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Professional Skills for Staff
Programs on Training Calendar
(To view currently scheduled programs and register go to the Training Registration Site)
Addressing Emotions At Work
(3 hours) Emotions are as much a part of the workplace as the air we breathe. Happiness, surprise, frustration, anger—they are all there and more. Emotions play a role in the choices we make and actions we take. Directed emotions can motivate, inspire, and add positive intensity to our work. When strong emotions leave our control, or "run away," our personal productivity and the productivity of others suffers. Key relationships in are damaged, making it even harder to maintain necessary focus. Individuals who take the initiative to stay on top of their own emotional reactions and help others to do the same have a positive impact on productivity, relationships, the overall atmosphere of the workplace, and their personal well-being.
At the end of the module, participants will be able to:
- Identify the impact of emotions on their own productivity.
- Be more aware of factors that cause their emotions to intensify, so they can manage them more effectively.
- Choose and apply techniques to address their own strong emotions, so they can focus on getting work done.
- Know when it is useful and appropriate to take positive action to help others manage their emotions.
- Respond to the strong emotions of others in a constructive and objective way.
Building A Constructive Relationship With Your Supervisor
(2 hours) This program emphasizes the importance for building and maintaining a good relationship with one's supervisor and outlines the "why" and "how" to accomplish this sometimes challenging task. During this module, participants will review skills which will help them to:
- Confirm current priorities with their manager
- Ask the manager for specific feedback on how things are going
- Find out about supervisor's current priorities
- Identify possible ways to support supervisor's priorities
Effective Business Writing - New!!
In this 2 hour program, we will cover proper grammar and punctuation, email etiquette, and the importance of effective business writing.
Presentation Skills
(3 hours) Being able to speak effectively in public and give presentations is critical in the business world. Learn how to improve your communication style, inspire and motivate participants, and exude confidence and enthusiasm in your presentations. Participants will practice public speaking techniques and make impromptu presentations for constructive feedback.
Resolving Conflict With Peers
(3 hours) The more people have to depend on each other to achieve results under pressure, the higher the instance of conflict. Given the complex web of inter-relationships that exists in our work environment today, there is ample opportunity for conflicts, big and small, to arise. Conflicts can show up as minor disagreements or heated debates. However they present themselves, mishandled conflict situations damage work relationships and deplete personal energy and focus causing productivity to decrease.
At the end of the module, participants will be able to:
- Work toward reducing the impact that conflict has on productivity and work relationships.
- Get a clear picture of the causes behind a conflict.
- Prepare to address conflict with a resolution mindset.
- Talk through a conflict situation objectively and non-defensively.
- Develop first steps and trial solutions to begin to resolve a conflict.
- Follow through to keep momentum toward a solution.
Time Management
(3 hours) Time management is more than just managing time. It is about controlling the use of the most valuable, and under-valued, resource. This program provides individuals with tools and techniques to identify individual time management goals, explore time management tools and techniques, and develop Individual Action Plans for addressing barriers to time management.
At the end of this module, participants will be able to:
- Identify barriers to successful time management.
- Articulate and evaluate individual time management goals.
- Evaluate how their time is spent utilizing an Activity Time Log.
- Explain the Time Management Matrix.
- Discuss time management tools and techniques, including prioritization; scheduling; optimum work times.
- Recognize and eliminate time wasters.
- Describe techniques to manage procrastination.
- Identify approaches to managing heavy workloads.
- Develop Individual Action Plans for addressing barriers to time management.
Professional Skills For Staff Series: Programs Offered by Request
To request a training program, please email email@example.com
Customer Service
(3 Hours) An excellent service ethic is essential to the success of any organization. This program gives an overview of customer service philosophies and best practices. It provides skills practice on how to incorporate outstanding service in everyday workplace interactions.
At the end of this module, participants will be able to:
- Define customer service and its major components.
- Explain Pace University's service philosophy.
- Identify Pace's internal and external customers.
- Demonstrate rapport-building techniques.
- Exhibit customer service communication skills.
- Describe problem-solving techniques and identify solutions to customer complaints.
- Identify appropriate responses to recurring customer complaints.
- Demonstrate strategies for dealing with difficult customer situations.
- Explain the importance of follow-up in customer service.
Courageous Conversations On Diversity
(5 hours) By introducing participants to fundamental concepts related to identity and diversity, Courageous Conversations on Diversity will facilitate the exploration and discussion of diversity, inclusion and exclusion in the workplace. It will provide participants with the skills on how to make their environment at Pace one of equality, fairness and inclusivity.
Goal Setting And Establishing Performance Expectation
All full and part-time staff members are expected to have performance goals and expectations each fiscal year. These goals will serve as the basis for a mutual definition - between you and your manager - of success and will be basis for the end of year PMDP performance review.
At the end of the module, participants will be able to:
- Establish clear links between your performance goals and the strategy and Five Year Plan of the University
- Write SMART performance goals and expectations
- Clearly identify performance measures
- Clearly identify how goals will be achieved
- Write an Individual Development Plan
- Understand the difference between performance and development goals
Performance Management And Development Process (PMDP)
(2 hours) Good, effective performance management is a key element in the morale and retention of our best people and a key responsibility for managers. As such, this program is designed to help staff view the performance review process (PMDP) as a tool to help them maximize their performance as employees. The session will also establish clear links between individual performance and the strategy and goals of the University and show how improved communications and feedback between managers and staff improves productivity through open and honest performance related discussions.
At the end of the module, participants will be able to:
- Understand and navigate the web-based PMDP system
- Promote the objectives and importance of performance management
- Establish goal setting and communicate performance expectations
- Evaluate actual performance against expectations
- Describe the PMDP cycle
- Write accomplishment statements
- Describe both manager and staff responsibilities in the PMDP
- Provide on-going performance monitoring and feedback


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PM Netanyahu Meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Source: PMO, 9-21-15
Photo by Avi Ohayon, GPO
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Following are their remarks at the start of the meeting:
Russian President Vladimir Putin:
"Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I know that in Israel you recently celebrated the New Year. I would like to welcome you. Tomorrow evening, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the fast begins. I would like to welcome you and wish you all the best."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
"I thank you Mr. President for your greetings and I also congratulate Russia on its day of celebration. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to speak to you. Israel and Russia share a common interest to ensure stability in the Middle East. And I am here because of the security situation which is becoming ever more complex on our northern border.
As you know, in recent years, and particularly in recent months, Iran and Syria have been arming the extremist Islamic terrorist organization Hezbollah with advanced weapons, aimed at us, and over the years thousands of rockets and missiles have been fired against our cities. At the same time, Iran, under the auspices of the Syrian army, is attempting to build a second terrorist front against us from the Golan Heights.
Our policy is to prevent these weapons transfers, and to prevent the creation of a terrorist front and attacks on us from the Golan Heights. Under these circumstances, I thought it was very important that I come here, also to clarify our policies, and to make sure that there is no misunderstanding between our forces.
And I must say something else, both from a personal standpoint and from a national one – in all of the relations between us, whether I agreed and also when we differed, our discourse has always been conducted with mutual respect and openness. I am certain that it will be this time as well."
Russian President Vladimir Putin:
"And so it will be Prime Minister. Let there be no doubt about this. We have never forgotten that in the State of Israel live very many emigres from the former USSR. This has a special effect on our bilateral relations. All of Russia's actions in the region will always be very responsible. We are aware of the shelling against Israel and we condemn all such shelling.
I know that these shellings are carried out by internal elements. In regard to Syria, we know that the Syrian army is in a situation such that it is incapable of opening a new front. Our main goal is to defend the Syrian state. However, I understand your concern and I am very pleased that you have come here to discuss all issues in detail."
PM Netanyahu's Remarks Following his Meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and made the following remarks after their meeting:
"The conversation revolved, first of all, on the issue that I raised regarding Syria, which is very important to the security of Israel. The conversation was substantive. A joint mechanism for preventing misunderstandings between our forces was also agreed to.
The second issue that I raised is good news for very many Israelis who are waiting on a pension from Russia. President Putin said that he would seek to advance the issue soon.
He knows that depends on a Russian budgetary outlay but he is determined to do this and he is looking to move forward and conclude this. Of course, I expressed my appreciation; this is important. This will do justice for many people who are waiting and hoping for this moment, and I hope that we will be able to announce its implementation soon."
Prime Minister Netanyahu added:
"I would say that the importance of preventing misunderstandings is very big. Israel is constantly working to prevent the transfer of advanced and deadly weaponry from Syrian territory to Hezbollah. Israel is not prepared to accept a second terrorist front that Iran is trying build on the Golan Heights.
Israel is taking action and when it does so it is important for everyone, including Russia, to know how we are taking action. It is no less important in order to prevent misunderstandings, and it is worthwhile to do so before they occur and not afterward. Therefore, I asked IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, GOC Intelligence, and of course my Military Secretary, to join me in order to clarify things, first of all the facts, secondly our military and security policy, and third to really try to establish that same mechanism for preventing misunderstandings."

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Steven Kline, Jr.
Chief Data Officer, Gardner Business Media
Chief Data Officer, Gardner Business Media
Since December 2006, Gardner Business Media, publisher of Plastics Technology, has computed a business index for the metalworking industry. In December 2011, Gardner began surveying facilities across all of its manufacturing publications. After tracking the index's performance across various technologies and markets, we are now ready to present the results each month for the plastics processing industry.
The Plastics Processors' Business Index compares business conditions in the current month to the previous month. Each month we survey plastics processors regarding new orders, production, backlogs, employment, etc. We weight the various sub-indices to create an overall index for the plastics processing industry. A reading above 50 indicates expansion while a reading below 50 indicates contraction. If you are familiar with the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) index (www.ism.ws), our survey asks the same questions and works in the same way. However, our survey focuses on plastics processing instead of all types of manufacturing.
With a March reading of 53.2, the Plastics Processors' Business Index showed growth for the third consecutive month. I would categorize this as a strong recovery from the index's low point in December 2012.
The last three months have shown very strong growth in new orders and production. Low and shrinking backlogs are weighing down the overall index more than any other sub-component. That is despite the growth in new orders, which indicates a significant amount of available capacity at plastics processors.
Another sub-index holding back the overall plastics index is exports, which have contracted for eight months. This will likely continue as the dollar remains strong due to weakness in the yen, Federal Reserve monetary policy, and fears for the euro's health.
Contributing positively to the total index are employment and supplier deliveries. Employment has grown at an accelerated rate for three months, reaching its highest rate of growth since June 2012. Supplier delivery times continue to lengthen, indicating strong demand throughout the manufacturing supply chain.
Material prices have increased sharply since November 2012, although the rate of growth cooled off in March. Prices received by plastic processors for their goods have not grown nearly as fast. The combination of these two trends and rising employment is putting pressure on profits. Future business expectations have improved significantly since October 2012, reaching their highest level in March.
Processors with more than 50 employees have been growing at a strong rate in the last three months, and even more so for those with more than 100 employees. Processors with 20-49 employees have been growing in the last two months. But those with fewer than 19 employees are still mired in contraction.
All but two regions were growing in March. The Pacific and South Atlantic regions had the strongest growth. The two regions that contracted were the Middle Atlantic and W. South Central.
About the Author
Steven Kline Jr. is part of the fourth-generation ownership team of Cincinnati-based Gardner Business Media, which is the publisher of Plastics Technology. He is currently the company's director of market intelligence. Contact: (513) 527-8800; email: email@example.com; blog: gardnerweb.com/economics/blog.


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Army recruitment fraud bilked taxpayers of tens of millions of dollars
By JON HARPER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 4, 2014
WASHINGTON — The Army is conducting an investigation into large-scale fraud tied to an Army recruitment program, Sen. Claire McCaskill, the head of the Senate Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight, disclosed Monday, a day before she held a hearing on the scandal.
Investigators have found that $29 million in taxpayer money has been lost to fraud, but that number could increase to nearly $100 million by the time the probe is over, Maj. Gen. David Quantock, the Commanding General of U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command, told lawmakers at the hearing Tuesday.
The Recruiting Assistance Program began in 2005 at a time when the Army National Guard was struggling to meet its recruitment goals as violence in Iraq escalated. The program was created to provide financial incentives to National Guard members not on active duty, retirees and other civilians to act as informal recruiters by encouraging family, friends and other acquaintances to join the National Guard.
These so-called "recruiting assistants" would refer potential enlistees to an Army recruiter, and if the person signed up, the recruiting assistant received a $2,000 to $7,500 reward. Similar programs were later adopted by the Army Reserve and the active duty Army to boost their recruitment numbers.
The program appeared to be effective. The Guard began meeting recruitment goals, and during the years that the RAP was in place, almost 40 percent of Army Guard recruits enlisted through the program.
However, it was later revealed that Army recruiters, recruiting assistants and other Army personnel were claiming to have recruited people that were already going to enlist or had already enlisted.
There were cases where school principals would supply personally identifiable information about their students who were enlisting, in order to claim false credit for recruiting them and collect the bonus, according to Quantock. Some recruiters were involved in kickback schemes where they would claim that a recruit who had enlisted was referred to them by a recruiting assistant; the recruiter would then split the bonus money with someone claiming to be the recruiting assistant.
The first indication that something was amiss came in 2007 when Docupak, the contractor administering the Guard program, reported about a dozen cases of potential fraud to the Army Criminal Investigative Division. It took four years for the Army to realize that the fraud was a widespread problem because a relatively small number of fraud cases were uncovered until 2010 when the number expanded, Quantock told lawmakers.
After the probe widened in 2011 and Army investigations discovered many instances of fraud, Secretary of the Army John McHugh in February 2012 terminated the programs, according to Army spokesman George Wright. McHugh also directed a comprehensive investigation by multiple Army investigative agencies to determine the scope of the problem and identify the people involved.
In 2011, Army investigators determined that more than 1,200 Army recruiters were suspected of fraud, as well as more than 2,000 recruiter assistants. All 106,364 individuals who received money from RAP will be investigated by the Army by the time the probe is finished in 2016, according to Lt. Gen. William Grisoli, the Director of the Army Staff.
"While these combined efforts are ongoing, the results have confirmed a substantial number of cases of fraud and program abuse. These cases will be handled through criminal, Uniform Code of Military Justice or administrative procedures as warranted," Wright said in an email.
Some peopled reaped huge amounts of money from their fraudulent schemes. Five individuals illegally collected nearly $1 million combined, according to Quantock.
Thus far, 104 criminal cases have been adjudicated and 16 people have been imprisoned. No senior leaders have been jailed or lost any of their benefits, according to Quantock. One senior National Guard leader who fraudulently received $7,500 was not prosecuted because his case would have exceeded the statute of limitations by the time it would have gone to trial.
The Army will try to recoup as much taxpayer money as possible, Grisoli said.
Enlisted recruiters aren't the only ones suspected of wrongdoing. More than 200 officers are under investigation, including two generals, dozens of colonels, and more than 100 junior officers, according to the subcommittee.
"We need to hold our senior leaders accountable; more accountable than anyone else," Quantock said.
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The Broncos have been criticized for choosing to take a knee with 31 seconds left in regulation on Saturday and the score against the Ravens tied at 35.
And since success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan, Broncos receiver Eric Decker was asked during Thursday's PFT Live whether he knows who made the decision.
Decker didn't specifically identify any one person, calling it a decision made by the coaches. He also said that quarterback Peyton Manning expressed no disagreement with the decision — or any inclination to override it. (Yes, I specifically asked whether Manning made that face he makes when he's frustrated.)
Coincidentally, the Falcons also had 31 seconds on the clock after the Seahawks claimed a late one-point lead. But the Falcons had no choice but to try to get into field-goal range.
Still, the decision to play it safe in Denver remains confusing. The Broncos paid Manning $18 million in 2012 and will give him another $40 million over the next two years. One of the best quarterbacks who ever played the game shouldn't be taking a knee when there's still a chance to win the game.
But No. 1 seeds tend to play a little tighter and more careful when hosting their divisional-round games. The Broncos in that moment were playing not to lose. When playing a team with nothing to lose, that can backfire.
Decker addressed plenty of other issues in an appearance conducted in conjunction with his role as a finalist for the Vizio Top Value Performer Award, which goes to the best players who aren't paid very much money in relation to their peers.This video is no longer available. Click here to watch more NBC Sports videos!


text: The NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is located in Houston, Texas. JSC is known as the NASA Mission Control Center (MCC) for the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station Programs. JSC is also known for the development of manned spacecraft, for the selection and training of astronauts, for the study of space and life sciences associated with humans in space, and for the study of moon rocks and other astromaterials.


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This was published 7 years ago
Reserve's decision inevitable
A group of negative economic figures in recent weeks made today's quarter of a percentage point rate cut by the Reserve Bank a fait accompli.
Retail sales, company profits, housing and apartment starts, business confidence and investment intentions were all weak – and that throws the central bank's planning scenario for a smooth baton pass from a slowing resources sector to the rest of the economy into doubt.
Commodity prices are still strong compared with where they were before China's industrialisation boom triggered supply shortages from about 2003 onwards but they have fallen by an average of about 20 per cent in the past year as China's growth has slowed by about the same amount.
Mining company earnings are being squeezed by lower prices and rising costs and, as they delay or shelve some of their boom-time expansion plans, the expected peak of the investment phase of the resources boom has been brought in, to some time next year.
There will still be strong economic impetus from the resources sector as big expansion projects are completed. Exports will continue to rise and contractors, including companies which provide engineering and maintenance services for projects, will continue to feed off a sector that BIS Shrapnel recently predicted would account for 9.1 per cent of gross domestic product by 2016-2017, making it the economy's second largest sector.
But as the resources boom moderates, the outsized contribution the resources sector has been making to economic growth will also decline.
The flow of safe-haven money into a AAA-rated Australian dollar that still offers positive interest rates is, meanwhile, maintaining pressure on the economy, and the government's attempt to balance its budget next year will impose its own fiscal drag on growth.
The Reserve held its cash rate relatively high as the boom gathered pace because it was determined to keep a lid on inflation, even if it meant rates were uncomfortably high for those parts of the economy not feeding at the resources trough.
On Tuesday it said there were clear signs the peak of the investment phase of the resources boom was approaching. It said that created "more scope for some other areas of demand to strengthen" but noted that the near-term outlook for non-residential construction and the "investment generally outside the resources sector, remains relatively subdued".
That's the problem and the solution in a nutshell. The Reserve sees the need to give the non-resources sector more impetus, and now that the resources sector and inflationary pressures it was producing have cooled, it has room to do so. As it does, it will also make the dollar less attractive to fixed-rate global investors, a very healthy side effect for the economy.
There are no guides in the Reserve's statement about whether rates can be cut further. At 3 per cent, the cash rate is already as low as it got during the global crisis of 2008-2009.
The Reserve hints that it needs time to decide, saying that while there are signs earlier rate cuts are working, their full effects are yet to be seen.
Still, on the analysis of the economy the Reserve presents, there's a good chance rates will go even lower after the new year. (This was the bank's last meeting this year).
It is crucial that the non-resources sector picks up the slack from the resources boom if this economy is to maintain its trend growth rate of about 3 per cent a year. The recent economic numbers suggest it will take more than this rate cut to get that job done.


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As we wind down our three part look at recruiting contact campaigns, you've learned how to build, deliver and measure a successful recruitment contact campaign. We've taken a look at what recruiting contact campaigns are really about, practical tips and tricks for making sure your message gets heard, and some best practices for campaign-based engagement & candidate development. Of course, these strategies for success don't matter much if your message doesn't reach its intended talent target.
Here are six real world tips for making sure your recruiting contact campaign can get delivered – and deliver real recruiting results.
1. No Filters: Don't let your message get lost in a candidate's spam folder. Most enterprise and personal e-mail accounts have spam filters designed to catch unwanted messages. The most common triggers to avoid include messages in all caps, keywords like "free," "remove," "unsubscribe," and more (click here for a complete list of spam filter phrases).
2. Know Your Spam Score: There are a few tools out there for determining how likely it is your contact campaign will get caught in these filters before you hit send. Some recommendations include E-Mail Spam Test (http://emailspamtest.com) and The Cassiopeia (http://www.thecassiopeia.com/portal/SpamTest.html)
3. Multiple Response Options: Give the person you are contacting multiple options to reply. Include your e-mail, phone number, links to social profiles or any other way that a candidate can get ahold of you.
4. Don't Be A Bot: Make sure your copy is clear, compelling and above all, sounds like it's coming from a real person instead of a machine. Be creative and don't be afraid to be different, but most importantly, keep your message short and to the point. Longer messages are more likely to get caught in spam filters, confuse candidates or lose their interest.
5. Be Compliant: Make sure any contact campaigns align with all applicable laws and regulations, particularly as relates to CAN-SPAM compliance. For more details from the Federal Trade Commission's official website, click here.
6. Always Reply to A Candidate Who Replies To You: End of story.
This concludes our three part series on recruiting contact campaigns. If you missed them, check out the first two posts in the series, Contact Campaigns: What Recruiters Need to Know and How To Execute Recruiting Contact Campaigns.
About the Author: Dean Da Costa is a highly experienced and decorated recruiter, sourcer and manager with deep skills and experience in HR, project management, training & process improvement. Dean is best known for his work in the highly specialized secured clearance and mobile arenas, where he has been a top performing recruiter and sourcer. Dean's keen insight and creation of innovative tools and processes for enhancing and changing staffing has established Dean as one of the top authorities in sourcing and recruiting. Connect with Dean at LinkedIn or follow @DeanDaCosta on Twitter.


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Rhizome's Community Campaign is currently underway! Today, we're offering eight excellent reasons to make a contribution this year - the fantastic artworks generously donated by artists Anamanaguchi, Extreme Animals, DIS, Paul Chan, Ofri Cnaani, Kärt Ojavee & Eszter Ozvald, Joe Hamilton, and Jon Rafman.
Make a donation today at the following levels and you may choose to receive the following works:
For donations of $25, we offer limited edition ringtones from the bands Anamanaguchi and Extreme Animals. Load these ringtones on your phone to ring with noise and chiptune style!
Contributions of $50 will receive this large photographic print titled Contemporary Internet Lifestyles by DIS. Featuring performer Paris Gotti, this photograph is a perfect piece to expand your growing collection.
A donation of $100 receive Sade for Sade's Sake (2010), a data CD containing 21 type fonts and a collection of digital artwork by Paul Chan. Each data CD is signed and editioned; it's fantastic gift for any collector, artist, or designer.
Donations of $500 include a lush digital print entitled Slideshow #15 (no title, 1988) by time-based media artist Ofri Cnaani. This print was donated by the artist specifically for Rhizome's Community Campaign.
A $750 donation will receive SymbiosisC, a heat responsive soft sculpture by Kärt Ojavee and Eszter Ozsvald. SymbiosisC is a unique decorative object that changes color with your body's warmth. Its cushion-like size will fit perfectly in any home or apartment.
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Videos | February 16, 2011
First impressions of Stardust-NExT flyby of comet Tempel 1
Scientists reveal sights and sounds of comet Tempel 1 flyby.
Transcript:Was this mission 100% successful in terms of the science? I would have to say no, it was 1,000% successful.
We achieved all of our science objectives. We do in fact have a comparison of the Deep impact area it in fact does show an impact crater. It's about 150 meters across and has a small central mound in the center. It looks as if from the impact the stuff went up and came back down. You can barely see this, but there's a little lit area on that side and a dark area on the other and that's the central mound where we think the material came down.
Comets unlike any other body in the solar system are unique because when they are in the inner part of the solar system where the Earth is there literally coming apart and sending tons and tons of gas and rocks and dust out in space. This spacecraft Stardust went through this cloud of dust and rocks coming off the comet. We have instruments on the front of the spacecraft called dust flux monitor instrument and they have sensored to detect these impacts. A good analogy of thinking of like a B17 in WWII flying through flax.
I have a message for any school kids out there who might be wondering how NASA can send a spacecraft billions of miles through the solar system and somehow wind up flying so close to a tiny comet only a few kilometers in diameter. It's done with math.


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Cook the Book: 'Joy of Kosher' by Jamie Geller
Full confession: I know next to nothing about Passover and its many dietary rules. I've been to (I think) one Seder, and I was young enough to forget basically all of it. Once, my family went on a vacation with a practicing family over Passover, and I remember trying kosher brownies made from a mix. I wasn't impressed.
But I am sure that many of you will be celebrating Passover next week, and may be wanting to breathe some new life into your meals. Enter Joy of Kosher by Jewish food maven, Jamie Geller. Geller is the founder of a social website and magazine of the same name, specializing in approachable and often quick recipes for kosher families. Her new cookbook showcases the range of kosher cooking, adding sass and humor to this traditional diet.
Each recipe comes with a meat, dairy, or pareve tag. Geller also includes at least one variation that either dresses the recipe up for entertaining or streamlines it for easy weeknight cooking. Plus, many have (kosher) wine pairings, side dish pairings, and short-cut tips. It's the kind of knowledge one learns from working in the kitchen alongside an experienced cook, streamlined for the masses. Most of the recipes are simple tweaks to classic dishes; for example, Geller serves brisket with chimichurri and tosses raw root vegetables with soy sauce and ginger for a tangy, crunchy salad.
In the back of the book Gellar lists menu ideas for most Jewish holidays, the most expansive of which is the collection of Kosher for Passover dishes. She provides a four-page chart of each recipe in the book that is either suitable as written or easily modified to work over the holiday. Most of the changes are easy, such as using Kosher for Passover mustard or subbing olive oil in for canola.
This week, let Geller be your guide to a week of tasty Passover meals. We'll braise that aforementioned brisket and sample the root vegetable salad. Later, we will stew a Merlot-filled coq au vin with a bit of sausage, fry some latkes (why not?), and bake a tray of comforting potato and egg rakott crumpli. For each recipe, we'll add any notes for making the dishes Kosher for Passover, so even a goy like me can keep things straight. All modifications assume that the ingredients used have all been verified Kosher for Passover.
Win 'Joy of Kosher'
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Friday, June 27, 2008
May I Have a Word? Part 3
By Richard Firsten
Retired ESOL Teacher, Teacher-Trainer, Columnist, Author
For a conversation class for intermediate ELL students, I once had the seemingly innocuous idea for a theme of talking about foods that the students had never had before coming to the US. So I asked them to name some of the foods which seemed "exotic" to them.
"I love french fries," exclaimed Mahmood from Bahrain. "When did the French invent them, Mr. Firsten?"
"They didn't, Mahmood. French fries are American."
"Oh?" interjected Pierre from Quebec. "They're not French? Very interesting! Well, I love bread, and one of my favorites here in the US is English muffins. I really like them. I suppose they're not English, eh?" he joked.
"Nope. They're not, Pierre. They're American, too." The confused looks on the students' faces said it all.
"You know, in my country," said Clara from Peru, "we eat an animal that you have as a pet. I find that very strange. I don't know the name in English, but in Peru they are cuy."
"Cuy? Oh, those are guinea pigs," I explained, a little proud of myself for knowing such a low-frequency Peruvian-Spanish word. "Yes, you're right, Clara. Many children have them as pets in the US, but I myself ate one in a restaurant in Peru when I visited your country a few years ago. I must say it was very tasty."
"What is the name in English?" Clara asked.
"Guinea pigs," I said.
"Guinea . . . pigs?" she echoed. "Huh? But Guinea is a country in Africa. Do they come from Africa originally? I don't think so. And what do you mean pigs? They are not pigs!"
"Yes, I know they're not, Clara. They're rodents."
"Animals related to rats and mice."
"Ugh! You eat rats, Clara?" asked Mahmood, looking totally shocked.
"Not rats! Cuys! They are very good to eat!"
Feeling confident that most of the students wouldn't know what a guinea pig looked like, I googled it in my computer and found some good pictures to show them all. That turned out to be a mistake.
"My God!" shrieked Nuri from Curaçao. "They're so cute! You eat them? Oh, my God! How can you eat them?"
Well, at least I didn't have to worry about student participation in this conversation class. Everybody piped in with an opinion about Peruvian dining customs, and I was even mildly attacked for having participated in such an "uncivilized" act. I was very relieved when that class finally ended, I can tell you!
But it got me to thinking yet again about how nuts English vocabulary can be: french fries aren't French; English muffins aren't English; guinea pigs don't come from Guinea ― and they certainly aren't pigs. It's unbelievable that I can stand there in front of my students and feel embarrassed about my own language, the language I'm teaching them! That's why I've done a lot of thinking about English vocabulary and its strange paradoxes, and why I've written previously here about this topic, which seems to be a never-ending source of both amusement and angst.
So why shouldn't I have you join me in pondering these imponderables? Some of the following come from my own musings, and once again, some come from author Richard Lederer in his book Crazy English*. I think I'll let you share in my consternation over such thoughts as:
- Why is it that things like trees can burn up and burn down at the same time?
- Have you ever figured out the difference between sympathy and empathy?
- Think about this: When an alarm clock goes off, it goes on.
- Do you realize how crazy it sounds to say something was awfully good?
- How can quite a few and quite a lot mean basically the same thing?
- When you garnish food, you add; when you garnish wages, you subtract!
- Is it reasonable for a language to be able to say that feet smell and noses run?
So ponder, people, ponder! And while you're pondering and, I hope, joining me in this mild diatribe by sending in your own comments and observations, there's one more gem I'd like to mention that kind of drives me batty.
To post a letter and to mail a letter are interchangeable, and until the politically-correct police got a hold of the following terms, postman and mailman were also interchangeable. So why isn't it equally okay to say the post office and the mail office, or How much is the mailage? instead of How much is the postage? And finally, since we've got that relatively new expression going postal, can't we also say going mailish? I ask you!
Well, before I go mailish over pondering too much, I'll leave you to dwell on these thoughts and wait to hear what you've got to say.
*Richard Lederer. Crazy English. Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster, Inc). 1998


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Hope College will feature soprano Megan Sharp and harpsichordist Jonathan Schakel, two guest artists with local connections, on Thursday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Wichers Auditorium of Nykerk Hall of Music.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The performance is titled "The Birds & the Bees," and will feature Baroque music concerning all things avian, apian and amorous. The first half of the program will contain music by Henry Purcell, Thomas Arne, Johann Casper Ferdinand Fischer, and George Frideric Handel. The second half of the performance will feature music by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Francois Couperin, and Louis-Nicolas Clerambault.
Schakel and Sharp are husband-and-wife musicians who together direct the music program at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Va., and perform together frequently.
They both grew up locally and with strong Hope ties. Schakel, who graduated from Holland Christian High School in 1990 and is a 1994 Hope graduate, is the son of Hope English faculty member Dr. Peter Schakel and Karen Schakel of the college's Van Raalte Institute. Sharp, who graduated from Interlochen Arts Academy, is the daughter of retired Hope music faculty member Dr. Stuart Sharp of Holland and of Susanne Geerdink of Newaygo.
Schakel graduated from Hope with a history major and holds a Master of Music degree in organ performance from Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Mass., where he studied organ and harpsichord with Peter Sykes and continuo with Frances Conover Fitch. He was previously a student of James David Christie and has also participated in the McGill organ academy in Montréal and the Haarlem organ academy in the Netherlands. Schakel has performed on organ, harpsichord, and fortepiano throughout the Boston area, the eastern United States, and Germany.
Sharp has performed a wide variety of musical styles throughout New England and in Germany. She has sung with the Boston Early Music Festival, the Connecticut Early Music Festival, Ensemble Chanterelle, the Schola Cantorum, Longwood Opera, and Granite State Opera. In opera, she has sung such diverse roles as Amor in Cavalli's "L'Egisto"and Baby Doe in "The Ballad of Baby Doe"by Douglas Moore. Her oratorio credits include Mendelssohn's "Elijah"under the direction of Louis Lane, and the Mozart "Mass in C Minor" at Trinity Church in Boston, Mass. She holds a bachelor's degree in music from the College of Wooster in Ohio, and a master's degree in opera from the Boston Conservatory.
Nykerk Hall of Music is located at the former 177 E. 12th St. between College and Columbia avenues.


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my comprehension level is good as a bitch. of course being a poet-tess and being a theatre major i deal with hella shakespeare. let me tell you he is like God in human poetic playwright form. he is like too dope for words. just sit down with him drink some tea, put on some jazz and delve into the word. everything is meant to be spoken. he's like uh-maz-ing...uh-maz-ing. this shit is almost biblilcal, im telling you he will inspire the masses if we took the time to really read and digest his flava. i want a t-shirt that says shakespeare is my homeboy. lol
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1. Jamie Lee Curtis
The daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh automatically has the breeding of a star, but more to the point, she displayed the charisma of one in her scintillating turn in A Fish Called Wanda. So why has she had such a limited career? Her early performance as Laurie Strode in the first Halloween may have prevented directors from taking her seriously enough—it's certainly mired her in Halloween sequels, up to 2002's Halloween: Resurrection, and it no doubt led directly to her casting in the likes of The Fog, Terror Train, and Prom Night. Post-Wanda, she "upgraded" to forgettable mainstream fare like the My Girl movies and Forever Young, with a memorable turn in the unmemorable Freaky Friday remake. But her highest-profile moment came from her depressingly exploitative role in the popular but brainless actioner True Lies. Wanda showed she had the chops to be classy, funny, and sexy, yet her roles since then rarely allowed her to be any of the above, let alone all three. She's just one of many talented people who really deserve better than what Hollywood's handed them—specifically in her case, Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
2. Michael Keaton
It's hard to say whether Michael Keaton's negligible presence in show business lately has been a matter of bad luck, bad management, or personal choice. He's always been mercurial, jumping from broad comic turns in movies like Night Shift and Johnny Dangerously to more dramatic work in Clean And Sober and One Good Cop. And of course he probably made enough money in his two rounds as Batman that he never needs to work again. Still, Keaton has such a unique onscreen presence, simultaneously quick-witted and weathered, that he's nearly an always an asset, even when he agrees to star in crap like Multiplicity and Jack Frost. Keaton's recent starring role in the offbeat indie drama Game 6—and his work in the '90s as Elmore Leonard's Ray Nicolette in Jackie Brown and Out Of Sight—shows that he can still captivate an audience when he wants to. He'd be perfect as the lead in an FX-style drama like Rescue Me or Sons Of Anarchy, playing a semi-desperate character with a sharp edge and an unexplored tender side. Why not give him a call, TV producers?
3. Bob Odenkirk
While his Mr. Show partner David Cross scored another instant-classic television gig as "analrapist" Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development and landed nifty character-actor roles in acclaimed fare like Ghost World, I'm Not There, and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Bob Odenkirk has worked largely behind the scenes since Mr. Show's demise. He's popped up in regrettable fare like Monkeybone, My Big Fat Independent Movie, and Let's Go To Prison—which he also directed—but outside of his appearances on Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Odenkirk's diversity and unparalleled gift for comic rage have gone woefully underutilized.
4. Robert Forster
With 1997's Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino rescued Robert Forster from the dustbin of cinema history and roles that even Troy McClure would have turned down. (You might remember him from such films as Maniac Cop 3: Badge Of Silence, Satan's Princess, and The Kinky Coaches And The Pom Pom Pussycats.) Forster only got better with age. The glum pretty boy of Medium Cool and Reflections In A Golden Eye had become everyone's ideal dad: kindly, soulful, and blessed with effortless authenticity and soothing paternal warmth. Forster delivered a wonderful performance in the criminally underseen Diamond Men, but otherwise has picked up paychecks for bigger-budgeted crap like D-Wars, Supernova, Gus Van Sant's defilement of Psycho, and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. He's a working actor, but juicy, substantive roles have largely eluded him. Hopefully his upcoming appearance on Heroes will change that.
5. Judy Davis
Prickly and brittle, yet forceful, witty, and acerbic, Judy Davis scored a remarkable string of great performances in the early '90s, following creepily sexy turns in Barton Fink and Naked Lunch with equally volcanic performances in Husbands And Wives, The Ref, and The New Age. Since then, however, she's been typecast as ball-busting shrews in supporting roles. As big-screen opportunities dried up, Davis worked extensively in television, playing such real-life figures as Nancy Reagan, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Dean. Most recently, Davis has applied her idiosyncratic gifts to a supporting role in both the miniseries and series incarnation of The Starter Wife, a USA series based on Gigi Levangie Grazer's novel, a far cry from stealing the films of the Coen brothers, Woody Allen, and David Cronenberg. Sigh.
6. Geena Davis
Generally speaking, unless you're a Hollywood veteran taking your last bows, it may be better not to win a Best Supporting Actor or Actress Oscar. Just ask Geena Davis, who won for her quirky-but-deep performance in the 1988 melodrama The Accidental Tourist—after nearly a decade of bright turns in well-liked TV and movie comedies—and has seen her star gradually dim in the two decades since. Davis scored in Thelma & Louise and A League Of Their Own, and won a Golden Globe playing the first female president in the legendarily mismanaged TV drama Commander In Chief, but the sprightly, gangly, slightly skewed girl-next-door type that was her stock in trade in the '80s has been all but replaced by something borderline cartoonish. Perhaps the Davis of old is gone for good, or perhaps people have forgotten how to write roles for the kind of woman she used to play: smart, capable, somewhat flustered, but easy to like.
7. Rachel Dratch
During her 1999-2007 stint on Saturday Night Live, Rachel Dratch was a star. As one of the show's longest-running female cast members, she took on characters like Barbara Walters, Debbie Downer, and an amorous hippie college professor. Most notably, though, she wasn't afraid to get ugly with her roles, playing, for instance, the drooling love-child of James Haven and Angelina Jolie, complete with an arm growing out of her head. Dratch's longtime creative partnership with Tina Fey looked like it would strike gold again with 30 Rock, only Dratch hit a snag—her character on the sitcom was replaced by Jane Krakowski. Dratch showed up in several cameo roles in the show's first season, but has since faded away. In spite of her noteworthy SNL run, Dratch has yet to find another outlet for her talents—she's appeared on Third Watch and The King Of Queens, and in films like Martin & Orloff, Dickie Roberts; Former Child Star, and Click. Nobody is more aware of the unfair career turn than Dratch, who bemoaned her downtime to New York magazine earlier this year: In response, Perez Hilton offered on his website to pay her to make some "funny videos," but whether that's better than not working is unclear.
8. Rory Cochrane
Considering the many actors who broke out of Richard Linklater's Dazed And Confused, it's baffling that Rory Cochrane—who nailed some of the film's biggest laughs as the constantly high conspiracy theorist Slater—wasn't among them. Perhaps it's because he inhabited the role so well that his follow-up projects didn't resonate quite so loudly. After all, Slater couldn't be further removed from Love And A .45's speed-crazed biker Billy Mack Black, or Empire Records' philosophical smartass Lucas; both characters proved that Cochrane was far more versatile than some of his Dazed co-stars, even though the movies themselves were less than revelatory. Cochrane's ability to constantly reinvent himself may have actually hindered his progress. Had he simply embraced playing the laidback stoner the way Matthew McConaughey did, who knows where his career might have gone? Instead, his résumé is full of middling indie pics that failed to find an audience, along with roles opposite big stars in major studio gambles that probably sounded good on paper, such as Hart's War and Flawless. These days, Cochrane seems to have settled into a respectable television career with small supporting parts on CSI and 24, but as his go-for-broke performances in Linklater's A Scanner Darkly and the underrated Right At Your Door demonstrate, he has so much more to offer.
9. Rick Moranis
On SCTV, Rick Moranis made comedy look easy, sliding gracefully from playing suave VJ Gerry Todd to fast-talking film producer Larry Siegel to the beer-addled Bob McKenzie—not to mention inhabiting disparate celebrities like George Carlin, Neil Young, and Dick Cavett. Unfortunately, outside of a few creative gambles like Streets Of Fire and Head Office (both critical and commercial failures), his films rarely made use of his chameleonic talents: Beginning with Ghostbusters, Moranis was rewarded only when he was playing nebbishes, a career trajectory that was cemented with the blockbuster hit Honey, I Shrunk The Kids and its sequels. From then on, Moranis was consigned to family-film hell, playing cartoonish nerd archetypes—and in the case of The Flintstones, a nerd from an actual cartoon—and looking vaguely embarrassed in mediocre comedies like My Blue Heaven and Splitting Heirs. Finally, he retired from acting, having never really broken out of that "loveable loser" box. It remains to be seen whether he'll ever be lured back to Hollywood, but a part that finally makes good use of Moranis' range could be one of film's great comeback stories.
10. Timothy Olyphant
Back in 1997, those who saw Scream 2 probably didn't have exorbitantly high expectations of Timothy Olyphant, but in the dozen years since, he's put together too many excellent supporting roles to be ignored. After making an impression among the ensemble cast of Go in 1999, he mostly opted for roles in dude-flicks (though he stood out again in another group-cast indie fave, The Safety Of Objects) but to his credit, at least they were good ones. Aside from wasting time in Gone In 60 Seconds and The Girl Next Door, Olyphant added something to Rock Star and Live Free Or Die Hard. Perhaps that guy-geared résumé is what landed him his first cinematic lead, in last year's entertaining shoot-'em-up Hitman (and a role in Stop-Loss this year), but now he seems to be trying to bank a career on television. A Sex And The City appearance was his only TV experience before he took the lead role in Deadwood, a sharp contrast from recent screen time in the dumb comedy My Name Is Earl. In fact, Olyphant's versatility might just be what's holding him back: How do you brand yourself after showing up both on Christina Applegate's Samantha Who? and on Glenn Close's Damages?
11. Clifton Collins Jr.
An initial go-to actor for the Hughes brothers and in the cast for John Singleton's Poetic Justice, Clifton Collins Jr. was originally typecast as a Latino thug (he's half-Mexican), and a notable turn as a hitman for a drug cartel in Traffic only solidified the stereotype. But hey, at least he showed that he can be wildly entertaining while waving a pistol around and acting insane: Yep, that's him as a drug dealer (again) in The Rules Of Attraction, intimidating the shit out of James Van Der Beek and breathing life into the sluggish film. Thankfully, though, Collins is slowly turning simple thug-with-gun roles into thug-with-character-development roles. He helped immensely with his delicate portrayal of complex killer Perry Smith in 2005's Capote. It also appears he's finding parts that aren't criminals: His next movie is a sports drama, The Perfect Game. Then, uh, he's in a comedy-drama about homicide scenes (Sunshine Cleaning) and a thriller about serial killers (The Horsemen). Ah, well.
12. Lochlyn Munro
A Canadian who got his start on 21 Jump Street, Lochlyn Munro is too funny to forever be known only as the spazzed-out, beer-guzzling psycho roommate in Dead Man On Campus. (Perhaps it was his appearance in Wagons East that landed him the part?) Alas, it was all downhill from there: Screwed, Scary Movie, White Chicks, The Benchwarmers, and Daddy Day Camp all show up on his filmography. But dig up your DVD of A Night At The Roxbury—where did you put that?—and try not to giggle at Munro's portrayal of a ludicrously dedicated fitness trainer; Munro debatably plays "oblivious" to comic effect better than Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan. It's worth wondering what Munro would do with more screen time, but not too many people will be willing to check out Freddy Vs. Jason or Dracula 2000 to find out. But, hey, Munro graced the screen in Unforgiven, suggesting that he isn't all just dumb gags and dumb thrills. Then again… was that him in Deck The Halls?
13. Michael Badalucco
One of the characteristics that make the Coen brothers such great filmmakers is their ability to recognize acting talent that others have missed; their movies are populated with a virtual stock company of great but otherwise terribly unused character actors. Although he settled into a comfortable life of TV appearances, most notably as Jimmy Berluti on The Practice, the round-faced, squinting Michael Badalucco has appeared in a handful of films that serve mostly as reminders of how good an acting career he might have had if given the chance. The Coens first used him in a brief, memorable scene as a mob driver in Miller's Crossing, but it wasn't until his unforgettable appearance as a manic-depressive Babyface Nelson in O Brother, Where Art Thou? that his real potential shone through. A chilling performance as David Berkowitz in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam proved that he was capable of more than just comedic turns, and the Coens got another solid role out of him in The Man Who Wasn't There. But he's been ill-used since then.
14. Mos Def
Rappers-turned-actors are a dime a dozen, which is about what they're worth. One of the few exceptions is Mos Def, a critically acclaimed rapper whose movie appearances have shown him to be charismatic and intense. As inventive and emotional onscreen as he is on record, he can be breezily cool and sinister, often in the same role, but while he shows an admirable willingness to reach, he's been hobbled by ambitious failures, and more often than not, he ends up being the best thing in a bad movie: He was intensely watchable in the otherwise-dismal Spike Lee joint Bamboozled, and likewise the only worthwhile thing about the MTV abomination Carmen: A Hip Hopera. He's also done terrific work in movies that aim high but don't quite succeed (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and Be Kind Rewind) and TV projects that don't get the attention they deserve (Something The Lord Made and The Boondocks, where he has a hilarious reoccurring role as gay rapper Gangstalicious). If things don't change for him soon, his career will be defined by his appearances in blockbusters like The Italian Job: they'll make him money, but they'll leave him with the kind of sellout reputation he constantly decries in his music.
15. Mädchen Amick
David Lynch's , for all its greatness, unfortunately reads like a Who's Who of actors who deserved better careers than they ended up with. Although it's one of the most critically acclaimed shows in TV history—thanks in no small part to its dynamite cast—very few of them have had much success in the years since the series went off the air. Kyle MacLachlan started out as the best-known member of the cast, and ended up in Showgirls; the stunning Sheryl Lee did gross soft porn in Red Shoe Diaries before bouncing around various sub-par TV roles; and Eric DaRe, Dana Ashbrook, and Wendy Robie are all more famous for having been on Twin Peaks than for anything they've done since. Perhaps the greatest casualty was the striking, sensitive Mädchen Amick, who did a tremendous job as abused wife Shelly Johnson. Critics loved her, but success in that role didn't translate to movie roles; after a few unremarkable performances in duds like Sleepwalkers, Trapped In Paradise, and Wounded, she settled into TV movies and generic "friend-of-the-lead" series work. Like some of her fellow Twin Peaks actresses, she did time on Gilmore Girls, but she, like them, deserves much better.
16. Andre Braugher
When Homicide: Life On The Street debuted in 1993, it didn't just offer a more realistic take on the day-to-day drudgery of police work, it also featured one of TV's most complicated, non-stereotypical multi-ethnic casts. Andre Braugher's master detective Frank Pembleton quickly became the show's breakout character: a rigorously moral, frequently contemptuous cop with a keen sense of drama and a well-earned swagger. Braugher finally won an Emmy for his work on Homicide in 1998 (his last year on the show), and won another in 2006 for the underrated FX miniseries Thief, but for the most part, he's had difficulty finding roles that suit his commanding voice and visible passion. In movies, Braugher has largely been relegated to character parts that barely qualify as "supporting actor" material—cops, captains, soldiers, and his miserable role as a doomed dummy in The Mist. Maybe he's just going where the money is, steering clear of the kind of low-budget indies where he could soar, Paul Giamatti-style. Whatever the reason for his middling career, it's the kind of injustice that Frank Pembleton would never stand.
17. Dave Foley
Pretty much every member of The Kids In The Hall belongs on this list, since they've all shown more versatility and imagination in their comedy sketches than they've displayed in the smattering of bit parts they've taken outside KITH. But Foley is a particularly frustrating case, since a decade ago, he was holding down the center on the brilliant sitcom NewsRadio and doing fine voice work on Pixar's blockbuster A Bug's Life, while for much of the '00s, his résumé has been littered with cameos, comic relief, guest appearances, and TV-presenter gigs. He's been game throughout, but even when he was making the best of a two-year stint as the host of Celebrity Poker Showdown, he often looked depressed, defeated, and possibly drunk. Foley isn't necessarily a movie star, but there's no reason he shouldn't be anchoring another American sitcom or getting beefier character roles.
18. Anna Faris
If Oscars were handed out to actors who give good performances in spite of ineffectual direction, terrible writing, and absolutely no support from the supporting cast, Anna Faris would be the new Katharine Hepburn. A cute blonde whose good looks belie an endearing, anything-for-a-laugh fearlessness, Faris has thus far eked out roles in a long series of lame, brain-dead comedies: The Hot Chick, Waiting…, Mama's Boy, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, and all four Scary Movie films. (To be fair, she also had small roles in Lost In Translation and Brokeback Mountain.) Still, Faris has emerged as an unlikely darling among critics frantically looking for something good while sitting through some of the worst films of the past several years. Will Faris look as good when her surroundings aren't so repulsive? It would be nice to find out.
19. John Lithgow
It isn't that John Lithgow has had a bad career—he's been a respected character actor on stage and screen for more than 35 years, and he starred in a very successful sitcom, 3rd Rock From The Sun, in the late '90s. But he's never really had a breakout movie role as a leading man, and he doesn't have the creepy-cool status that defines similarly quirky actors like Christopher Walken and John Malkovich. (You could never base a Saturday Night Live skit on a John Lithgow impression.) But anyone who's seen Lithgow's brilliant star turn in Brian De Palma's underappreciated 1991 thriller Raising Cain—or his supporting performances in De Palma's Blow Out, or The World According To Garp—knows he can ham it up with the best of them. Lately, Lithgow has been appearing in small roles every couple of years in films that haven't let him unleash his inner weirdo. Please, somebody get this guy a script where he's playing multiple roles, and possibly wearing a dress.
20. Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn is known for playing slackers, stoners, and loveable idiots, but sometimes it seems like he isn't really acting. He's done enough good work in great movies—Out Of Sight, Rescue Dawn, Shattered Glass, That Thing You Do!—to suggest that all the crappy comedies and forgettable action flicks on his résumé are squandering real talent. Even more disconcerting is Zahn's apparent lack of effort in utterly forgettable trash like this year's Strange Wilderness, where he coasted on his considerable charisma in lieu of giving an actual performance. Zahn is almost always a delight onscreen, but if he applied himself a bit more, he could be the smartest kid in the class.
21. Justine Bateman
To date, former Family Ties star Justine Bateman has had a leading role in just one film, 1988's lady rock 'n' roll band opus Satisfaction. Though she returned to the silver screen in 2006 with a small role in the Judd Apatow-produced comedy The TV Set, and appeared in four episodes of Desperate Housewives this year, Bateman still hasn't experienced the kind of late-period career rejuvenation her younger brother Jason has had post-Arrested Development. And as a 41-year-old actress, she faces an uphill climb in Hollywood. But she definitely has that dry Bateman wit and air of intelligence, and she's always been a likeable, attractive screen presence even when she's had to troll the depths of the Lifetime Movie Channel for roles.
22. Jonathan Silverman
After 25 years in show business, Jonathan Silverman's greatest claim to fame is being outshone by Andrew McCarthy and a corpse in the Weekend At Bernie's movies. While nobody is going to confuse him with Christian Bale, Silverman is an effortlessly charming light comic actor with leading-man good looks who could do well with a snappily written sitcom. On the mid-'90s Friends retread The Single Guy, Silverman was a winning presence on a lousy show. Imagine how funny he could be if he actually had something funny to say.
23. Andy Richter
There's something just plain depressing about the fact that one-time Late Night With Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter is popping up next in a teen sci-fi flick starring High School Musical's Ashley "The Tiz" Tisdale. Richter was, at one point, an integral part of one of TV's most offbeat and irreverent TV shows. His cherubic good-naturedness meshed magically with O'Brien's now-familiar frenetic humor and angular look. Together, their onscreen chemistry and writing brought their show a bevy of Emmy awards and a youthful audience not usually tuned into late-night television. Since leaving the show to pursue life off the couch, he's been relegated to cameos in Will Ferrell movies and mediocre sitcoms like Andy Richter Controls The Universe and the more recent Andy Parker P.I. It seems Richter has been pigeonholed in traditional everyman/bumbling-dad roles instead of showcasing his ability to channel the funny and bizarre, as he did alongside Conan.
24. Tony Hale
It seemed like Tony Hale's career barely got off the ground before he dropped off the pop-culture radar yet again. Best-known for his role as Byron "Buster" Bluth on the feverishly adored, short-lived Fox show Arrested Development, Hale brought a certain spot-on awkwardness to the role of a pampered man-child whose hand gets bitten off by a bowtie-wearing seal. Before Buster, Hale toiled away in minor roles on popular shows like The Sopranos and Sex And The City, as well as a memorable Volkswagen commercial where he seat-dances to "Mr. Roboto." Still, Hale's ability to inhabit oddball characters while endearing them to his audience seems to have gone unnoticed by Hollywood, which has barely made use of him post-Arrested. While Justin Bateman, Will Arnett, and Michael Cera are enjoying their career bumps, Hale has been relegated to failed sitcoms and small roles in underseen films like Stranger Than Fiction.
25. Thora Birch
The trajectory of child film stars are, more often than not, difficult to watch as they tackle puberty, rebellious urges, and the transition to adult roles. But Thora Birch seemed right on track: She followed roles in pleasant childhood films like Now And Then with critically embraced leads in American Beauty and Ghost World. While her co-star, Scarlett Johansson, has gone on to mega-stardom, it was Birch who brought the beloved, cat-mask-wearing Enid so much subtlety and alienated likeability. Yet, at 26, she seems unable to find roles that bring her alterna-girl relatability to the screen, which is a crying shame given the dearth of interesting-seeming women in Hollywood. Though she's hinted at hopes of directing, she continues to plug away in front of the camera, stuck in B thrillers like the upcoming, badly titled Winter Of Frozen Dreams.
26. Tony Todd
Tony Todd had a fine career to date, thank you very much, but he has a personal presence deserving of wider fame. Even those who don't know his name have probably seen him: He plays the titular villain in the Candyman movies, and the mysterious William Bludworth in the Final Destination series. He's done guest spots on The X-Files, Smallville, 24, and more—in particular, his memorable turns on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Worf's brother Kurn were in keeping with his tendency to play imposing figures with hard-to-parse motivations. But anyone's who's seen Todd's other Star Trek appearance, as the grown-up version of the young Jake Sisko on a time-warping episode of Deep Space Nine, has seen his ability to convey depths of sadness beneath that forbidding exterior. Those who typecast him would do well to exploit that talent again.
27. Lauren Ambrose
As the artsy youngest child, Claire Fisher, on the popular HBO show Six Feet Under, Lauren Ambrose made growing up in a dysfunctional-family-run mortuary look impossibly cool. The role was a natural transition for Fisher, who brought a sardonic wit to roles in bland, big budget studio films, like In & Out and the teen comedy Can't Hardly Wait. Since Six Feet Under bowed out in 2005, Ambrose has mostly stayed busy onstage, with plum roles on Broadway. Fans rejoiced earlier this year, though, when she was cast as sister to indie-film hero Parker Posey for the short-lived Fox sitcom The Return Of Jezebel James. But the show turned out to be a total dud—a reinforcement of the caricatures of modern women as either shrill career types (Posey) or free-spirited, quirky single gals (Ambrose)—and it vanished after just three episodes. Which leaves Ambrose free for better work. Hello? Hollywood?


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Blood clotting, or blood coagulation, is a complex process involving platelets, coagulation factors present in the blood and blood vessels. When bleeding occurs, the injured blood vessel responds by forming a platelet plug. If a large vessel is cut, it contracts (narrows) to limit bleeding, while the platelets rush to the site to form a plug. After this initial response, coagulation begins as a number of inactive factors in the plasma, called coagulation factors, are activated and form fibrin. Fibrin is a strong protein that actually becomes part of the clot, which is the barrier to bleeding.
Abnormalities in platelets, the coagulation factors that regulate fibrin formation, or defects in the blood vessels themselves, can lead to excessive bleeding. Similarly, excess clotting can cause problems by obstructing veins and arteries (thrombosis).
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- By acquiring Ecom, Pepperl+Fuchs expanded its portfolio with the market leaders for intrinsically safe mobile devices such as feature phones, smartphones, and tablets for explosion-hazardous areas.
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- The i.roc® Ci70 –Ex intrinsically safe handheld computer combines state-of-the-art technology with a flexible, modular head concept for diverse identification systems like LF, HF, and UHF RFID, or 1-D barcode laser scanners and 2-D multi-range barcode imagers. It offers many global approvals for use in explosion-hazardous areas—from ATEX and ATEX mining, through IECEx, to NEC and MSHA mining.
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- The intrinsically safe barcode scanner/RFID reader Ident-Ex® is an efficient solution for challenging scan operations in explosion-hazardous areas. Due to its modular design, this robust handheld can be adapted to the requirements of different scan tasks. Different read head modules are available and can be easily changed. The Ident-Ex 01 uses Bluetooth for pairing with ecom base devices or any other mobile device.
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Declining union membership coupled with a widening income gap and weakened labor laws are forcing the U.S. labor movement to experiment with a new identity and new tactics, as evidenced by recent demonstrations in Denver and nationwide.
"In some ways the labor movement has hit bottom," said Paul Clark, director and professor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at Penn State University. "Finally, they've recognized the need to make significant changes."
The movement's colorful past is full of various forms of strife and success but for decades has been defined by workplace organization and collective bargaining. The latest tactic has unions increasingly playing a supporting role for efforts to improve worker conditions without necessarily unionizing.
Union membership in the U.S. dipped to 11.3 percent in 2012, an all-time low since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began documenting the figures 30 years ago. The first comparable data from 1983 had union membership at 20.1 percent.
Additionally, public-sector workers had union membership of nearly 36 percent in 2012 — more than fives times that of the private sector's 6.6 percent.
"The labor unions, like most large institutions, have been somewhat slow to change. … But we are getting to the point where the labor unions cannot absorb those losses and keep going," Clark said.
Another challenge to unions' growth in recent years has been the weak economy, which had many workers simply grateful to have jobs and hesitant to rock the boat.
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Despite, and partially because of these challenges, the labor movement is now showing signs of adaptation, increasingly playing a support role for worker demonstrations that won't necessarily lead to unionization but are intended to help drive the debate.
Thursday's rallies at which workers from a number of fast-food chains called for wages of $15 an hour and this week's anticipated protests by Walmart workers highlight the shift.
"There has been, in recent years, a lot of nontraditional labor organizing across the country," Clark said.
He noted that fast-food and retail workers are groups who have had employment problems in the past but lacked the ability to organize, unionize and effectively address issues.
"But these groups are finding very innovative ways to gain some changes in the workplace," Clark said.
Another recent effort by unions has focused on supporting janitors in office and retail establishments, and in Colorado some unions have started representing workers in the medical marijuana industry.
While restaurant workers have been labeled a "nontraditional" group for unionization due to high turnover rates, labor historian Jefferson Cowie from Cornell University said the fast-food worker demonstrations are not unprecedented and demonstrate how representation shifts based on changes in the workforce.
Before the Wagner Act, also called the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, "there were all sorts of pressures brought on employers — boycotts and walkouts — that didn't lead to collective bargaining," Cowie said, "That was really the way things were done."
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The Service Employees International Union offered some financial and organizational support for Thursday's protests, and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union is supporting the Walmart workers' efforts in similar ways.
Union organizers were careful to note Thursday that they were there to support the workers and took pains not to be the face of the movement.
"I think the organized labor unions are very supportive of these movements, not because they see an opportunity to bring them in as traditional members but because the labor movement is really starting to see their role in society as a whole," Clark said. "They see these as movement-building and are very consistent with the values of the labor movement."
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In Legal Battle Over Grand-Jury Secrecy, Ninth Circuit Court Sides with The Stranger
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Well, the court sided with The Stranger for the most part.
Last Friday, the Ninth Circuit published its opinion about our ongoing fight with the federal government over how secret its grand jury proceedings should be. The short version: They wanted automatic and almost total secrecy and opacity, we wanted transparency—or at least some clearly argued standards about why certain documents should be sealed and kept away from the public. On Friday, the court found in our favor. We won. Mostly.
The background: In the summer of 2012, law-enforcement officials began handing subpoenas to activists around the Northwest, ordering them to appear before a federal grand jury in Seattle. These weren't all polite knocks on the door—in some instances, agents battered their way into activists' homes before sunrise with guns drawn. The grand jury was supposedly investigating what happened on May Day, 2012, when demonstrators in an anti-capitalist march smashed out the windows of stores, banks, and the Ninth Circuit Federal Courthouse downtown.
The investigation landed several political activists in jail for months. Some, like Matthew Duran and Katherine "Kteeo" Olejnik, spent a few of those months in solitary confinement for reasons the federal government and the detention facility still refuse to explain.
These activists weren't accused of any crime—prosecutors acknowledged they weren't even in town on May Day. They were imprisoned because they appeared before the grand jury as ordered but refused to answer troubling questions about other people's social habits and political opinions. (more…)


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President Obama and the first lady welcomed Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and other music stars to the White House Tuesday for a special concert honoring the civil rights movement.
Crediting protest songs from that era and their spiritual predecessors for his election, the nation's first black president, transformed the East Room's grand ballroom into a concert hall packed with members of his Cabinet, Congress, civil rights leaders and students for a program that will air on public television later this week for Black History Month.
Queen Latifah's rendition of the Marvin Gaye classic "What's Going On" and Yolanda Adams' spirited rendition of Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" were early highlights of a night that continued the Obamas' effort to open the White House to America's soundtrack.
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"The civil rights movement was a movement sustained by music," Obama said as he welcomed his audience.
He said activists from coast to coast were inspired by spirituals, felt their will sharpened by protest songs and base broadened by artists of hope. He said their work paved the way toward a more just America that allowed him to make history in 2008 with his election.
"Tonight, we celebrate the music of the movement," Obama said.
That celebration was supposed to come on Wednesday, but faced with another major winter storm the White House decided to move the concert ahead by a day to beat what could be a second crippling snowfall in a week. As guests packed the first floor of the executive mansion, heavy snow landed on the South Lawn and blanketed the rest of Washington.
Other stars scheduled to perform were Natalie Cole, Jennifer Hudson, John Legend, John Mellencamp, Seal and the Blind Boys of Alabama.
The Howard University Choir and The Freedom Singers performed at a mansion that in its history was maintained by slaves.
Morgan Freeman, who read excerpts from historical works throughout the night, harkened back to the song lyrics Obama invoked during his election-night victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park.
"A long time coming," Freeman said.
He later deadpanned: "I wish I could sing."
Obama said the music helped the movement's faith as their leaders were jailed and their churches bombed.
"It's hard to sing when times are rough," Obama said. "The hymns helped ... advance the cause of the nation."
Tuesday night's concert is just the latest imprint first lady Michelle Obama has left on Washington's social scene. There was a conga line to Earth, Wind and Fire's performance when the Obamas hosted the nation's governors a year ago. Stevie Wonder played a concert in the East Room last year. Marc Anthony took to the South Lawn for an evening of Latin music, and Foo Fighters played the Fourth of July party there.
Michelle Obama also brought top classical music performers such as Joshua Bell to the White House to work with high school students. That model repeated itself in a pre-concert workshop Tuesday when they heard from Robinson and Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, one of the original Freedom Singers in the 1960s who traveled around the country sharing stories from the civil rights movement. Adams and Toshi Reagon also took up microphones and performed songs from that era.
Obama election should be a point of pride for the students in the regal dining room, Robinson told students.
"We've come a long, long way," said Robinson, who also performed.
The concert was to be televised at 8 p.m. Thursday on public broadcasting stations nationwide as part of the "In Performance at the White House" series. National Public Radio also planned a one-hour concert special from the event to be broadcast nationwide on NPR stations beginning Friday.
Washington has been buried in snow since winter weather began piling onto the region Friday. Some places were already under nearly 3 feet, and another round could dump as much of 20 inches in the Washington region by Wednesday night.


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