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Balzac Honoré de eBooks
Honore de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 1815 fall of Napoleon.
Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature.
He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters, who are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac's works have been made into or have inspired films, and they are a continuing source of inspiration for writers, filmmakers and critics.
An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting to the teaching style of his grammar school. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. When he finished school, Balzac was an apprentice in a Law office, but he turned his back on the study of Law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine. Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician; he failed in all of these efforts.
La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience.
Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule. His relationship with his family was often strained by financial and personal drama, and he ended several friendships over critical reviews. In 1850 he married Ewelina Hańska, his longtime love; he died five months later.


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Islamic Center of Charlotte opens to non-Muslims
The Islamic Center of Charlotte is scheduling an open house to give non-Muslims a chance to get to know them.
The Charlotte Observer reports that the center's open house set for Saturday night comes during Ramadan, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar. During the month, Muslims traditionally gather after sundown each night to break the fast with a communal meal.
Center spokesman Jibril Hough said the annual event is a great opportunity to share in some good food as well as to get beyond stereotypes and misinformation and get to know who the Muslims are and what they believe.
This year's event begins with a breaking-of-the-fast meal that traditionally begins by eating dates. Local Muslims will be on hand to explain Ramadan, Islam and the tradition of fasting.

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আমি একটি সম্মেলনে তিনি কিং দ্বীপ হোটেল এ স্পন্সর এ সভা স্টিভ Sjogren পরিতোষ ছিল 1989. আমি এক হারিয়ে যখন কিছু ছিল পরিচিত করা উচিত আমার 2 শব্দ সরঞ্জাম স্থাপনের সামনের দাঁত (অন্য সময় জন্য একটি বিবরণ, but feel free to insert your favorite hillbilly joke here. That began a decade's long friendship. The coffee we shared spurred great conversations and stories from Steve. His passion helped me both recognize where God had already been developing a servant's heart in me and inspired me to begin intentionally leading others to love those around us. Here is one of the lessons I have learned that keeps me in the game 25 years later.
This was something I first heard from Steve, but it has played out in one way or another in every project I have participated in. "When you move into servant evangelism you will bump into Murphy's Law…no, you will move into Murphy's country!"
It seems that loving your neighbor as yourself is actually difficult – that all that can go wrong tends to go wrong. It's weird – it didn't seem so hard when Jesus talked about loving our neighbors.
I actually thought I was getting off easy! Every time we choose to trust Jesus and operate in the gift of the Spirit, LOVE (yes singular, because absolutely every follower of Jesus gets this one!) the Enemy is right there to make sure we don't like it. If we did like it, we might recognize God's power is revealed in love, and we might start to share it like it made a difference and actually change the world. To prevent this, our enemy makes sure that Murphy's Law is powerfully at work through various circumstances, ordinances, personalities and attitudes from the get go so we are frustrated from the get go.
Murphy showed up at the very first outreach I did with Steve at the Cincinnati Vineyard. They were hosting a free carwash (that actually was free—back in the day when that was novel) at Jenny's Sports Bar on Route 42. I jumped in with both feet and started working hard. I got hot enough that spring day to shed my t-shirt (not nearly as terrifying an image 25 বছর আগে) as I pressed into washing fenders, hoods and bumpers. As we began to clean up I started looking for my white t-shirt, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I finally wandered over to the rag pile and there it was. Someone had used it to polish brake dust from at least a dozen rims. I wrung it out and considered this reward for my labor. Later though 2 stories circulated that made me realize that I would gladly give my shirt every time we served to see God's love revealed like that.
That experience helped me realize that to deal with Mr. Murphy and not give up we must be both hard and soft. We must be hard to keep serving for the long haul. Hard to the outreach realities of circumstances, ordinances, personalities and attitudes that Murphy employs. Dealing with Murphy requires that we develop a callous over the part of our heart that wants to be right, wants to be in control, wants to look good and most of all be successful. The bad news is that callous is developed the way all good callouses are – through repeatedly being pressed down, pushed on, rubbed and scraped. In a deep sense we need to become hard to the awkward feelings of being foolish, unappreciated and embarrassed. I believe this sacrifice is a pleasing fragrance to our God. If we can grow hard, develop this ability to embrace Murphy, we can enjoy a long season of loving our community into relationship with Jesus.
We must also stay soft. Soft to the voices of those we are serving and those we are serving with. The breath of fresh air for me in this discipline of reaching out in service is the stories that capture a moment in the transformation process. Make time to listen every time you are serving. Whether it is a debrief over food after an event with your co-laborers or stopping your "kindness" to listen to one of the people you are working so hard to reach. Their stories are the catalog of the Holy Spirit's work in and through you, in a tangible way, the very coming of His kingdom. Don't be distracted by your work and miss this sweet fruit. As these stories are shared, they create energy for us to continue to reach out.
Love Strong.


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Forum: Road Trip Central
Sponsored by www.ravenstrips.com. Join veteran road-tripper Mista T as he spreads his wisdom about the do's and don'ts of getting sloshed in places other than M&T Bank Stadium. 'T' attends at least 4 away games a year and has over 30 under his belt. If there's a good pub in any NFL city, 'T' knows about it.


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Half Moon Bay Highlights
The Mavericks Invitational
Good size, great light, unbelievable conditions, given the fact that the contest hasn't even run in two years this has to be considered a success ... and nobody fell off the cliff this time either.
Peter Mel
At 44, Peter Mel of Santa Cruz is a global big wave legend. And despite all his accomplishments, this was his first win at Mavs.
Peter Mel
"The Eddie has always been the ultimate prize for big wave surfers," said Mel In his post contest interview. "But for me, personally, winning Mavericks has always been closest to my heart.
Greg Long
Greg Long getting back on the horse after his near drowning last month. This was the first time he's been back in big surf and he placed a very respectable 3rd in the event.
Mark Healey
Mad dog Mark Healey charged all the way into the final, and thanks to rides like this, very easily could have come away with the win.
Finals Prayer Circle
The Prayer Circle, part of the tradition at the Mavs event, where several big wave brethren have lost their lives.
The Left
Just another reason to give pause before tempting fate on the left.
Jamie Sterling
The 2011/2012 Big Wave World Champ, Jamie Sterling at the 2013 Mavericks Invitational.
Matt Becker
The day before the contest saw some gems come through. Matt Becker got this one, which pretty much could have won the contest by the time the final rolled around late in the day on Jan. 21.
Jeff Clark
55-year-old Jeff Clark, the original big wave cowboy who pioneered Maverick's and rode it for years before the big wave world caught on.
Colin Dwyer
In a lineup full of international big-wave all-starts, local boy Colin Dwyer held his own.
Peter Mel
Mel didnt consider this a big enough day at Mavs to hold the event, which explains his casual approach.
Shawn Dollar and Mark Healey
Shawn Dollar takes the sensible right drop, while hellman Mark Healey goes for glory on the left.
Zach Wormhoudt
Zach Wormhoudt just steps in front of this Mavs landmine.
Peter Mel
Once solely considered a right, in the past few years the left at Mavericks has become more enticing to the goofyfoots and the more intrepid regularfoots on Sunday like Mark Healey and Peter Mel.
That's all folks
Jet skis are typcially allowed in the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary, but the Mavericks Invitational was an exception.
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Edited by Bonnie K. Goodman
119: David Engerman, 11-28-10
Teaching Position: Professor of History, Brandeis University
Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 2001-.
Area of Research: Russia in American life, including politics, culture, and foreign policy.
Education: Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1998
Major Publications: Engerman is the author of Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts. Oxford University Press, 2009. Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development. Harvard University Press, 2003. Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; Akira Iriye International History Book Award; One of best six books of the year in Eurasian Studies, Foreign Affairs; Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Engerman is the co-editor and contributor of Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War. University of Massachusetts Press, 2003, and The God That Failed: Six Studies of Communism. Columbia University Press, 2001. (Wrote foreword).
Engerman is also the author of numerous scholarly journal articles, book chapters and reviews including among others:
"The Price of Success: Economic Development, Sovietology, and the Costs of Interdisciplinarity," History of Political Economy 42 (forthcoming 2010); "Social Science in the Cold War," Isis 101:2 (June 2010), 393-400; "Ideology and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1962," for Cambridge History of the Cold War. Ed. Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010; "The Cold War," for Companion to Russian and Soviet History. Ed. Abbott Gleason. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009; "Towards a Global History of Modernization," Diplomatic History 33:3 (June 2009), 375-385; co-author with Corinna Unger. (Also co-editor of Forum in which this article appears.); "American Knowledge and Global Power," Diplomatic History 31:4 (September 2007), 599-622; "How Harvard Ruled Russia," Kritika 7:3 (Summer 2006), 689-702; "John Dewey and the Soviet Union: When Pragmatism Meets Revolution," Modern Intellectual History 3:1 (April 2006), 33-63; "The Ironies of the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and the Development of Russian Studies in the United States," Cahiers du Monde russe 45:3/4 (July/December 2004), 465-496, reprinted in The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion, 1945-1985. Ed. David Hollinger. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006; "The Romance of Economic Development and New Histories of the Cold War," Diplomatic History 28:1 (January 2004), 23-54; "Rethinking Cold War Universities," Journal of Cold War Studies 5:3 (Summer 2003), 80-95. "Modernization from the Other Shore: American Observers and the Costs of Soviet Economic Development," American Historical Review 105:2 (April 2000), 383-416, reprinted in Not Worthy: Walter Duranty's Pulitzer Prize. Ed. L. Luciuk. Toronto: Kashtan Press, 2004, translated and reprinted in 200 let rossiisko- amerikanskikh otnoshenii: nauka i obrazovanie. Ed. A.O. Chubar'ian and Blair Ruble. Moscow: OLMA, 2007, slated for reprint in Collective Degradation, ed. John Stauffer (Yale UP, in process)
Awards: Engerman is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including among others:
Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies (2010);
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2006);
Named Stuart L. Bernath Lecturer, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2005);
Outstanding Academic Title for 2004, Choice Magazine (2005);
Akira Iriye International History Book Award (2004);
Scholarly Fellowship, Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, (2004);
Research Grant, Rockefeller Archive Center (2004);
Scholarly Fellowship, Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History (2004);
Short-Term Research Scholarship, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (2004);
Stuart Bernath Book Prize, Soviety for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2004);
Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (2003 – 2004);
Visiting Scholar, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (declined) (2003 – 2004);
Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University (2000 – 2001);
Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University (2000 – 2007);
Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined) (1999 – 2001);
Dissertation Write-Up Fellowship, Mellon Foundation (1997 – 1998);
John L. Simpson Fellowship in Comparative Studies, Institute for International Studies (1997 – 1998);
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Berkeley Graduate Division (1997);
Winant Fellow, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library (1995);
Packard Fellow, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library (1994).
Additional Info:
Formerly: Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 2007-2008; Chair, Graduate Program in History, Brandeis University, 2001-2003, 2009-10; Chair, International and Global Studies Program, Brandeis University, 2005-2007; Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University, 1999-2005; Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2003-2004; Fellow, Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History, Harvard University, 2000-2001; Lecturer in History, University of California-Berkeley, 1998-1999.
A bonus for historians studying the twentieth century is the chance to meet your historical subjects. I was lucky enough to meet George F. Kennan, a man who featured in both of my books.
I met Kennan as he approached his 97th birthday in winter 2001. I had been thinking a lot about him for the previous five years, ever since I had run across a 1932 memorandum by Kennan while reading through State Department microfilms in a desolate corner of the Berkeley library. Kennan's memo must have arrived at State Department headquarters on a bad day for filing clerks. His astute analysis of the Soviets' all-out push for industrialization was misfiled among travelers' reports, an error that explained why this remarkable document had never been cited in the large scholarly output on Kennan.
Kennan's memo contained a striking phrase: "the romance of economic development," which, he had written, inspired Soviet youth "to ignore all other questions in favor of economic progress." In language revealing as much about the writer as his subject, Kennan praised that romance for saving Soviet youth from the "curses of egotism, romanticism, daydreaming, introspection and perplexity" that befell their western counterparts. I loved Kennan's elegant prose, and also the way his description fit western observers, not just Soviet youth. Some American observers explained away a famine by saying the USSR was "starving itself great"; others were so compelled by Soviet industrialization that they trotted out the old canard about breaking eggs to make an omelet.
As I began revising my dissertation into a book a few years later, I wrote Kennan, attaching a copy of his 1932 memo and asking if he remembered anything about the sources for his ideas. A speedy reply from his secretary implied that Kennan was unavailable to assist other scholars' work while he had so many pressing projects of his own. The following year, I resent my inquiry through a colleague of Kennan's who had offered to act as intermediary. Kennan's urgent letter (and two phone messages) came just as quickly as his earlier rebuff. He wrote me that he had no recollection of the document (then nearly 70 years old), and then requested whatever contextual material I could provide. I worked up the nerve to ask if I might deliver the documents in person – and a week later I rang the doorbell at his stately but slightly run-down Princeton home. His physical frailty limited our time to an hour, but his intellectual acuity was very much present as we spoke about his training in Russian history and his experiences in the USSR. Kennan recounted the lessons he learned at the University of Berlin in 1929-31; his professors stressed study of the Realien of geography, national character, and national interests rather than epiphenomena like governments and ideologies. This helped me understand Kennan's views of the USSR and of the world, and why he was, in his words, "an expatriate in his own time." The conversation deepened my fascination with Kennan, a familiar enough infatuation among diplomatic historians. I overcame my awe just long enough to ask his wife to photograph us in our conversation.
I would have a chance to meet some of my other historical subjects, especially as I wrote about Kennan's heirs, Soviet experts of the Cold War. These interviews were all fascinating. I learned about their scholarly inspirations, their political investigations, and their experiences visiting a country so different and distant from their own. I even learned about a number of romances and the scandals that often ensued – but none matched the opportunity to learn about the "romance of economic development" from the man who coined the phrase.
By David Engerman
- The history of Soviet Studies offers contradictory lessons about the relationship between national security and intellectual life. The field was an intellectual success when government funds flowed because it attracted an especially wide range of scholars and because its founders conceived of their aims very broadly. Scholars-cum- consultants innocently but fervently believed that the various parts of their job fit together seamlessly. They worked with government officials at the same time that they produced their own scholarship and trained their academic progeny. Seams strained and innocence ended in the 1960s, leading some later scholars to denigrate the field solely on the basis of its ties to government. Amid the dual crises of the late 1960s, pioneers … hoped to reinvigorate Soviet Studies by returning to interdisciplinary and applied research that had driven top-notch work in the field's first decade. Yet the successes of Soviet Studies came thanks to unrepeatable historical circumstances: the intellectual mobilization during World War II, the postwar university boom, and the emergence of new sources of funding. These broad forces permitted Soviet Studies to serve both Mars and Minerva, or at least to try. There [is] no way … to go back to the future. There was no way, after the divisions of the 1960s, to recapture the innocence of the postwar years, the notion that government agencies could only support, not distort, intellectual life. Coming from the small and isolated policy-oriented sector of Soviet Studies, secretaries [Robert] Gates and [Condoleezza] Rice celebrated themselves in claiming that new [government] initiatives incorporated the lessons of Soviet Studies. But new enemies, in new times, require new solutions. — David Engerman in "Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts"
- The specter of Soviet Communism haunting [the twentieth] century was as much a blueprint for rapid industrialization as an ideology of proletarian revolution, national liberation, or totalitarian control. At the same time, the Soviet specter often bore little resemblance to actually existing circumstances in the Soviet Union itself. In spite of the tremendous costs, including a catastrophic famine in 1932-1933, domestic and foreign commentators widely praised Soviet efforts at economic modernization, especially in the early years of the Five-Year Plans (1928-1937). What American diplomat George F. Kennan termed the "romance of economic development" captivated a wide range of foreign observers of all political persuasions. These interwar observers valued the fruits of rapid industrialization above its costs-even when these costs included not only repression and privation but also starvation. — David Engerman in "Modernization from the Other Shore: American Observers and the Costs of Soviet Economic Development," AHR (2000).
About David Engerman
- "The extraordinary range and depth of Engerman's research and the narrative arc knitting this book together from start to finish make Know Your Enemy a consummate work of scholarship and historical imagination. Engerman's critical assessment of all the diverse components within academic 'Sovietology' shatters one cliche after another. Soviet Studies never fashioned a single Cold War vision of the USSR and never served simply as an ideological arm of U.S. foreign policy-even when scholars were most closely linked with diplomatic and military operatives." — Howard Brick, University of Michigan
- "Those in and out of the field of Soviet Studies will find genuine revelations in Know Your Enemy . Engerman combines thorough research with a firm footing in the sociology of knowledge of the post-World War II world in this remarkable story of the U.S.'s most successful area studies enterprise. The author sensibly and dispassionately navigates the reader through the maelstrom of conflicts and controversies that beset the field and is practitioners from the Second World War until the fall of the Soviet Union." — Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University
- "Looking at both people and institutions, David Engerman has written the most complete and informative account of the rise and fall of Russian/Soviet studies. Sovietology arose out of world war and Cold War, but Engerman demonstrates that rather than simply ideologically driven, this scholarly field contained a variety of voices that contested with one another to influence colleagues, the government, and the public. The fate of the field, however, was intimately tied to the global conflict with America's adversary, and when Soviet socialism collapsed, Sovietology disappeared along with it. Yet the contours of understanding a distant and little known rival continue to influence new generations still perplexed by that part of the world." — Ronald Grigor Suny, author of The Soviet Experiment
- "In his excellent history of Cold War Sovietology, which is solidly grounded in interviews and more than 100 archival collections, David Engerman has fashioned an important institutional and intellectual history of its academic dimensions. This clearly argued, fair-minded, and very illuminating volume reveals more interesting individuals and a more complicated story (as archives always do) than the oft repeated commonplaces about this history have revealed."–Thomas Bender, author of A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History
- "[D]eeply researched new book." — Evan R. Goldstein, The Chronicle Review
- "[E]ngrossing." — Wall Street Journal
- "[F]ascinating history." — Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs
- "Deeply researched, well-written, this is an important chronicle that explains much about how government and academia still interact, and it should be read not just by Russophiles, but by anyone interested in new academic initiatives to focus on 'Islamic Studies.'" — Paul E. Richardson, Russian Life
- "Engerman is very passionate and energetic in the classroom, and very respectful of student ideas. His lesson plans are always innovative and intriguing, as well."…
"he's so creative with his use of materials, like using music, video, photos in his lectures to get a deeper understanding of a time period than one can get from books alone. he looks at history as a set of paradoxes, very interesting way to think about it" – — Anonymous Students
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10 Steps to Using Digital Marketing Strategies To Find Your Dream Job in 2014
2013 is coming to an end, therefore it's time to analyze, evaluate and make changes going into the New Year. We all make resolutions about, health, wealth and happiness so why not include changing our employment situation. This is especially the case if you are one of the 71% that hate their jobs.
When I wrote the article, 71% of people hate their job; I was astounded by the response to the article. I was more surprised that there were so many people that were unhappy with their employment situation.
Sometimes people can feel stuck in a situation due to a variety of reasons and they become very reluctant to make a move, so they just grin and bear it. It seems that there are up to 71% of the population that are willing to grin and bear it.
Guess what people, we are moving into a new year so NOW is the perfect time to make changes in your life. More people need to be a part of the 29% that LOVE their job instead of the 71% that hate it.
We are now living in a very digital world, so now we need to look at new ways in which we can gain the edge in competing for jobs. If you are a Digital Marketer, you may find yourself consulting, working for an organization or both. Sometimes as digital marketers, we do not effectively market OURSELVES as a BRAND and that is very important.
If you are in a more traditional industry, chances are you are NOT marketing yourself as a BRAND either. In this increasingly digital world, all people that are looking for new opportunities should start to see themselves as brands so that they can compete in this tough job market. Most people are using some type of social media recreationally. So, if you are involved with social media even socially, these ten tips will be perfect for your 2014 strategy for grabbing your dream job.
Whether you are a digital marketer or just someone looking for a new career path, it is imperative that you see beyond your present situation and come up with a creative way to change your career path. The first step is visualizing yourself, not as JUST a person trying to get a job, but as a brand. It is very important that you think of yourself as a BRAND and you should market yourself accordingly.
A huge part of viewing and marketing yourself as a brand, is maintaining a very visual digital marketing footprint separate from the brands that you work with, if you are a digital marketer. It is GREAT to work in this ever-growing digital marketing industry but as digital marketers we must maintain our own digital marketing persona totally separate from the organizations that employ us or that we consult with. So, it is very important that we continue to develop and grow our own individual personal brand and digital footprint.
If you are NOT a digital marketer you should start to incorporate some branding content into your personal profiles. It is very important that all people see themselves as marketers, if only to market oneself to the world in seeking a new or better career path. It is more important than ever to utilize social channels for career advancement in addition to traditional résumés and this is primarily due to the growing importance of our digital footprint.
I've read on numerous occasions that traditional resumes are very close to becoming irrelevant because our entire digital presence is available online for all to see. More and more recruiters are utilizing the digital presence of employment candidates to get a better feel for potential employees before they even read resumes. This is one of the reasons that we must make sure that we have a positive and flattering digital footprint and that we continue to develop our own personal brand.
Use Social Media To Improve Your Job Search produced by Gumtree
There are pluses and minuses to having your entire online persona for all to see. The biggest plus is that you are always visible; the biggest minus is that you're always visible. LOL. This is the primary reason that we must be aware, more than ever about the types of content that we display on our digital marketing channels. So it is imperative that we have a strong personal brand and a positive digital footprint. Take a look at the ten steps below, to help develop your personal brand:
1. Logo: Create a logo for your brand. My brand is Anise Smith, so the first thing I did when I started to develop my brand almost five years ago was to have my name created in logo form. If you are creating a new logo make sure you have it created in 3 different formats. Have your logo created in EPS format, which allows it to be duplicated for print and web, PNG for use when you need a transparent background AND jpg for general use.
2. Uniform Branded Look: You should have a consistent branded look across all of your social media channels. So create your Facebook cover, Twitter layout and other digital collateral with the same branded look.
3. Facebook: CLEAN up your Facebook profile! I have seen some things in my daily virtual travels that would definitely be viewed as negative. If you want to promote a positive personal brand YOU MUST start with presenting a positive Facebook image.
I am connected to my father, teenage son and many family members on Facebook, so I only share information that I would share with them offline. This is a great way to mentally keep your content clean and shareable. Don't post information that you wouldn't share with your grandparents, parents or children. If you wouldn't yell it across the dinner table during a family meal, DON'T post it on Facebook. PERIOD!
Before you hit the POST button, think about how an employer would view your post. If there's even a question of how your post would be viewed by employers or just followers in general, DON'T hit POST. Better yet, picture your grandma peering over your shoulder while you're writing your post. If grandma wouldn't approve, don't post.
Facebook is a huge part of branding yourself and you should use it wisely. Assume that ALL potential employers will check your Facebook profile, because they probably will. So it is best that you put your best foot forward starting here. After you clean up your profile, showcase yourself. This may involve loosening some of your privacy settings to showcase certain areas of your profile.
- Make a cover photo that showcases your talent. Facebook covers are 851 × 316.
- Add your employment history, in the work and education section.
- If you attended college, utilize the education section to add information about your school.
- Use the project area to add the projects that you've worked.
- Facebook just added a section for professional skills; add your skills in this section.
- Don't forget to use the contact us section to add your website, blogs and social media channels.
Facebook can be utilized almost as a resume if you add the right content and if you are a little creative.
4. Twitter: This is a great avenue to showcase your knowledge and to present yourself as an expert in your area, which is very important in creating a brand for yourself. Having a great Twitter profile allows you to make amazing connections while building followers organically, both of which are crucial to your personal brand. So make sure you are utilizing this channel and showcasing your capabilities to your followers and potential followers. If you are unfamiliar with Twitter start practicing keeping your verbiage short, because you only have 140 characters to make your point. So, you must use them wisely. To get started check out these easy steps:
- Create a header for your Twitter layout, it should be no larger than 1252 × 626.
- Create a Twitter background with your contact information. Twitter backgrounds are 1920 × 1200.
- Display a presentable image of yourself.
- Add a descriptive; yet brief bio using 140 characters.
The importance of Twitter cannot be overlooked in the process of branding yourself. Studies have shown that recruiters from the top employers in the country, are using Twitter as a way to recruit top talent. YOU want to be considered the top talent and you want to be noticed by these recruiters. So Twitter is essential!
5. Google+: There has always been some controversy about the importance of this platform. I'm not exactly sure why, since it is a GOOGLE platform. Most know that Google is pretty darn awesome. So, needless to say I've been a fan since the Beta release! Another reason to get acclimated to Google +, Facebook has been losing a bit of steam recently so it is very important that you create a profile on Google+. Additionally content shared on Google+ shows up in search results. Enough said!
*Note* You can schedule your posts for Google+ and other social channels. I've used a few but I find that, Buffer is the best scheduling platform available.
6. Blog: I am really partial to WordPress but the most important thing is that you have a blog, which you contribute to regularly. So, select the platform that you are most comfortable with. [Wordpress, WordPress, WordPress, hmm, did I suggest WordPress?] A blog allows you to present yourself as an expert in your field utilizing your own content AND it allows you to provide this content to your social media channels.
Additionally you can create a page on your blog for your online resume. A web version of your resume allows you the convenience of sending a link quickly from pc, tablet OR mobile device directly to anyone that is interested.
Also, make sure that your blog is viewable by way of mobile device. So many people are mobile that it's almost mandatory that your blog be viewable by mobile device. This also offers you the unique opportunity to respond to emails from recruiters and send a resume link right from your mobile device, within seconds. WINNING!
7. Triberr: If you have a blog YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST be a part of Triberr. If you are not familiar with Triberr, you need to become familiar quickly. Triberr is THE BEST platform to utilize if you want to get exposure for your blog. This platform is second to none!
So, Triberr in a nutshell: It's a platform that allows exposure of your blog through mutual sharing of content. As a part of Triberr you would join tribes of interest. After joining the tribe(s) you would then connect the RSS feed of your blog to the Tribe. This allows your tribe mates to share your blog content to their Twitter followers. Additionally all of your tribemates will have their blog RSS feed attached so that you can share their blog content with your Twitter followers.
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|Olympic Team Clutch Winners!
|By Jennifer Shahade
|June 6, 2006
I. Best Team Spirit Ever
A lot of team spirit is about over-riding individual egos. This all started before the tournament, when the players decided unanimously to put Gata on board one rather than Hikaru, who would be chosen by pure rating formula. A lot of this was about style. Gata is more solid, and Hikaru is wilder. Hikaru's also been in lackluster form, and what better way to get back into the groove than to be the tournament's official board three terror? Hikaru had no hard feelings about being on board three- in fact, he suggested this himself. 2nd board Alex Onischuk recognized that this choice put the onus on Hikaru to be a win machine: "I knew we would only have a chance to earn medals if Hikaru was in good form, and made a big plus score."
Things didn't turn out quite that way. In fact, Hikaru had a bad start. But in the Olympiad, like all swisses- it's all about the finish. Hikaru won his last three games, two of which were against world class players. (Stutovsky and Grischuk)
Gata, Alex and Hikaru had few free days. The highest scorer of the three was recently crowned U.S. champion Alexander Onischuk. He won five games, drew six and lost only one, scoring a performance rating over 2700. Gata's stamina was particularly notable, because he came to Turin straight from a grueling and emotional tournament in Sofia, where he rolled the field for the first 7 rounds but faltered at the end, coming in second. Gata only went plus one, but he was the workhorse. John explained that Gata knew he needed to hold down board one to allow the other players to shine on lower boards. "Gata was very important to our success" said Alex, "he only got plus one, but he got more than his fair share of blacks and his field was incredibly strong." In fact, it's pretty difficult to determine the MVP, which is why we created a poll so that you can choose!
When I asked John who was the MVP, he remained diplomatic. "Everyone had their heroic moments," said John. Ildar's swindle over French player Christian Bauer, was a good example. Kamsky had already lost to Bacrot, so Ildar's win secured a draw for the U.S. team.
Here Bauer (black) should simply accept a draw by perpetual check. (Qf8, Qe6+ Qf7, etc.) But Bauer was winning a few moves earlier. The ability to adjust to a new situation is difficult, so refusing to accept that he was no longer winning, Bauer went for the loss with Kg7??. After Bc3+ Kg6 Qa6+, Bauer teammates lost their cheese. His King was forced to h4!
Ildar found the best solution (there are many) here, Qe2! With the threat of Be1+ and Qg2 mate. Black resigned shortly thereafter.
The conditions in Turin were terrible. There were 40 minute lines for food, long walks to the playing hall. "It was a good place to go if you want to lose 10 pounds," said John. The Olympiad was held in an industrial center, far away from the art museums, cafés and designer clad pedestrians of an American's image of Italy. Donaldson pointed out that many of the players engaged in anti-social activities after the games, like online poker. "For every Olympic romance, there were 20 players on online poker rooms."
Conditions and social activities were not that important to the U.S. men's team, who were there to win and worked hard all the way through. There were few squabbles. For instance, Alex Onischuk and Gregory Kaidanov got 4 whites out of their first five games, while Ildar Ibragimov, Varuzhan Akobian and Gata Kamsky got a string of blacks. Not a word of complaint, reported John.
The happy team just before the awards' ceremony. There may be no color scheme to their suits, but smiles are worn by all. Photo by Irina Krush.
II. The Last Round
Team composition was crucial in the last round. It was clear that Alex, Gata and Hikaru would play. The fourth board was a difficult decision. "Gregory Kaidanov was the obvious choice," said Donaldson, "but Varuzhan had been working so hard throughout the tournament and the rest of the team really though he deserved a shot." Plus, the team knew that his probable opponent played the Advanced Variation of the French, a line that Varuzhan knew a lot about.
Varuzhan Akobian had been benched for most of the tournament. Every day, he woke up early to help his teammates. He even showed Hikaru Nakamura special preparation to help him win his game against Maceja. In the last round, when he was released into the ring, he was the last man standing in the U.S.-Norway match. Without his victory, the medals would not be ours.
The team strategy in the final round was to win all the games, basically. "We knew our players were slightly stronger than all of their players," said John "and figured we could only afford to give up half a point.
The first game finished was Kamsky's draw against wunderkind Magnus Carlsen. Solid opening play by Carlsen led to a lot of trades and a quick peace offering.
The second game finished was Onischuk's steady Karpovian win against Adgestein:
Onischuk-Adgestein (13) Turino Olympiad 2006
1. d4 Nf6
Alex Onischuk got a higher performance rating and winningpercentage than any player on the U.S squad. One of the secrets to his success was playing white in seven games out of ten! This is his third black of the tournament, and his first Olympiad game vs. 1.d4. Alex generally sticks to the same lines, so it probably was not too tough for Adgestein to prepare for him.
2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4
Alex is attracted to this line, theRagozin, in high pressure situations. He also used it in the decisive U.S.Championship playoff game against Yury Shulman. "I play the Ragozin when I'm playing for a win."
5. g3 dxc4
Maybe Agdestein should have thought twice about this pawn sacrifice. A theme in this tournament was Onischuk collecting pawns and converting them. (See his games against Hansen and Zhang.)
6. Bg2 Nc6 7. O-O Rb8
The main move, which eases the pressure along the long diagonal and announces an intention to hold into the c4-pawn.
8. a3
More typical is the immediate Rel or Qc2.
8...Ba5 9. Qc2 O-O
9... Nxd4?? 10. Nxd4 Qxd4 11. Qa4+
10. Rd1 h6
A prophylactic move preventing a nasty trick. For instance, (10... Re8 ?? 11. d5 ! exd5 12. Nxd5 Nxd5 13. Ng5)
11. e4
11. d5?! exd5 12. Nxd5 Nxd5 13. e4 Nce7 14. exd5 is great for black.
11... Bxc3
It's hard to make progress without this capture, because Black wants to play b6 and also be able to respond to e5 with Nd5. But if there's a Knight on c3 to capture the d5 Knight, black's a5 bishop can be stranded. (11... b6 12. e5 Nd5? (12... Nd7 is of course better, but still white is happy after} 13. Ng5) 13. Nxd5 exd5 14. b4! is one problem.) (11... Re8 is OK , though black will probably end up taking on c3 soon anyway to prepare b6.)
12. bxc3 b6 13. a4
(13. e5 is now positionally suspicious, giving black a nice outpost.} Nd5) (13. d5 exd5 14. exd5 Ne7 when white's pieces lack coordination to justify the pawn deficit. (14... Nxd5 15. Ng5 hxg5 16. Rxd5 Qe8 17. Bxg5 and white has some attacking chances!)
13... Bb7 14. Ba3 Re8 15. Nd2 Na5
{Nb3 is a threat}
16. Ra2 Ba6 17. Bf1
Don't count your pawns till you're fiddling with them in your hands! As white tries to take the c-pawn, black consistently distracts him with other problems. Obviously, the gambit went badly for white. He wanted to be attacking not struggling for material equality.
This gets the queen off the same file as the White rook into a great spot.
18.Bb4 e5! 19.Bxa5
19. dxe5 Rxe5 20. f4 Re8 has helped Black's attacking chances more than White's. The White king is indecently exposed.
Position after 20.f3?!
19... bxa5 20. f3 ?!
(20. Re1 ? Moving the Rook from one useful square to another is a lesser evil than weakening the kingside with f3. But Re1 allows black a nice tactical idea. exd4 21. cxd4 c5! Normally this move would be a positional error in view of d5, which obtains a protected passed pawn but d5 loses because 22. d5? (22. e5 cxd4) 22... Nxd5! and the pawn is pinned due to the loose rook on e1. (20. Bxc4 {leads to complications} exd4 {Taking first stops white's annoying in-between move e5, which only becomes possible once the knight lands on c4} (20... Bxc4 21. Nxc4 exd4 22. e5! (22. Rxd4 c5 23. Nd6 {this move is the reason White can consider this variation. Moving the Rook just loses a pawn for nothing.} Qh3 24. Nxe8 Ng4 25. f3 cxd4 26. fxg4 Rxe8 27. cxd4 Qxg4 {is scary for white, because his King is wide open}) 22... Nd5 23. Rxd4 Qe6 24. Ra1 c5 25. Rd2 {In this line, white looks better.}) 21. Bxa6 (21. cxd4 ?! Bxc4 22. Nxc4 Nxe4) 21... Qxa6 22. cxd4 {With so few pieces on the board, white's central pawn duo is more of a target than a strength. Black has a safer king too, all of which make him better in spite of his queenside pawn weaknesses.} Rb4 (22... Qe2) 23. e5 Nd5 24. Nf3 Reb8 {and black is in control.}) (20. d5 {looks best, bagging the c-pawn for sure but not eliminating all problems} Qg4 {Just like the game, black puts pressure on the e pawn to make it hard for White to round up the c-pawn.} 21. Re1 c6 22. Nxc4! (22. dxc6?! Qe6) 22...cxd5 (22... Bxc4 23. Bxc4 cxd5 24. Bxd5) 23. Ne3)
20... Qe6
Black will not make it easy for white to recapture c4. Immediately the downside of f3 is evident. White can't play d5 because of Qb6+
21. Kh1
White wants to play d5 and win the c pawn gracefully. So he gets his king off the g1 a7 diagonal only to be hammered by another distraction. 21. Kg2 stops the check and protects the f-pawn. Black can still hold into the c-pawn though, with Qc6! 22. d5 Qc5)(21. dxe5 looks ugly in view of white's dark square weaknesses.) Qxe5 22. Nxc4 This is a hard move for to make, cause it involves allowing some annoying pins. (22. Bxc4?? Qc5+) 22... Bxc4 (22... Qc5+?! immediately gives black nothing after 23. Qf2) 23. Bxc4 Qc5+ 24. Rd4 Rb4! 25. Qd3 Rd8 26. cxb4 Qxd4+ 27. Qxd4 Rxd4 28. Rc2 axb4 {and black's up a very important pawn)
Position after 21... Nd7!
Alex allows his Queen access to f6 and improves the position of his knight. The knight goes to c5 in certain variations, when white plays d5, and b6 in others, to protect the c-pawn.
22. Bg2?
{The decisive mistake according to Onischuk. White's position is not enviable, but this move allows a forcing line that is just crushing for black. The bishop on f1 is necessary in a lot of lines, so White should have tried something else like
22. d5 Qf6, the tactical point of Qe6 23. Kg2 {may be a better try than 22.Bg2?, because even though black can hold onto the pawn with Nb6, his Ba6 and Nb6 are passive.} (23. Bxc4 Bxc4 24. Nxc4 Qxf3+) 23... Nb6) (22. Kg2 exd4 (22... c6) (22... Qc6 {both hold on to the pawn, and are preferable to ed4}) 23. cxd4 c3 {This move is not as strong as the game variation, because it really helps white to trade off his ugly light squared bishop for black's menacing one.} 24. Bxa6 Qxa6 25. Nb1)
22... exd4 23. cxd4 c3
{After this blow, white's position falls apart.}
24. d5
{This in between move prevents white from having to resign.} (24. Nb1 Bc4 25. Ra3 (25. d5 Qd6 26. Ra3 Rxb1) 25... Bb3)
24... Qf6 25. Nb3
(25. Nb1 seems like the most obvious of three very ugly spots for the white Knight because at least it attacks something, but it loses tactically 25...Nc5 26. Ra3 (26. Qxc3?? Rxb1!) (26. Nxc3 Bc4 wins the exchange) 26... Nd3!! If I hadn't seen this move, Alex said, I probably wouldn't have gone for this variation.
Position after 26...Nd3 (variation)
27. Rxd3 Rb2 ! 28. Qd1 c2) (25. Nf1 Rb2 26. Rxb2 cxb2 and black has one very beautiful passed pawn. 27. Qxc7? (27. Nd2 Rb8 28. Nb1 and somehow, I don't think Nimzovitsch would be so happy with this particular Knight blockade. (Nimzovitsch, in My System, explained that Knights are the best blockaders, because they retain activity at the same time as halting a pawn. Obviously, the activity part is more applicable on higher ranks.) (27. Rb1 Bxf1 28. Bxf1 (28. Rxf1 Rb8 29. Rb1 Qd4 30. Qxc7 Qd3) 28... Qxf3+) 27...Rc8! 28. Qxd7 Rc1)
25... Bc4 26. Ra3 Qd6 27. Rda1
Every one of black's pieces is happier than white's counterparts. And for this, Alex is up a pawn! Black's position is crushing.
27... Bxb3 28. Rxb3 Rxb3 29. Qxb3 Qb4 30. Qd1 Rb8 31.Bf1 Nc5 32. d6
This move hastens white's loss.
32... cxd6 33. Bb5
(33. Qxd6 loses instantly cause of Nb3)
33... Qb2 34. Rc1 Qd2 35. Qxd2 cxd2 36. Rd1 a637. Bc6 Rb6 38. Bd5 Rb2 39. Bc6 Rc2 40. Kg2 Nd3 {White resigns in view of Nb2.}
Position after 40....Nd3
Hikaru was next, playing against GM L.Johannessen. His game was typically crazy, giving fans and fellow players heart attacks. He was probably worst at some moment. "A lot of his games are like that," said Alex, "but I was confident he'd win." Varuzhan Akobian clinched the victory. He played a beautiful game in the French defense- almost too beautiful when he chose an aesthetic move over one that would induce immediate resignation. Luckily his technique was strong enough to bring home to point, and secure medals for the team.
Position after 29.Be1
Varuzhan played 29...Ng3? here, an aesthetic but inaccurate move. It must have scared the American team a bit, because after the smoke clears (30.Bxg3 Ref5 31.h4 Rf1+ 32.Kh2 Rxb1 33.Rxb1 Rd8 etc.), it's not as easy for black to win as before. Luckily for the American team, Akobian's technique from this point on was smooth. If 29...Ne3!, black doesn't have to bother with technique because white will resign in a couple of moves. 30.h3 Rf1+ 31.Kh2 Nd1 32.Bd2 Bg1+ etc.
The majestic playing hall was a 20 minute walk from the Olympic Village, a pain or a refreshing walk depending on your disposition. "We were lucky it never rained" said Donaldson. Photo Bill Hook
The women's team had an excellent result, coming in 4th place! Here's one of two MVP's, IM Irina Krush, who scored plus five on board two for the U.S. Women's team. She is enjoying a free day by the river Po. WGM Rusudan Goletiani also scored plus five, on board three.


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I am working on my narrative for Charles and Mary C (Bowers) Foss. Here is some research on one of their children.
Charles M Foss, b at Machias ME, 05 Jan 1829 son of Charles and Mary C (Bowers) Foss of Machias ME. (Original Records of Maine Towns and Cities: The Town of Machias, hereafter Machias OR, p. 117).
There appears to be a conflict with Drisko's book, Narrative of the town of Machias and the records that I have found for the birth of his children. Drisko's book states that: Charles d. 1868, at 34 years. However, I have found birth records from children after this date.
The following are birth records that I found in the Original Records of Maine Towns and Cities: The Town of Machias.
Page 117 left side bottom
- Foss Warren C April 10 1854 Charles M + Eliza A Foss
- Foss Francis M Feb 23 1856 Charles M + Eliza A Foss
- Foss Harris A June 2 1858 Charles M + Eliza A Foss
- Foss Sarah A April27 1854 Amanda W Foss<–Charles reports his sister's kids
- Foss Irvine W May 26 1857 Amanda W Foss<–Who was the father of Sarah&Irvine
Reported by Charles Foss June 25, 1859 + recorded by John A Kelly Clerk
- Foss Mell June 1 1867 Chas M + Eliza A Foss
Reported by Mrs Addie Smith Aug 4, 1926 Recorded by E Gardner Town Clerk
Page 118 right side top
- Foss Cicelia L Apr 26, 1865 Charles M + Eliza A Foss
- Foss Nettie S June 19, 1872 Charles M + Eliza A Foss
Reported by Mrs Flora A Foss Aug 24, 1935
Attest R. L. Hanson Clerk
I found the following two records in MOCA, WASHINGTON COUNTY, Maine Cemetery Inscriptions of Maine Old Cemetery Association Special Publication No. 14.
Page 617
- Foss, Willie A., son of Chas. M. & Eliza A. Foss d. 5-4-1864 ae 6 das.
- Foss, Mell, 1867-1949
The final listing of records come from the United States Federal Census.
- 1850 United States Federal Census: Page 32: Machias, Washington Co., Maine: Enumerated 3 August 1850
Charles Foss 44 Laborer
Sarah Foss 41
Charles M Foss 21 Laborer
Amanda W Foss 16
Melvina F Foss 15
John L N Foss 13
Israel P Foss 12
Emery C Foss 9
James A Foss 8
Louisana Foss 6
Franklin F Foss 3
Joseph W Foss 1
- 1860 United States Federal Census: Page 61: Machias, Washington Co., Maine: Enumerated 11 July 1860
Charles M Foss 32 m Sailor
Eliza Foss 22 f
Warren Foss 6 m
Francis M Foss 4 f
Horice Foss 2 m
Phebe D Foss 3/12 f
- 1870 United States Federal Census: Page 28: Machias, Washington Co., Maine: Enumerated 27 June 1870
Foss, Charles Jr 41 m Sailor 100
Foss, Liza 32 f Housekeeping
Foss, Francis 14 f at home
Foss, Hattie 10 m at home
Foss, Selicia 5 f at home
Melville Foss 3 m at home
Warren Foss 16 m sailor
- 1880 United States Federal Census: Page 39: Machias, Washington Co., Maine: Enumerated 18 June 1880
Foss, Charles M. m 51 Sailor
Foss, Eliza A. f 42 wife Keeping House
Foss, Murray F. m 24 son Sailor
Foss, Warren G. m 26 son Sailor
Foss, Dora H. f 20 daughter at home
Foss, Cecelia L. f 15 daughter at school
Foss, Melvin L. m 13 son at school
Foss, Nettie S. f 8 daughter
- 1900 United States Federal Census: South Portland, Cumberland Co., Maine: Enumerated 8 June 1900
Foss, Warren G Head April 1854 46 Married. 17 years
Foss, Abbie E Wife Sept 1858 41 Married. 17 years 2 child. 1 living
Foss, Roy G Son July 1886 13
Foss, Charles M Father Jan 1829 71 Married. 47 years
Foss, Eliza A Mother Jan 1839 61 Married. 47 years 8 child. 7 living


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When the doors of the Fogg Museum in Cambridge close to the public on June 30, they won't open again until 2013.
When the doors of the Fogg Museum in Cambridge close to the public on June 30, they won't open again until 2013.
But the five-year sabbatical is for a good cause — the Harvard museum will undergo structural renovations that are 50 years overdue. Among the highest priorities: the air-conditioning and plumbing, in addition to an electrical system that pre-dates the FDR administration.
The plan also includes a bigger and longer-range goal — to add a complementary arts complex across the Charles River in Allston.But right now the priority is the Fogg.
"Our climate control problem is a source of deep embarrassment and shame for us," says Museum Director Thomas Lentz. "All of the systems in the building have to be updated."
How bad is it? The electric and plumbing systems haven't been overhauled since the museum was built in 1927.
In order to rectify this, the Harvard art collection from all three museums — the Fogg, the Bush-Reisinger and the Sackler — will be consolidated after the museum closes on June 30.
Most of it will end up in storage while a "representative overview" called "Re-View" will be on display when the Sackler reopens on Sept. 13. (The Sackler will also be closed this summer for the reorganization.) Harvard hope that all three museums will reopen at full capacity in 2013.
The proposal for the Allston location is to have a building of contemporary art (though not solely about contemporary art) that will have a dual relationship with Harvard University and the local community. It's scheduled to break ground some time next year.
The Allston location would give Harvard the opportunity to embrace more contemporary art, a medium that has never had a home at the Fogg.
"We will never have the space that we need here," says Lentz. "Allston will be a place where we can do things we never could."
The idea of extending Harvard University into Allston was first hatched in 2003. Along the way, Allston residents have questioned whether or not it was going forward and whether having Harvard in Allston would be a good idea.
"I think some people assumed that the delay of the museum meant that Allston was off the table," adds Harvard's Director of Communications Daron Manoogian. "That has never been the case."
Priorities simply changed. Instead of focusing on the new art museum in Allston, the university decided to turn its attention to the much-needed renovations of the Fogg. This change in thinking came mostly from Harvard's new president, Drew G. Faust, who was appointed in February 2007.
"With Faust, it feels like the arts are a real priority," says Manoogian. "She recognizes the possibility for a Harvard-Allston community. I think, in the past, the Allston community felt overwhelmed, especially with having to approve two buildings (a science complex and the art museum) at once."
To help alleviate past confusion, President Faust set up a Task Force for the Arts in November of last year with the job of determining how the arts at Harvard can be implemented into other areas of study, as well as to consider what type of physical building would be needed in the future.
But for some Allston residents, it's hard to forget the confusion of past meetings and business plans and some say there still isn't enough communication between the community and the university.
Harry Mattison, Allston resident since 1994 and part of the Harvard-Allston Task Force, has been involved with this issue from the start.
"Some people don't feel like Harvard and Allston are in this together," says Mattison. "We're also concerned about what it would be like to have Harvard as a neighbor."
The Task Force meets regularly at the Honan-Allston Branch Library with representatives from Harvard University and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA).This fall they will be discussing the Master Plan for Allston, which includes the proposed art museum.So far, the meetings have addressed general concerns.
At a recent meeting, Mattison passionately voiced his concern that the neighborhood would be changing and asked whether or not Harvard knew what the new neighborhood would look like.
"Does Harvard know who will be moving into Allston? And what their needs will be?" asked Mattison.
It's a valid question that wasn't answered with any specifics.
Kathy Spiegelman, chief planner for the Harvard University Allston Initiative, regularly attends these meetings (which are staffed by the BRA), and she takes these concerns seriously.
"I think the challenge of this project has been how to make the edges soft," says Spiegelman. "We want the structures to be inviting to the members of the local community."
And now that President Faust has pushed the renovation of the Fogg as a priority, it allows Spiegelman and the Allston community to figure out exactly what the new art complex could, and should, provide.
Meanwhile, the Fogg braces for a big transition. Helen Molesworth, head of the department of modern and contemporary art, says the feeling within the walls is a sad one, and that no one wants to see the museum close.
"Most people who work in museums want to share that love of art with other people," says Molesworth. "None of us want to pack up and close our doors. But we have a broken thing and we need to fix it."


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Was at Dr L.Subramaniam's annual fusion music festival last night. He started with a real foot stomper called 'Indian Express' (poetic justice indeed, since the festival itself is sponsored by the Times of India) and ended the evening with Don't Leave Me. In between were pieces by his wife Kavita Krishnamurthy, their kids and two other musicians. Except for the odd flash I pretty much forgot HolidayIQ for over 2 hours; evidently the music was absorbing.
A small regret – I would have liked the two global musicians to have got a bit more of play time. Froy Aagre from Norway on the Sax & Chris Rhyne from LA on the keyboards.


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This funny (and kinda dark) fake trailer asks the question: "What if adulthood had its own toy commercials?" My thinking is that a lot more people probably wouldn't buy adulthood, but that's just me.
If you were making an ad for your own brand of adulthood, what would it look like? (Mine would probably be lots of video game discs fighting against an army of burritos.) What does "adulthood" even mean anymore, anyway? Chat about that or whatever else, here or over in the Talk Amongst Yourselves forum. It's almost the weekend you guys! We're almost there!
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Milwaukee's Fire and Police Commission is under fire as community leaders and protesters call for the removal of its commissioners.
Members of the community showed up to protest and speak at Thursday night's Fire and Police Commission hearing.
A Milwaukee County supervisor said action needs to be taken to reform the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission after it ruled to reinstate a fired police officer seen on video punching a handcuffed woman in the back of a squad car.
"The commission's inability to make sound and responsible decisions to protect the public enables officers who choose to violate the rights and humanity of city residents," David Bowen said in a written statement.
The commission ruled to give Richard Schoen his job back Monday. Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn had fired him.
"Given our ongoing attempts to continue reform this Police Department, I would expect their support in major discipline, so I certainly was disappointed in the finding," Flynn said Thursday night as he was going into the commission meeting for a scheduled performance review.
Flynn would not comment on whether he thought commissioners should be fired.
"The action of the Fire and Police Commission, along with Schoen's statement that he continues to feel 'justified' in his conduct, is an affront to the citizens of Milwaukee," National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Milwaukee President James Hall said in written statement Thursday.
"Currently, the fire and police commissioners are appointed by the mayor. The members are not reflective of the Milwaukee community. They need to be elected and held accountable for their actions," Milwaukee County Supervisor Russell Stamper said in a statement Thursday.
Thursday afternoon, the executive director of the Fire and Police Commission responded to Bowen's comments.
"The irony of any calls for removal of commission members is that the very reason the citizen board was originally established was to minimize the influence of politicians and the subsequent detrimental effect of knee-jerk reactions on public safety and police department operations. We hear the community loud and clear," Mike Tobin told WISN 12 News.
He said he expected the commission Thursday to "approve some very significant changes to the use-of-force policy" that he has "proposed, in part, as a result of recent incidents."


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By Tyler Izen, President
Los Angeles Police Protective League
With LAPD's deployment at LAX at its lowest level since 2001, it came as no surprise when airport officials recently reported a 10 percent increase in crime overall, and a nearly 500 percent increase in violent crimes — from only three in 2012 to 14 in 2013. The violent crimes included 10 aggravated assaults, two robberies, a rape and the Nov. 1 killing of a Transportation Security Administration officer, the first TSA officer killed in the line of duty.
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As the many agencies involved in securing the world's sixth busiest airport finish their after-action reports on the Nov. 1 shooting, they would do well to focus their attention on preventing the next criminal act as opposed to just figuring out how to better respond when one occurs.
The airport police union shares our concerns. A recent statement from the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association's (LAAPOA) newsletter reads: "Increased crime rate figures at LAX released this week underscore what LAAPOA has been pointing out in the media and will be publicly focusing on this year: Airport officials need to look beyond physical airport improvements and focus on investing in airport security, not only by replacing airport officers lost to attrition, but increasing the ranks."
After the El Al ticket counter shooting in 2002, then-Mayor James Hahn moved quickly to place LAPD officers at each TSA checkpoint inside LAX's nine passenger terminals. His smart idea was to free LAX airport police to provide high-visibility patrols of the airport from its perimeter to the terminal interiors. With that bold step, Mayor Hahn hardened the target and made LAX a model for airport security nationwide.
Mayor Villaraigosa believed it was essential that an armed police officer stood between the non-sterile airport and the sterile area just beyond each TSA checkpoint. Without that officer in place at the checkpoint on Nov. 1, Paul Anthony Ciancia was able to take control of Terminal 3 until officers on patrol shot him. Airport Police ranks declined from 514 on Jan. 1, 2010, to 495 on Jan. 1, 2014.
This reduction came as LAWA phased out LAPD sworn officers who were protecting the TSA checkpoints. It also ended the high-visibility LAPD motorcycle patrols of the Central Terminal. The net effect is a reduction of approximately 80 to 100 sworn officers (LAPD and LAX airport police) protecting LAX in the last three years.
This led to the noticeable degradation of airport security — creating an environment conducive to a sudden rise in airport crime. Recognizing that the money to pay for public safety comes from taxpayers, our investment needs to be wise, effective and smart. Los Angeles must invest in technology and training — and our department must continue to collaborate and coordinate with surrounding jurisdictions to maximize the effect of public safety expenditures.
At LAX, corrective action must be taken without delay. Mayor Garcetti should direct his airport department to reinstate stationing officers at podiums at TSA checkpoints around the airport as had been the case from 2002 to 2013. These fixed podiums must not be staffed at the expense of high-visibility vehicle checkpoints at the entrance to the airport and uniformed patrols throughout the airport.
They are an important deterrent. The mayor and council should direct the airport department to use off-duty LAPD officers to provide needed staffing at the TSA passenger screening checkpoints until airport police ranks can be expanded to provide the incremental personnel needed to maintain a hardened target.
We realize that augmenting the airport police with off-duty LAPD police costs money; however, the funds will come not from city taxpayer dollars, but rather from the airport's self-generating budget. With billions of dollars being spent on construction projects at LAX, this is no time to pinch pennies on safety and security. All those construction projects, after all, will be of little value if people don't feel safe going to the airport to catch a flight.
Tyler Izen is president of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing all sworn personnel in the LAPD up through the rank of lieutenant.


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A few years ago, a girlfriend and I were in an antique store when I came across a "vintage" bib apron, perhaps 1940s, – and fell in love.
"Could you make something like this for me?" I asked my girlfriend, who sews (I don't sew. I cook. We can't all do everything!)
She said she could, and she did–and now I have three of these big aprons, with big roomy pockets and I am seldom without one.
I found myself re-discovering aprons and wondering why, when you watch the chefs on the Food Network – none of them ever wears an apron! (I have ruined many a blouse or dress from cooking sans an apron–but these days you'll seldom find me without one.
The aprons of my childhood bring to mind the voluminous ones worn by my Grandma Schmidt, who was as round as she was tall. Her dresses reached her ankles and her aprons were equally long and wide with huge pockets. I discovered, a few years ago, how handy aprons with pockets are when you go out to check the tomatoes in the garden and find yourself with handfuls of ripe tomatoes and no basket to put them into. The apron pockets work well. I also fill the pockets with clothespins when I am hanging linens or sheets on the clothesline. (Yes, some of us do still hang things on the line-but that's another story).
Years ago, people didn't have wardrobes the size of ours, today–and aprons, which could be easily washed, protected good dresses which might not have all been washable (never mind that everything had to be ironed too–perma-press hadn't been invented yet). I think the only times I ever saw Grandma without an apron were when she was going downtown (dress, plus hat, dressy shoes, her handbag, and stockings) or to church. My mother also wore aprons but most of the ones in which she was photographed, were the half-size aprons. I, myself, need a bib apron because the spills and splashes usually land somewhere on my chest.
Aprons have a respectably long history, too – the earliest mention of an apron is in the biblical story of the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve discovered they were naked and fashioned aprons from fig leaves. In the middle ages aprons became especially well known, as European craftsmen wore aprons as part of their everyday garments–old paintings of blacksmiths invariably picture them wearing a big old leather apron of some kind. I remember, as a child, the big white (well, originally it was white) aprons worn by the butcher in the butcher stores where my grandma went to buy a chicken or a cut of beef. There are also aprons used by carpenters which have many pockets to hold necessary tools. (hmmm, I think I would like to have one like that).
The apron worn in the kitchen was a fixture for more than a century, until the late 1970s–when it seems to have disappeared from our culinary landscape. Perhaps it has something to do with the perfect housewife image portrayed by the fifties–you know, "Father knows Best" and mother is always pictured wearing an apron with a wooden spatula in one hand, standing over the stove (Shades of Ozzie and Harriet?) Then women became liberated and burned not only their bras but also their aprons.
I always had a few aprons but they had been relegated to a seldom used linen drawer. Now, I have aprons within easy reach on several hangers on doors in the kitchen and I am not in the least embarrassed to be seen wearing one. (Some of them are really quite stylish, I think – and I love the pockets. Along with clothespins and Kleenex, I am usually carrying around my cell phone and digital camera).
For Christmas one year, my penpal/friend/and computer guru, Wendy, sent me two wonderful very retro looking aprons. Then my penpal Bev brought me a neat apron that she bought on a recent trip to Alaska – it has chocolate moose all over the print – and then her daughter brought me a new very-valentine-ish apron when she visited. Four new aprons in one year…can life get any better than this?
And not long ago I discovered a really great website dedicated to aprons after it was written about in the Los Angeles Times. Everything old is new again! I love it.
Also, if you love (or like) aprons, there is a great book titled The Kitchen Linens Book, by EllynAnne Geisel, author of the Apron Book (which I think I have, as well–sometimes it's easier to talk about certain books than it is to FIND that particular book –it's not a cookbook, it isn't fiction, or historical history – where would I have filed a book about aprons?
I am still mystified, however – how do all those people on the Food Network manage to cook entire meals (without wearing an apron) and without getting any of it on themselves?
And, if you Google "aprons" you will find a whole lot more!


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"The new NCES report is good news. After three decades of stagnation, the on-time graduation rate for high school students in the 2009-10 school year [78.2 percent] is the highest it's been since at least 1974. It's encouraging that the on-time graduation rate is up substantially from four years earlier. And it's promising that high school graduation rates are up for all ethnic groups in 2010 -- especially for Hispanics, whose graduation rate has jumped almost 10 points since 2006.
"At the same time, our high school dropout rate is still unsustainably high for a knowledge-based economy and still unacceptably high in our African-American, Latino, and Native-American communities.
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Film or digital
Posted 07 April 2007 - 09:41 AM
Video tape or digital video? why?
audio tape or digital voice rec? why?
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Posted 07 April 2007 - 10:58 AM
The topics been done several times.
Posted 09 April 2007 - 12:53 PM
The Admissibility of
Digital Photographs in Court
Steven Staggs is a forensic photography Instructor and has instructed over 3,000 crime scene technicians and detectives in crime scene and evidence photography over the past 17 years. He is a police manager having been in law enforcement for the past 29 years and is the author of the book, Crime Scene and Evidence Photographer's Guide.
Posted 09 April 2007 - 01:43 PM
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Posted 09 April 2007 - 02:54 PM
Posted 09 April 2007 - 04:20 PM
On the other hand, I feel that digital cameras are a bit more sensitive and may actually attract more specteral energy than a regular camera does. However, there's no negative to validate the image. I guess the big thing is to keep and open mind and not dismiss something solely on the basis of what type of camera was used.
The debate goes on!
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Posted 09 April 2007 - 10:43 PM
The law does not require a negative to authenticate a photograph; it requires testimony from a witness that the photograph portrays the scene as it accurately occurred. The law is same no matter what type of camera was used. I assume you meant spectral as in ghostly terms, or do you think a digital camera is the cause for the attraction of spectral energy. Im not quite sure how you mean that.
I do think digital tech is the way to go for more reasons than are mentioned. I also believe theyre susceptible to atmospheric conditions (orbs), but thats on the photographer not the camera. A person must learn the best conditions to use their own equipment.
Posted 09 April 2007 - 10:56 PM
Now if people who are out there claiming to be paranormal investigators, could just understand what they are really looking at on a whole, we might actually get somewhere. Perhaps set some real standards for paranormal pictures for comparison.
So many people really don't know what it is they are looking at. They don't understand pictures, the angles, lighting, flash, reflections, pixels and other objects that creat images that will undoubtably confuse us.
It is a crazy world of people in discovery of paranormal pictures since the digital camera came along.
Its time for a "real" book of standards to be set for digital paranormal photography. I really don't think all these sites out there are helping, everyone thinks they have spirit orbs in their pictures so they run out and post them and then decide to become paranormal investigators and set up a website and the mass confusion begins.
I do however think that GV has helped a lot of people, who at least come looking for answers.
I have people who have contacted me thru GV to look at their photos for their investigations. Its great to see that, instead of the other. I have been invited to join some groups, and you would dropped to see what they have been posting as paranormal "evidence".
Posted 09 April 2007 - 11:08 PM
If the law can take digital as good hard evidence, why can't the paranormal world? No negatives required. I think any expert in the photography field can tell if something has been altered. I have been able to tell the difference, it not that hard. Photoshops leave a trail, they are not perfect. I think we can tell the difference if its true paranormal. People who do not understand it will make mistakes and we will be able to tell.
Negatives can have flaws, and so can a developer of the film. We need that trust between the person taking the picture and having been there to go along with any evidence.
Posted 09 April 2007 - 11:52 PM
Digital Cameras are prone to picking up more than film cameras, such as dust or light flare - however for the same reason, they are also believed to be more likely to capture paranormal anomalies due to the electrical capture of images.
Why is this so? Well, spirits are meant to be made up of electrical energy (which is why they can affect electrical equipment such as TVs, Radios etc, so easily!).
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Posted 10 April 2007 - 12:42 AM
Posted 10 April 2007 - 03:01 PM
The digital photography works fine for police to take crime scene photos and present them in court. Why? Because they have a very strict chain of custody that must be adhered to and the people they have as witnesses to the photographs being taken are other police officers. They go on their integrity and training when they appear in court. They are able to ask a cop that was on the scene if what is in the photograph is actually what the scene looked like. How often do we see a paranormal phenomena at the same time the photo is snapped? Hardly ever, so then how can you testify to the world that your photo is actually what was there? You can't. A negative is the only thing that can prove what is on your photo was in front of the camera. This idea is one that can never work in the field of paranormal study. Why? Because if we were resorting to taking people's word for things and not looking for scrutinizable proof, we would already have supplied the world with all the answers and moved on far beyond proving the existance of ghosts to the world. We would be working on all of the hows and whys and when someone had a theory on that it would be solved too. Come on people, this is a cop out (no pun intended), people want the easy way out. They want to take a thousand shots at an investigation and don't want anything that can be scruinized. They want to mount a trophy photo of what they claim to be a ghost. Basically what is being supporte with this line of thinking and these articles are this...Joe takes a photograph with his digicam, he then alters it in photoshop and puts it on the internet...his friend Bill swears that is the photo that he presented is just what was captured. Ok, that is the end of the story and Joe has a fantastic photo proving ghosts? I don't think so...not in the least. You have a scam folks and everyone that supports the cheap, easy digi method is setting themselves up for it big time.
Steve Golsolves from TAPS said it best when I talked with him...digital photos are fine for people to look at themselves and share with their group. If you want to present them to anyone outside your group you have to have a negative.
Why do we need a negative? Because it shows that what you have in your photograph is actually what was in front of the camera. Most people don't realize that digital photos are constructed by the camera and not a true snap of what is there. They build pixel on top of pixel until the photo is constructed. This is maniplulated from the second you press the button.
I had a lengthy conversation last week with Loyd Auerbach and we talked about this very thing. He told me of a good friend of his that is a professional photographer (not a paranormal investigator) that owns a $10,000 absolute top of the line digital camera. This camera still drops pixels and creates orbs and anomalies that they have to photoshop out of the pictures. Now, if you can spend this much money on a camera and it still doesn't solve any of the digital problems, there is a huge issue.
The fact of the matter is that the big name investigators that everyone respects and even pays big money to investigate with realize that film is the only viable way to investigate the paranormal. There is a huge swing back to film going on. Sure, the weekend warriors that are trophy hunting will continue to fumble around with digital but the real investigators that are making advances in the field are steadily using or going back to analog for all evidence collection. They realize that good evidence outweighs quick, cheap and easy. So, leave the digicrap to the novice trophy hunters and that is ok. If you want to collect real evidence of the paranormal then go analog. The choice belongs to each individual. So I would have to ask. Which are you?
Posted 10 April 2007 - 03:15 PM
Posted 10 April 2007 - 04:00 PM
Everyones entitled to an opinion, good luck with yours.
Thanks and good luck with yours too!
Posted 10 April 2007 - 09:00 PM
First of all, Ghostvillage (Jeff Belanger) needs to address the fact that a member of his esteemed Town Council and Moderator of the Spiritography forum sees fit to refer to digital photography as digicrap which I find derogatory, insulting and incredibly unprofessional behavior towards a member(s) of this site most of whom probably own digital cameras. (Not to mention one of those digicrap photographs is on the cover of Jeff Belangers Communicating with the Dead). I have nothing against a 35mm camera, Ive said it before and Ill say it again, it doesnt matter what kind of camera you choose to shoot with, because what needs to happen is a spirit occurrence. As I see it, hundreds of ghost hunter groups like TAPS have contributed zilch to the advancement of paranormal research. What they have contributed to is the marketing aspect of hype, conjecture and wishful thinking. And one last point for the gentleman from Minnesota, Ive seen dozens of them before and during the time the photograph was as you so eloquently stated snapped (I dont count orbs). But hey thats just me; and Im more than willing to stand behind my claims so anytime you want to put your money where your mouth is...
There is a DVD available for sale from the A&E Network; you can buy it here for $30
In it you will find a segment on spirit photography, all the photographs are mine (except 1). If you think you can disprove my claims then you should take me to court and sue me for fraud, Ill bring the evidence you can bring TAPS, lets see who wins.
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