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Following a report at Tuesday's Liberty County Board of Education work session by Dr. Jennifer Walts, the system's new coordinator for evaluation, assessment and accountability, education leaders discussed steps necessary to improve students' writing skills.
Walts was introduced as LCSS' new "data machine" by Dr. Mary Alexander, assistant superintendant for student services,
"Across the state, (writing assessment) scores declined by 2 percent in 2013," Walts told Superintendent Dr. Valya Lee and board members. "However, in Liberty County, scores dropped from 81 percent to 72 percent, which is a significant decline."
On her first day on the job, Walts reported that scores from this year's elementary and middle-school Criterion-Reference Competency Tests were not available for her to analyze. However, she was able to discuss the data from a statewide writing assessment taken by eighth graders in January.
She said 808 LCSS students took the test, but only 805 were scored. The tests were scored by independent raters on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being a perfect score. Students' writing was evaluated based on their ideas, organization, style and convention, Walts said. She explained that convention includes proper grammar, spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.
Walts did a comparative analysis, pointing to a PowerPoint presentation chart that broke down the scores by subgroups — gender, ethnicity and special-needs students. She noted that girls outperformed boys and, over all, more African-American students failed to meet the minimum standard than white students. She said 82 percent of special-needs students failed to meet standards.
"(Special-needs students) are our most fragile learners," she told board members. "We are not where we want to be. This is obviously an area we want to focus on."
Walts suggested several causes for the lower scores. She said the state has increased its writing standards, and results from employer surveys report the skills high school graduates are missing are the ability to communicate — both orally and in writing — and the ability to work in groups. She concluded by noting that writing skills and thinking skills go together. She then strongly urged education leaders to work together to plan for more rigorous writing instruction.
Lee agreed and said there could be no progress in any school system without first addressing assessment data. She reminded board members that the CRCT is essentially "out the window," replaced by Common Core standards. Prior to Walts' presentation, Alexander told board members that the depth of knowledge under the new Common Core standard is much higher. She said teachers will be required to fill out forms for every course taught to determine student learning objectives for each section of that course.
"Students have to answer more open-ended questions," Lee said, suggesting children also will face new expectations. "They have to have the mechanics and conventions of writing down in order to communicate."
Board member Carolyn Smith Carter asked how teachers would be made to comply with new requirements. She said she fears many teachers simply will say, "I don't have time for this." She asked Walts and Lee how they plan to convince teachers to make these necessary changes.
"What's happening with SLOs (student learning objectives) is, we're giving teachers a way to measure how they're doing," Walts said. "(Still), before you make major changes, you've got to convince teachers there's an urgency."
Lee agreed and told the board she is glad to be the superintendent but assured the members that she also is "the good, the bad and the ugly" when it comes to enforcing new standards. She said she will explain why the school system has to make these changes and then ensure every teacher incorporates writing into his or her lesson plans.
"Those numbers alarm me," board member Verdell Jones said. "As a board member, I support everything y'all are doing. We must do it. This is what we do. We educate. I'm so glad we're in this data-driven position. We're talking about the well-being of our community."
Other agenda items discussed during the work session included new technology coming to each LCSS classroom, including iPads for every student, and several information reports. Board members also approved two action items pertaining to out-of-state travel and the student code of conduct.
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Gensler was Undersecretary of the Treasury (1999-2001) and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1997-1999) in the United States. Barack Obama selected him to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which has jurisdiction over $5 trillion in trades. Gensler was sworn in on May 26, 2009.
After receiving a BS and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Gary Gensler spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, making partner when he was 30, becoming head of the company's fixed income and currency trading operations in Tokyo by the mid-'90s, and eventually the company's co-head of finance. Questions as to whether there are conflicts of interests relating to Gensler's former employment have been raised, as has been the case in any number of former Goldman employees that go on to hold pivotal positions in the US Treasury, Federal Reserve, or as regulators. Gensler has the reputation in the market though as a politically ambitious man who is more likely to squash than accommodate speculation.


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What a difference a day makes ... or days.
While the House was getting things ready for the current legislative session debating whether its members could carry guns on the House floor, the Senate has hit the ground running with productive legislation, not in-house squabbling.
Hopefully a sign of more good legislation to come, Senate Bill 1 would boost the R&D tax credit and directly confront the challenges facing New Hampshire — promoting job growth and the economy.
It will also signal that the Senate side of the New Hampshire Legislature is serious about the future of the Granite State.
As reported Wednesday by our reporter, Jim Haddadin, this legislation would increase the pot of money for research and development credits from $1 million to $2 million annually. It was passed unanimously and in bipartisan fashion by the Senate Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday. Hopefully it will receive similar support during a Senate floor vote that may come as soon as today.
The tax credit was enacted in 2007. It offers businesses a tax break of up to $50,000 to offset the labor costs associated with qualified manufacturing research and development work. The credit is first applied against the business profits tax. Any remainder may then be applied against the business enterprise tax (a dreadful mistake made under an earlier Republican governor). The credit was set to expire after five years, but it was extended last August for another two years. Without further action from the Legislature, the credit will now expire on July 31, 2015.
While it would not increase the credit until 2015, SB1 would charter a clear course for businesses looking to grow and more importantly expand in New Hampshire, thus creating jobs in the near and long term.
As with the last session, it appears the Senate may have to play the role of adult in the room. It was the Senate that often quashed the misguided excesses of the House over the last two years. Among the most notable were myriad efforts to deregulate guns and eliminate the need for professional licensing.
Unfortunately, the House, under Speaker Terie Norelli, is charting its own course of misguided extremes starting with efforts to increase regressive taxes such as those levied on gasoline and vehicle registration. And of late, there is a proposal to increase the cost of doing business in New Hampshire by upping the minimum wage, rather than promoting job growth which makes employers compete for workers and raises wages in honest fashion.
Editorially, we often found support among our readers for calls to have then-Speaker Bill O'Brien drill some sense into the heads of his fellow House members. It was a call that went unanswered. Children will be children is how we saw O'Brien's response as he argued every member was entitled to be heard — to have his or her day in the spotlight. Well, voters clearly failed to agree with O'Brien and sent much of his ilk packing last November.
We can't help wonder — out loud and in print — why Speaker Norelli has not learned the lesson of O'Brien. We take little solace in seeing her party's butt kicked in two years, as was that of the GOP. We would take greater pleasure in congratulating Democrats and Republicans for working together to create jobs and right the economy — as we believe SB 1 will start to do.


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Going Greek: 'Wedding' veteran Nia Vardalos can't save the 'Ruins' of 'My Life'
The adorable Nia Vardalos makes an obvious choice for a movie she hopes will recapture a bit of her "Big Fat Greek Wedding" mojo from 2002.
"Obvious" is the perfect word for "My Life in Ruins. She didn't write it, but it is tailor-made for her. This wan romantic comedy built around a lovelorn tour guide, the annoying people she works for and the annoying tourists she takes around Greece plays like a laugh-starved companion piece to "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." From the title to Nia's lovelorn narration, this tale of a laid-off American classics professor making her living leading tours through the ruins and glories of Greece is "Big Fat Greek II."
The laughs are obvious, too, such as the tourist "types."
"There's the tipsy Australians, the obnoxious Americans, the given-up-on-men-but-still-looking" divorcees and "the funny guy."
Richard Dreyfuss is the obvious choice for the funny guy, obviously named "Irv."
"Haha! I'm killing me!"
Georgia the tour guide suffers them all, hoping against hope that her lectures will get through to these short-attention-span nitwits and that they learn something about Olympia, the Parthenon and Delphi. But no, they'd rather shop and hunt for ice cream.
Georgia's problem, all the native Greeks in her office tell her, is that she has no kefi, no passion, no joy of life. That's why the boss wants to can her and the kiss-up tour guide Nico (Alistair McGowan) is trying to get her fired. Her tourists don't like her tours.
If only Georgia could be more like "Zorba the Greek," a movie that turns up on many a Greek TV at stops along the way. She could dance away her frustration about this country where nothing works but nobody sweats it.
Vardalos is a winning presence, and if you've got to hire an old guy to pass on the gift of humor and lessons about love, you could do worse than Dreyfuss. Director Donald Petrie ("Grumpy Old Men") finds the odd sweet moment and obvious laugh as well as anybody.
There just aren't many here. The bit players are dull (has Harland Williams, as a goofy contractor-tourist, ever been funny?). The gags are played out.
Vardalos will never go broke playing it Greek and playing it safe for her fans. But that's no way for an actress to find her kefi.


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Click to viewBelievable characters go hand-in-hand with surreal futuristic worlds, says Eileen Gunn, author of Stable Strategies And Others and founder of the speculative webzine Infinite Matrix. Writing about a realistic future world or alien planet can seem like an insurmountable challenge, and so can putting believable characters into that setting — but you can solve both problems at once, if you learn to see through your characters' eyes. Gunn gave us a master-class in both world-building and character creation. Check it out! We asked Gunn the same questions about creating believable characters that we asked six other authors last week, and her answers were so great we felt they deserved her own post. So how do you create memorable, relatable characters in a futuristic or other-worldly setting? I usually start with the characters, and let them tell me about their problems and the world they live in, rather than imagining it all abstractly ("world-building") and then putting the characters in place. It's kind of like being the character's shrink. I try to pick up on the clues they drop about their idiosyncrasies, about where they are and what their world is like. I try to figure out what they're trying to hide and get them to expand on that. Then I review the text and add weirdnesses, if needed (and they are always needed), and try to extrapolate the science-fictional whys and wherefores of the world or time.
Without all of the little references and shorthands that you can use in a present-day setting, how do you make your characters identifiable to readers? I try to identify with the characters myself. If the story is set in some place or time very different from here and now, I try to reference thoughts, emotions, locales, and situations that are that are identifiable to myself, and then crank them, say, 147 degrees away from the identifiable: far enough to be strange, but not so far as to be incomprehensible. My idea of comprehensible may be a little extreme for some readers, so I workshop the story to make sure that I haven't gotten too far out of control. However, I think that SF readers like being somewhere totally strange and interacting with people they don't understand, so I don't want to get too normal. I try to leave a trail of cookies so readers can have the sort of brain-sparks that discovery and chocolate chips provide. And when you're putting your characters into a place and time that's vivid and different, how do you make your characters stand out against that backdrop? I usually think of the characters as explaining their time and place to me, so they are part of their milieu and the reader and I see their world through their POV. It's a matter of making a setting that is strange and weird to the reader seem normal enough to the character, without making it boring. By the end of the story, the reader (and the author) should have come to understand the POVs of characters in the story, and share them, or question them, or both. Personally, I really like stories that, when I have finished them, cause me to have a little shock of re-adjustment to my own world. I like to be shaken and changed a little. Top image by Paul Mavrides and Jay Kinney, from Infinite Matrix.


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December 18, 2019
Good tidings we bring, with turkeys and things!
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'Tis the season of giving and Windermere offices across the Western U.S. are out donating to local non-profits and bringing good tidings and cheer to those who need a little extra help during the holidays.
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April 24, 2019
Caring for our Communities through the Windermere Foundation
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Windermere offices have been busy this year raising money for the Windermere Foundation which provides funding to support low-income and homeless families throughout the Western U.S. Last quarter alone, the Windermere Foundation collected over $308,236 in donations, bringing our total to $38,314,364 raised since 1989 when the Windermere Foundation first started.
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March 27, 2019
Windermere and YouthCare - Helping Homeless Youth
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For the past 30 years, Windermere Real Estate has supported more than 500 non-profit agencies dedicated to helping low-income and homeless families through donations from the Windermere Foundation. One organization that we have been honored to partner with these past three years is YouthCare, a non-profit in Seattle, Washington that provides critical services to homeless youth.
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November 14, 2018
Windermere Donates $25,000 to California Wildfire Relief Fund
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Like much of the nation, we've been heartbroken by the horrifying images and statistics rolling in as California suffers from the worst wildfires in the state's history. For our staff, agents, and franchise owners who live and work in the affected areas, it's a threat to their clients, their families, and their communities. Everything that Windermere is is thanks to the hard work and...
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August 29, 2018
Providing Scholarships and School Supplies to Students in Need
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It's that time of year again! As families prepare to send their kids back to school, Windermere agents have been out in their communities raising money to support programs that provide school supplies and scholarships to students in need.
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May 18, 2016
Summer camps provide invaluable learning and socialization opportunities for youth
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Summer camps and summer programs for youth not only keep them occupied while on break from school, it provides them with a safe place to be while their parents are at work, and gives them learning experiences that will help them throughout their lives.
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December 18, 2014
No Child Should Have to Sleep Outside
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Homeless families live in the shadows. They can't apply for temporary housing if they are staying with friends. They must be sleeping in a shelter or on the street to apply. Most of the emergency shelters available in Seattle are gender specific and require that married couples or parents and children split up. For many, the only other choice is to sleep in their car, a tent, or a public bathroom.
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December 1st - 1 pm - 2:30 pm - Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA
It's the store's annual Holiday event and I'll be joined by Jane Dyer, Mordicai Gerstein, Natasha Lowe and Leslea Newman.
December 15th - 5:30 pm - Barnes and Noble in Holyoke, MA
This group event with Kevin Markey, Diane deGroat and Shelly Rotner is a fundraiser for the Northeast Center for Youth and Families.
I also have a virtual event and will be joining fellow kids' comics creators Matt and Jenni Holm on the Scharp/Schu Book Club. This will be Twitter chat on December 12th at 8 pm. Click on over to Mr. Schu's website to learn more!
And on December 17th, Gina and will be helping out Santa at Look Park's nightly train display. I'll be playing the part of the conductor, while G will be the elf who calls to Santa to see if he's ready to receive you at the North Pole. If you haven't been to the trains at Look Park in Florence, MA and you live within driving distance, this is a must-see holiday spectacle. (This isn't a book-related event, but if you are panicked for last minute gift giving and you bring a book, I'm sure the conductor could forge a JJK signature...)


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Hello and welcome to all you fantastic Harry Potter fans out there. You people make my day.
My name is Rue, Harry Potter (in my opinion) is the best series ever, and Marvel Comic books are amazing. I love X-Men, Spiderman, and Thor. I like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Outsiders, the Song of the Lioness series, Tom Sawer,and the Septimus Heap series. I like watching Mythbusters and Big Bang Theory.
I live in northern U.S.A., though I spent a large chunk of my childhood in the U.K. I have lots of siblings and a cat. I am still going to school and I hope to go into science and technology as a career field. I love to write and I am an obsessed fan of Harry Potter and Star Wars. I collect comic books, and I have a passion for chocolate to rival Remus Lupin. I keep both in a shoebox in my closet. I love rain, trees, and swimming.
As for Fan-Fiction, I write a TON of poetry (I have a whole notebook full of it), so that is mostly what you will see on here. I feel I should perhaps inform you of my shipping preferences as well to avoid confusion, so here is the run-down:
My OTP: Ron/Hermione
Ships I like: I support all canon ships, faves being Ron/Hermione, James/Lily, Harry/Ginny, and Remus/Tonks
Ships I don't do: I Do not support Draco ships (D/G and D/Hr)and firmly believe Draco Malfoy should stay lonely, though I give all due respect to those who do ship him. Ginny and Hermione deserve better, in my opinion.
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The question now on everyone's mind is whether or not the money can actually be found to implement the suggested improvements.
The report acknowledged there is a need for additional service with suggestions for 25 percent train increases at peak hours, better-scheduled train intervals to eliminate congestion and more benches, to name a few of the findings. However, the funding for the project is still a contingency.
As state senators Daniel Squadron and Martin Dilan hailed the new proposals with members of the Riders Alliance this week in front of the Metropolitan subway station in Williamsburg, it became apparent that one of the few things that is a definite was there are still many problems with the line.
It also seemed as though one of the few funding probables will be new benches and an upgraded public service announcement system. While that is great, it seems as though finding the funds to run more trains is a bit thornier, even though that is the issue riders have fought for the most.
The MTA Board is scheduled vote on the issue at their next meeting on July 24, but will they adhere to their own suggestions?
The city needs to establish an independent agency to take control of its own transit system. If an independent group, made up of people who hopefully use public transportation every day, were making the decisions the G Train would have been on schedule years ago.


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Google Fiber was supposed to be a shaming exercise. But any shame felt by the country's big-name ISPs has yet to produce the sort of ultra-high-speed internet services we've all been hoping for.
In 2010, Google announced that it would bring a 1,000 megabit (1 gigabit) per second fiber internet service to one lucky American city. That's one gigabit per second streaming across the wire – or about 10 times the speed you're used to and more than three times the speed you'd get from Verizon's existing 300 megabit per second fiber optic service, FiOS.
The search giant insisted it had no intention of becoming an internet service provider. It just wanted to encourage existing ISPs, including Verizon, to run higher speed lines across the country. But although Google Fiber has now arrived in Kansas City, Kansas, the big name ISPs aren't exactly following suit.
Verizon has stalled the expansion of FiOS indefinitely, and other companies have been slow to invest in ultrafast broadband. Time Warner Cable is rolling out fiber to office building in New York City, and Comcast's Xfinity Platinum service offers a 305 megabit cable service in some locations for $299.95, but that's the extent of it.
The good news is that local communities are now trying to trying to find other ways to bring higher speed internet to their citizens at affordable rates. Chicago and Seattle, for example, have both announced partnerships with a new broadband provider called Gigabit Squared to bring fiber internet connections to residents.
Why are things moving so slowly? With communities eager for fiber internet, why aren't the established broadband companies doing more to bring these services to more cities? The answer is, yes, money.
Verizon began offering fiber internet connections in some states back in 2005 and puts its investment in the network at $23 billion. But some have questioned this claim, and investors have been uneasy about this spending all along. The company confirmed earlier this year that it would not expand its service to other states or even roll out to additional neighborhoods.
"Competitors have been overbuilding, investors are wondering where the returns are," says Mark Ansboury, president and co-founder of GigaBit Squared. "What you're seeing is an entrenchment, companies leveraging what they already have in play."
Karl Bode, an ISP industry watcher and author of a the blog DSL Reports, believes Verizon has had a change of heart. "I think ex-Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg was very bullish on fiber," he says. "But after retirement, he was replaced by executives who wanted to focus more heavily on wireless, given the lower cost of deployment and the absolute killing that can be made charging users a significant amount per gigabyte."
But he also blames the money men. "Investors in this country are simply too myopic to wait the required length of time to see adequate returns," Bode says. "These services are certainly profitable, they're just not profitable enough quickly enough for short-sighted investors."
Verizon is neglecting not just FiOS, but all of its other fixed line services in favor of wireless services, according to Bode.
"I think both Verizon and AT&T have made the decision to hang up on any further fixed line broadband competition and are happily letting those users flee to cable," he says. "Cable in turn will help them by directing their users to wireless services. We've effectively just seen the birth of a significantly less competitive broadband market where cable has a monopoly on fixed line broadband, and nobody appears to have noticed."
Bode also notes that Verizon Wireless is not unionized, which means the company may also save on labor costs by emphasizing that part of the business. Neither Verizon or the Communications Workers of America union responded to our request for comment.
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The lack of motivation by larger broadband companies is an opportunity for Gigabit Squared. The goal in Seattle is to offer 1 gigabit connections for less than $100 a month.
"In other countries [broadband development] is driven by the government," Ansboury says. "But here there's no national drive, no national strategy. We're a little bit more haphazard. We drive that technology deployment on the perceived need of the incumbent. We've seen more consolidation, more deregulation and a move towards wireless."
The answer, he thinks, is in public/private partnerships, like the deals his company has reached with Seattle and Chicago.
Seattle is one of several cities left behind by the major broadband providers, but it happens to have excess fiber capacity. But according to The Seattle Times, few residents have been able to take advantage of it, though Spectrum Networks does offer service in the South Lake Union neighborhood.
The problem, Ansboury explains, is that the most expensive part of a fiber deployment is the what's called the "last mile" service – bringing fiber from the big "backbone" connections to the customers' homes and office buildings. Gibabit Squared will lease fiber capacity from the city and build much of the last mile infrastructure itself.
Broadpoint Amtech analyst Benjamin Schachter estimated in 2010 that Google's Kansas City network could cost over $1 billion to build. But as GigaOM has reported, Google saves money on its deployments in various ways, such as piggybacking on existing power line infrastructure and building its own network gear.
But what might really be making the difference in Google Fiber's deployment is its inventive to pay for the last mile service by encouraging people who want home service to get their neighbors to sign-up in advance, lowering the risk of deploying to a particular neighborhood. To encourage more people to participate, Google is offering free 5 megabit speed fiber connections for a one-time setup fee of $300, which will help cover the costs of the last mile service.
Can Wireless Save Us? ———————
Fixed line fiber optic connections might not be our only hope for faster internet. Most commercial wireless networks max out at about 30 megabits per second, but Computers & Tele-Comm, Inc. (CTC) has been offering a 1 gigabit wireless service in Kansas City since before Google Fiber began its roll out. But the secret to getting and maintaining these speeds is keeping the user count low, according to a story on the GigaOM blog. CTC also does quite a bit of infrastructure optimization, but it only caters to small number of Kansas City business customers – not to the consumer market.
Meanwhile, the government experiment technology agency DARPA is trying to build connections that as fast as 100 gigabits per second over 200 kilometers. Although DARPA's project is designed to bring high speed connections to battle fields, it's not out of the question that the technology could find its way to commercial providers – assuming DARPA can actually pull it off.
But the issue with both CTC and DARPA's project is how many simultaneous users it can support. But if the scale issues could be addressed, wireless offers an intriguing way to solve the last mile problem for fiber internet.
One of the big questions is whether any of this will actually do any economic good. Ansboury cites the example of the cities of Chattanooga, Tennessee and Lafayette, Louisiana, both of which have already initiated public/private partnership programs to bring fiber internet connections to their citizens.
Ansboury believes that the more important issue might be inaction. "Not having this infrastructure is why certain businesses haven't moved in, or have left," he says.
Meanwhile, the need for high bandwidth connections is increasing. Ansboury says Gigabit Squared is working with a senior care service that uses two-way high definition video streaming work to reduce costs of health care. By allowing seniors who have recently be discharged from a hospital to interact with their doctors from home instead of going into an office, they're able to save time and money. But these sorts of applications are going to require far more bandwidth than is available today.


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If you thought American Horror Story's Murder House was spooky, just wait until you experience Briarcliff Manor, the insane asylum at the center of the FX drama's second season, aptly subtitled Asylum. But while there are plenty of tangible scares — a vicious serial killer named Bloody Face, a Nazi doctor whose failed experiments roam the woods just beyond the Manor's boundaries and... aliens — it's the psychological terror co-creator Ryan Murphy has added that will send you running for the hills.
Watch the first five minutes of American Horror Story: Asylum
While Season 1 was about adultery, Season 2 is certainly about sanity. And before you assume those in charge of the asylum are sane and the inmates aren't... well, don't. The whole premise of the season is to flip that idea on its head. "The scariest thing is knowing that those who are incarcerated may be more sane than the people running it," new cast member Joseph Fiennes tells TVGuide.com. Adds fellow Season 2 addition Lizzie Brocheré: "What's sane? What's not sane? It's the question of the whole season."
This season is set in the 1960s and Briarcliff Manor is home to inmates who are actually insane, who are wrongly accused or who are deemed crazy based on "ailments" such as sexuality. Heading up the asylum are Fiennes' Monsignor Timothy Howard, who Fiennes describes as "a lovely Catholic priest that just wants to help lost souls," and Sister Jude (returning star Jessica Lange), whose battle for control of the asylum takes center stage this year.
While Lange's Season 1 character Constance was dastardly and in control, Jude struggles in an era during which it wasn't easy for women to gain power. "Because of where it's set, because of the time, because of the different characters, I think it's more psychologically intricate," Lange says. "I think it's a much fuller story than last year."
Jude will go head-to-head with James Cromwell's Arthur Arden, the doctor who uses the inmates in his medical experiments. The cruel treatment of patients may drive audiences to the brink of insanity themselves, but Cromwell insist the show is being true to history. "Most of these things that you see in the show actually happened in the '60s," he says. "We didn't see the horror of psychiatry and lobotomies and Thorozine. They had any number of procedures that they prescribed for people, which they now know were really torturous. But they believed what they were doing was right because they had blinders and don't see the bigger picture."
Deadwood alum Ian McShane joins American Horror Story: Asylum
Among the inmates who will feel Arden's wrath are Brocheré's Grace, who seems to actually be the most sane person at Briarcliff. Grace introduces the audience to the other side of the asylum, as she befriends new inmates Kit Walker (Evan Peters) and Lana Winters (Sarah Paulson) — whose incarcerations are questionable at best. While Kit is possibly wrongly accused of being a serial killer, Lana is an investigative journalist who is locked up for digging into what actually goes down in the asylum.
Paulson says her Season 2 character has different motivations than those of psychic Billie Dean in Season 1. "Billie Dean was a person who was really mostly interested in her own self-advancement," Paulson says. "Lana is interested in that as well, but [it has] less to do with being recognized and celebrated, and more to do with being taken seriously." (In that regard, Lana and Jude have something in common.)
Being taken seriously is also a challenge for young Dr. Oliver Thredson (Zachary Quinto), a forward-thinking psychiatrist who's committed to the truth and the well-being of his patients. The debate between spiritual and physical will be the cause of much strife between Thredson and Sister Jude. "I don't think he's buying what she's selling," Quinto says.
New American Horror Story promo features lovers, sinners and saints
But the premiere does offer some semblance of hope. Running concurrently to the main storyline is a tale of two newlyweds (Adam Levine and Jenna Dewan-Tatum), who in present day venture on their honeymoon to the condemned asylum. So, are the horrors of Briarcliff only temporary? "Rather like Murder House in Season 1, it's a character within itself, so those we step across the threshold may implode, but the institute itself remains," Fiennes says. "Its source of energy, however dark, remains intact."
And folks, that's not a good thing.
American Horror Story: Asylum premieres Wednesday at 10/9c on FX. Will you be watching?


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Review: Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
Faith Bass Darling is a member of the founding family of Bass, Texas. The richest woman in town, she suffers from Alzheimer's and has rarely left her house in recent years. On the last day of 1999, she pulls her priceless antiques out on the lawn and has the garage sale of all garage sales because "God told her to." When Bobbie, the local antiques dealer, gets wind of the sale she calls Claudia Jean, the daughter Faith hasn't seen in over twenty years. Claudia Jean rushes home but it might be too late; the one thing she was worried about is already gone.
Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale, by Lynda Rutledge, is a hard book to describe but it's a real pleasure to read. I was invested in the story right from the start and found it hard to put down. It's full of quirky, Southern characters that readers won't soon forget. Through flashbacks and conversations, the past slowly unfolds as the story progresses. Readers can't help but fall in love with Faith even as their heart breaks for her. She's feisty and strong and has always maintained the perfect outward appearance. Things aren't always as they appear, though, and Faith's life hasn't been an easy one. I thought Faith, and many of the other citizens of Bass, were wonderful and have missed them since I finished the book.
The beauty of this book is the way it handles serious subjects, like bigotry, forgiveness, and the value of material objects, with a touch of humor. Just as I'd be on the verge of tears the author would inject some humor and have me smiling instead. This book tugged at my heartstrings and made me think about life and why things turn out the way they do. On the surface, it's a fairly light read but there's a lot below the surface. I've had this book on my mind since I finished it and I really like the subtle way Rutledge deals with tough issues. Since it gives you a lot to think about, I think book clubs will find a lot to discuss in Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale.
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RebeccaV permalinkApril 13, 2012 6:05 am
This sounds like a great read – thanks for the review. I'm adding it to my list and look forward to it!
April 13, 2012 6:38 am
This sounds like a good one kathy. Thanks for bringing iy to our attention.
sandynawrot permalinkApril 13, 2012 8:33 am
Nothing bad going on in the Amy Einhorn category, ever. I just finished the audio of Jenny Lawson's memoir, and didn't know until the very end that it is AE too! Anyway, I trust implicitly in this imprint, and combined with your review, I don't need any more convincing.
booknaround permalinkApril 13, 2012 9:01 am
I reviewed this today too. And I loved it as well.
April 13, 2012 12:07 pm
Must put this one on my tbr list, sounds really good.
escapingjourney permalinkApril 13, 2012 12:48 pm
Wow – sounds wonderful, if you are still thinking about the characters after you've finished it, I know it's one I want to read.
talesofwhimsy permalinkApril 13, 2012 2:10 pm
Sounds so good. Great review.
April 13, 2012 3:14 pm
I loved this book too. There were so many layers to it.
April 13, 2012 5:21 pm
I work with seniors who have Alzheimer's so this aspect of the story caught my attention. The fact that the book stayed with you long after you finished it says a lot about how the author made her characters and their situations memorable.
April 13, 2012 5:28 pm
I think this book sounds different and captivating. I love that the author uses humor while talking about some very serious subjects. Faith Bass Darling sounds like w onderful character, too.
Terrific review. I definitely want to read this book! This book is going on my wishlist!
April 13, 2012 10:09 pm
This sounds like a yard sale my parents would love to go to, they're always looking for great deals on priceless antiques. 😉 Seriously though, this sounds like a great read. I actually love it when a book seems kinda fluffy on the surface but has much more to offer once you start reading it.
April 14, 2012 8:14 pm
I think maybe I had a lot on my mind when I read this one, because I can't say I liked it as much as you or Heather did. There was something about it that made me keep wanting to read it, and I liked Faith, but I didn't care for some of the other aspects of it.


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Gordon Naley was born in the scrub on Mundrabilla Station in the Eucla district of the Nullarbor in Western Australia on 20 January 1884. His mother was a unnamed local Yirkla (Eucla) Mirning Aboriginal woman and his father was William, one of Mundrabilla's white station owners. Naley was raised by his Aboriginal mother in early life but was later unofficially adopted by Ellen McGill, the second wife of station owner William Stuart McGill. He spent his childhood and young adult years living and working as a station hand, drover, shearer and horse breaker in the Eucla district, throughout the Nullarbor, his traditional lands, and in the Western Australian Goldfields.
Naley's use of the bicycle as an occasional means of transport was useful training for the competitive races in which he participated — including a handicap race in Coolgardie in December 1903, which he won.
The McGills sold Mundrabilla in 1903 and moved to Heidelberg, Victoria, the address to which Naley's army correspondence was sent until he married in 1919. After the McGills' departure he worked along the Murray River in South Australia and spent a short time at the eastern end of the Nullarbor prior to the war, where he befriended the Davis family, originally from England, who lived at Bookabie near Fowlers Bay.
Naley joined the AIF on 17 September 1914, less than seven weeks after the outbreak of war. He enlisted at Morphettville in South Australia switching his Christian names and reducing his age as a way of masking his Aboriginal identity. Interestingly, his attestation paper records his birthplace as Mintaro Station, near Eucla, and not Mundrabilla. Mundrabilla station was recorded as also being known as Mandra Bellae or Muntra Billa in earlier days, and was called Mundra or Muntra Station for short. It is easy to imagine that in the bustle of the recruitment room Naley's pronunciation of Mundra Station or Muntra Station was misheard and recorded as Mintaro, thus hiding another clue to his Aboriginality at a time when Aboriginal men were excluded from the AIF.
Ellen McGill, was recorded as his next of kin. Other than a scar on the right side of his abdomen, caused by a burn as a child, the '27-year-old' was declared fit. He was appointed to the Western & South Australian raised H Company, 16th Battalion of the 4th Brigade. After initial training at Morphettville, Private Naley (later to become Corporal Naley) decamped to the muddy-when-wet, dusty-when-dry, flat expanse at Broadmeadows in Victoria that was the assembly point for the 4th Brigade.
In November 1914, the Western Australian contingent of the 16th Battalion joined those assembled at Broadmeadows to undertake advanced training.
On 17 December, the 16th Battalion marched through Melbourne on review before the Governor-General, and less than a week later boarded HMAT Ceramic bound for Egypt via King George Sound with the Second Convoy.
After a month-long, uneventful voyage, Ceramic anchored at Aden before sailing though the Suez Canal and onwards to Port Said and finally, Alexandria. The men travelled by train to Heliopolis where they camped near the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade and New Zealand Brigade (the New Zealand and Australian Division), coming under the command of Major General Godley. A re-grouping of the 16th Battalion's companies created a double company structure and Naley's H Company merged with E Company becoming D Company. For the next two months training was intermingled with leave, allowing the troops to experience the sights, sounds and smells of Egypt.
The 16th left Cairo for Alexandria on 11 April. The battalion was split and Naley's D Company embarked on Haida Pascha, a captured and converted German cargo ship. Leaving Alexandria that day, the 16th numbered 821 men, along with 89 horses. They proceeded to Lemnos in the Aegean Sea where the troops spent three days practising landing from the ship's boats. On 23 April 1915, the General Routine Order and a message from the King were received. The following day the last of the field equipment was issued. Gallipoli awaited.
All that could be seen as Haida Pascha approached the Gallipoli shoreline around 4 pm on 25 April was a thick haze of blue smoke and flashes from the big guns of the battleships and destroyers pounding the shore. The 16th went ashore around 5 pm and were ordered to the summit of Pope's Hill at the top of Monash Valley. Over the next two days the 16th fought to maintain their position against determined Ottoman attacks. They were relieved by the 15th Battalion on 30 April, however snipers continued to harass them in the rest camp lower down Monash Valley, inflicting further casualties.
A week later the battalion was ordered to assault and entrench a position at Quinn's Post, which became the 'storm centre of Anzac' for the remainder of the month. On 24 May, Naley was reported to be suffering from enteric fever (typhoid). He was hospitalised in Malta and declared unfit for service for two months. A 2 June entry on Naley's service casualty form reports him as wounded and dangerously ill, though there is no record of a wound.
Naley was transferred from Malta to a military hospital in Fulham, London, in early September 1915 and declared 'out of danger' on 10 September. His convalescence extended to July 1916 and it is likely that this is when he first met Cecilia Karsh, the daughter of a local Fulham baker whom he would later marry. Meanwhile his unit had been evacuated from Gallipoli to Egypt and redeployed to the Armentières sector frontline in northern France.
In late June 1916, Naley entrained from Weymouth to Salisbury, embarking for France on 26 July 1916. His initial six weeks in France was spent with the 4th Training Battalion before he marched out from the 4th Division base depot in Etaples, rejoining the 16th Battalion on 19 August 1916. He had avoided the battalion's first experience of heavy shellfire at Tara Gulley on 4 August and their subsequent attack on Circular Trench between Pozières and Mouquet Farm a week later. However, he found himself on the front line in the muddy, rain-soaked trenches approaching Mouquet Farm.
The attack on Mouquet Farm was launched at 10.56 pm on 29 August following an artillery barrage that came down 'like a clap of thunder'. The 16th took all their objectives. However, the initial artillery barrage had failed to destroy all the German dugouts and many of their occupants remained unharmed. They had also been reinforced via underground tunnels. Following a severe bombardment, the Germans counter-attacked the 16th from both the front and the rear. To compound the Australians' problems, mud had rendered many of their rifles and Lewis guns useless. The 16th was forced to withdraw through enemy positions to their original front line. The battalion's losses were considerable and some of the company were taken prisoner. On the morning of 31 August a half-hour truce was negotiated so that the casualties who had not been recovered during the fighting could be collected. Two days later the battalion was relieved and the weary men made an arduous withdrawal back to their billets.
Over the next six months the 16th Battalion settled into the monotony of life in the trenches as they shifted around northern France, moving in and out of the front line. Routine maintenance tasks such as improving and cleaning trenches and camps, repairing roads and general fatigues, and participation in the occasional sporting competition was the norm. This was interspersed with relieving other battalions in the front and support lines. The ever-present threat of gas made carrying a box respirator compulsory. Naley's family have long believed that, even with this precaution, Naley suffered the effects of gas during this time.
In early April 1917, an attack in the Bullecourt sector was proposed following the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line and recent British successes near Arras. There was the promise of tank support and a heavy artillery bombardment to cut the wire. The battalion moved to their jumping-off positions in the early morning of 11 April 1917. Six tanks had been allocated and their first objective was to break down the wire sufficiently to allow the infantry to cross. However, by the time the 16th went over the top at 4.45 am only three tanks had arrived, the rest having broken down or become bogged. The promised heavy artillery was also cancelled because it was decided that tanks would provide artillery support. With key parts of the plan failing, the men pushed on and fought their way, under fierce machine-gun fire, to their planned objectives.
The battalion suffered heavy casualties in reaching their objective and immediately came under sustained grenade attack, suffering further casualties. A runner was dispatched with the message that the first objective had been reached. Their second objective lay ahead but they soon discovered that the wire was still intact. The second line of German trench was taken, but with heavy losses. The battalion's position was precarious and constant machine-gun fire made movement above ground virtually impossible. At 8 am a S.O.S. signal was made and repeated throughout the morning without response from the artillery due to exaggerated reports of Australian success and the misguided belief that the Australians were in the firing area.
A heavy German counter-attack was forming from the front and flanks making communication with headquarters impossible, and very few of the message runners made it through. Based on the evidence mentioned earlier of the patch sewn onto Naley's uniform, it is possible that he may have been one of the runners dispatched during the battle.
At 11.45 am, after more than three hours of fierce resistance, and with 75 per cent of the battalion wounded, captured or killed, the left flank gave way and the survivors withdrew as best they could back to their original position. Many men were killed by their own machine-guns while withdrawing. During the fighting, Naley was wounded in the left hip and became one of the many Australians captured. Of the 3,000 men of the 4th Brigade that were engaged at Bullecourt 2,339 were captured, wounded or killed. It was the heaviest loss in a single engagement by an Australian brigade.
Naley's service record contains two documents recording his capture, and the information varies on each. On the first undated form (in English) he is listed as a lance corporal, born on 20 January 1884, captured at 'Reincourt' [sic] and being wounded in the left hip by shrapnel. The second form (in German), completed on 23 July 1917, states that he was born in 1878 and captured at Bapaume; it states that he was not wounded, and that he was initially sent to Limburg prisoner-of-war camp. A later entry records his location as Zerbst, further east than Limburg and closer to Berlin. Little is known about Naley's time in the prisoner-of-war camps, though an extract from a postcard he sent home in February 1918 states, 'This leaves me well. Parcels arriving fairly well.'
Naley spent the remainder of the war as a prisoner of war and arrived back in England on 6 January 1919. Two weeks later, he married Cecilia Karsh in the Methodist Church at Fulham, London. On the wedding certificate Naley's occupation was listed as a 'Farmer' and his bride as 'Baker's assistant'. Naley spent a further period in hospital between March and April 1919, and on 1 April 1919 made a Statutory Declaration affirming his correct Christian names to be Gordon Charles. The couple left for Australia on 4 June 1919, and he was discharged from the AIF as a corporal on 21 September 1919 at Keswick, South Australia.
Naley and Cecilia initially went to 'Boggy Flat', now known as Taylorville, near Morgan on the Murray River. They then moved to Winkie, in the Riverland, South Australia, to take up a soldier-settler land grant. They had six children but, sadly, their first child died at birth. The back corner of their block adjoined the back corner of the settlement block of Arthur Davis of the Davis family who were Naley's friends from Bookabie. Arthur and Gordon Naley were best friends and were known to reminisce for hours on past times spent on the Nullarbor and West Coast. Naley worked his land and continued to break in horses for other settlers. He participated in local sporting activities, establishing a reputation as a sound cricketer. He maintained his Mirning links and Aboriginal learning. He was known by locals to hunt rabbits using a stick like a boomerang or a throwing stick with great success.
Naley battled health issues, probably a result of having been gassed in France, and passed away from respiratory complications in the veterans' hospital at Myrtle Bank in South Australia on 28 August 1928 aged 44. Naley was buried in the AIF section of Adelaide's West Terrace cemetery.
Australian War Memorial, First World War Embarkation Rolls – Gordon Charles Naley
Australian War Memorial, Red Cross Wounded and Missing - Gordon Charles Naley
Gill, I 2008, Bloody Angle Bullecourt & Beyond: 16th Battalion A.I.F. 1914-19, Ian Gill, Perth
Longmore, C Captain 2007, The Old Sixteenth: Being a record of the 16th Battalion, A.I.F., during the Great War, 1914-1918, Hesperian Press, Carlisle
National Archives of Australia: Australian Imperial Force, Base Records Office; B2455, Charles Gordon Naley First Australian Imperial Force personnel dossier, 1914-1920; NALEY CHARLES GORDON, 1914-1920
The AIF Project 2014, Charles Gordon NALEY, viewed 8 September 2014, <https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=232520>
nd 2013, South Australian Aboriginal soldiers of the First World War: 1310 Corporal Gordon Charles Naley of Mundrabilla Station, viewed 8 September 2014, <http://aboriginalww1veteransofsouthaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2011/09/1310-private-gordon-charles-naley-of.html>
Good work champ.
Thank you for your courage and sacrifice to give us the freedom we enjoy today.
Carol Bartlett
Thank you for your service.
Good work.
We remember you.
Good work. You are remembered.
You are remembered.
Thank you.
When did you die?
Thank you for your service.
Never forgotten and always remembered.
Never forgotten and always remembered.
Thank you for your service. Fellow 16TH Btn soldier. 5105399
Thank You. I am humbled by your story and deeply moved.
Aston Hancock
Thank you for serving our country. We are grateful.
Thank you.
Thank you to you and the thousands of other ANZACS!
THANK YOU! Rest in peace.
I'm proud of your contribution to our country, as an indigenous serviceman.
Ike vD
Thank you for going to war to save us.
Thank you for going to the war to save our country.
Good on you Naley, hope you rest in peace.
Wonderful story and glad that he made his way home to Australia.
I'm sorry for your suffering. I wish people could solve conflict without suffering and war. Thank you for your service; rest in peace.
chris and jamin
Good job. Respect. I appreciate your work. Thanks
Thank you for your service.
I thank you for your bravery and sacrifice. RIP.
Thanks for your sacrifice and service, which will never be forgotten.
Good job.
cook family
Thank you.
We will never forget.
A brave and honourable Australian.
Thank you for protecting our country.
To Naley, I hope that you had a great life.
We remember.
You survived the war.
Your sacrifice will never be forgotten. Rest well...
Thank you for serving our country.
cooper hinkley
Thank you for serving our country.
Hope you lived a good life. Thank you.
Dear Naley, I really do like the army.
In memory of those who fought so I can be here today.
You had an amazing journey through the war and made it out alive.
Thank you for your service to our country to bring us a future and country and freedom we enjoy.
Thank you for the sacrifice you made to give us the freedom and beautiful country we enjoy today.
You served your country. Well done.


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Thank you for publishing the Reason article by Ronald Bailey promoting mandatory private health insurance instead of government provided universal health care [January 20 cover story: "A call for health care intervention from an unlikely source: Charlottesville's top libertarian"].
Bailey makes some very interesting points, and as a libertarian myself, it's refreshing to see someone approach the health care debate from the perspective of keeping costs low and innovation high, while still addressing why there are uninsured.
I agree with a lot of his points, but I just don't like the idea of it being mandatory. My concern is that the law would never stay "pure."
By this I mean it might start out as mandatory only that you have insurance. This could be good, because it leaves the consumer free to choose a very high deductible plan with minimal coverage.
Give politicians an inch, and they take a mile. Eventually, special interest groups will increase what's mandatory for the plans to cover.
The result will be everyone's premiums going up, even those who choose the minimal coverage plans. They will end up being forced to buy insurance that covers them for more than they want.
Any plan that tries to force one solution on everyone, like universal coverage, will undoubtedly fail. We need to encourage solutions that recognize that not everyone's health care needs are the same, and Bailey's proposal is at least a good step in that direction. But anything mandatory will become mangled by political interests.
Regardless, I hope the debate on this topic continues to get more diverse and we hear more solutions like Bailey's instead of the same story from the major parties.
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I would like to play the RealMedia streams at http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/index.php/Main/AdditiveCombinatoricsMinicourse .
I have installed the RealPlayer beta but all that happens is that the browser saves a .ra file and then RealPlayer says it can't play it.
Interestingly, they work fine in mplayer on linux using
mplayer -playlist http://acstream.princeton.edu:8080/ramgen/blackboard/cs/additive_combinatorics/1_luca_trevisan_350k.rm for example. The stream itself is
rtsp://22.214.171.124:554/blackboard/cs/additive_combinatorics/1_luca_trevisan_350k.rm and I thought Android had rtsp support.
Is there any way to play the videos in Android?
Edit: The answer shows how to play the rtsp streams. However, I would really like to be able to play the videos directly from their web page without having to extract each rtsp link manually using a separate computer.


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5 Links Between Higher Education and the Prison Industry
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American universities do a fine job of selling themselves as pathways to opportunity and knowledge. But follow the traffic of money and policies through these academic institutions and you'll often wind up at the barbed wire gates of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group, the two largest private prison operators in the United States. In the last two decades the private prison industry has exploded, growing 784 percent at the federal level, and helping the United States to achieve the highest incarceration rate in the world. CCA operates 69 facilities throughout the United States, GEO operates 55; both typically mandate that 90 percent of their beds be filled at all times. In the last two years alone CCA has defended itself against charges of fraudulent understaffing of its facilities, medical neglect and abuse of inmates.
A series of policies, appointments and investments knit America's universities into the widening net of the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex. Institutions of higher education have now become a part of what sociologist Victor Rios has called the "youth control complex"—a tightly bundled network of institutions that work insidiously and in harmony to criminalize young people of color. Here are five ways that universities buy into private prison companies. (more…)


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Monday, November 11, 2013
Employers' Wariness Thwarts Many Blind Jobseekers
Associated Press/Boston Herald
Sunday, November 3, 2013
Among the 29 employers at the job fair for blind and low-vision people were TD Bank, retailer T.J. Maxx, and several branches of Harvard University, including the job fair's host — the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The venue was the former Radcliffe College gymnasium where Helen Keller exercised en route to becoming the first deaf/blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree in 1904.
The Measure of a Woman
Harvard Gazette
Friday, November 1, 2013
Nancy Pelosi: "At Last We Have a Seat at the Table"
Harvard Magazine
Thursday, October 31, 2013
10 Questions With Gail Collins
Harvard Crimson
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Celebrated New York Times columnist Gail Collins visited the Radcliffe Institute to discuss her 2009 book on the modern feminist movement, "When Everything Changed." The Harvard Crimson chatted with her before she entered the Knafel Center's main hall for her lecture.
Radcliffe Institute Will Seek $70 Million in Campaign
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
The Radcliffe Campaign Launches
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
As Complex as a Toy
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Columnist Gail Collins Discusses Shifting Views on Women in America
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
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He returned to Madigan Army Medical Center for his Orthopedic residency, which included experience in the Harborview Medical Center's Orthopaedic Trauma Service, adult reconstructive rotation at the Swedish Hospital Medical Center and a fellowship in sports medicine at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In January 1987, he was assigned as the chief resident on pediatric orthopaedic rotation at Gillette Crippled Children's Hospital, St. Paul Minnesota, and upon completing this residency, he returned to West Point for a one-year sports medicine fellowship.
Between July 1987 and June 1990, Arciero served as team physician for the U.S. Military Academy's NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic program. During the final year of this assignment, he was the assistant chief of orthopaedics at Keller Army Hospital at West Point. In August 1990, he was assigned as an orthopaedic surgeon and chief of orthopaedics of the 46th Combat Support Hospital. He deployed to Saudi Arabia and Iraq with this unit during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, where he earned the Bronze Star.
Arciero, having published and presented exhaustively at the national and international level and received numerous awards for excellence, retired from the U.S. Army in October 2000. He is currently associate professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Connecticut Health Center, where he continues to excel in his profession. His certifications, licenses and memberships include the National Board of Medical Examiners, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Arthroscopy Association of North America, and the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. He holds medical licenses in Washington, Wyoming and Connecticut, and among his numerous professional committee appointments are the Editorial Board for Lippincott Publishing, reviewer for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and editor of the Journal of Arthroscopy.
He was commissioned as a U.S. Army Reserve Field Artillery second lieutenant through the ROTC program and accepted a position with General Electric. In 1966, he earned a Master of Science in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Albany and volunteered for active duty that same year. He completed the Field Artillery Basic Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in August 1966 and was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment (Towed), Fort Bragg, North Carolina, with whom he deployed to the Republic of South Vietnam in May 1967.
Dee graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Economics and was commissioned as a U.S. Army field artillery second lieutenant. He graduated from the Field Artillery Basic Course at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and was ordered to Germany, where he served in several leadership and staff assignments for three years. He returned to the United States for additional military education, and served as a captain for another one and a half years. His initial entry obligation complete, Dee chose to leave the Army for civilian life and was honorably discharged in 1968.
Dee earned a Masters of Business Administration from Loyola University of Chicago, and worked in positions of increasing responsibility with the Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) until 1979. At this point, he joined two former associates from Alcoa and bought Cressona Aluminum Company, a Pennsylvania facility that Alcoa had shut down in 1977. Dee became the company's Vice President of Sales, Executive Vice President and a member of the board. In 1996, Dee and his associates sold the company to Alumax, and shortly thereafter, he joined British Aluminium in Banbury England as the Managing Director of British Aluminium Extrusions. He remained in this capacity for two and one half years before returning to the United States to assist in the management of Valley Technologies, a company he purchased in 1997.
Dee is currently the Chairman of the Board of Valley Technologies in Pottsville, Pennsylvania and is a member of the St. Bonaventure University Board of Trustees. Prior to being elected to the University's Board of Trustees in 2000, he served on the President's Council, National Alumni Board and Capital Campaign. He also has provided leadership for the Annual Bonaventure Fund, taking on the posts of national vice chairman and alumni chairman prior to serving as national chairman of the 102nd Annual Bonaventure Fund. In 1990, he was honored as the St. Bonaventure Alumnus of the Year.
Upon completing the Military Police Officer Basic Course, Garrison was ordered to Germany, where she was assigned as the commander, Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 385th Military Police Battalion in Kornwestheim, Germany. She next served as Platoon Leader in the 194th Military Police Company at Neu Ulm, Germany and then as Assistant S3/Training Officer, 385th Military Police Battalion. Her final assignment during this six-year tour was as commander of the 630th Military Police Company in Bamberg, Germany.
From 1994 until 1995, Garrison was assigned as the Executive Officer of the 705th Military Police Battalion, which supported operations of the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. She earned a Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University in 1995 and was again recognized for her expertise in public safety when the Office of Special Events, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness selected her as a Security Liaison for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1997, she was assigned as Inspector General of the United States Total Army Personnel Command in Washington, D.C. and worked various personnel actions for soldiers and civilians throughout the Army.
A graduate of United States Army Command and General Staff College, LTC Garrison is currently the commander of the 5th Military Police Battalion, a Criminal Investigation Command unit in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She is married to LTC (ret) Kevin Garrison, and they have twin sons, Sean and Kiera (7), and a daughter, Kelsea (5). LTC Garrison's awards include the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (with 4 Oak Leaf Clusters), Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Meal, Join Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement medal and the Secretary of Defense Identification Badge.
Russell was promoted to captain and graduated from the Armor Officer Advanced Course before he joined the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Bliss, Texas, where he commanded B Troop, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry and was the Squadron S4. Selected to attend graduate school at St. Bonaventure University, he earned his Masters of Science in Business Administration in 1985. Russell continued at the University as an Assistant Professor of Military Science, and was promoted to major before leaving the cadre in 1988. In addition to his personal education and commitments as a member of the Department of Military Science, Russell also coached the men's lacrosse team, which he led to an undefeated season in 1988.
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2 Years Young - and a Thank You
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Also, we owe a belated thanks to a fellow blogger for a few thousand visits from around the globe over the past two days. Hop over to "The Other Side of Kim" and surf around his site. He was kind enough to write about and link to a couple of pieces we wrote. Chicago lost a real citizen of the world when Kim left town for Texas. His essays on the mayor are a joy to read.
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Yasuni National Park in Ecuador is reputed to be the biologically richest place on earth. Its 3791 square miles are believed to contain more species of plants and animals than any other comparable area.
WATCH: Oil boom threatens Amazon tribesmen
These photos were taken by award-winning nature photographer Peter Oxford and first appeared in "Yasuni, Tiputini & the Web of Life," a book he co-authored with Dr. Kelly Swing. Pete is a biologist who was named one of the 40 most influential nature photographers by Outdoor Photography magazine. His photo credits include National Geographic, Smithsonian, and International Wildlife. A founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (ICLP), Pete works as a team with his long-time partner and wife Renee Bish, with whom he has published eight books, two of which focus entirely on the Galapagos Islands.
Wauroni tribesmen, who live in the rainforest of Ecuador, are getting ready to challenge the Ecuadorian government's plan to auction as much as 8 million acres of rainforest for oil drilling, saying they are prepared to fight to the death to protect the land. NBC's Ann Curry reports.
WATCH: Living in the Amazon: 'There's a harmony'
Find out more about efforts to preserve part of the Yasuni National Park in Ecuador:
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Editor's Note: Click here to watch Ann Curry's full report from Ecuador that aired Friday, May 3, 2013 at 10pm/9c on NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams.