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A few weekends ago, I was down in Philadelphia for the first time, and had Bassett's famous ice cream at Reading Terminal Market. Not usually a fan of eggless ice cream as I think it tastes like frozen whipped cream, I was surprised by the lack of whipped cream taste in the mint chocolate chip I had ordered. When I got back to Boston, I wrote to Bassett's to confirm that this really was "Philadelphia Style" as I knew it and got this reply:
Thank you for your inquiry. Actually, what makes the vanilla "Philadelphia-style" is the vanilla bean specks in the ice cream, so both our vanilla and French vanilla (made with egg yolks) are "Philadelphia-style" ice creams. If you are unsure about a flavor, you can check out our ingredients on the Flavors page of our web site--Bassetts Ice Cream - Since 1861.Hm. This is not what I thought. In fact, I had never heard of anything of the sort. I checked out the ingredient list [Cream, Milk, Sugar, Corn Syrup, Chocolate Chips (Sugar, Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Soy Lecithin,Vanilla), Nonfat Milk, Green Coloring (F. D. & C. Yellow No. 5, F. D. & C. Green No. 3), Guar Gum, Xanthan Gum, Carrageenan, Soy Lecithin, Oil of Peppermint] there were no eggs to speak of, but I still felt shakey on the definition of "Philadelphia Style" I had always known.
I decided to write to Turkey Hill, makers of my favorite brand of commercially made ice cream, who happen to be located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania (they should know something about Philadelphia AND ice cream, right?) Unbeknownst to me, Turkey Hill has their own "Philadelphia Style" ice cream so their answer wasn't too helpful either:
This is our All Natural line of ice cream. This ice cream is made with cream, milk, sugar and all natural flavors. Philadelphia Style is just the name that was chosen for this line.
Ok, ok, but Turkey Hill does have a blog with an ice cream expert named Ernie, so I decided to check there. Here's a snippet of the answer on the blog:
Traditionally, Philadelphia style ice creams are milk and cream-based mixtures which contain no eggs. This means the ice cream is less rich, but it has a more intense flavor. The style is also known for using pure, natural ingredients and some Philadelphia Style ice cream mixtures are also cooked before they are frozen. Of course, all of this is in contrast to "French Style" ice cream which uses eggs and is sometimes also referred to as a custard.
Well, at least Ernie is on my side! Thanks, Ernie!
I began to think about where I got this initial impression, and it turns out that our favorite ice cream author Bruce Weinstein distinguishes eggless ice cream as "Philadelphia Style". On the first page of his Introduction in The Ultimate Ice Cream Book, Weinstein writes "There are two basic styles of ice cream in this book: custard style ice cream (some times called "frozen custard," "French ice cream," or "gelato"), which is made with eggs; and Philadelphia-style ice cream, which is made without eggs." Well there it is folks. Weinstein's book being a favorite, and somewhat of a bible, and in fact only the second ice cream book purchase, I learned early on this definition of "Philadelphia Style."
However, only one of my ten other ice cream books actually talked of "Philadelphia Style." In Ice Cream: The Whole Scoop, Gail Damerow (another one of my ice cream author heros) writes in her glossary:
Philadelphia ice cream--ice cream containing only cream, sugar and flavoring; also, vanilla ice cream flavored with visible vanilla seeds or crushed vanilla pods.
Whew. So I am still not quite sure of the exact definition. Damerow seems to kind of combine both Weinstein and Turkey Hill's definition with that of Bassett's. This makes me a little reassured but also a little weary, since Bassett's so directly told me their "Philadelphia Style" has egg yolks and I am under the impression that Bassett's is the defining ice cream of Philadelphia.
I'm interested in your opinion. What defines "Philadelphia Style" to you? Would especially love to hear from you Philadelphian's!
On another note, as I was looking for some specific ice cream images, I came across this beautiful water color on PaperandThreads Blog that I just had to share. Lovely work! There is just something so wonderful in its simplicity, as in much of this artist's work. I hope he/she doesn't mind my sharing!


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For the third event in the Google #Firestarters series its curator extraordinaire, Neil Perkin, chose to tackle the issues of "legacy structures, processes and thinking" head-on with the question: "what might the operating system for the agency of the future look like?".
It's a hairy, humbling monster of a question, not least because talk of new agency structures and ways of working so often teeters precariously on the edge of empty buzzword bingo (check out Tim Malbon's post last year on Agile as a cargo cult).
On Tuesday night, Martin Bailie, James Caig and I were given 20 minutes to share a response. I attempted to avoid painting a picture of an agency built of silicon, and instead set out to describe something rather more prosaic. These days, perhaps more than ever, agencies are almost ALL about culture; their operating system a set of programs designed to encourage creativity and responsive behaviour, not codify inflexible structures and processes. Get the culture right and the rest follows. So the question becomes: what sort of agency culture do you want to create or be a part of? And what about all the contextual stuff we perhaps need to consider first?
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A simple take on the impact of technology
We've known for years that the opportunities to buy mass attention are shrinking by the day, just as the opportunities to earn and measure attention become ever more enticingly available. If today Google's Panda algorithm places ever more pressure on businesses to boost the signal not increase the noise and Facebook's EdgeRank reduces the visibility of brands that send users to sleep, imagine what this will be like in future. At its simplest, it adds up to the same thing: ALL marketing – not just the rare handful of brands that regularly win awards – needs to be *genuinely* useful or entertaining. If not, marketing will become that thing that marketers and agencies fear the most: unseen and unheard.
If we can just wake up to this fact, this is a show-stoppingly great moment in time for our industry. There simply isn't room for me-too, clutter-up-your-life, half-baked ideas, or one way messages dumped on the web dressed up to look "interactive". However, there is lots of room for marketing done with skill and purpose, that people want to share, remix and make their own.
I'm calling this Marketing Singularity – an absurd title, which I'll explain it in a second. For now, I just want to restate how it feels that we're at a tipping point in our industry's life cycle. If we can just set ourselves straight, it's going to be epic. Let me explain why and how…
Is the pace of change exponential or logarithmic?
Let's start with a question that's at the root of why we're having this conversation in the first place: the oft-discussed pace of change. Jeremy pointed me to a speech made earlier this month by Ben Hammersley, who spoke with provocative eloquence about an incumbent generation of leaders losing ground on a 'Internet era' revolution racing away from them. Around the same time, Matt Edgar wrote a spirited rebuttal to the common assumption that the pace of change is accelerating.. It feels important to decide where you sit on this debate, because if the pace of change is exponential, then it follows we need to have systems in place that encourage us to plan a lot further ahead – or react more nimbly – than we have currently. Or perhaps that isn't the point. The pace of change may or may not be accelerating, but the pace of life is de facto faster than it was, say, five years ago. And whilst Matt questions whether technology's exponential rate of change actually impacts on our lives to the same degree, I find that a peculiar assumption. Technology doesn't sit on the sidelines of our lives these days: it's embedded, root and branch. What's more, the technology companies themselves regard speed as a competitive advantage ("Better products, faster" – Larry Page, Google shareholders' meeting, 2011). Last week's avalanche of tech news (again) is a case in point.
Marketing Singularity?
In fact you could argue we're approaching Marketing Singularity: the point at which marketing is forced to become exponentially better, until it is so useful or entertaining it ceases to be a separate, stand-alone, one-way message and instead becomes indistinguishable from the product or service it promotes.
It might be content, it might be a framework or a game that invites participation; or even participation that gets displayed as a game. Platforms are brand operating systems, campaigns are applications. As Ben pointed out earlier this year, these are not binary.
Marketing as a profit centre, not a cost
Taking this to its logical conclusion, shouldn't we aim to create marketing products and services that are so good, people are prepared to pay for them? Even if this approach isn't what's required (perhaps a Freemium model is the way to begin), I like the responsibility it places upon our shoulders: make marketing valuable to people. Looking further out, we may look back on the days we spent millions of dollars just paying for the privilege to reach people as a little odd. Brands like Audi and Red Bull are early experimenters in the guise of brands as committed media owners / publishers.
The kind of agency OS this demands
A few programs for starters:
Reductive thinking everywhere
At Labs, we admire the ruthless economy, flex and energy of a great start up as much as the next person. Kickstarter and Instagram are two of the better known examples of Minimum Viable Product thinking. For any agency worth their salt, the fundamental principles of MVP should not feel new. Great brand strategy and creative have *always* been about the art of sacrifice. The task now is to apply that mindset throughout agency departments: reduce to MVP, then listen (data) and pivot as required. This becomes all the more important when we look at shifts in business stability: from long periods of stability and short periods of disruption, to the reverse. This is a model for marketing too – let's get comfortable with an environment that needs to flex and morph.
Silicon vs carbon
As Rishad Tobaccowala said a few days ago, 'the world may be digital, but people are analog." Any agency OS needs to be built around people, not technology.
'Big is a collection of smalls'
People habitually join agencies like BBH from colleges and smaller agencies because they want to do something at SCALE. Accordingly, the very last thing we need to do is shy away from growth. Instead, the best agencies are increasingly breaking into nimbler, cross-functional teams, often with hybrid skills and collaborative in mindset. As Nigel Bogle puts it, 'big is a collection of smalls'. Teams with autonomy, but access to shared services.
Whilst we should cast for the client or task in question (don't take the team structure I sketched too literally), it's worth drawing attention to the 'broker' role. If you're interested in non-traditional media partnerships and thinking, you need a deal maker in your team.
Networked, versus in a network
We cannot do everything ourselves. With every layer of complexity, comes a deeper requirement to nurture and build strong external partnerships. Labs is a product of its network, plain and simple.
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We've said this before, but we're living through a Renaissance period. To be successful, we need fearless people who want to collaborate and learn from other industries. Deal makers, entrepreneurs, makers.. The people who never hold back from making the thing they dream of, just because the tools don't exist today. Because they know they'll exist tomorrow.
Make real things
You don't need a 3D printer to make stuff or experience the benefits of making a proto-type of your idea. Making an early version of something – even if it's rubbish (many years ago, I remember taking a mockup of a Boddingtons Tetra pak to a client meeting, to sell the idea of 'Fresh Cream'. They hated it) – teaches you stuff you don't find out if you stay in theory mode. So go buy a soldering iron and make something… There's also a non-too-subtle shift going on between experiences that live entirely online (potentially interesting) and those that straddle the real world too (potentially fascinating). Check out Russell Davies' piece for Campaign and the brilliant Marc Owens' Avatar Machine if you want to read more.
Stay curious
Adopting and encouraging a culture of constant learning sounds exhausting, but it may well be the only way to stay sane. Learn to code, get comfortable in the wild, stay open, stay curious – I'm enjoying playing with my Weavr thanks to @zeroinfluencer – create your own here. A phrase used often at BBH and which turned up on our login screens this summer is perhaps an apt way to close: "Do interesting things and interesting things will happen to you."
We'd love to hear what you think – what are the other programs you'd want to include in an agency OS?
Check out Martin's presentation here and James's here.
Thank you to Neil, James, Martin and everyone who came and contributed… as always, the discussion got most interesting when the formal presentations stopped and everyone piled in. Aside from following the conversation here #Firestarters or nicely storified here, there have also been several thought provoking response posts (check out this one here from Simon Kendrick or this one here from Shea Warnes for starters). As always, Neil's follow-up post will be one to look out for too.


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David Cameron is facing a major backlash after it emerged he has put a man in overall charge of women's issues.
Although Nicky Morgan has been installed as Women's Minister in the wake of Maria Miller's resignation, Downing Street confirmed that new Culture Secretary Sajid Javid will retain final responsibility for the brief.
The number of female Cabinet members is also lower now than it was when the coalition came to power.
Mr Cameron failed to head off criticism about the lack of gender balance in his government despite promoting Ms Morgan and bringing in Andrea Leadsom as Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
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Daisy Sands of gender rights campaign group The Fawcett Society said: "The women's equality brief has sat, variously, in the then Department for Trade and Industry, the Home Office and most recently the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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"Ahead of the 2010 General Election, the Prime Minister pledged to make a third of his Ministerial List female by the end of his first term. With just a year to go, he is governing the country with a Cabinet almost 90% male."
The decision to give Ms Morgan ministerial responsibility for equalities was criticised in light of her opposition to gay marriage.
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My Dad, whose nick name is Jitter, (you can see the original post HERE if you want the full story behind the name) has two "Jitter" monkeys - one full size and one baby. (TY brand!) I go to their house each Saturday to roll up my mom's hair and while I was there my dad thought it would be cute to have Baby Jitter have a ride on Billy (you can see the original post HERE) along with Henry. So Henry has a new friend - meet Baby Jitter, a cute little Congo Monkey
Henry, Billy and Baby Jitter were busy cleaning the kitchen floor
And the carpets
Hope you had a great Saturday!
Christi Pin It Now!


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Graduate School Information
The search for a graduate school:
- What to look for?
- Sorting through the application process
- What to expect after the paperwork is done?
What to look for?
Before you begin filling out applications, you need to figure out where you want to apply. Finding your ideal program involves two parts: figuring out your big interest in life and deciding on your research interest. The more specific you can get in settling on what you want to do, the easier it will be to find a school that will matches what you are looking for; thereby making the application process simpler and your chances of being accepted greater. Some resources to give you a start are listed below:
- www.gradschools.com
- www.usnews.com- click on "education" link on the sidebar.
- Doctorate Programs in the U.S.- You can download a searchable Excel document with information about graduate programs in the United States. The website provides instruction and demonstrations on how to effectively use the document to research graduate programs.
- www.apa.org- contains more advice about applying than actual school info, but still could be helpful.
- The book "Graduate Schools in Psychology 2014" from the APA is located in the Psychology Department on each campus, and it does not leave the department.
- Finding the ideal program
- Your big interest: This is your general area of study. You want to go to graduate school in psychology, but what field of psychology? Experimental? Clinical? Social? Developmental? Counseling? Psychology majors also attend graduate school in human resources, law school, and medical school. Decide what you are passionate about.
- Your research interest: No matter where you attend graduate school, you are going to have to do research. Of course, some programs will emphasis research at a greater level than others, but it is still going to be there. You need to find a school with faculty who are researching something you are interested in. Example: If you are going into developmental psychology and the faculty at one of the schools you are looking at does research with children - but you don't like kids! You are interested in development at a later age. Obviously, this school is not for you and you wouldn't be happy there. Therefore, you need to find a program at a school which matches what you like and are interested in.
Narrowing the list down . . .
Most people don't have the time nor the funds to apply to every school which has the program they are looking for. You need to narrow the list down to a reasonable number. The recommended minimum number of applications one should send out is 6. A typical range, however, extends from 1-20 something. Here are some things to keep in mind when considering where to apply.
- Location, location, location: If you hate hot weather, you aren't going to want to attend school in Arizona. Likewise, if you hate humidity, you aren't going to want to go down to the southern states. It may sound superficial, like wanting to date a person for their looks alone, but location does make a difference and if you truly hate where you are living, you aren't going to succeed at graduate school.
- CO$T…always a factor: One of the biggest myths of graduate school is that it is expensive. Ph.D. programs are so difficult to get into for one primary reason: the school is going to pay for you to attend. Your tuition is going to be waved due to receiving a research or teaching assistantship. That is why schools report ranges in their acceptance predictions (ex: A school will be accepting 5-10 students in 2008). It's because they are never quite sure how much financing they will have available in any given year, until the year is already present. Masters programs, law school, and medical school differ from this trend (they'll accept more people than they have $$ for), but assistantships are available in limited amounts!
Research Assistantships and Teaching Assistantships: The schools that have these are ideal to apply to – but they are also going to be the more competitive programs too.
On/Off-campus job opportunities: Where are you going to work if you don't get an assistantship?
Get those loans deferred! If you are one of the many students to leave their undergraduate institution with loans, when you attend graduate school you can fill out paperwork to have your loans deferred – meaning you DON'T HAVE TO PAY THEM BACK RIGHT AWAY!!
The forgotten cost: application & test score fees -Application fees average around $40 and to send official test scores out cost around $25 per school. It adds up fast if you aren't prepared!
Do I really want to do this…Finally, ask yourself if you want to go to graduate school for the right reasons. Is this something you are passionate about and really want to do, or it is something to do because you don't know what you want to do? If you are passionate and really want to study whatever it is you want to study, then you are going to be successful at graduate school. If you are going because you don't know what else to do instead, chances are, you aren't going to like school and are not going to complete the program. There is absolutely nothing wrong with working or volunteering for a couple of years after your undergraduate career. In fact, a lot of graduate schools look favorably upon such work. Simply put, take the time to double check what's going on in your mind and if graduate school is the right choice or you.
Paying for graduate school: "Career services"
Sorting through the application process
There are five basic parts to the application:
- 1. General data forms: These are your basic "name, address, phone, DOB" sort of stuff. Busy work, but important!
- 2. Official transcripts: You can obtain your official transcript from the Registrar's Office, and you usually need an official transcript from each institution you have attended. Most schools provide transcripts free of charge for current a students, but may cost a few bucks after you graduate.
Request transcripts early: Everyone else is applying to schools too!
- 3. Standardized test scores: Before you can submit scores, you have to take the tests! Every school lays out test requirements clearly. The most common is the GRE General Test. Some schools require the GRE Psychology Subject test. There are lots of others too like the LSAT, MCAT, GMAT…the list goes on. Test as early as you can because depending on the test, it can take awhile to get those scores back. Check the testing website for more information regarding the length of time it will take to receive your scores
- Know your codes! When you take your test you get to send your scores to 4 schools for free. It's all nice and automatically laid out for you. After that you have to request additional scores and every school has a 'test score code' that you send them too. Know your codes…they should be listed on your schools website or in their printed information. Sometimes the codes for a department differ than a code for a school as a whole – you want to make sure your scores are sent to the right place!
4. Letters of recommendation
- Request early! Again, like the transcripts, you aren't the only one applying to graduate school. When you add course work preparation & grading, your professors are darn busy!
- The longer they've known you the better! A professor who has had you for 2 classes will write a better letter than a professor who has had you for 1. Likewise, a professor you did a research project with is better than that '1 class' professor! You can also have supervisors from internships and related jobs write your letters – as long as they can speak of you as if they know you on a personal basis – they work just as well!
- 3 letters per school: Most schools require letters from 3 different recommenders. They may also have a standardized form to supplement the letter – don't forget that!
5. Personal statement or essay
- The need to make clear WHY you are interested in this program: You need to convince the admissions committee, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that you are the perfect candidate for their program. WHY are you the best? WHY are you a good fit? WHY are you absolutely sure this is what you want to do in life? It's the challenge of telling them all about yourself (selling yourself!) in the most full & detailed, yet simplest & concise way possible.
6. Other
- Miscellaneous requirements: Some schools require a resume, some writing samples. Just be aware that every school can request additional things to the Basic 5 if they choose to do so.
- I have to apply twice? In addition to the program you are applying to, some schools require that you also apply to the graduate school itself. (Ex: You are applying to the Developmental Program at the University of Montana. You may also have to apply to of the Graduate School of the University of Montana.) It typically involves a general data form, transcript, and a copy of your essay.
- Web vs. paper: In the age of technology, some schools have all their application materials online, some don't have anything online, and some have both. There are advantages and disadvantages of both systems of applying. Look for cues in the program material. Often times you'll see something written, for example, 'we prefer you fill this out online.'
These are broad and general and VERY IMPORTANT! If ALL your application materials aren't into the school by their specific deadline, the school is under absolutely no obligation to consider your application. It could easily be automatically tossed, so be aware!
PhD's & Law School: December/first week of January
Masters: Mid December-March
Psy.D: December –March
Motto: Each school has their own requirements and their own way of handling the application process…so double & triple check EVERYTHING!!
Top of PageWhat to expect after the paperwork is done?
The Waiting Game…yeah, it stinks! The good news: once you have turned in all of your application materials, there is nothing left for you to do. The bad news: once you have turned in all of you application materials, there is nothing left for you to do. It's a horrible, yet wonderful double edge sword. Literally, you can do nothing but wait. The graduate schools make the next move by notifying you of your application status. Since deadlines are typically the beginning of January on average, you won't hear back from a school until mid-March, I would highly recommend "forgetting" about your applications and enjoying the last semester of your senior year! You could also worry and fret and pace and be nervous and make a several back-up plans (one or two would be nice to have…but not 10!)….but I wouldn't advise it at all! You have done the best you can do…let fate take it's course!
When you finally hear back in the age of mass communication:
- Mail, email, or phone calls: Nowadays, you just never know how you are going to hear back from a school! Rejection letters haven't changed – they still come in the standard sized envelope on a single white piece of paper – but acceptance notification or offers for interviews can and could happen in any shape or form depending on your school. Be patient. The national deadline for acceptance/denial notification is April 15th. This is frustrating, but schools technically don't have to tell you anything until then.
- Request for an interview: If all goes well, you will get a couple of requests for an interview! Hurray! If you have any intention of actually getting accepted to that school, you will stop at nothing to go to their campus for the interview. Seriously. It's your grand opportunity to meet these people face-to-face and sell yourself in person. Unless they ask for a telephone interview, or there are extenuating circumstances which do not allow you to go to their campus, interviewing in person is the best way to go.
- Handling denials: You are going to receive rejection letters. Graduate school is competitive to get into – much more so than undergraduate. My best advice to you is to not take it personally. If you do, you'll make your life miserable. Anyone can be graduate school material; it is just a matter of finding the school that is the best fit for you. Not getting into a school just means there is another school out there that is a better fit for you. Even if you don't get into any school your first time around, don't lose hope! Build your resume up for a year…re-evaluate your goals and ambitions…and go for round 2. It may sound cliché, but where there is a will, there is a way!
You've been accepted! Now what? Congratulations! If this is the school of your dreams, immediately send them your letter of acceptance of the offer and begin the next stage of your life. If the school falls into any other category…let them know your decision ASAP. Every school compiles a waiting list for acceptance. If they offer a spot in their program to you, and you don't take it, they can go to the next person on the waiting list and offer it to them – that school may be the dream school of that person – you never know! This conundrum is the same reason why you may not be hearing back from certain places right away. You're on their waiting list and they are waiting to hear back from the people they have first round offers too. It's kind of an interesting circle effect…but the key is to reply back with any decision to any schools that offer you a position as soon as you can.


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Is there a forum application that lets you mirror the mailman service so that posts to mailman are sync'd into the forum and posts to the forum are sync'd to mailman?


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UPDATE: We've removed the trailer by request
Madonna's latest directorial effort, "W.E.", has delivered a trailer that's rather pretty, a wee melodramatic and frustratingly lo-res. Take a look...
The film stars Abbie Cornish as a modern-day woman in a failing marriage who is having an affair with a Russian security guard, played by her "Sucker Punch" co-star Oscar Isaac. Fueling her quest for true romance is an obsession with the story of King George VIII and his abdication of the English throne to be with Wallis Simpson, an American, and worse yet, a divorcee. The film flips back and forth between the two romances.
U.S. & World
Can we talk briefly about why studios even bother with such lousy looking trailers? Not artistically lousy, but just flat out technologically. Not only is this trailer nowhere near crisp enough, the entire lower third goes all pixelated for a moment--is this how you sell a movie?
"W.E.", which got a little beaten up upon its premiere, opens Dec. 9, presumably in HD.


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To control-freak Steve Colosi, wives were trophies, adornments to his 111-acre estate on Virginia's Eastern Shore and his 52-foot yacht. When his fourth wife left him, he arranged to have her beautiful face so disfigured that no other man would want her.
Robyn Lynn Rogers was alone in her office on the morning of July 20, 2000, when a man carrying a cup filled with lye walked in and threw it in her face. The chemical -- strong enough to burn through metal -- seared Robyn's face and eyes. It seeped down her throat and burned through her organs.
The willowy part-time model, who worked full-time as a rental agent in a Virginia Beach apartment complex, fell to the floor screaming. The vicious attack left the 29-year-old Eurasian beauty, the daughter of a career Navy officer and his Vietnamese wife – blind and horribly maimed.
Despite eight operations to save her life, including a tracheotomy that left her unable to speak, Robyn died three weeks later from her injuries. The lye had eaten into her aorta, causing her to bleed to death.
Robyn-- the mother of a 6-year-old son -- was convinced that her estranged husband, Stephano "Steve" Colosi Jr., 47, the wealthy owner of a Norfolk cement plant, was behind the attack.
"By the time I got to her bedside Robyn couldn't speak," said Michael Rogers, Robyn's father. "But she was able to write, and before she died Robyn wrote, 'My husband did this to me."
Robyn died on August 10, 2000. A few days later family and friends held a memorial service for her at the Virginia Beach Fellowship Church. Steve Colosi didn't attend.
A Stormy Relationship
Robyn met Colosi in the summer 1998, when she stopped for a red light next to his white Corvette convertible. They made eye contact, and the 6' 4" businessman persuaded her to give him her phone number. What Robyn had no way of knowing then was that Colosi, who had been married and divorced three times, had a long history of violence against women, including arrests for assault and making threatening phone calls to women.
Instead she was dazzled by his lavish lifestyle – his 111-acre estate, Oak Grove, in Cape Charles on Virginia' s Eastern Shore, and his 52-foot yacht, the Marlin' Darlin. He promised to care for her and her son, bought her a Jeep and paid for her breast augmentation surgery.
The handsome businessman swept her off her feet, and by Christmas they were engaged. But the relationship was stormy and Robyn, filled with second thoughts, broke off the engagement early in 1999.
"She was a feisty free spirit. Steve, didn't like that," said Robyn's father. Robyn's friends and family say Colosi was obsessed with controlling her. He wanted to know where she was at all times. If she just looked the wrong way he'd go into a jealous rage.
"To him Robyn was a trophy," said Rogers, and he wasn't about to let his trophy get away. So he promised to turn over a new leaf, and persuaded her things would be different.
On January 19, 2000, Robyn became Steve Colosi's fourth wife in a city hall ceremony. But she soon learned there was no new leaf. Instead, the relationship was even stormier than before.
"Colosi was more controlling now than ever," said Rogers. "He'd abused Robyn verbally before they were married. Afterwards, he abused her physically."
On a snowy January evening, just days after their wedding, a neighbor answered a knock on her front door to find a frightened and badly bruised Robyn shivering on her doorstep.
"You've got to let me in," she pleaded, desperation in her voice. "Steve's after me."
Robyn never lived with her husband again. She moved in with a girlfriend, then with her brother, Michael Jr. In April she filed for divorce, noting in her filing that she feared for her life.
Robyn landed a job as a rental agent and resumed her career as a model and actress. She was looking forward to filming a Harley Davidson commercial she had been cast in, and to seeing herself in a dramatic role she had filmed for an episode of the "The Prosecutors," a Discovery Channel series. By summer, she was dating.
Colosi, however, wouldn't let go. He hired a private detective to follow her. Then, Robyn's friends say, he stalked her himself, terrorized her in face-to-face encounters and threatening phone calls. And he vowed to destroy her if she didn't return to him.
He meant it. Colosi plotted to so deface her that no man would want her. He enlisted two of his cement company employees in his plot, Talib Spruill and Larry L. Davis. Both men had criminal records.
The day after Robyn died, police arrested Spruill and Davis on a belated tip from Colosi's bookkeeper, Debra Perry. Both were charged with murder. Investigators said it was Spruill, 25, who entered the rental officeand doused Robyn with the chemical solution. And they said it was Davis, 48, who supplied the caustic mixture and sent Spruill on his deadly mission.
The Trial
On November 3, 2000, four months after Robyn died, Steve Colosi was arrested in Florida on a fugitive-from-justice warrant after a Virginia Beach grand jury indicted him in her death. He fled Virginia on his yacht but returned in shackles.
Colosi pleaded not guilty and was held in the Virginia Beach jail without bail. In August he went on trial in Virginia Beach Circuit Court accused of conspiracy to commit murder, solicitation to commit murder and aggravated malicious wounding. The star witnesses against him were hit men Davis and Spruill.
Facing life in prison, Davis and Spruill had cut deals with prosecutors. In exchange for his testimony against his former boss, Davis was given immunity from prosecution in Robyn's death, but was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to unrelated gun charges. Spruill pleaded guilty to aggravated malicious wounding and was sentenced to 20 years in state prison.
Before calling Davis and Spruill to the stand, the prosecutor, Commonwealth Attorney Henry Bryant III, took time to paint a picture of Robyn's terror-filled last days and the events that led up to her death.
Among those who testified the first day was Colleen Hoggard, Robyn's long-time friend. Hoggard recalled a chilling message Colosi left on Robyn's answering machine - "I will kill you," he vowed. And he threatened Hoggard – "He told me I'd better watch my back."
Next to testify was Wendy Fitzsimmons, a 35-year-old Virginia Beach woman who had an intimate relationship with Colosi in 1999 "Steve would talk to me about Robyn," she said. "One time, he said he would have her killed and bury her on the [Eastern Shore] property. And he made a crack about where he could get some free concrete."
Another time, Colosi grabbed a gun and took pot shots at the carcass of a deer he found on his estate. Fitzsimmons recalled that as Colosi fired round after round into the dead deer he told her, "This is what I will do to Robyn.
Carolyn Prosise testified about the January night that she sheltered a bruised and battered Robyn after Colosi beat and battered her.
After the beating, Robyn moved in with Michelle Derusha who told the crowded courtroom that Colosi even terrorized Robyn's 6-year-old son. "He told him his mother might end up dead if she doesn't act the way she is supposed to act," Derusha said.
On the second day of testimony, Bryant put Todd Randall on the witness stand. He wiped away tears as he described what he saw when he visited Robyn in the burn center at MCV Hospital in Richmond.
"She was burned real bad," said Randall, 38, who was dating Robyn. He described her injuries: Burns on her forehead, lips and neck. Her eyes, he said, "looked like cue balls." What's more, she couldn't see and she couldn't speak.
For the first time jurors saw gruesome pictures of Robyn that were taken in the hospital. Projected onto a screen, the horrific images brought many in the crowded courtroom to tears.
Colosi's bookkeeper, Debra Perry, followed Randall to the witness stand. On the morning of the lye attack, she said, Spruill and Davis reported for work briefly and then left. But Perry didn't tell that to the investigators when they first came around asking questions.
And when they asked if she knew anyone who matched Spruill's description, she told them she didn't. She was being watched, she explained, by Davis who listened in whenever she spoke to detectives. "I was scared," said Perry. "What would be done to me if they learned I was the one who turned them in?"
She testified that the day after the attack, Colosi told her to write Davis a check for $5,500. It wasn't long after that she "knew that he had something to do with [the attack]," said Perry. She called police and told them everything she knew. Then she quit her job.
The hit men took the stand on day three, August 27. Spruill told how he walked into the Piper's Landing rental office where Robyn was working and asked if he could apply for a job. Before Robyn could answer, he tossed the plastic cup filled with lye in her face. He heard her scream as he ran to a getaway car. "It was constant, long and torturing," he said.
Davis testified that Colosi was obsessed with revenge. He talked about her "constantly and continuously," he said. And he wanted her to feel "the pain that he was feeling."
The lye was Colosi's idea, said Davis. Shortly before the attack, his boss gave him a brown bag containing the chemical. On the morning of the attack, the hit men met at Colosi's Norfolk concrete plant. There, Davis mixed the lye with water and handed the powerful solution to Spruill who headed for the apartment rental office while Davis drove back to his Norfolk home. After the attack, Davis said, Colosi told him. "It's over. I'm satisfied."
In his closing remarks, prosecutor Bryant characterized Colosi as a man caught up in a fatal obsession. His behavior progressed from surveillance to threats to violence, culminating in the vicious attack.
"He meant to disfigure and to destroy the person who this woman was," said Bryant. "In my 28 years of doing this, I don't know of a case more aggravated or more malicious than this one."
On the morning of August 30, Colosi took the stand in his own behalf. Under questioning from his attorney, Robert D. Eisen, he denied everything. During 70 minutes of sometimes tearful testimony, he testified that he'd never bought lye, never terrorized or intimidated Robyn.
His wife's friends were lying, he said. And he denied ever hiring Davis or Spruill to attack her.
Instead, he was devastated by her death. "I will never get over it," he told the court. "It's something I will always have to live with. I still can't believe it to this day."
In his closing remarks, Eisen attacked the deals the prosecution cut with Davis and Spruill. He called them "thugs," and criticized investigators for rushing to judgment, targeting his client and ignoring leads that pointed elsewhere.
"The defendant was selected, and then the facts were collected to make them fit the defendant," declared Eisen
The Verdict
The jury of four men and eight women began deliberating in the afternoon. The next day, Friday, they declared Colosi guilty on all counts.
The jurors recommended the maximum sentence for each count: Five years for criminal solicitation; 10 years for conspiracy; and life for aggravated malicious wounding.
Colosi then asked to be sentenced immediately. Judge H. Thomas Padrick obliged. Calling the case "one of the worst that I ever heard," the judge followed the jury's recommendations.
"The suffering of the victim in this case was beyond imagining," he said. Then he added an additional provision: No parole.


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Plans for harvesting crayfish from Lake Tahoe move ahead
Tahoe Daily Tribune
Some people can't eat when they have a problem. Other people eat so much it becomes a problem. And still others just eat their problems.
Residents and visitors of Lake Tahoe could fall into that last category. If, that is, they can stomach the area's pesky crustacean – the crayfish.
The Nevada Wildlife Commission passed a regulation allowing the commercial harvest of crayfish from Lake Tahoe at its Dec. 3 meeting.
The regulation is one step forward in a move that could turn the invasive species into an enjoyable meal.
Why crayfish?
Established as a population by 1936, researchers estimate there are now more than 220 million Signal Crayfish inhabiting Lake Tahoe's near-shore waters.
The lobster-like crustaceans have been linked to increased algae blooms, a decrease in native invertebrates and are believed to be detrimental to Lake Tahoe's clarity. Non-native warm-water fish, such as largemouth bass and bluegill, are nearly the only predators that feed on the crayfish.
Fred Jackson, a Yerington resident, has spearheaded the movement to allow commercial harvest of crayfish in Lake Tahoe since June.
By harvesting the crayfish, fishermen would be helping the environment, creating jobs and providing a tasty new ingredient, Jackson said.
"It's going to be a positive thing for Lake Tahoe," he said. "That's the message we've been focusing on the whole time."
Though recreational fishermen catch and eat non-native trout species frequently, there have been attempts to eat Lake Tahoe's other invasive species that didn't turn out too well. The staff of the Tahoe Environmental Research Center barbecued Asian clams to test their palatability.
"The conclusion of this very un-scientific test was that they were tasteless," said TERC director Geoff Schladow. "There won't be a clam linguini a la Tahoe any time soon. Generations of people have eaten crayfish. There's no question about whether or not they're tasty."
Jackson said he's tried crawdads from all over the country and even some from outside the U.S., and crawdads from Lake Tahoe top the taste chart.
"There's nothing that can compare to crayfish from Lake Tahoe," he said. "They're the freshwater Langostino."
Catching the Lake
Tahoe lobster
Jackson, under the banner of Tahoe Lobster Company, will fish for the crawdads using traps in waters up to 40 feet deep. He's still working on the perfect combination of bait and type of trap.
"The big problem is the bait issue," Jackson said. "As long as you have bait in the trap, the crawdads will enter, but as soon as they're done, they seem to find a way out."
In Nevada, for recreational fishermen there's no limit to the number of crayfish that can be caught, and a fishing license isn't needed when going after crayfish with traps.
Jackson plans on collecting data while fishing and submit it to the University of Nevada, Reno. He hopes the data will help scientists better understand and monitor the crayfish problem.
Once caught, the clawed critters will be kept alive. Jackson plans on selling his catch to wholesaler Sierra Gold Seafood out of Sparks. President Jim Crowell, who's worked the seafood business for 40 years, is excited to add a new local species to his offerings.
"People can crack and eat them," he said. "They can be peeled and eaten like shrimp."
It's not dinner
time just yet
Before Jackson can get started pulling crawdads from the lake, he's got a few more hoops to jump through.
"Now that we've authorized commercial take, it's up to him to go through the permitting process," said Chris Healy, NDOW spokesman.
The permit costs $500 per year. But that the commission passed the new regulation as written shows it's excited about the possibility, Healy said.
"The experts were saying 'hey this can't hurt and it might actually do some good,'" he said. "It was a pretty easy decision."
Jackson will also have to receive permits from agencies that govern food and food safety like the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And he'll have to work with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to abide by their thresholds for recreation, fisheries and water quality. The agency has already said it's open to the idea.
"We would simply want to have a pre-application meeting with him to discuss his plans and make sure there would be no negative impacts on any of the thresholds," said TRPA spokeswoman Kristi Boosman.
On a national level
A non-native species becomes "invasive" when it threatens or harms the native ecosystem of an area.
In recent years, the push to eat invasives has grown stronger and stronger. Across the country, "invasivores" are munching on a huge variety of species, from lion fish to Asian carp, dandelion greens to green crab, earthworms to tilapia.
There's even a website dedicated to the subject, Invasivores.org, that provides recipes and news.
"It's a win-win for everybody, but the invasives species," said Zach Corrigan, fish program director for Food and Water Watch, a national organization that promotes safe, accessible and sustainable food sources. "Humans can become the predator, thin the species and lessen the negative effects of these populations."
A number of organizations and agencies have jumped on board with the movement. The Nature Conservancy sponsored a food event centered around the introduced lion fish, which is wreaking havoc among Florida's reefs. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is looking at where commercial pulls of different invasive species could make an impact. And numerous publications are chronicling the rising trend of eating invasives.
But it's unclear what impact, if any, the consumption will have on the different populations of invasive species. In the Mississippi River, the commercial take of Asian carp is believed to have slowed the fish's progress north toward the Great Lakes.
It will likely take a market for an invasive species as well as other regulatory measures to ensure these populations stay under control, said FWS aquatic invasive species biologist Jason Goldberg.
One concern of FWS is fisheries need to be focused on limiting the population and stopping the spread of a species, rather than establishing a sustainable fishery, Goldberg said.
"It's definitely an exciting issue and one that FWS and its partners are exploring to ensure that, if done, is handled in a way that benefits both the economy and environment," he said.


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Chicken Cordon Bleu Casserole
Just like the real thing only creamier and not fried.
Per serve - Energy: 216kcal | Carb: 6.50g | Prot: 19.39g | Fat: 12.44g
Chicken Salad with Greek Yogurt
Chicken salad with apples, celery and Greek yogurt.
Per serve - Energy: 153kcal | Carb: 11.63g | Prot: 10.58g | Fat: 7.42g
Chicken & Broccoli Stir Fry
Healthy version of a classic.
Per serve - Energy: 532kcal | Carb: 30.84g | Prot: 57.97g | Fat: 20.29g
Spicy Thai Peanut Chicken over Rice
This is a very tasty Asian-inspired dish made with chicken and broccoli in a spicy peanut sauce.
Per serve - Energy: 261kcal | Carb: 23.41g | Prot: 22.00g | Fat: 9.73g
Chicken Chardon
A low carb chicken recipe.
Per serve - Energy: 448kcal | Carb: 4.75g | Prot: 38.56g | Fat: 31.79g
Chicken Cordon Blue
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There have been confused and angry scenes in the flood-ravaged city of Bundaberg after senior police overruled a plan to allow evacuees to inspect their homes.
This morning, residents were told they would be allowed access to the North Bundaberg exclusion zone at 2pm (AEST) to assess their properties.
However they were stopped less than an hour before they were due to go in.
The decision angered resident John Thone.
"They have no idea how to run this show. They should get somebody in that knows what they're doing," he said.
The council says its plan to allow residents back in was overruled by local disaster coordinator Rowan Bond.
Superintendent Bond said residents misunderstood the message and it was still unsafe to return today:
"It's not a bungle. What it is we've adjusted the timing of this based on the expert advice," he said.
It is hoped residents will be allowed in at 6am tomorrow.
Tensions have been rising in the city, where this morning 1,000 people attended a meeting to hear the latest update from the Bundaberg disaster committee.
They were told the flood damage in the area was dire.
Bundaberg council chief executive Peter Byrne told the meeting that up to 10 properties had been destroyed and another 30 were severely damaged.
He says one home has been washed onto a road.
"We've got another one we don't quite know where it is," he told the meeting.
"What I'm saying to you (is), the gravity of the situation is dire."
The meeting heard several roads, the sewerage system and power lines have been washed away and it is not known when they will be repaired.
A council engineer said one of the worst-hit roads had a hole two metres deep and 100 metres long.
A search for bodies in North Bundaberg will be completed this afternoon.
Bundaberg council is calling for volunteers to register if they want to help with the clean-up effort.
Two 15-year-old boys have been caught allegedly looting at Bargara near Bundaberg.
Police say the boys were spotted trying to break into a boat which was washed up on the beach.
Officers found the teenagers a short time later allegedly carrying stolen marine equipment.
They have been charged under the Youth Justice Act.
Gayndah anger
Meanwhile, Premier Campbell Newman has been touring flood-damaged towns and farms in the North Burnett.
In the town of Gayndah, west of Maryborough, two residents held up signs saying, 'Go home Newman, you're seven days late'.
Mr Newman says he understands that people are angry.
"There's an enormous amount that's been going on, an enormous amount of damage to sort out," he said.
"But they're entitled to be angry and upset, if they've lost everything. I'd be upset and angry too.
"I'd want to stand up and shout and scream."
Mr Newman says it was difficult to help the area while the emergency situation was unfolding in Bundaberg.
"Roads blocked, every available helicopter rescuing people in Bundaberg," he said.
"That's the reality of this, there's a lot that happened.
"But nobody's been forgotten, no one will be forgotten and we're going to put all these communities back together, and the recovery effort is now really gearing up."
No gas
Homes, businesses and services in the Wide Bay-Burnett are still without natural gas, after a pipeline was ruptured earlier in the week.
Grant Marcus from the Bundaberg Disaster Co-Ordination Centre says gas customers are trying to find alternatives for cooking and hot water.
"The hospitals use it for instance for just cleaning their linen so they're hoping to identify ways to get around that," he said.
"They've done that, that's good but we want to get this gas back so that people can get back to normality."
Fraser Coast Mayor Gerard O'Connell has thanked emergency crews for their quick work in re-opening the Granville Bridge in Maryborough.
The Granville community had been isolated until the bridge was opened to traffic early last night.
Councillor O'Connell says the focus today will be on the Lamington Bridge which links Maryborough with Tinana.
"Again, I'm just asking people please be patient," he said.
"We've got experts and great people working on these projects - it all takes time but we want to make it safe and we want to get that open as quickly as possible."
Police have responded to concerns that help has been slow to reach flood-hit residents around Baffle Creek and Rosedale, to the north of Bundaberg.
Gladstone Acting Superintendent Michael Sawrey says police have been working with the council on a number of issues.
He says these include the transportation of supplies to flooded communities, welfare checks on the residents of 18 isolated properties and the transportation of six children to hospital for the treatment of sores.
Gympie mop up
Further south, the clean-up is continuing in Gympie where about 150 homes and businesses were flooded by the swollen Mary River.
The Gympie Chamber of Commerce says most of the flooded businesses were in Mary Street, and community members are pitching in to help those worst affected.
Chamber President Ben Ellingsen says most of the businesses hope to re-open next week.
"A lot of them have basically got their shops cleaned out and waiting for sub-contractors to come in and do some repair work etcetera, so they can start trading within the next week or so," he said.
"I think people just want to get back in and start trading again and we need to support these guys as much as we can, now more than ever."
On the Western Downs, several communities remain cut off as flooding in the Condamine River continues.
The main access road to Condamine has been cut off and the Condamine River will rise to at least 12 metres today, leaving transport seriously compromised for several days.
That river level is about three metres below the record floods that forced the evacuation of the town two years ago.
Condamine access
Western Downs Mayor Ray Brown says it could be a week before floodwaters in the region fully subside.
He says Condamine is now cut to the north and east but residents will still be able to travel south to Tara for supplies until floodwaters recede next Thursday.
"Really our residents have done extremely well there's been no angst in our communities in relation to resupplies of food," he said.
"I think the angst has been more in relation to movement of transport, kids getting back to school, people getting back to holidays etcetera."
East of Condamine, businesses in Chinchilla have begun to clean up their shops as floodwaters recede.
Fifteen homes and 34 businesses where inundated when Charley's Creek peaked earlier this week.
Jason Johnson from Chinchilla Community, Commerce and Industry says the recovery will be a challenge.
"We are lucky enough to be in a reasonably strong economic environment with the gas industry and other primary resource industries," he said.
"But it's just the fact that a lot of them were still recovering from those major events in the end of 2010 and start of 2011 and some of them may have scraped though by the skin of their teeth in those situations."
On the southern border, the towns of Toobeah and Bungunya are isolated because of unprecedented flooding in local creeks and rivers.
The Goondiwindi Regional Council says it will assess today if supplies need to be choppered in to the communities.
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Corning Optical Communications LLC, part of Corning Incorporated's (NYSE:GLW) Telecommunications segment, will highlight innovation in data center and local area network (LAN) solutions at the 2011 BICSI Fall Conference & Exhibition, Sept. 18-22 in Vegas.
In its interactive exhibit (booth #611), Corning will showcase a variety of optical fiber cabling solutions for enterprise applications, particularly recent user-focused improvements to its Pretium EDGE® Solutions for data center applications. Enabled by Corning® ClearCurve® bend-insensitive multimode fiber, Pretium EDGE Solutions address the needs of ease-of-use, scalability, termination density and technology future-proofing. Pretium EDGE Solutions allow for up to 35 percent faster installation. New features like snap-in routing guides, mounting brackets for depth adjustments and a reduced cable leg outside diameter make installations even more convenient.
In addition to the new features of Pretium EDGE Solutions, Corning will provide hands-on demonstrations of the following LANscape Solutions products at the exhibit:
- High performance UniCam® Connectors, which offer an industry-leading optical performance in a fast, easy field-termination solution.
- OptiSplice® M90e Fusion Splicer, which offers the accuracy of a power-through splice measurement of Corning Optical Communications' core alignment LID-SYSTEM™ process, as well as the speed and versatility of the passive core-alignment technology, known as the Core Detection System (CDS).
- OV-Mini Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR), a rugged, handheld and lightweight tester for troubleshooting fiber optic networks with the flexibility to test both single-mode and multimode (50 µm & 62.5 µm) systems with the same unit.
- OptiSplice One Fusion Splicer, a fixed v-groove, cladding alignment-based splicer that easily produces the typical 0.1 dB/splice customer requirement. The OptiSplice One is a durable and reliable splicer for restoration and installation.
- Installation videos, interactive 3D demos and various product presentations.
Visitors to the exhibit will also have an opportunity to try Corning Optical Communications' latest on-demand tools for LAN design and deployment, including the LANscape® Solutions Bill of Materials Tool. A free download from Corning, the BOM tool allows customers to quickly and easily select the products they need for LAN cabling systems, create a detailed bill of materials with part numbers, and save or e-mail the document from their own computer.
For additional information on Corning Optical Communications products and services, contact a customer service representative at 1-800-743-2675, toll free in the United States, or (+1) 828-901-5000, international, or visit the Web site at www.corning.com/opcomm.
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Five Graduate Center doctoral students have won Fulbright Awards for the 2013–14 year. The fellowships will support research in ecology, politics, and the arts in Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Emily S. Channell (Anthropology) will conduct research on youth political movements in post-Soviet Ukraine. Her past research projects include the study of social networks in Labrador, Canada, and the politics of coal mining in West Virginia, her home state.
Kerry Greaves (Art History) will visit Denmark to research the art and architectural history of the Helhesten artists' group and the Danish avant-garde period of 1934–1946. In addition to her Fulbright award, she has received an American-Scandinavian Foundation dissertation research fellowship and the Roth Endowment Denmark Award.
Sarah Ruth Jacobs (English) has been awarded an English Teaching Fulbright to Morocco, where she will teach courses in English composition at the University of Mohammed V-Agdal in Rabat. Her side research project will involve organizing poetry readings as well as creating a website that features contemporary Arabic poetry.
M. Aaron Owen (Biology) specializes in behavioral ecology. During his Fulbright to India, Owen will pursue research on "The Ecological and Cultural Impacts of the Small Indian Mongoose: A Protected Invasive Species." Currently, he has two scientific publications in print and two more in review.
David Siegel (Political Science) will travel to Kyrgyzstan, where he will continue studying whether and how authorities in the central government of each state have integrated territory, and how they govern the regions outside of the capital city. His main focus is on the role that local and regional state officials play as intermediaries between the central government and local populations.
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Update: Gov. Perdue issued an executive order Wednesday evening reinstating the benefits for jobless workers. Scroll to bottom of post for her statement.
We reported yesterday about how 25,000 North Carolinians unemployed for a year or more are expected to be cut off from their benefits Jan. 28.
Now, Republican legislators say they're willing to look at a solution to restoring the unemployment benefits if the governor calls them back to Raleigh.
The federally-funded benefits approved by Congress were supposed to run through the end of February, but language in North Carolina's laws would stop the federal money from flowing through to jobless workers unless the state Legislature or Gov. Bev Perdue take steps to change it.
It's a situation six other states are in, though most are taking steps to make sure the money flows through to the unemployed workers, according to this Huffington Post article about the benefits.
But North Carolina has a bit of a different political situation, with a GOP-led legislature at fierce odds with Perdue, the Democratic governor.
We asked Perdue's office yesterday and today whether she'd issue an executive order, as she did last spring when the exact same issue cropped up. Her communications office didn't offer up any comment yesterday, and haven't had anything to say today.
Meanwhile, N.C. House Speaker Thom Tillis and N.C. Senate Pro-Tem Phil Berger are wading into the issue, and released a statement late this afternoon saying they'll take up the matter, if the governor would just call them back to Raleigh.
This from the two lawmakers:
The General Assembly is ready to work with Gov. Perdue to resolve this issue. If Gov. Perdue believes an immediate fix is required, then we encourage her to take the appropriate action and call the General Assembly back for a special session.
It's unlikely that a session to fix the unemployment issue would go smoothly, and more likely the issue would become yet another political battle between the Democratic governor and GOP-led legislature.
Now, the legislature just finished up a special session last week, and one that GOP leaders are still facing widespread criticism for a sudden, unannounced 1 a.m. vote to pass legislation that targeted the N.C. Association of Educators by stopping the teacher's group from collecting dues via paychecks. (The teacher's group received an injunction on Monday stalling the law while North Carolina courts review it to see if the vote was constitutional.)
Back in the spring, 47,000 unemployed workers were held in limbo last spring by the GOP-led legislature when the lawmakers refused to pass simple language that would have kept the benefits flowing through to legislators. The high-profile impasse dragged on for weeks, until Perdue passed an executive order on June 3 to restore the benefits.
The stakes were high then, and NC Policy Watch chronicled the plights of some of the jobless who were facing evictions, empty cabinets and shut-off utilities without their unemployment checks.
Update con't: Perdue issued an executive order Monday reinstating the benefits, meaning 25,000 North Carolinians will be breathing a bit easier for now.
Here's a written statement from Perdue:
Middle class families across North Carolina are working harder than ever, but many are still having a tough time. I signed an executive order today that will extend temporary benefits to approximately 25,000 unemployed North Carolinians. In addition to providing desperately needed financial help to the families that actually receive the benefits, these federal dollars will help all North Carolinians because the money will circulate throughout the economy and help support large and small businesses across the state. To be clear, we're able to achieve these results with no impact on the state budget because all extended benefits resulting from this order will be paid with 100% federal money.


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August 28, 2013 To be Determined in to be determined
About the Nia Blue Belt
Blue Belt, the second level of Nia education, explores how to create healthy relationships through body-centered communication. This intensive introduces the next set of 13 Nia principles, which focus on the mental, emotional and spiritual realms of the body. While the White Belt curriculum focuses entirely on awareness of physical sensation, Blue Belt applies these skills to explore internal sensations as perceived through – but distinct from – physical sensations in the body.
Blue Belt Principle #1: The Joy of Being in Relationship, integrates the sensation of Joy with the awareness that Joy is something outside the self, which we can invite into our physical experience. As a result, we begin to deepen our ability to listen with clarity and sustain awareness of details outside our body.
Meet the Trainer
Britta von Tagen
I have been passionate about educating humanity to help heal the world through the dance of Nia since 1995. I have been training Nia to teachers since 2002, first in Idaho and now worldwide. I have found over the years of training, that the Nia practice has generated an even stronger intention of Peace on Earth inside me. Not that I have to love or save everyone, but create an positive environment for individuals to be transported while getting a great workout no matter what their age or ability. Nia is an international language, like nature is. -It is the language of sensation or words without words, an alchemical formula for magic! I will forever continue to share the joy and love of movement with all ages, playfully and energetically! My mantra: I am, therefore I teach.
Notes About this Training
Start: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 - 5:00 pm
End: Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 3:00 pm


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