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Image via this ebay listing, where they are a size 5 and thus, way too small for me.
I've seen Bensimon sneakers lurking around the internet for a while. I thought, meh, cute, but more canvas sneakers are the last thing I need! Then I tried on a pair at Madewell and thought, well now I see what all the fuss is about!
Of course, I feel extremly picky. I must have them in the mid-top and they must be this light blue. The internet has let me down thus far. Bah! I will find them somehow. Magically they are comfortable as anything, and even more inexplicably, make my feet (hoovering around an 8.5 or a 9) look smallish! How adorable they would be with little dresses, shorts, skirts, taking the fuss out of all the fussy little details I sometimes feel too frilled-over in.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Where Do I Begin
I have been researching my mother's side of the family history for several years. It has been a fun, and exciting journey of research and travel for me.
My problem is deciding how to organize it and share it in this blog.
It is my goal to document here my HAAS and GRIMM Family research with original documents and family photos. My friend Carsten Schermuly, who lives in Germany, and who can read the old style German Fraktur script, is translating documents for me that I have found on microfilm at my nearby Family History Center. My photos have been given to me by my mother. There are some photos that I will share that have been given to me by extended family members, too.
My journey with my German research began with stories from my Grandfather Julius George Haas whose father and mother both came from Baden, Germany. Johann Ludwig Haas immigrated from Neckarelz, Baden, Germany in 1882, and Mary Magdalena Bauer immigrated from Rosenberg, Baden, Germany about the same time as Great Grandfather Johann Ludwig Haas. The story goes that they were first cousins who met and married after both immigrated to America. My Great Grandfather came first and he is first documented in Harrison Co., Indiana where his Uncle Ferdinand Haas was living.
Mary Magdalena Bauer, whose father was Ferdinand Haas, immigrated to America to live with her father. She had her mother's maiden name as her father probably had not married her mother before she was born. I have not found a marriage document and children who were born out of wedlock were give the name their mother's maiden name.
This was the information that my Grandfather Julius Haas was able to remember to pass on to me. He did tell me that his Grandfather's name was Jakob. But, I was not able to know anything about that name until further research and a trip back to the Old Country to the village of their origination where there were baptismal and marriage records with family names on them. It is these records that confirm my German heritage.
I was able to find the village from a copy of the Naturalization document and a Citizenship Paper that my mother's cousin, Randle Lee Haas, sent to me. Randle Lee's father had given these documents to him.
The story will continue later...........
6 comments:
- Becky Jamison said...
I want to follow this blog but your 'Followers' link is not active.
- December 7, 2008 at 8:59 PM
- Carolyn said...
Becky, thanks, I hope the link is working now. Let me know if it still doesn't work for you. I clicked on it to follow it and it worked for me.
I must get busy and update.
Tonight I'm trying to back them up before something happens to them and I lose them. That would be sad.
- December 11, 2008 at 10:04 PM
- Terri said...
There is another possibilty on the married name of your Grandmother Haas - It was customary to take the name of the house and not necessarily the husband's name. In other words if a man married a woman who had property he would take her last name changing his. So some of the records can be very difficult to follow because of this.
- January 27, 2009 at 9:44 PM
- Andrea Christman said...
I wonder if you have any Haas folks in Medina County, Texas (near San Antonio)? While I don't have any Haas families in my lines, the name is very familiar to me! I enjoy reading about Germans to Texas stories because I have a lot of that in my family :-)
- January 29, 2009 at 11:25 AM
- Dave said...
I'm trying to locate the origin and information for Joseph Haas of Baden Württemberg, Germany. He was born in about 1824 and had a wife named Rosa or Rosina. If you have seen anything like these names together or anything close please let me know. There were too many Joseph Haas names in the ship lists to even narrow to his immigration date.
- November 18, 2009 at 9:53 PM
- A rootdigger said...
I want to follow and did, I think. I am interested in your surname Hass and can't wait until you tell us where he settled.
Good luck with our beginning.
- February 25, 2010 at 11:09 AM

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No clear path toward new regulations for for-profit colleges and vocational programs emerged from a meeting of a federal panel this week.
Even before negotiators began, observers predicted that getting the panelists to agree on new rules to hold vocational programs accountable for their graduates' debt burdens and ability to repay them could be a tall order.
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That turned out to be the case.
The three days of discussion involved plenty of arguments about whether the Education Department should create a new approval process for vocational programs, whether students in programs that don't meet the department's requirements deserve to have their federal loans discharged and whether measures besides debt and income should be taken into account.
But there was little agreement. Belle Wheelan, who represented accrediting agencies, questioned whether additional regulations were necessary at all. Others, including Barmak Nassirian, a longtime critic of for-profits, advocated stronger regulations than a previous version written by the Education Department that was thrown out in court.
The panel includes representatives of colleges, accrediting agencies, consumer groups and other stakeholders, some of whom are outspoken critics of for-profit colleges pressing for more stringent regulations.
Negotiators meet again in October for more discussion and a final attempt to reach consensus. Their second meeting will be informed by reports from subcommittees tasked with considering different facets of the regulation. If panelists fail to agree — and they function like a jury, where one dissenter can hang the process — the Education Department writes the rules.
The process, known as negotiated rulemaking, is the latest step in the department's ongoing attempt to regulate for-profit colleges and vocational programs. The department issued final regulations in 2011 that tried to ensure the programs' graduates found jobs and were paying back loans, but a federal judge nixed the regulation, saying one measure it used was too arbitrary.
Now the Education Department is trying again, working from a draft regulation that drew criticism from for-profit colleges. It would judge vocational programs, and all programs at for-profit colleges, based on graduates' debt and incomes. Programs whose graduates' debts are considered too big relative to their earnings would eventually lose eligibility for federal financial aid.
The panel spent relatively little time on the central features of the Education Department's proposal, discussing instead other ways to judge vocational programs. They also spent hours on issues the department decided weren't germane, such as whether colleges should be able to limit how much students borrow.
One idea from Nassirian, which got some support from negotiators representing student and consumer groups but pushback from higher education representatives, would require the Education Department to create a more stringent approval process for individual programs.
The colleges argued that accreditation already fulfills that role without the need for federal involvement. But the consequences of regulations based on outcomes — such as student debt and earnings — measured years after graduation was a recurring theme. Colleges argued that they shouldn't be judged on debt that students incur before the regulations take effect. And student and consumer advocates said they were concerned that there isn't enough recourse for students enrolled in programs that could eventually fail to meet Education Department standards.
"As an intellectual proposition, I find it very problematic that the secretary can sit back with hundreds of thousands of human beings being sent into these programs with almost sort of a lack of interest in what happens to those people," Nassirian said.
Negotiators also discussed other ways to judge outcomes, including loan default rates, a suggestion from the Education Department. Some negotiators argued that placement rates are the most important factor for students seeking out career education. But they're difficult to measure, in part because federal law prohibits creating a database to link students' educational records with their Social Security wage data.
And using graduation rates in federal regulations is often a sticking point for community colleges, because the rates don't include returning dropouts and transfer students.
But Brian Jones, general counsel for Strayer University, said that the department should consider more measures when judging all colleges and programs.
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Environmental and health groups have criticized the industry for not disclosing all of the chemicals used in drilling.
A statement on the Baker Hughes website says company officials believe it is possible to disclose all of the ingredients without compromising proprietary formulas. A spokeswoman says the shift will take several months.
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Life has changed in a big way for the former Ole Miss libero and middle blocker, but volleyball remains a constant. Springer, the Ole Miss career digs record holder, lives in Brondby, Denmark, which sits about 20 minutes outside Copenhagen. Thomas, a two-time All-America selection by the American Volleyball Coaches Association, lives in Ljungby, Sweeden.
For Springer, life overseas has been wonderful. She lives with two other Americans and a Brazilian, and said she has loved learning about the country and its culture.
"I have noticed people in Denmark are very eco-friendly," Springer said. "Everyone here recycles and most people take public transportation or rides bikes. We ride our bikes daily to the gym and to the grocery. I have also noticed there is a lot more history to be seen here in Denmark. The towns and cities in Denmark are filled with very old buildings and streets. It's pretty awesome to walk down the streets of the city and experience all the history around me."
The volleyball season for Springer lasts seven months. Four matches in, the Louisville, Ky., native's team is currently atop the Danish league, but with three matches against each team in the league, there is still a lot of volleyball to be played. Recently, Springer's team swept a hard fought match, and she was named the Player of the Game following their first match of the season.
Thomas is playing for the Ljungby Volleyball Klub, where her head coach was an assistant at the 2012 Olympics with the Great Britain men's team. Thomas said one of the differences between the play in Europe and back home is the independence.
"You really have to be responsible for yourself," Thomas said. "Our coaches trust us to do our own workouts. There's no one over your shoulder, but you better make sure you're doing what you need to be doing or it'll show."
Similar to Springer, the season is young for Thomas' team, but she has already been named player of the game twice in her team's first five matches.
A few weeks ago, the two former Ole Miss stars got to get together in Denmark and relished the opportunity to catch up.
"It was great to see Regina in Denmark," Springer said. "She was the first person I had seen from home that I knew before coming to Denmark. It was like no time had passed since we had last seen each other. I was able to take her into the city and show her around."
"Seeing Morgan was great," Thomas said. "I drove with my coach, who was actually meeting his girlfriend there, and then I took a train into her town. Figuring out the train on my own was quite the adventure, but we had a great time. We went into the city, did some shopping, had dinner with her roommates and just hung out. I actually got to watch her play the next day too which was nice. She has a very talented group of girls on her team."
While Thomas is enjoying her time overseas, she said there is one thing she misses that she didn't think she would.
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The world's biggest annual watch and jewelry fair, BaselWorld, opened its doors to 100,000 visitors in the Swiss town of Basel over the weekend. With glittering displays ranging from diamond-laden watches to emerald necklaces, it highlights the best, and most expensive, on offer in the world of luxury goods.
Increasingly, the fate of luxury watchmakers and jewelers depends on Asia. In 2011, Swiss watchmakers' exports to Asia accounted for more than half of annual sales. Exports to China saw the fastest growth rate at 50 percent last year.
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I was glad to see more than 200 people in the audience for a discussion on water, peace, and security on the margins of the 67th meetings of the UN General Assembly yesterday. The United States, the European Union, and UN-Water co-sponsored the event, which drew senior representatives from governments, UN agencies, and international financial institutions. Secretary Clinton, whose remarks closed the event, has made water issues a priority in our diplomatic and development efforts, and I have been pleased to lead those efforts for the State Department.
Citing the findings in a recently released United States Intelligence Community Assessment on Global Water Security, Secretary Clinton noted that water is becoming an increasing source of tension between countries and a potential factor in state failure. She called water management and resource issues "both a moral imperative and a strategic investment" and noted that we cannot wait until we have a crisis to find solutions. To ensure that we head off potential crises before they arise, the Secretary encouraged governments to increase the priority given to water challenges and to work together to strengthen institutions that can support cooperation.
Lady Catherine Ashton, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, opened the meeting and stated that "water security is one of the major security challenges of our time." She also highlighted the need to enhance partnerships and promote sustainable solutions to water security challenges.
The other speakers at the event -- Michel Jarraud, Chair of UN-Water and Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization, Major General Richard Engel (Ret.) of the National Intelligence Council, Professor Konrad Osterwalder, the Rector of UN University, and Mara Marinaki, Managing Director of the EU External Action Service -- discussed the urgency of confronting water security challenges and the need for governments, academics, and others to work together to confront these challenges.
I moderated a rich, open discussion on the topic, in which senior officials from the African Ministers' Council on Water, Egypt, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Tanzania, and UNESCO spoke clearly about the need for more cooperative action on water and sanitation issues, and the need to take action urgently. Conflict over water is not inevitable, but we have to work harder -- and faster -- to promote cooperation on shared waters and to ensure that people have the water they need, where they need it, when they need it.
Many of you are already working on developing practical solutions. How can we better connect and share what you've already learned? We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this critical issue.
You can watch video of the UN High-Level Roundtable Discussion on Water, Peace, and Security on the UN website.
Judith P. writes:
Maria, thank you for sharing these insights from the UNGA and calling attention to issue of global water security. It's great to see some of the world's leaders coming together to put some thought into this problem – you're right when you say that there needs to be cooperation on shared waters and ensuring that people have the water they need, all of the time. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has supported several projects that speak to this issue, including the rehabilitation of nearly half the municipal water purification systems in Ghana, the distribution of water-conserving irrigation equipment in Mexico and a desalination facility in Algeria, which you can read about in this project profile www.opic.gov/hamma I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Naomi L. in California writes:
Undersecretary Otero, thank you for such a great post and for helping to champion Water Diplomacy. Here at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy we strongly believe that diplomacy, and public diplomacy in particular, are key tools to tackling water issues around the world and for strengthening American influence and standing. Through our Water Diplomacy Initiative we wrote a policy brief highlighting PD recommendations for US policies on water (uscpublicdiplomacy.org/publications/Water_Diplomacy_Policy_Brief_Online.pdf). Looking forward to continuing to track the U.S. efforts to champion water issues for the world.
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Under Secretary Maria Otero replies:
Hi Naomi -- Thanks for your note and for your interest in water security. I'm pleased to hear that USC is very engaged on this issue, and look forward to studying your report and any future publications in more detail.
Hi Judith -- I'm pleased to hear about your interest in water security, and am looking forward to learning more about OPIC's projects. Thanks for the link.
Eric in New Mexico writes:
Water in all its forms seems to be the most unevenly distributed resource on the planet even though a majority of the Earth is covered in it.
Melting Ice caps and droughts in lower lattitudes...if we can build oil pipelines from Alaska, we can avoid another lost crop season in America like we had this year.
And with rising sea levels, it would be less expensive for nations to figure out a way to desalinize enough to fill every dry lake on the planet and irrigate cropland, than to have major cities flooded globaly and lose arrible farmland.
If it's a matter of the security of nations, then you'all might as well solve more than one problem at the same time if possible.
Ashim C. in India writes:
Fresh water scaricty.....uhmmmmm...need for massive desalination technologies...
W.W. writes:
water: another false (flag) problem to generate profit for the few in the stock market
all of this is just made to trade water for gas ....


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On Sunday night I wrote that our rabbi (Jonathan Ginsburg of St. Paul's Temple of Aaron) would be meeting with the president on Monday afternoon. Here is Rabbi Ginsburg's account of his meeting yesterday with President Bush, retaining Rabbi Ginsburg's subject headings.
It started with a phone call from Senator Coleman the Monday night before Rosh Hashanah telling me that the President wanted to meet with a few rabbis right after Rosh Hashanah, and asking me if I could go to Washington to meet with him. Senator Coleman told me that I could expect a call from the White House.
I came into the synagogue office on Tuesday morning, and the secretarial staff was excited because the call had come in from the White House. They told me that there would be a meeting with the President on Monday. There were going to be eighteen people around the table — [16 rabbis and] the President and an aide. I asked what rabbis were going to be there, and they told me that they were a broad distribution, Reform, Reconstructionist, Conservative and Orthodox, Military, Hillel and Pulpit. They gave me the time and the place.
I announced [from the pulpit] on Rosh Hashanah that I was going to go see the President. I thought it would provide interesting material for the Rosh Hashanah dinner table conversations. As we were walking around in the Torah procession, some congregants stopped me and gave me agenda items that they asked me to talk about with the President.
It seemed a little strange to spend eighteen hours traveling for a one-hour meeting. On the other hand, I feel so blessed to have the opportunity to have this once in a lifetime experience. The toughest decision I had to make was which kepah [skullcap] to wear. I decided on the one I have which has alternating American and Israeli flags. I was so curious as to what the President had in mind to talk about, and also what other colleagues would there be, and whether I know any of them. We went through security and arrrived in a very nice, small room with a conference table. There were 18 chairs around it, with the rabbis and the president.
I could not believe I was sitting literally across the conference table from the President of the United States. One rabbi mentioned something that another rabbi had said to Lyndon Johnson once, which was that the President of the United States rules over more Jews than any other leader in history, including the President of Israel or Moses.
When I was in Orthodox Day School, as a kid, when we were late for the services the headmaster would say to us, 'Would you be five minutes late if you were meeting the President of the United States?' And guess what, we were. Somehow they left us standing at the tent, and so they rushed us in, and I walked into the room, and a man reached out to shake my hand. He says, "Here's a good fellow, Rabbi Ginsburg." I looked up and it was President Bush, already there and waiting.
He was utterly charming, eloquent, gracious and humble. President Bush covered a large range of topics in his opening fifteen minute talk, emphasizing war on terror, support for Israel and fighting anti-Semitism worldwide. Iraq, Afghanistan, the Middle East, recession, working hard to pull the country out of the impact of September 11th, and of the negative impact the war has on the economy. He spoke about his need to stand firm, the need to support the forces for peace in the world, but that there are cold blooded murderers he has to deal with. He said he's not anti-Muslim, he's not anti-Palestinian. He does believe there should be a Palestinian state someday, but he's anti-Palestinians who are terrorists. He ended by saying, "This is not a political event. Keep your politics close to your vests. I just wanted to talk with rabbis during the ten days of awe" (or close to that).
I told him that I had met him one time before when he was running for election when he came to Minnesota for a fundraiser, and former Senator Rudy Boschwitz invited me to this estate at Lake Minnetonka where this fundraiser was held. President Bush gave a speech inside a room that housed an indoor pool. The room itself in this house held hundreds of people. I happened to be just a few feet away from the podium and when then Governor Bush came off, he walked right past me, stopped for a minute, saw my kepah, and I said, "I'm Rabbi Jonathan Ginsburg. It's good to meet you." He said, "Oh, Rabbi, I'm so glad you're here. I want you to know that I'm going to do everything I can to help Israel. Israel is our friend, and we stand by our friends," and he walked on by. And I do believe he's lived up to that ever since…
I mentioned that to him, and I said, "The Jewish people believe you have, and thank you." And then I told him a story that I told over Rosh Hashanah about an elderly volunteer for an Israel organization who said that his passion for volunteering for Israel was driven by the fact that he had been part of a l iberating group at at one of the concentration camps. An inmate came up to him and saw his name tag and saw that he was Jewish, and said, "Are you Jewish?" in Yiddish. Expecting a hug from this recently freed inmate, the soldier said, "Yes." Instead of a hug, he got a slap, and the former inmate said "You're too late."
The President looked at me in the eye and said, "Part of my job is to make sure we'll never be too late."
A large part of the conversation was about Israel. One rabbi asked him about the security fence. He said that, if he were the Prime Minister of Israel, he would absolutely think pessimistically, but hope for the best and plan for long-term security. He said that you always have to leave open the opportunity for peace, and so there's a fine line between security and closing off the options for peace. He said that when he disagrees with Prime Minister Sharon, whom he considers a close friend, he tells him in private. The one example he gave was feeling Sharon made a mistake surrounding Arafat's compound with tanks, telling him that "we're trying to marginalize the guy. We're on the same page. Help us out here, you made him into a hero and martyr again."
He told a very moving story about being in Israel with his wife when he was Governor of Texas. Netanyahu was the Prime Minister, and Sharon was the tour guide of a helicopter flight over the West Bank. When Bush woke up in the morning, he looked out of his hotel window, and it was Jerusalem in its golden hue. He talked about how humbling it is to know that millions of people pray for him every day, and the sacred responsibility that entails. We mentioned that in our synagogues every Shabbat, we offer a prayer for him and for the government of the United States. He said he prays every day that God blesses him with patience, wisdom and strength, and "I'm weak enough to know that I need God's strength and support."
He talked about his concern of increasing anti-Semitism in Europe, and how he's trying to work with them to eradicate it. He said that we have to fight hard all the -isms. Then the Hillel rabbi there talked about the swatiska that Rutgers had recently and the shouting down of pro-Israel speakers on various campuses. He said that he knows about some of that, and that he is keeping abreast of it, that it's a concern. He spoke often about peace and freedom, the importance of optimism and the love of America. He mentioned several times the speech he gave June 24, 2002, where he laid out his principles of fighting terrorism and said the key is to continue to stick to our values and not deviate from them.
A rabbi mentioned a book he was reading about how the Saudis have continued to profess to be our friends, but support radical Islam all over the world. He asked the President what he thought about it. The President said, "You basically stated the question. It's not just the Saudis. We're dealing with every country in the Middle East that way except the one democracy, Israel. We have to try to reform them and help them be true democracies."
He had us laughing several times. He talked about the politics of the Israeli cabinet. He said that in Israel, the constituents elect the ministers, but he gets to appoint his ministers and cabinet members. He said that the elbows are very sharp in the Israeli cabinet, and he understands the political concerns and the political dynamics in Israel, and how complicated that makes things sometimes.
The aides were trying for half an hour to rush him out to sign the no telemarketing bill but he stayed and chatted awhile.
We're such a small people, and we have been controlled, restricted and murdered by the greatest empires in history. We have arrived at this period of history, still a time of danger for our people, but we are living in the freest country in history.
I was just stunned to be sitting across the table from the most powerful person in the world, a man of true humility and belief in one God, who spent much of this hour and a quarter, speaking from the depth of his heart about his concern about anti-Semitism and his understanding of Israel's predicament. I know many disagree with policies of his. I'm sure every rabbi there had some disagreements. But there was no denying the moment, the genuineness, the power of the experience. It felt surreal.
When I left I went across the street to the park and cried. I had so much emotion about being there. After all we have gone through as a people for 4000 years, so many tyrants under whom we have lived who have brutally mistreated us, to live in an an age when the leaders of the most powerful nation of the world care so deeply for this small people, as many presidents have, is amazing. It had a feeling of holiness to it — of feeling God's words that "those that bless the childen of Israel will be blessed."


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Skull and facial fractures are broken bones of the head and face. Injury can result in damage to the brain.
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Some trauma causes bleeding in the brain. A hematoma occurs when a pocket of blood leaks into the spaces between the brain and the skull, increasing intracranial pressure.
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RA'ANANA, ISRAEL, November 7, 2012, NICE Systems (NASDAQ: NICE) today announced that the NICE Mobile Reach solution won TMC's CUSTOMER magazine 2012 TMC Labs Innovation Award. NICE Mobile Reach is a solution for bridging enterprise self-service mobile offerings with assisted customer service on smartphones and tablets for creating a new type of mobile customer experience.
"We are honored to receive this TMC Labs Innovation Award for NICE Mobile Reach, which reaffirms the value of this unique solution for the mobile customer service market," said Yochai Rozenblat, President, NICE's Enterprise Group. "As usage of mobile channels such as smartphones and tablets grows rapidly, NICE Mobile Reach enables customer interactions with service representatives to be personal and effective, significantly improving the customer experience, increasing revenues, and driving service costs down."
NICE Mobile Reach is aimed at changing the experience of customers using smart mobile devices to interact with companies, while boosting the business results and reducing the service costs for those companies. It enables enterprises to utilize new and powerful mobile channels to intelligently engage customers in real time. The solution enables customers using the enterprise's mobile self-service to be seamlessly connected to the right agent, if needed, and also transfers the full context of the mobile interaction to the agent's station in order to serve those customers in the most personalized and effective way. And while the customer and agent interact, NICE Mobile Reach allows them to use additional collaboration tools in real-time to expand the dimensions of the interaction beyond voice or chat.
"NICE Mobile Reach is truly innovative and has made advancements in the customer experience industry," added Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. "We're pleased to recognize this outstanding achievement with a TMC Labs Innovation Award this year."
The TMC Labs Innovation Award honors products that display innovation, unique features, and significant contributions toward improving communications technology. The TMC Labs Innovation Award is granted to those companies demonstrating ground breaking contributions to the industry.
The TMC Labs 2012 Innovation Award highlights are published in the September 2012 issue of TMC's CUSTOMER magazine.
TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine
TMC's CUSTOMER magazine premiered in September 2012 and has become the industry's new, definitive source for news, product information, and strategies for communications that engage customers and potential customers. CUSTOMER's tag line "Target. Engage. Deliver." sums up what businesses must do to attract new customers and keep existing customers and will be the primary focus of the magazine.
Each issue of CUSTOMER includes news and insights on the latest developments in agent training, analytics and big data, ERP, IVR and self service, multi-channel call center, social CRM and other social media solutions, marketing campaign creation, mobile apps, outbound marketing, workforce management, and more. Please visit CUSTOMER.TMCnet.com for more information.
About TMC
TMC is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a global, integrated media company that helps clients build communities in print, in person, and online.TMC publishes the TMC's CUSTOMER Magazine (formerly Customer Interaction Solutions), INTERNET TELEPHONY, Next Gen Mobility, and Cloud Computing magazines. TMCnet.com, which is read by 1.5 million unique visitors each month, is the leading source of news and articles for the communications and technology industries. TMC is the producer of ITEXPO, the world's leading B2B communications event. In addition, TMC runs multiple industry events: Cloud Communications Expo; Cloud4SMB Expo; CVx (ChannelVision Expo); DevCon5; HTML5 Summit; LatinComm Conference & Expo; M2M Evolution Conference & Expo; Mobility Tech Conference & Expo; MSPAlliance MSPWorld; StartupCamp; Video World Conference & Expo and more. For more information about TMC, visit www.tmcnet.com.
About NICE Systems
NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) is the worldwide leader of software solutions that deliver strategic insights by capturing and analyzing mass quantities of structured and unstructured data in real time from multiple sources, including phone calls, mobile apps, emails, chat, social media, and video. NICE's solutions enable organizations to take the Next-Best-Action to improve customer experience and business results, ensure compliance, fight financial crime, and safeguard people and assets. NICE solutions are used by over 25,000 organizations in more than 150 countries, including over 80 of the Fortune 100 companies. www.nice.com.
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Final Environmental Impact Statement for Relicensing of the Klamath Hydroelectric Project No. 2082-027
Issued: November 16, 2007
Commission staff prepared a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for relicensing of PacifiCorp's 169-megawatt Klamath Hydroelectric Project, located primarily on the Klamath River in Klamath County, Oregon and Siskiyou County, California. On average, the project generates 716,820 megawatt-hours of electricity annually. The project occupies 219 acres of lands of the United States, which are administered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
The existing project consists of eight developments, seven of which are located on the Klamath River. PacifiCorp proposes to decommission the upstream-most East Side and West Side developments and to remove the Keno development, which has no generating facilities, from the project. The remaining project developments on the main stem of the Klamath River are J.C. Boyle, Copco No. 1, Copco No. 2, and Iron Gate. The proposed project also includes the existing Fall Creek development, located on a Klamath River tributary.
In this FEIS, Commission staff assessed the environmental and economic effects of:
- Continuing to operate the project with no changes or enhancements (no-action alternative);
- Operating the project as proposed by PacifiCorp (PacifiCorp's proposal);
- Operating the project as proposed by PacifiCorp with additional or modified environmental measures (staff alternative);
- Staff alternative with conditions filed by the Department's of the Interior and Commerce;
- Retirement of the Iron Gate and Copco No. 1 developments with additional or modified measures for the remaining developments; and
- Retirement of the Iron Gate, Copco No. 2, Copco No. 1, and J.C. Boyle developments, with additional or modified measures for the remaining developments.
The staff alternative incorporates most of PacifiCorp's proposed environmental measures, some with certain modifications. The staff alternative also includes 25 environmental measures additional to those proposed by PacifiCorp, including:
- Implementation of an integrated fish passage and disease management program;
- Implementation of an adaptive spawning gravel augmentation program in the J.C. Boyle bypassed reach and downstream of Iron Gate dam.
Based on our detailed analysis of the environmental benefits and costs associated with the five action alternatives considered in detail in this FEIS, we conclude that the best alternative for the Klamath Hydroelectric Project would be to issue a new license consistent with the environmental measures specified in the Staff Alternative.


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Two Georgia police officers have been suspended for their expletive-laden tirade on a school bus full of children.
The incident occurred Nov. 11 when dozens of rowdy middle school students frustrated the bus driver, NBC affiliate WRCB reported. The driver pulled over and warned students she would call the police if they did not quiet down.
The students continued to be unruly and the driver requested the bus dispatcher call police.
Two officers arrived on the scene and that's where their actions rubbed parents the wrong way.
Two Dalton police officers were captured on video cursing at a bus full of children. The bus driver requested police after saying the students' behavior was making her unable to drive safely.
In the video, the bus driver is heard reprimanding the students multiple times before pulling over, and requesting police response.
"You want to act like a bunch of hellions and she can't f****** focus on what she's doing," Officer John Gurrieri said to the students in a video obtained by WCRB.
The two officers, John Gurrieri and Steven Collins, are seen on video cursing at the students.
Officer Collins talks to one student outside of the bus, using a swear word. Officer Gurrieri talks to the rest of the kids, cursing multiple times.
"You want to act like crazy a**holes, do it at home," Gurrieri says.
Both officers were suspended without pay for two days and received written reprimands, WCRB reported.
Dalton Schools outsources contracts for transportation and told WCRB the driver is no longer employed there.


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Project Babb are simulating every World Cup clash to ensure you don't have to wait until the actual kick-off to see what might happen.
Argentina take on Germany in the most eagerly anticipated fixture in world football. Alejandro Sabella's men will be hoping to heap more misery on Brazil by winning their third World Cup on the home soil of their arch rivals.
Whilst the Germans will be brimming with confidence coming into the final after their emphatic semi final victory over the host nation.
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The Main character, Hiroshi, and his three other friends,Takuro,Takeshi and Mika, decided to visit an abandoned mansion that is rumoured to be haunted, and there is a monster in there.
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On this day in 1953, Lucy Ricardo gave birth to Little Ricky — and Lucille Ball to Desi Jr. This was not a coincidence.
Although not the first TV pregnancy — it was the second — it was still a Big Deal (even though the show used the euphemism "expecting" throughout the real-time pregnancy.) The birth episode, "Lucy Goes to the Hospital," was planned to run the same day Ball gave birth via C-section. The stunt worked: the episode was the most-watched of its time, pulling down 71.7% of the American viewership.


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There are things I would love to do but there isn't room for them, in this crowded life. These days leave big piles unfinished. Time marches on and I never get to the end of the to do lists and I always discover you don't need to do all of it. There isn't time or room or space to finish. Get the bare minimum done and get out and onto the next thing. There is always a next thing that starts before the last thing ends and so it goes.
If i had time I might fish, actually bait hooks with worms bought for the garden, which if i had time, would bloom year round with flowers and fruit. I'd toss the mudfish and bullheads back into the water, humanely and quickly, hoping for trout with the next bite, the next nibble.
I'd catch rainbow hued silver skinned and plump freshwater creatures and slit them with the sharp knife on my belt, pulling the maroon and pink guts out handily and bloodless. I'd cook the flesh quickly in deep pans of foaming hot butter, or steam it on the bones inside of parchment paper. I'd serve it either way piled with woody bunches of herbs tossed with a drizzle of fragrant oil, like a salad.
If there were time I would make bread at dawn, kneading the flour and allowing the loaves to rise with the sun. I would beat them down and let them rise again, and maybe even once more, the gluten creating and recreating itself in a bubbly web, lending softness and air to the chewy insides. The crust would bake hard and brown and cut the roof of mouths with its freshness.
Perhaps I would have caught many small fish, and the loaves would be flattened with my hand and split in half just after baking. The fish would be fried whole and hot in a buttery bath then stuffed between the bread halves with frisee and whatever herbs might be at hand. Sandwiches made with fishes you caught and bread you baked might taste profoundly good, bibilically so. I'd feel like i accomplished a great deal, and would go to bed satisfied.


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HARTSVILLE, SC – Coker battled Mt. Olive tooth and nail Thursday night but came up a bit short in a 75-64 loss in men's collegiate basketball. The Cobras drop to 5-7 overall and 3-2 in the CVAC and MOC moves into a tie for first in the conference with a 10-2, 4-1 mark.
Coker played a fantastic first half against the high-scoring Trojans and trailed 40-36 at the break. CC cut it to one with 1:45 left in the half on a layup by senior Blake Hall/Monck's Corner, SC but a foul with no time on the clock gave the visitors a four point edge.
The Cobras stayed within striking distance throughout the second half as well but could never take the lead back. The Trojans finally earned some breathing room with 5:15 to play on a put back by Elijah Rouse.
Rouse proved to be a thorn in CC's side as he continually fought for rebounds inside. The Kinston, NC native finished the game with 14 points and 10 rebounds, including five on the offensive end.
Hartsville's Johnny Jackson led Coker with 14 points, including four three-pointers. Hall contributed 11 points and four rebounds, and senior Michael Pierce/Whiteville, NC added six points and eight assists.
Maurice Horton scored a game-high 16 points and Elton Coffield added 14 points and five rebounds. Victor Young had 11 points and four steals.
Coker outshot Mt. Olive 48 percent to 46 percent, however CC turned the ball over 19 times and was out-rebounded 38-26.
The Cobras have the weekend off and will next host St. Andrews on Monday, January 17. The game, played on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, will be played in the afternoon at 4:00 PM.


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Dwayne Collins flirted with the idea of going pro after his junior season. The flirtation is officially over. Collins withdrew his name from the upcoming NBA Draft Thursday and will return to for his senior season.
The 6-8 senior forward had workouts with the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat, but had not hired an agent to retain the option of returning to the Hurricanes. "I'm really glad I took this opportunity," Collins said in a statement released by the school. "I got to talk to some NBA personnel about what I need to do so I can reach my goal of playing professional basketball. It was a really good experience and will help me next year. I appreciate Coach [Frank] Haith and the staff's support of me in all of this."
"I think this was a positive experience for Dwayne," added Miami head coach Frank Haith. "He will be able to use the feedback he received as he continues to develop his game. He is an important player for our team, and I absolutely believe he has the potential to be one of the best big men in the ACC this season."
For the second-straight summer, Collins also spent two weeks in Houston working out with former NBA coach John Lucas. Collins was UM's second-leading scorer for the second year in a row with 10.6 points per game, while shooting a team-high 56.5 percent form the field and adding a team-high 7.3 rebounds and 1.0 steals per outing. He ranked fifth in the ACC with 3.1 offensive rebounds per game and 11th in overall rebounding.
Collins – who has played in all but one game in three seasons as a Hurricane with 71 career starts – posted 16 double-figure scoring and six double-figure rebounding performances last season, including a 16-point, 14-rebound effort in the Paradise Jam semifinals versus UConn. In 2008, he scored a career-high 26 points on 12-of-14 shooting in Miami's upset of Duke en route to National Player of the Week honors by ESPN.com and Rivals.com.
Collins will be among four seniors on the Hurricanes' 2009-10 squad, which will also welcome a recruiting class ranked among the nation's Top 25.
Underclassmen who declare for the draft have until June 15 to remove their name and maintain college eligibility. The NBA Draft is scheduled for June 25.
Teammate Jack McClinton is the only Hurricane from last season who could possibly get drafted.


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caseywright necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 23 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
WingWire builds websites for real estate agents. The most unique thing about WingWire is that our sites automatically update with new articles 3 times a week, depending on the user preferences. This is a tool that will be launching very soon and we are looking for a website that can sell this service immediately.
Real estate agents in the United States, specifically younger, more tech-savvy agents (age 30-50)
This website has one purpose--to sell our service. Everything on this site should be designed to entice visitors to click the "Free 30-day trial" button.
This website must make use of our current logo, our current slogan (The Website That Writes Itself) and should at least look related (although not identical) to our existing client login. See attached documents.
The website should be easy to navigate, with big bold text and clear, compelling graphics.
This is a professional website. Keep it classy and clean.
Our logo and support number (877) WingWire need to be prominently displayed on both pages and there should be a client login area.
You will be designing 2 pages of a 5-page site. The 5 total pages will be: home, features, pricing, support, about. You will be designing the home page and the features page.
The home page should have the following items:
A dynamic image header with rotating images
Description of 4 main features (see attached)
Picture testimonials (testimonial text with pictures of the people giving them)
A prominent 30-day free trial button
A place for a demo video (still in production)
The features page should have the following items:
A text write up of each of the main features (see attached)
An screenshot to visualize each feature (use placeholders for now)
A place for a demo video (still in production)
A prominent 30-day free trial button
Some of the current designs related to this service. This site should be related but not necessarily identical to these designs:
Existing client login designs:
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James North needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 226 designs submitted by 45 freelance designers.
Designer Surf
We are a surfbrand created by a community of artists and graphic designers. We are releasing a new range of products including T's, Hoodies and Surfboards. We are looking for designers to produce unique design representing the culture of surfing (wave riding). Use your creativity. Our Facebook page is as follows http://facebook.com/designersurf.
Our brand is aimed at surfers, male and female, between the ages of 12 – 30.
Designs can feature any amount of colors. Designs must be original. They will be printed on either the front or back tshirts/hoodies. Designs must represent the surfing culture. Surfing culture is the art of riding waves/hanging out at the beach/enjoying and respecting the natural environment of the ocean. We look forward to your creativity and hope that you will be also interested in joining our royalty scheme giving all designers the opportunity to make some money from this contest. We will be in contact with all designers at a later stage.
Please see our logo attached, this doesnt need to be in the designs, but please feel free to use it and see how it turns out.


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mediainc needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 137 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
The product name is "Pure Cleanse". Pure Cleanse is a colon cleansing supplement, which clears your colon of built up gunk and toxins within your body. The benefits are removal of harmful waste from your body, extra energy and reduced fatigue, burns fat and boosts your metabolism and reduces parasites, worms, toxins and chemicals.
Pure Cleanse
We would like our clients to feel refreshed from using our product. Therefore, we would like you to incorporate this into the design. A refreshed feeling, including a modern and sleek look. It must also, be simple, yet creative.
Here are 3 competitor logos. Our design must be more appealing than theirs.
If we rate you:
1. Completely wrong idea; redesign.
2. Keep trying and redesign.
3. You sorta get the point. Keep going.
4. Top 10%, Almost there!
5. Finalist!
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- PSD and JPEG files
- Professional look and feel
- Credibility
- Something that works on all different colored backgrounds
- embodies simplicity
- Clear
- Letters must stands out
- uniqueness
- fancy but not too fancy
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- Complicated
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- no rainbow colors
- amateur
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WORCESTER — Plans to convert the mostly vacant Osgood Bradley building behind Union Station into 84 units of off-campus housing specifically for college students have cleared an important hurdle.
The Zoning Board of Appeals Monday night unanimously granted a special permit to Pennsylvania-based Vision Development Inc. to allow a lodging house use for the eight-story building, located at Grafton and Franklin streets.
A special permit was needed because 53 of the 84 units would have four bedrooms, according to Dan Benoit of the Benoit Design Group, the project architect.
City ordinances prohibit more than three unrelated people living in the same dwelling unit, but they are allowed to live together in a lodging house.
As a result, the developer needed the zoning board to allow a lodging house use for the building, which is located in a BG-6 (business-general) zone, to accommodate the inclusion of four-bedroom units in the project.
With such a designation, the building would be subject to the city's stricter lodging housing rules and regulations and would need to receive a lodging house license from the License Commission, said Stephen S. Rolle, director of the city's Division of Planning and Regulatory Services.
In total, the building would have 250 beds, according to Mr. Benoit.
In addition to the 53 four-bedroom units, the remaining 31 will be a mix of one- and two-bedroom units.
Rick Shaffer, president of Vision Development, emphasized that the project is "purpose-built student housing" and would only be available to full-time college students enrolled in either four-year or graduate programs.
He said tenants would have 12-month leases and all the units would be furnished. The building would not have any retail or commercial component to it, he added.
Commercial tenants now in the building have been notified that they will have to vacate.
Mr. Shaffer said his company, which would also be the building's on-site manager, hopes to begin construction in October so it can be ready for leasing for the fall 2015 semester.
He said there have been discussions with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation about leasing parking spaces in a lot it owns across Grafton Street under the elevated portion of Interstate 290. The city has also said as many as 100 parking spaces can be made available for leasing in the Union Station municipal parking garage, which is adjacent to the Osgood Bradley building.
While the developer did not specify the cost of the project, one proponent said it could be as much as $20 million.
The project has the support of the Canal District Business Association and the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce.
John G. Giangregorio, chairman of the Canal District Business Association, said his group welcomed the activity that 250 residents in the building would bring to the Canal District.
He said it is hoped that this project would lead to additional retail and housing development in that part of the city.
"We're pretty excited about this project," Mr. Giangregorio said.
The 160,000-square-foot commercial building, which was built in 1914, is owned by Bradford P. Wyatt.
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What's your Crappiest Moment Ever Contest
Everyone's got a crappiest moment ever and we wanna hear about it! Actually, we wanna help you feel better about it too, so we're giving away $20 gift vouchers to be used during our weekly Crappy Hour to the 3 Crappiest Moments Ever.
Whether it's the time you dyed your favourite shirt red in the wash, heard your parents wrestling, or discovered that autocrrect added an extra "i" to your memo about office pens–everyone has a crappiest moment ever. Take our Creative Director Jeremy Vandermeij (above), his crappiest moment ever happened in grade 6 when Betsy McBullyson humiliatingly pulled his pants down in front of the entire school (true story, except for the name).
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Devour the Day Detail 'I Am the Fire' Song Collaboration With Gus G.
Devour the Day have joined forces with guitar great Gus G. on the title track to the latter's upcoming new album, 'I Am the Fire.' And now DTD are telling the story of how the collaboration came together.
The band admits they were not expecting to hear from Ozzy Osbourne's guitarist as he was putting together his new disc. In a new Facebook posting, Devour the Day detail exactly how they came to appear on the new Gus G. album.
Guitarist Joey "Chicago" Walser says, "A few months back we caught wind that Gus G. (Ozzy Osbourne's lead guitar player) was doing a solo record (YES!!!). He was 99 percent of the way done, but he felt like there was a track missing. We later discovered he had listened to many bands current songs and Blake [Allison]'s voice and attitude (and devilish good looks) really stood out to him. His people called our people and a few weeks later Blake and I received an instrumental track called '13.'"
The guitarist continues, "We had a mission ... to write melody and lyric for a new Gus G. track! Pressure! We started to throw around ideas. As the song lyrics started to take shape we really wanted to change the perspective of the voice. Who was singing this song? We wanted it to be from the point of view of passion itself. What would determination say if it could talk? If the fire that burns inside you could give you advice, what would it say? We were on to something."
Walser says the band flew to Los Angeles to share their idea and the guitarist loved it. "We immediately started work on tracking the vocal. Then Gus came in and recorded a solo that bent the very fabric of time and space, no biggie."
The guitarist concludes, "'I Am the Fire' is meant to be inspirational. We want the listener to feel empowered as they conquer their next challenge. It has awesome guitar work, killer tones and a great mix of Gus G. and Devour the Day, like a super futuristic rock Voltron."
Fans can pick up the new Gus G. and Devour the Day single 'I Am the Fire' via iTunes. The album, which is due March 18, is also available at this location. And Devour the Day fans can also purchase the band's debut disc, 'Time and Pressure,' here.


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Have you ever noticed how diligent working on records can only get you so far in hunting for information on your ancestors? So many times we search for years for tiny glimpses into the lives of our forbears. Sometimes it seems that we go for weeks or even months without seeing any light on a particular question we are trying to answer.
But then, voila, something incredible happens. We get a lucky break. We find a massive clue in a place we wouldn't ordinarily be looking. We find a person, just by chance, who has valuable information to give us. This wonderful phenomenon is known as "serendipity".
Just a few weeks ago, in early November, I had a serendipitous experience. I was doing a Google search on my Kreis line. I have been confused about John Kreis' birth place as it is stated as "
" in some documents and as " Switzerland " in others. Just on a whim, I typed "Kreis surname: Germany " in Google. The second item that came up was the "Krise Surname DNA Project". Switzerland
And right under this title were these words:
"Another surname in this group is Kreis. ... in the Habsburg project, two more matching profiles in the FTDNA databank belong to living Swiss men named Kreis. ..."
Well, this certainly got my attention. I clicked on the "About this Group" tab at the top of the page. There I found the purpose of the group:
"The Krise Surname DNA Project has been established to create a databank of Y-DNA profiles of families with variations on the surname Krise. The primary purpose is to provide a basis for documenting and distinguishing different family lines which share a common surname."
Now I was really excited; I wanted to communicate with this group. Here I might find another research tool.
On the same page I found the name of the project administrator, Gary Kriss, and his e-mail address. I e-mailed
and introduced him to my Kreis line, starting with Johann (John) Ulrich Kreis and mentioned that I would like to join his project. Gary responded on the same day. Gary
First, he said that he would welcome me to the group but the only way to get in was to get a yDNA test from a Kreis male cousin. Now, this was perfect timing! I had wanted to ask my cousin, Frank Kries, to take a yDNA test. I guess I was just waiting for an opportune time. I called Frank and he agreed. I was on the phone ordering the test from FamilyTree DNA.
"We have living genetic cousins in Switzerland who spell their name Kreis. Since the Habsburg Project identifies our deeper roots in Switzerland and your family tradition recalls Swiss roots, there is a good chance that you are part of our genetic family. But the only way to prove that is with Y-DNA."
This was the first glimmer of hope that I had in trying to pinpoint where John Ulrich Kreis was born. I will find out more when Frank takes the DNA test.
Gary also told me that his family's American origins are in Pennsylvania and Maryland. I know that one of the families that the Kreises married into, Hausmann/Hannaman, also landed in PA on their way to NJ and IL. Perhaps the Kreis clan also spent some time in PA.
I feel so lucky to have found Gary Kriss and the Krise Surname DNA Project. It is wonderful to find others who have been bitten by the genealogical bug. This one lucky break has moved my research on the Kreis line a step forward.
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Karen Hill is unhappy. And she thinks cotton farmers and others in the industry should be upset, too, about what she feels is an adverse impact on cotton demand from the trend requiring uniforms or other standardized dress for school children.
The wife of a Tennessee cotton farmer, she says in too many cases these rules result in parents having to buy mandated clothing that is mainly polyester, and often at greater cost than for comparable cotton garments.
"This is an issue I've not heard anyone in the industry or in the ag media address," Hill says.
"In my state, some 500,000 public school children aren't allowed to wear denim or cotton tee shirts. At just two pair of denims per student, that's potentially 1 million pair of denims that won't be sold during the school year. Multiply that across thousands of school systems nationally that have Standardized Student Attire requirements, and that's a lot of lost business for cotton.
"As long as school boards keep banning perfectly decent, modest clothing, and until people in the cotton sector start pressuring legislators to see the economic downside of these requirements, it will contribute to keeping cotton demand depressed."
In many cases, Hill notes, the required school clothing is as much as 60 percent polyester.
"Even if parents wanted to buy cotton, in most cases they can't," she says. "And the polyester people are charging cotton prices because they have no competition for these uniforms.
"The county in which we farm is the No. 1 cotton-producing county in Tennessee, but the school board there has banned wearing denim. Cotton is an important part of the county's local economy — more so than soybeans and corn, which just go to the river and don't have all the people touching them, and deriving an economic benefit, that cotton does.
"If this is happening in a rural county, how much chance does cotton have in a school system like Nashville or in other metropolitan systems that have no connection to agriculture?"
Even in schools that don't require uniforms or specific items of clothing, Hill says, stringent dress code rules can get a child in trouble. "They're banning plain cotton shirts because they have a small logo, or the wrong kind of buttons, or even a design in the thread. One mom I know had to take a different pair of pants to her son at school because the ones he was wearing had a small Dickies tag on the pocket."
Sociologist David Brunsma, assistant professor at the University of Missouri, has done a decade-long study of the school uniforms issue. His conclusion: uniforms have no positive effect on student behavior or achievement, nor do they save money for parents.
And he says, they "may have negative effects … by increasing the division between economic status in schools and drawing the focus away from fundamental problems within schools."
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A Pennsylvania judge ordered Thursday a suburban Philadelphia official to cease granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples in violation of state law.
Montgomery County Register of Wills Bruce Hanes started issuing same-sex marriage licenses nearly two months ago after announcing his belief that Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
While Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini doesn't address the constitutionality of the state's marriage law, his decision acknowledges a federal lawsuit filed in July that challenges it.
Instead, Pelligrini limits his scope to say that Hanes doesn't have the ability to declare a state law unconstitutional:
When public official [sic] don't perform their assigned tasks, it creates the type of "complication" caused by the United States Attorney General decision not to defend DOMA, which led the Supreme Court of the United States in Windsor to spend as much time addressing that "complication" as it did on the merits of the case. In this case, a clerk of courts has not been given the discretion to decide that a law whether the statute he or she is charged to enforce is a good idea or bad one, constitutional or not. Only courts have the power to make that decision.
It's unclear whether this is a setback to Pennsylvania's marriage equality cause or not. By sticking to the administrative question at hand, Pellegrini has left the question of Pennsylvania's marriage law for another day. Which means for most same-sex couples in the Keystone State, it's business as usual:
Unless and until either the General Assembly repeals or suspends the Marriage Law provisions or a court of competent jurisdiction orders that the law is not to be obeyed or enforced, the Marriage Law in its entirety is to be obeyed and enforced by all Commonwealth public officials.
Left hanging in the balance are the 174 couples who have reportedly received marriage licenses from Hanes but whose marriages were never recognized by the state.
In other news:
- County-by-county marriage equality may have been stymied in Pennsylvania, but eight of New Mexico's 33 counties have given same-sex marriage the thumbs up. That patchwork endgenders confusion, naturally, so the New Mexico Supreme Court will hear a case on statewide marriage equality on Oct. 23.
- Leaving the lower 48 for a minute, Hawaii's governor has called a special session to consider a marriage equality bill.
- Congress is back in session, and for LGBT rights groups, that means another push to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. The Washington Blade reports that advocates expect a vote on the bill, which would ban anti-LGBT discrimination in hiring, this fall.
- Another Pride, another kerfuffle - this time in Dallas, where LGBT activists are up in arms after Pride parade organizers asked people to put some clothes on this year. "You certainly can still express yourself," said the executive director of the group that sponsors Pride, "but unfortunately if your way of expressing yourself is to be naked or to be aroused in public, then it's inappropriate."
Fair enough, maybe. But Pride organizers have suggested that dancers wear swimsuits instead of underwear this year. Because, you know, nothing potentially lewd about that. (Safe for work, unless your workplace has banned British diver Tom Daley - who came out as straight but not narrow this week.)
- Months after Russia passed a controversial law banning "propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations" - you may have heard of it - the country has reportedly admonished a cable TV channel for airing a movie promoting LGBT relationships. French musical "Les Chansons d'Amour", a favorite of Baltimore filmmaker John Waters, contains gay romance scenes. After it aired on EvroKino, the channel received a warning from Russia's media oversight body. So for those wondering how far-reaching that country's anti-gay law might be, here's one answer.
- Speaking of Russia (I know, I'm sorry): figure skater Johnny Weir donned a Russian military uniform to discuss the country's anti-LGBT laws and the Olympics during an appearance on ESPN2.
- Turkey has banned and blocked Grindr as a "protection measure." Feel free to riff on that one in the comments.
So, what LGBT-related news have you been talking about this week?