly integrated the global oil business from drilling to sales, Spalding integrated the sporting-goods business from his own manufacturing plants to sales in over twenty thousand retail accounts. Spalding even went Rockefeller one better: he published and distributed tens of thousands of guidebooks that instructed players and audiences about rules, while providing information about teams. Not surprisingly, the rules often called for Spalding equipment. As Naismith's soccer-type ball gave way to an inflated basketball (slightly larger than the modern version), Spalding efficiently produced and sold the new ball, now standard for the game.
Basketball was also becoming international. Two years after the 1891 game at Springfield College, a YMCA instructor introduced the sport in France. It had already been played by British women that year and by British men the year before. In 1894, YMCA missionaries supervised the first contests in China and India, and Persia soon joined the list. Canada produced both the sport's founder and many players on the early Springfield College teams.
The game, however, would not become an international phenomenon until Michael Jordan appeared on the scene. In its early years, it was largely American, with some popularity in Canada and Western Europe. More precisely, it was an American city game. The first dribbling of the ball (instead of merely passing), apparently occurred on a Philadelphia playground in the late 1890s. The wave of immigrants entering the United States between 1890 and 1914 discovered the sport in city settlement houses, YMCAs, and even places of worship. It seemed nearly perfect for new arrivals. The game could be played on small city lots; the players needed nothing more than a ball and some kind of hoop. Jewish youngsters came to dominate New York City tournaments. After all, as The American Hebrew observed, the sport required "quick thinking, lightning-like rapidity of movement and endurance; it does not call for brutality and brute strength." And for the immigrants, it was unquestionably an American game. As Ted Vincent neatly summarized, "Basketball was the game of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal urban coalition [in the 1930s] of Jews, Catholics, and Blacks."
The first professional team to make a lasting mark on the sport was the New York Celtics {called the Original Celtics), formed in 1921. The Celtics, along with two teams made up of African-Americansthe Harlem Rens and the Harlem Globetrottersbecame the most successful clubs in both profitability and in the way they reshaped the game, making it more fluid, graceful, and exciting to watch. These three teams dominated professional basketball during most of the first half of the twentieth century.
They were helped by new rules that changed the sport. Violence resulting from players chasing balls into the audience stopped when a high fence of chicken wire was placed around the floor. Players thus became known as "cagers," and fights with fans diminished. The wire was removed in most gyms by the time the Celtics and Rens appeared. But no rules could turn basketball into the noncontact sport Naismith wished for. One of the great Celtic players, Nat Holman, recalled that "We wore hip pads, knee guards, and an aluminum cup." Cut faces or "a loosened tooth were common injuries," he remembered. Players did not like to jump, one of them recalled, because "They'd just knock you into a wall."
Yet with this crowd-pleasing bloodletting also came rules that encouraged crowd-pleasing imagination, speed, and subtlety. For years, baskets were simply attached to long poles. By World War I, however, they were on square "backboards" that allowed players to bank shots from fascinating angles. Until the 1930s, after each basket the referee stopped play and went to center court to toss the ball in the air for opposing players to tap into play. This break aimed at lowering the violence. By the eve of World War II, however, the center jump disappeared. Instead, the team that scored gave the ball over to the other team. Players, especially from the West Coast, began shooting daringly and quickly with one hand instead of launching the usual carefully planned, time-consuming, two-handed set shot.
By the late 1930s these changes helped make basketball the rage. Time magazine in 1940 believed that its seventy thousand teams made basketball America's largest sport. Women's basketball also grew popular again after some puritanical types, including First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, led a crusade in the 1920s to make the sport more "ladylike" and less exciting. The Amateur Athletic Union, which sponsored many women's sports, responded by running beauty contests at the women's national championships. The players themselves competed in the contests. Many angrily protested this kind of ticket-selling, as they did when professional teams, such as the Golden Cyclonesled by one of the greatest all-around athletes of the century, Mildred "Babe" Didriksonplayed in shorts and jerseys. But, as historian Allen Guttmann noted, "The uniforms boosted attendance from under 200 to some 5000 a night."
Unfortunately for the men, such uniforms did little to increase attendance at their professional games. The American Basketball League, with teams in middle-sized Eastern and Midwestern cities, lasted from 1926 until the Depression year of 1931. Those few in media who followed the pros preferred the stars playing with the Rens, Globetrotters, and Celtics.
Finally, in the flush postwar year of 1946, modern professional basketball was born, after a long hard labor. The ten-year-old National Basketball League (NBL) was challenged by a new league, the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The BAA had three strengths: its teams were sponsored by arena owners who had money as well as attractive places in which to play; these owners lived in large city markets where media attention and attendance were at a maximum; and the owners used their cash to lure away NBL starsincluding one later selected as the greatest player of the 1900 to 1950 years, George Mikan. At 6'10", Mikan was the first well-coordinated giant who could both dominate a game and pull in fans who would pay to watch his graceful hookshot. By 1949, the NBL surrendered. The two leagues merged into the National Basketball Association (NBA) that has embodied the professional sport throughout the rest of the century.
In the 1950s it was clear that smaller cities such as Syracuse and Rochester, New York, could produce good teams, but not enough fans and media to pay for stars. Thus the 6'10" All-American of the University of San Francisco, Bill Russell, announced he would not play in a small city such as Rochester, which had draft rights to him. The Boston Celtics worked out an intricate deal to obtain Russell. He led Boston to eleven championships in thirteen years. By 1963, the Rochester and Syracuse franchises had moved to larger metropolitan areas. The NBA thus was located in, and ultimately saved by, the biggest media markets.
In 1952, the Dumont Television Network first aired a pro game. Two years later, the NBA dramatically sped up the game by introducing the twenty-four-second clock. Now the team having the ball could no longer slow the pace or stall while ahead; it had to shoot within twenty-four seconds. The speedy game, with its restricted space that a camera could easily cover (as opposed, say, to baseball, where television could at any moment show only a part of the action), already lent itself well to television. The NBA Commissioner, businessman Maurice Podoloff, saw to it that teams supplied free player photos to the media. He strongly discouraged team owners from releasing bad news (such as low gate receipts). Podoloff and the NBA were beginning to understand the importance of marketing and public relations, and how to manipulate both.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, the NBA reached new heights of popularity and profit. Fans avidly followed individual matchups, especially the intense rivalry between two African-Americans, Boston's Bill Russell and Philadelphia's 7'1" Wilt Chamberlain who, except when guarded by Russell, was the game's greatest scorer. In 1975 a rival league tried to tap into the game's popularity. The American Basketball Association, however, lacked the financial backing, big-city media markets, and television contracts now required for survival. By the time Michael Jordan turned professional, the ABA had been forced to merge with the NBA.
But as Jordan left Chapel Hill, the NBA itself was stumbling. Revelations of extensive drug use by players, increased violence on the court, and the retirement of Russell and Chamberlain began to raise the question of whether professional basketball could survive. The ABA, however, had given the NBA a life-saving present: Julius "Dr. J" Erving, whose leaping, floating, and slam dunks astonished fans. Erving's elegance, both on and off the court, helped cleanse the game and prepared the sports world for Michael Jordan. And back of Erving stood the ghosts of at least a half-century of great African-American players who had overcome immense obstacles to prepare the world for Erving, Jordan, and others.
Table of Contents
|Chapter I
|A Century of Preparation
|The North Carolina Legacy
|The Naismith Legacy
|The Legacy of the Harlem Rens and "Dr. J"
|Chapter II
|The Globalization of Michael Jordan
|Enter the Transnational Corporation
|Enter the Swoosh
|Enter the Communication Satellite
|Chapter III
|Bittersweet Championships
|Selling a Championship
|"Basketball Is My Escape ... Everything Else Is So Complicated"
|Chapter IV
|New Frontiers--and Inner Cities
|Perils of Globalization
|Gambling--and the Media
|Wrapping Himself in the Flag: The 1992 Olympics
|"There's No Telling What Can Happen to the Business If China Truly Catches On"
|"The Higher the Satellite, the Lower the Culture?"
|Chapter V
|A Faustian Bargain
|Baseball Interlude
|The Return
|Chapter VI
|"The Greatest Endorser of the Twentieth-Century" or "An Insidious Form of Imperialism"?
|Expanding the Empire
|The Swooshifying of the World
|Capital versus Culture: Implications and Conclusions
|Chapter VII
|September 11 and After: The Struggle over the New Global Capitalism
|"But Nothing Was Normal Anymore"
|Where, and Why, the New Global Capitalism Failed--and the Tragic Results
|The U.S. Response--Or, Are the New Technologies and American Democracy Compatible?
|Conclusion: The New Global Capitalism after September 11
|Selected Bibliography
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I was approached this week by author Michael Rhodes to design his Audio Book cover for the book "The Revolt of the Whales".
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We glide through the surreal auditory world of the whales. Who are these strange, enormous beings? How will they respond to savage human aggression?
Sarah, a violinist, escapes a continent at war to join a research ship and rediscover her empathic connection to the whales. She also finds music, romance and terror. The ocean is a dangerous place. Sabotage, escalating battles with whaling ships and a brutal confinement hasten Sarah's descent into chaos. When the cacophony becomes intolerable the ocean moans and roars like a gigantic monster waking from a troubled sleep.
He wanted my signature "sketchy, quick doodle style". After meeting with him for about an hour hearing about the book, listening to how he pictures the cover (but just can't draw it himself). I provided the below designs. He was very pleased with the 3rd Black background one. "You nailed. thank you." was his words. Another happy customer.
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Each week, the Huffington Post Canada's Living team will try out something that has sparked our curiosity, and as long as we live to tell the tale, we'll let you know all about it.
Test Drive Subject: Kinect's Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 video game
Price: From $49.99
What It Is: This is the latest incarnation of Kinect's fitness video game that allows you to "appear" on-screen and exercise by following along with a huge variety of workouts. These include cardio sessions like hip hop classes and "running the world," as well as toning options for glutes, arms and legs. In all, there are more than 90 hours of workouts, and a personalized "objective" to help you determine how you want to use the game.
Putting It To Use: Part of the challenge of working out at home -- heck, of working out ever -- is getting off your butt and doing it, an obstacle made even harder when you're literally doing so on the same TV where Mad Men and Game Of Thrones are stored and waiting for you. So that's the first hurdle.
If you haven't yet used a Kinect, it can take a bit of time to get used to the future-like feeling of commanding the game with your own body, but once you do, it's easy to let your movements do the rest of the work. And after you get going, Your Shape does a pretty great job of putting you through the fitness wringer. There are games that mimic punching bricks (is there a better way to get out aggression?), balancing blocks while standing on one leg, learning how to kickbox ... really, anything you can find at the gym, with a healthy dose of technology thrown in for good measure.
Deciding on your objective helps the game figure out which workouts will be best for your goal, and how many times you should do them -- not to mention how many calories you're aiming to burn. To be honest, I stopped paying attention to the objective after my second go at the game, but those more inclined toward discipline might prefer having that chart in place.
There are also points to be earned, though much like the running score at the top of the Mario games, exactly what purpose they serve is unclear. Is it just to beat your previous score? Is it meant to have you connect to Xbox Live and see if you're better at jumping rope than your friends? All I know is, I couldn't help but feel a twinge of pride when I earned badges for noticeably stellar rounds.
Our Thoughts: Approaching the workout as a game is great in concept, but tougher to do when you find yourself yelling at the screen as the trainer "asks" you to do another 12 squats. And that's probably the game's greatest asset -- the feeling that you have a personal trainer motivating you to keep going. Yes, it is a computer-generated person who doesn't respond when you tell them you've had enough, but for many people, this push can be the difference between sitting on the couch and getting up and air boxing.
This game can work particularly well for people who, like me, know they should be getting more exercise, but can't quite find the time to get to the gym or go for a run. Frankly, if I even manage a 10-minute walk these days, I feel proud of myself. The quickie sessions -- they can be as short as two minutes -- give an option for working out, and even tracking progress, right at home, with the only effort required that of putting on running shoes and workout clothes.
So did I turn into a fitness warrior with Your Shape? Well, no, but I don't really think that was the point. I got myself moving, I occasionally pushed myself too far, thanks to the fun factor (one session stretched into the three hour range), and I felt good about adding healthier behaviours into my week. I'm hoping that will mean results in terms of weight loss and overall strength soon, but for the time being, I think it's a great way to introduce more exercise into my life.
The Warning: The motion activated technology is pretty freaking awesome, but there remain some flaws, so at times the instructor might say your positioning is off, when in fact you're flawless (and I swear, that's not just the ego talking). So be prepared for some frustration there.
As well, there's some questionable language in terms of fitness and nutrition. While the game does offer up tips between sessions like "stretch if you're feeling sore," it also says things like "blast away those nasty calories," which is a slightly misleading message considering, well, the necessity of taking in calories for health.
Tips: Get ready with a glass of water, a yoga mat and weights right at the beginning. The game doesn't give you a ton of warning when exercises that require the equipment are coming up, and the haughty "Where do you think you're going?" that comes from the screen when you disappear is not the most pleasant message to listen to.
And stretch. A lot. Some of the games are genuinely fun so it's easy to forget they're workouts, but much like the pain we all experienced upon trying Wii bowling for the first time, if you don't take the time to prepare your body beforehand, you will be hurting the next day.
Have a suggestion for a Test Drive? Tried something you loved or hated? Let us know on Twitter at @HuffPostCaLiv, or in the comments below.


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The unspoiled beauty of Michigan's Upper Peninsula is threatened due to plans by Kennecott Minerals and other mining companies to open dozens of sulfide mines. This is a Michigan State University Environmental Journalism Class video. MSU students Samantha Harris and Michelle Verdura edited, produced and wrote this documentary. Continue reading
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How to Change Negative Attitudes at Your Workplace
A negative attitude can be contagious, so make those negative attitudes positive ones! Some employees who have negative attitudes aren't doing anything particularly wrong; they just have a cynical, negative perspective that pervades your business. So what do you do?
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Acknowledge concerns. Don't gloss over complaints or present a Pollyanna view of things. If appropriate, acknowledge the other person's point of view and provide clarification on any misunderstandings.
Be part of the solution. Instead of allowing your employees to present only problems, encourage them to propose solutions. Ask them to offer at least one resolution to any complaint.
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We need your help in developing a simple update of our current 'caring hands' logo. We want our logo to be strong, vibrant and capture our dedication to people with disabilities.
Roundup Fellowship is a Not for Profit agency founded in 1973. We work with children and adults with disabilities (Downs Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation, Autism, Seizure Disorders, etc), in Group Homes, Special Needs School and Day Treatment, mainly serving Denver and Colorado Springs.
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Hard Reset Method for LG Optimus LTE Tag : How to
1. Switch off your LG Optimus LTE Tag either by holding the Power key for a short while, or by removing the battery; whichever is possible.
2. Press and hold the Volume Down and Power button together for some seconds.
3. When the LG logo is displayed, release the Power key and keep pressing the Volume Down.
4. While still holding the Volume Down key, tap the Power Key one more time.
5. Now, you should see the factory reset menu on your LG Optimus LTE Tag screen.
Confirm the whole process by choosing appropriate options.Use Volume rockers to scroll and Power button to confirm.
6. Wait few minutes until your LG Optimus LTE Tag completes the wiping operation!
And by that, you have just hard reset your LG Optimus LTE Tag.
Factory Reset Guide for LG Optimus LTE Tag : How to
1. If your LG Optimus LTE Tag is turned off, turn on the device by Pressing the Power Key until it comes on.
2. From the phone's Main Menu go to Settings, General then Backup & Reset.
3. From the screen, tap Factory Data Reset and then, Reset Phone.
Choose Delete All if you are sure you want to clear all your data.
Then select OK to confirm the whole operation.
Good. You have just performed a Factory Reset on your LG Optimus LTE Tag.
Hard Reset is the process of reverting your phone's settings to its factory defaults using some key combinations without going through the phone settings before doing so. While Factory Reset is the process of resetting your phone to its factory default settings while the phone is on Android Mode.
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The "American Idol" results are in!
On the heels of the news that Randy Jackson will be leaving after 12 seasons of sitting in judgment of hundreds of aspiring pop stars (news that Ryan Seacrest couldn't help but acknowledge), another talented young lady was sent home tonight--just shy of next week's finale.
"Of course, a little later on, we'll be revealing who is leaving our show," Ryan said, turning Randy's chair slightly and giving him a pointed look. The veteran judge played coy, shaking his head and laughing as if he didn't know what Ryan could possibly be referring to.
NEWS: Four new "Idol" judges wanted for next year
"Maybe a heads-up?" Ryan cracked before moving on to the first order of business of the night: Candice Glover, Kree Harrison and Angie Miller joining forces on Selena Gomez's "Who Says."
But the piece de resistance was, of course, the elimination.
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What is the best way to get a whole office of micro-credit employees together on short notice?
Today I found the answer: pumpkin risotto.
As I am nearing the end of my Kiva fellowship in Armenia, I got together with my MFI staff at SEF International for a goodbye lunch. Armenia is known for its great barbecues, so I decided to cook up something new…and vegetarian.
The risotto turned out great, but the really amazing part for me was getting to know my co-workers in a totally new way. I've been working with the staff at SEF for three months now, but I usually meet with people individually, and always to discuss Kiva-related matters. Today I got to see everyone together as a community. We took our minds off work and joked around with each other. It was pretty neat!
Kiva is all about connecting people from all around the world, and we did just that with every bite. So today I raise my risotto-laden fork to Kiva. Whether you are a Kiva lender, borrower, or fellow, I wish you many more years of connection and community around the world!
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At what age can I file for Medicare, and how will it impact my Social Security benefits? Can I file for Medicare and Medicaid even if I delay filing for Social Security?
-- David Denouement
Dear David,
Applying for Medicare won't impact your eligibility for Social Security benefits.
You should file for Medicare before you turn 65 unless you plan to use a private health insurance plan and want to continue using it. The initial enrollment period for Medicare begins three months before the month you turn 65 to three months after the month you turn 65. There can be a late enrollment penalty for certain types of Medicare coverage.
If you have a disability or permanent kidney failure, you may be able to apply for Medicare even earlier.
While you're making this transition, make sure there aren't any gaps in your health care coverage. Don't cancel any health insurance until your Medicare coverage actually begins. Also, make sure to discuss any continuing coverage options with your employer or health care provider. You can download the publication, "Medicare and Other Health Benefits: Your Guide to Who Pays First," for additional information on this topic.
Medicare coverage comes in four distinct parts.
- Part A (hospital insurance).
- Part B (medical insurance).
- Part C (Medicare Advantage plan). Like an HMO or PPO, this part replaces Part A and Part B.
- Part D (drug coverage).
You can buy a Medicare supplemental insurance policy, or Medigap, from a private insurer to cover gaps in original Medicare coverage, parts A and B. A Medigap policy can't be used with the Medicare Advantage plan.
Medicare.gov has a publication, "Decide how to get your Medicare," that walks you through the decision process as to which choice may be right for you. Contact Medicare if you don't understand your choices.
Medicaid is a separate, state-run program. It provides hospital and medical coverage for people with low income and limited resources. Some people qualify for both programs. If you think that you do, then contact your local medical assistance agency, social services or welfare office.
Thanks to Edward Lafferty, a public affairs specialist at the Social Security Administration, for helping me with this reply.
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Let's commune: The Haywood Street Congregation is one of many local organizations that collects new or gently used items for sharing with those in need. High on the list this time of year: warm coats and clothes, as well as children's toys. photo courtesy of the Haywood Street Congregation
I had my carpets cleaned the other day, and it shook up my life like a snow globe. Trapped in the middle of the sphere, I felt barraged by my belongings. The rain of letters, books, clothes, rags masquerading as clothes, and odd plastic things swirled around my room as I scrambled to get everything up from the floor.
After seven years of living with Type 1 diabetes, it's hard not to see everything in the terms of blood-sugar balance. But this excess clutter, well, this was clearly high "habitat sugar."
Why all this stuff hanging around, pulling me down? There were reminders of who I was at 2 years old (plastic jack-o'-lantern), at 7 (kids' books), at 13 (journals — all right, I'm keeping those), in high school (jeans painted with peace signs and shout-outs to Joplin and Hendrix — decades late, but still felt it, man), and who I was some months ago (letters, bank statements, numerous prescription-refill bags).
Why? Did I think my room was going to be audited by my Self? ("Are you really who you think you are? Prove it!")
No, not really. And in fact I have a pretty good memory even without that plastic orange pumpkin accumulating dust under the bed.
Things have been better since the cleaning. I separated stuff into give-away, throwaway and keep piles, and I'm now slowly relocating those belongings to the appropriate habitats. But the process has made me think about the origin of stress in my life. Is the frustration really coming from the traffic jam? Is it really coming from the fact that I'm five minutes late for a meeting? Or did it start months ago, years ago, stuck energy piling up in closets and corners?
Not all of life's stress comes from clutter, but a lot of it does come from excess on one end and lack on the other. Many in our community are experiencing an acute need, especially during these winter months, and I suspect there are at least as many of us who could use a little paring down.
Simplifying one's habitat to only those objects that truly enrich one's life, either functionally or emotionally, creates an opportunity for clarity — a jumping-off place. Meanwhile, for those who live in fear of being cold or not having the basic kitchen goods to cook their family a healthy meal, it's a chance to enhance security.
Some of what we hold onto is junk, but a lot of it is really good stuff that we're not using but may just be afraid to let go of. Potential is unlocked by use. Giving away clothes, appliances and other things you don't need is a great way to nourish your community — and yourself.
There are so many amazing organizations working to make Asheville a city built on equality and caring for individuals. Please don't let fresh, viable food go to waste when people are hungry — especially healthy foods that could help children grow. Do not let a single coat go unworn this winter. And let that cast iron you're not using fry eggs the way it was made to!
Asheville resident Katie Souris is a care counselor in the YWCA's Diabetes Wellness and Prevention program.


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The modern SoC is designed with many modular IP blocks that have been commercially licensed or reused from previous designs, along with some new proprietary components. Integrating all of the components has typically proven to be time-consuming and error-prone as designers stitch their SoCs together by hand or rigid and outdated scripts. Challenges also exist in the form of highly configurable IP blocks such as the interconnect fabric and debug & trace subsystem.
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When he inherits a fortune, a small-town poet has to deal with the corruption of city life.
Martin W. Semple dies and leaves $20 million to his nephew, Longfellow Deeds, a tuba-playing resident of Mandrake Falls, which is a small town in Vermont. John Cedar, the deceased's lawyer, and Cornelius Cobb, a press agent, tell Deeds about his fortune and take him to New York City. Deeds quickly becomes tangled in the problems of the rich, including being the chairman of the board of the local opera company and dismissing a false claimant to the estate. Meanwhile, Cedar tries to obtain power of attorney from Deeds to cover up the half million dollars his firm embezzled from the estate. Cobb fights off the press, with the exception of Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Babe Bennett, who poses as impoverished Mary Dawson to get a scoop on Deeds. She faints in front of the kindhearted Deeds, who takes her to a restaurant and falls for her almost immediately. The restaurant is a favorite spot for famous writers, and after being introduced to some poets he admires, Deeds realizes they are ridiculing his greeting card poetry. He punches two of the sneering poets, but lets one of them, Morrow, take him on an all-night binge. The normally temperate Deeds gets drunk, feeds donuts to a horse and, wearing only his underwear, is escorted home by the police. The next day a newspaper article appears chronicling his adventures and branding him "The Cinderella Man." Cobb restrains Deeds from any rash action, and although hurt by the article, Deeds carries on. Weeks pass, and Cedar is distraught about not obtaining power of attorney from Deeds, while Mr. and Mrs. Semple, Deeds' cousins, come to the law firm to make a claim against him. During this time, Babe, who is falling in love with Deeds, continues to secretly publish inflammatory articles about him. Soon Deeds and society hostess Madame Pomponi hold a charity reception, but Deeds, sick of his guests' arrogance and eager to keep a date with Babe, throws them out, then rushes to Babe's apartment, gives her a poem and proposes. She quits her job the next morning, hoping that Deeds will forgive her when she tells him the truth. At the same time she is quitting, however, Cobb is revealing her identity to Deeds, who is crushed. He is about to leave for Mandrake Falls when a starving farmer bursts in and accuses him of neglecting the poor by wasting his money on high society high jinks. Inspired by the man's pleas, Deeds decides to give farms to needy families, and devises an $18 million dispersement plan, which horrifies Cedar and the Semples, who have Deeds arrested on an insanity charge. At the sanity hearing, the dispirited Deeds refuses to defend himself, preferring to listen silently to the exaggerations and lies told about him. When Judge May concludes that Deeds must be committed to an asylum, Babe protests in open court, explaining that Deeds is not defending himself because he has been hurt by her and the others. Under cross-examination by Cedar, she admits she loves Deeds, while her editor, MacWade, Cobb and the farmers all urge him to defend himself. He finally takes the stand and points out the eccentricities of others in the courtroom, including those of Judge May and the psychiatrist, then explains that he is giving the money away to those who need it most. Judge May dismisses all the charges against Deeds and the crowd sweeps Deeds out, while Babe remains weeping until he returns to carry her away.
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Many of you probably already saw the announcement of the $500 million contract that was signed between Allscripts Healthcare Solutions and ACS, A Xerox Company, to provide hosted IT service for the Allscripts' Sunrise Enterprise Suite. Considering the size of the contract, I thought it would be interesting to do an interview to learn more about the Allscripts and ACS (Xerox) relationship.
The following is an email interview with Lee Shapiro, President, Allscripts and Chad Harris, Executive Vice President and Group President, ACS Healthcare Provider and IT Applications Solutions. They duck a few of the questions, but provide some information about their relationship that I think's useful and interesting.
Lee Shapiro, president, Allscripts
What percentage of Allscripts Sunrise Enterprise Suite customers use the hosted model vs. in-house servers?
There are approximately 50 remote hosted clients.
Why did Allscripts choose to outsource the hosting after having the infastructure in place?
As the payment paradigm in healthcare shifts and our clients' growing and complex needs around new regulatory requirements continue to evolve, ACS, A Xerox Company will support Allscripts as it scales to deliver service levels required for diverse healthcare settings.
Immediately ACS will begin to focus on standardizing and optimizing our operational processes, help to manage our Service Level Agreements on system availability and enhance our recovery and security capability.
This alliance also helps us deliver faster client case resolution. Longer term, it will enable us to deliver a richer toolset, broader set of monitoring capabilities, access to geographic data centers and new services. Allscripts will still have a remote hosting business and will continue to manage all aspects of the alliance and client relationships. Data is always available whether it is remotely hosted or not.
Do you expect to outsource the hosting of MyWay and other Allscripts hosted EMR products to ACS down the road as well?
Allscripts is always evaluating options to provide the best service support for its growing and diverse customer base. Right now, our ACS alliance is the best solution to meet current and projected needs. We will continue to evaluate.
Are you concerned that customers will have issues with having to work with two large companies? Instead of "one neck to ring" they will have multiple companies that can point the "proverbial finger" at the other.
Allscripts is excited about this partnership and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. We will continue to manage the client relationship at every level, including sales and support and will also provide our healthcare industry domain expertise in partnership with ACS's world class remote hosting infrastructure. This is a single solution for our clients. It is an exciting combination.
What share of the 96 providers using these remote hosting services are hospital versus ambulatory?
Allscripts has not entered to an agreement with ACS on ambulatory.
Chad Harris, executive vice president and group president, ACS Healthcare Provider and IT Applications Solutions
Describe how the transition of hosting will occur for existing customers.
The transition of hosting services will be seamless for Allscripts customers. From a governance perspective, Allscripts will continue to have a direct relationship with hosted clients, handling overall client relationship management activities including fielding service requests and projects, reporting, invoicing, and sales support.
ACS, A Xerox Company, will run and maintain the current systems by assuming responsibility for day-to-day technical delivery and data center operations, and supporting Allscripts in its continued service of new and existing hosted customers.
As part of the arrangement, ACS maintains the existing Allscripts data centers under what is commonly referred to as a facilities management agreement. ACS will optimize the data center footprint and technical environment overtime under a structured long term plan involving no impact to the clients. Additional capacity will be provided to support growth and expansion via ACS' global data center and operations network.
ACS will introduce industry standard best practices, new tools and other forms of automation, as well as additional services including advanced recovery to improve service excellence, performance and reliability of the hosting operation.
Will Xerox be bringing their expertise in printing and scanning to this relationship as well or only their hosting operations?
While Xerox technology is not specifically part of the current hosting engagement, ACS is investing in a Healthcare Innovation Lab for Allscripts to evaluate integration of new technologies, cloud computing solutions and client-specific deployment and testing initiatives. In addition, ACS and Allscripts will form an Innovation Council to evaluate future technologies and work processes that will help Allscripts support the changing needs of providers.
After the recent Amazon cloud hosting outages, what's ACS and Allscripts doing to make sure similar outages don't occur?
The Allscripts application environments are critical patient care systems and as such require an architecture that supports a very high level availability and performance. Under the new hosting partnership, ACS will work with Allscripts to maintain and improve application uptime and operational resiliency through a high availability architecture and advanced recovery capability. High availability is achieved through the deployment of failover technology, or methods, that ensure system availability and transaction protection. The most common configuration utilizes the active/passive clustering approach.
The Sunrise Clinical Manager (SCM) application is cluster aware and is configured in a clustered environment. ACS utilizes the high availability clustering supported by SCM application servers to ensure that all single points of failure are resolved and the application can quickly return to service after a loss of the primary server


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For Israel and their parents, Arab citizens fighting in Syria raise concerns
When word came that Zaki Agbaria's 28-year-old son had been killed in Syria, neighbors in this Arab village in northern Israel plastered every building with posters bearing his son's photo. The grieving turned out to be for the wrong person – a slain man had been misidentified – but the martyr poster in Agbaria's living room remains.
"I have to be realistic here," said Agbaria, 51, about his son, Muayad. "He's not vacationing in the Hawaiian Islands, sitting on the beach. We expect he may pass away any day."
Israel's Shin Bet security agency estimates that since the civil war erupted in Syria more than two years ago, about 20 Arab citizens of Israel have sneaked into Syria to fight the regime of Bashar Assad. While that's just a handful of people, the presence of Arab Israelis among the rebel fighters is a special concern, both for Israeli security authorities and for the families of the renegade fighters.
Arab citizens make up a fifth of the Israeli population. Like all Israelis, they're forbidden from traveling to Syria, which is officially at war with Israel, making them the unlikeliest of the foreign Muslim ideologues who've poured into Syria to help topple Assad – and those, perhaps, who have the most to lose if they return to their home country alive.
The parents of the renegade fighters, and their communities, are proud of the young men for aiding fellow Muslims in need, but they worry that their children may never make it back home – and if they do, that they'll face serious charges for making contact with an enemy country.
For Shin Bet, the presence in Syria of a handful of Arab Israelis "is loaded with high potential risk for the state of Israel," the agency said in a statement.
According to the Shin Bet, Arab Israelis who go to Syria are often fundamentalist Muslims who strengthen their ideologies once in Syria, undergo military training there and could supply intelligence about Israeli targets or be recruited to attack Israelis at home or abroad.
Attorney Hilal Jaber, who represented another Arab Israeli who traveled to Syria, said Israeli authorities were unfairly painting all those who traveled to Syria as fundamentalists.
Jaber's client, Hikmat Masarwa, was arrested in March after returning from Syria and sentenced to two and a half years in jail. Masarwa claimed he went there not to fight but to look for his brother, who'd traveled there months before and had lost touch with his family.
Masarwa claimed that he was captured by rebels in the Free Syria Army and that he offered to help them in hopes of finding his brother. He trained with the rebels for a week, then returned to Israel via Turkey and was arrested as soon as he landed, Jaber said. Then all of Masarwa's family was summoned for questioning.
"There is a fear that this will harm the security of Israel," Jaber said. "Every small thing that happens, they do a full search, even sometimes by transgressing civil rights."
The Muslim community in Israel is torn about the fighters, seeing them as irresponsible but also as helping fellow Muslims in need.
Sheikh Kemal Khatib, the deputy head of Israel's Islamic Movement, which promotes Islam among the country's Arabs, said he'd preached against young men such as Muayad sneaking into Syria.
"We are Arabs, Muslims, and we should help each other," Khatib said. "But Syria doesn't need any more youths. They have enough. Our role is in Palestine, by staying here and guarding our holy sites."
The parents of young men who go to fight in Syria bear the most anguish: Their children often leave without warning, so their parents cannot stop them.
Agbaria said he looked on as his son avidly watched amateur videos online of Syrian government brutality, enraged at how little Western countries were doing to stop the killing of civilians. Muayad had recently married, which might have made him think twice about going to fight, but he'd also become more religious, Agbaria said.
When Muayad went missing in late August and left his phone at home, Agbaria had a hunch about where he might have gone. He went to travel offices in a nearby town and discovered that Muayad and two close friends had bought plane tickets to Turkey, which shares a border with Syria.
"I didn't turn to the police, because I didn't think they could help us, especially during this time of war in Syria," Agbaria said.
Other families whose children went missing turned not to the police but to Agbaria for advice. One youth's father and uncle were planning to visit the Syrian-Turkish border to search for their loved one, and asked Agbaria to join them. He refused.
"Where am I supposed to look? It's not a small village." Agbaria said.
After Muayad disappeared, the next thing Agbaria heard about him was the announcement that he'd died. A month later, Muayad called during the Eid al Adha holiday, unaware that his family was grieving his death.
The phone call, however, did not bring relief.
"He called to tell me he was alive, in good condition and good health," Agbaria said. "He didn't tell me where he was calling me from. . . . I had a lot of questions. I asked how long until you come back; will it be one month, two months? He said, 'Not one month and not two, maybe a year or two.' "
The fear of their children being arrested once they return has made Arab-Israeli parents tight-lipped about those who disappear. One man refused to elaborate about where his nephew might be.
"From our point of view, he went to Turkey," the uncle said. "He could be swimming in the Atlantic Ocean, the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea – we don't know."
In November, Zaki Agbaria spoke to his son for two hours one day on Skype. Agbaria said he hoped to meet Muayad in a third country, maybe Turkey or Jordan.
"He said he is doing well, and he didn't tell us where he is. He said he's getting a salary and he's getting remarried," Agbaria said. "He's not coming back."