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Changing lives in Timor-Leste with Brett Nichols
Long time Element Skate Camp family member, Brett Nichols, recently journeyed to Timor – Leste to do some good, and spread the love of skateboarding to parts of the world with little to no exposure to the lifestyle. He was hosted by the non profit association Bafuturu which is doing its best to steer the youth of Timor away from violence and fighting towards more positive outlets for their energy like skateboarding. Click here for more information on the project.


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Look at it. Really look at it, you know?
About five years I went to see an ophthalmologist.
Stay with me, this gets better.
Ophthalmologists love me because I have virtually every problem you can have with a human eye. I'm near-sighted, color blind, have almost zero depth perception and even have something they call a "wandering eye," which means that when I look long distances one of my eyes just checks out and move over in its socket, leaving me to look a bit like Igor, Dracula's helper.
I have a decent sense of humor about it, though, and my doctor sensed it. I had never been to this ophthalmologist before, and so we were doing the whole battery of tests. Because I'm a human eye experiment, he had a great time.
Such a good time, in fact, that he asked if he could invite in the intern. And once the intern came in, he asked if he could also invite in his practice partner.
Fine. It's 4 p.m. on a Friday. Ophthalmologists deserve their fun, too.
So they subjected me to all sorts of questions and tests, and after I failed all of them we all had a good time about it.
"Can you parallel park?" they'd say, laughing.
"Not a bit," I'd say.
"Have you ever hit a baseball?"
"I've tried. Struck out a lot."
"How do the girls react when your eye suddenly moves to the side of your head?"
"About as well as you'd expect."
They had a wonderful time pulling out tests they don't usually get to give to people. I felt like I had given my body to science, without the being dead part.
Eventually they dilated my pupils and put me into a machine that allowed them to look into my retina. We were all laughing about all my problems, and I didn't think anything of it when both partners looked through the microscope.
"Ever see any 'shadows' or dark spots in your vision?" one of them asked. I had no reason to believe wasn't part of the game, and I didn't even notice at first that they weren't laughing when I told them I did. Then there's that moment where it's quiet for a bit too long, the kind that you only experience in a doctor's office.
"Well," he said after he put the microscope away. "It's probably nothing. It's just that we have these new machines."
"And we can see things we've never been able to see before," the other doctor said. And it's odd, because my eyes are dilated and I can't see them clearly. And because I can't see them or maybe because of what they're saying I don't really hear things correctly, either.
"Spots." "Probably nothing." "Don't worry." "Monitor." "Ever lose vision?" "Not worth thinking about, really."
I hear enough to know we're dancing around something, so I just finally come out and say it. I ask them if they're telling me I have cancer.
"No. We're not saying that," one of them says. "We're saying it's an abnormality. That's all. We should monitor it."
"Abnormality?" I say. "Like cancer." The humor in the room is gone. So is the intern. I ask them to just let me have it. Say it is cancer, I say. What's the worst case scenario?
"Not worth talking about," he says.
"Talk about it," I say.
The worst case is that they diagnose me with cancer and that grows and that I lose my vision and they have to take out my eyes. I have spots on both of them, so they'd probably take both eyes. But this is the worst case scenario.
"Don't worry," he says. "We'll watch it. That's all. Unless your vision gets worse or there is blurring, don't worry about. Really."
So I leave. It's 5 o'clock on a Friday. I can't see very well yet and they give me cheap dollar sunglasses to help with the glare. I don't want to go home. My wife is there with our three young kids. She has been home with them all week, and when I get home I know that she'll give me that look that says, "I need to get out of here before I murder your children."
I won't blame her. But when you've just been told you might have cancer, you feel like you want to tell someone. At least I do. I can't tell her, because she loves me more than anyone and she's at a point in her life where she's taking care of everyone's needs. She's overwhelmed with needy people. She doesn't need to add my eyes to her list.
No way I tell my Mom, either. She's a worrier and will no doubt tell everyone in no time. It's not something I want to tell my buddies. They won't know what to say, and I wouldn't blame them. I wouldn't know what to say.
So I decide to call my brother, Tim. I decide on him because he won't over react and because I know he won't tell anyone. We have more than enough secrets between us to guarantee mutually assured destruction. An ear and a tight lip is what I need right now.
So I show up at about 5:30 on a Friday, which is very strange for me, but he doesn't let on. He throws in a pizza, makes small talk and waits. He finally asks me if I need some money.
"No," I say. "I mean, yes, but that's not why I'm here." I start slowly at first, with only a few details, but soon it all comes spilling out. My fears about going blind, about cancer spreading other places, a thousand other disconnected thoughts.
He listens, stoic, without saying anything while I drivel on. I pause a couple of times for him to jump in, but when he doesn't I just fill the space again. Finally I can't stand it anymore and ask him what he thinks.
He takes a deep breath and says, "Well, I never thought it was true...that you could go blind by masturbating. But you have proved that theory wrong, and I' m concerned about my health now."
In another moment he says, "I have some rum around here somewhere. Let's drink to your eyes."
It's 6 o'clock and my going blind is as good of a reason as any. So we drink, and while we do we come up with ways to make the situation better. We talk about which fake eyeballs I'm going to get.
"If they do take my eyes," I say, "I'm going to get cat eyes."
"You should get a magic eight ball," he says. "People could ask you a question and you could shake your head, give them an answer. 'Try again later.'"
Maybe it's rum. Probably it's the rum. But by the time I leave I think that having cancer my eye is pretty damn funny and isn't as bad as I thought. He swears not tell anyone if I promise to cut back on the masturbating. I tell him I can make no promises. At the door, though, he says the first serious comment of the night.
"If I were you, I'd go home and look at stuff. Really look at it, you know?"
I nod, but I don't know if I really know.
I'm over three hours late, and I know my wife won't be pleased. Especially because I'm drunk. But I'm determined to look at things, and so when I walk in the house I tell her that she has never looked so beautiful. I mean it, despite the fact that she's in a mangy-looking Minnesota Gopher sweatshirt with baby drool on the shoulder.
She is not amused, but this new seeing things makes me invincible. For the rest of the night and for the next few days I am mesmerized by the world.
"Look at all these crayons," I tell my seven-year old son. "Look at all these colors. Aren't these colors amazing?" I have no idea what colors they are, of course, because I'm color blind, but whatever. I take the family out to the country for a picnic (a picnic!) and demand that we spend time on our backs looking at clouds. I point out things to look at. My wife pulls me aside and asks if I had more than just rum at my brother's house. I feel reborn.
It doesn't last, of course. It can't. You can't live your life with that intensity. I slowly start to scan the world again and stop telling other people and myself to see stuff, to really look at it, you know?
Each year, though, I'm reminded. I get a card in the mail from my ophthalmologist reminding me to come in for a check-up. I've never told my wife, and I've never been back to the doctor's office. This is probably poor health management, but I don't care. They told me not to worry, and so I don't.
Instead of fretting, I use the card as a reminder to heed my brother's advice – stop masturbating so much. Also, his other advice – look at stuff. Really look, you know.

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my jasmine has started her first heat during the night cause there was blood on the bed this morning and the bit that she urinates through is swelled and bleeding, i didnt think it would come so soon as i wanted to get her spayed beofre this happened but didnt get the chance, also she has been humping her toys lately so i suppose this is why. anyway is there anything i need to do for her, and how long will this last and when will i bring her to get spayed,??


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Each week we post a round-up of some of our most exciting national and international PUP book coverage. Reviews, interviews, events, articles–this is the spot for coverage of all things "PUP books" that took place in the last week. Enjoy!
How many times do we search for the perfect word for what we are trying to express? Sometimes, this goal is made entirely unattainable by linguistic differences between languages. In Dictionary of Untranslatables, Barbara Cassin compiles an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy–or any–translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn from more than a dozen languages, terms such as Dasein (German), pravda (Russian), saudade (Portuguese), and stato (Italian) are thoroughly examined in all their cross-linguistic and cross-cultural complexities. Spanning the classical, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary periods, these are terms that influence thinking across the humanities. The entries, written by more than 150 distinguished scholars, describe the origins and meanings of each term, the history and context of its usage, its translations into other languages, and its use in notable texts.
Dictionary of Untranslatables was recently reviewed by the South China Morning Post where it received a five star review. The book has also been featured in Dublin Review of Books, as well as in Independent.
"[G]reat success….By preserving the specificity of words in their source languages, but then proceeding though so many near-synonyms in other tongues, the Dictionary bridges this ideological divide, providing a different way of understanding what it is to be in, and between, languages."—Tom Bunstead, Independent
Check out this innovative new book today! Read the Preface and Introduction here.
With China a steadily rising world power, there are many theories as to the future of U.S.-China relations discussed; some theories end in extreme conflict, and others in strong cooperation and interdependence. In Strategic Reassurance and Resolve, James Steinberg and Michael O'Hanlon stake out a third, less deterministic position. They argue that there are powerful domestic and international factors, especially in the military and security realms, which could well push the bilateral relationship toward an arms race and confrontation, even though both sides will be far worse off if such a future comes to pass. They contend that this pessimistic scenario can be confidently avoided only if China and the United States adopt deliberate policies designed to address the security dilemma that besets the relationship between a rising and an established power. The authors propose a set of policy proposals to achieve a sustainable, relatively cooperative relationship between the two nations, based on the concept of providing mutual strategic reassurance in such key areas as nuclear weapons and missile defense, space and cyber operations, and military basing and deployments, while also demonstrating strategic resolve to protect vital national interests, including, in the case of the United States, its commitments to regional allies.
Strategic Reassurance and Resolve was reviewed in Publishers Weekly, which said,
"[T]he points Steinberg and O'Hanlon make deserve the attention of all readers interested in the connection between U.S. and China going forward."― Publishers Weekly
With subject matter related to the future of our country and its foreign relations, this book is a must read for anyone interested in international politics and the U.S. relationship with China.
We like to take pride in the "American Dream" and accomplishing goals our family, and ancestors before them, have never accomplished. But how much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does this influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique–tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and periods–renowned economic historian Gregory Clark reveals that mobility rates are lower than conventionally estimated, do not vary across societies, and are resistant to social policies. The good news is that these patterns are driven by strong inheritance of abilities and lineage does not beget unwarranted advantage. The bad news is that much of our fate is predictable from lineage. Clark argues that since a greater part of our place in the world is predetermined, we must avoid creating winner-take-all societies. Challenging popular assumptions about mobility and revealing the deeply entrenched force of inherited advantage, The Son Also Rises is sure to prompt intense debate for years to come.
Author Gregory Clark recently had an interview with Marketplace found here.The Son Also Rises was also featured in The Globe & Mail, where it was referred to as "Deeply challenging…." by reviewer Margaret Wente.
Get your hands on a copy of this intriguing book now and start reading the Introduction here.
Economic crises seem to be a more and more regular occurrence, but how does politics effect the severity and frequency of these economic problems? Fragile by Design is a revealing exploration of the ways that politics inevitably intrudes into bank regulation. Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber combine political history and economics to examine how coalitions of politicians, bankers, and other interest groups form, why some endure while others are undermined, and how they generate policies that determine who gets to be a banker, who has access to credit, and who pays for bank bailouts and rescues.
Fragile by Design was recently reviewed in the Financial Times, where it was praised for offering necessary explanation of the way the economy operates in relation to politics.
" One reason why economists did not see the financial crisis coming is that the models most macro and financial economists deal in are free of politics. Fragile by Design offers a much-needed supplement."-Martin Sandbu, Financial Times
Want to better understand the complex relationship between economics and politics? Begin reading Chapter 1 of Fragile by Design here.
Speaking of economic crises, the importance of the U.S. dollar has been called into question in recent years. How is it that a currency which seems to fluctuate so frequently is still an international standard in many regards. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar's looming displacement as the main reserve currency. The Dollar Trap powerfully argues, the financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and U.S. policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar's importance.
Eswar Prasad examines how the dollar came to have a central role in the world economy and demonstrates that it will remain the cornerstone of global finance for the foreseeable future. Marshaling a range of arguments and data, and drawing on the latest research, Prasad shows why it will be difficult to dislodge the dollar-centric system. With vast amounts of foreign financial capital locked up in dollar assets, including U.S. government securities, other countries now have a strong incentive to prevent a dollar crash.
The Dollar Trap author Eswar Prasad recently wrote an op-ed piece for the International New York Times further discussing the state of the U.S. dollar today and its persisting power.
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Examining global cybercrime as solely a legal issue misses an important facet of the problem. Understanding the applicable legal rules, both domestically and internationally, is important. However, major state actors are using concerted efforts to engage in nefarious cyber activities with the intention of advancing their economic and geostrategic interests. This paper explores the recent unsealing of a 31-count indictment against five Chinese government officials and a significant cyber breach, perpetrated by Chinese actors against Western oil, energy and petrochemical companies. The paper concludes by noting that increased cooperation among governments is necessary, but unlikely to occur as long as the discourse surrounding cybercrime remains so heavily politicized and securitized. If governments coalesced around the notion of trying to prevent the long-term degradation of trust in the online economy, they may profitably advance the dialogue away from mutual suspicion and toward mutual cooperation.
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A winner was selected from 66 designs submitted by 29 freelance designers.
we would like to see a classic logo that demonstrates a university like image - Institute for Service Organization Excellence (ISOE) -- may be a shield design -- we represent organizational development and quantitative way to measure performance of individuals and teams. We teach people entrepreneurship method and soft skils to be successful in startups and enterprises. We will offer certification in conjunction with universities.
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ISOE will unleash the human potential required to transform organizations worldwide. With proprietary training, technology, method and infrastructure, ISOE takes standard training material and creates dynamic curriculum delivered within a quantitative, objective assessment framework that incorporates recognition, motivation and values-based performance. Employees have a much higher retention rate when their work output is directly affected by their new skills. Results can be tracked, sustained and enhanced, in the process retaining valuable human capital and delivering significant ROI for organizations. The Principals of ISOE have 35+ years combined experience in Silicon Valley working and networking with the best sales and marketing in the world. They provide students of ISOE access to unparalleled expertise in Silicon Valley and beyond.
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We figured that everyone would want to see what Cologuy and Greenguy look like and what there special skills are so we have posted our official playing cards below.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
A video workshop for grades 3-5 teachers; 8 half-hour workshop video programs, 8 half-hour classroom video programs, workshop guide, and Web site; graduate credit available
Program 1. Building a Community of Writers
How can teachers in grades 3-5 create classrooms that nurture and support all students' confidence in their ability to write and help them forge their own writing identities? This program explores strategies and practices to help establish successful writing communities within classrooms. Go to this unit.
Program 2. Teacher as Writer
This program shows third-grade teacher Latosha Rowley sharing her writing with her students and reflecting on the experience as a writer and as a teacher. It also includes several vignettes featuring other teachers who build community in their classrooms through modeling and sharing their own writing.
Program 3. Reasons for Writing
This program examines practices that motivate students to write: choosing their own topics and making writing decisions, keeping a writer's notebook for recording their thoughts, focusing on authentic audiences for their writing, and having opportunities to publish their pieces. Go to this unit.
Program 4. Fostering Choice and Independence
Viewers will see strategies and practices that encourage students to write. Teacher Mark Hardy's first days of school provide an example as he sets up the writing workshop by allowing his third graders to choose both the genre and the topic for their first pieces. Silvia Edgerton's fifth-grade class engages in a status-of-the-class activity.
Program 5. Reading Like a Writer
The relationship between reading and writing in the intermediate classroom is explored. The program demonstrates ways in which reading inspires students and helps them learn the craft of writing, including the use of touchstone and mentor texts. Go to this unit.
Program 6. Reading/Writing Connections
Through interviews and classroom footage, this program demonstrates how teachers, including Christine Sanchez, Cristina Tijerina, Sheryl Bock, and Mark Hansen, incorporate works by published authors into their writing instruction.
Program 7. Teaching the Writing Craft
This program examines whole-class instruction in the writing workshop, looking at why teachers choose this type of instruction and how they integrate it with other instructional strategies such as working with individuals and small groups. Go to this unit.
Program 8. Teaching a Specific Writing Strategy
Silvia Edgerton teaches her fifth-grade students how to make their writing more vivid by zooming in on details, shown in a lesson unfolding over several days.
Program 9. Conversations With Student Writers
The program demonstrates how teachers incorporate conferences with students into their writing instruction. Viewers will see how teachers structure conferences, choose a teaching focus for the conference, and keep records of their interactions. The emphasis is on practical strategies and on the fundamental benefit of responding personally to student writing. Go to this unit.
Program 10. Teacher Conferences
This program features extensive footage of three effective student/teacher conferences in one fifth-grade and two third-grade classes. These conferences demonstrate how teachers use conferences to focus on instruction for individuals while helping students feel ownership of their work.
Program 11. Conversations Among Writing Peers
One way to provide an authentic audience for young writers is to have them share their work with each other. This program shows how teachers help students respond to their peers by modeling appropriate behavior and teaching protocols for student responses. Go to this unit.
Program 12. Peer Conferences
Third-grade teacher Jeanne Boiarsky teaches a peer conference protocol to her class and Lindsay Dibert's fifth-grade class uses a different peer conference strategy in revising personal narratives.
Program 13. Learning To Revise
For elementary-age children, revision is often new and challenging. This program shows how teachers overcome students' resistance to changing their writing by providing concrete and effective revision strategies. Go to this unit.
Program 14. Modeling Revision
Nicole Outsen guides her fifth-grade students through revising an introduction to a newspaper article. She uses her own research notes to model the thinking and decision-making that writers do.
Program 15. Writing Across the Curriculum
This program explores how teachers incorporate writing into other subjects and bring subject-area content into the writing workshop. It includes examples from several classrooms including fifth, fourth, and third grades. Go to this unit.
Program 16. Writing in Science
The final program provides an example of content-area writing in a fifth-grade science class: recording observations about chicken bones as part of a lesson on anatomy.
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âWhen you go to the centre of Times Square for the first time, you are overwhelmed by an explosion of colours, advertisements, luminescent screens as well as a constant flood of vehicles and people. The Broadway and Seventh Avenue crossroads has been quite rightly nicknamed the âCrossroads of the World.â This photo reflects the effervescence and hyperactivity of this area.â GGRead more Read less
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Well, it appears as if, by renaming this feature, "Play Like Ray Rice," we served to Jinx Mighty Mouse, as he failed to break the 100-yards from scrimmage mark for the first time since Week 3. Rice managed just 54 yards rushing and 17 receiving. As such, consider this the "further notice" that was promised as to when the Nest would put calling the player of the game the "Ray Rice" on the shelf for a while.
Since calling the game MVP "Ray Rice" had a detrimental effect on his play, maybe this week we can reverse-jinx a consistent scrub, and turn his play around, by honoring the game's Least Valuable Player in his honor.
Away we go.
Did Not Play Like Dominique Foxworth: Jarret Johnson
Gotta be honest. It wasn't easy to pick a game MVP this week, after that disastrous performance in Green Bay. Double J, however, has evolved into the team's most consistent defensive player, and had what could have been a game-changing play Monday night.
Johnson was tied for third on the team with four tackles, and now has 33 on the season, just 12 shy of his career high set last season.
JJ made a great reaction to Aaron Rodgers' pass that deflected up in the air off Donald Driver's leg, resulting in his first pick since 2004. The play gave the Ravens' offense the ball right back just one play after they had finally gotten on the board to pull within 10 at 17-7. They would score a touchdown just 3 plays later, and the Ravens suddenly had all the momentum in a game that had been a Packer blowout at the half.
Unfortunately for Johnson, the rest of the team, and Ravens fans, this week's goat made sure to hand all that momentum right back to Green Bay…
Played Like Dominique Foxworth – Joe Flacco
Joe, Joe, Joe.
Natty Joe had arguably the worst game of his professional career this week. His 27.2 passer rating was his third lowest with the Ravens, trailing just the 22 and 18 he put up in the final two Pittsburgh games in 2008 for ineptitude. With the Ravens facing 2nd-and-goal from the 3 yard line, trailing 24-14, Joe made a play that was WAY too reminiscent of one Kyle Boller for the B'More faithful.
Many are ripping Flacco for the decision to throw back across his body to Demetrius Williams, but I'll give him half a pass: Joe himself said that the decision was "bad" and the throw was "worse," and I tend to agree. The decision wasn't AWFUL – Demetrius was open, had Joe put the ball in the right place. Unfortunately, the throw was all sorts of terrible. With the entire left side of the end zone to work with, why Joe threw the ball directly at Williams, instead of lofting it towards the opposite sideline where only his guy had a chance for it…well, I have no idea.
His first interception was, however, unbelievably dumb from a decision standpoint. There were no fewer than FOUR Packers in the area where Joe delivered that ball, covering just two receivers. It's understandable that the flea-flicker makes Ravens FANS pumped up to see a big play, but the quarterback of the team needs to be level-headed enough in that situation to recognize that nothing is there, and to throw the ball somewhere – anywhere – else.
On his third pick (yeesh), A.J. Hawk made an outstanding play, no doubt about it. Flacco, however, was likely pressing after the end zone game-killer.
Flacco's physical pain may have been less than in previous weeks on Monday, but his play was downright painful to watch. On a night where Joe seemed to be moving around better than he had in months, picking up his most rushing yards (16) since picking up 18 in Week, his decision making killed his team. For the second time in three games, he threw a fourth quarter pick that dramatically changed the face of the game in what was ultimately a Ravens loss.
The Ravens' coaches always tell us that, once Joe makes a mistake, he never makes the same one again.
Well, if that's the case, he should have learned more than enough this week to last him quite a while.
Flacco needs to finish strong over these last four games, to quash any chance of a "sophomore slump" tag be applied to his entire 2009 campaign.


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By John Milton Cooper Jr.
Each December 28 a military honor guard and a procession of clergy present a wreath at a tomb in the National Cathedral in Washington, D. C. The wreath bears two words: "The President." The tomb holds the remains of Woodrow Wilson, and the day is his birthday. Wilson is the only president buried in Washington and the only one buried inside a church. The location is fitting, as is the military honor guard, because no president combined the elements of religion and war leadership more strongly than Wilson.
Since his death, no president has had a reputation with more ups and down than his. Most of these posthumous fluctuations have derived from his roles in World War I: his decision to intervene in 1917; the ways he waged war, particularly the repression of civil liberties at home; and the peace settlement he helped negotiate, especially his establishment and advocacy of collective security through the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations.
In addition, his administration's record in race relations was sorry, including an attempt to segregate federal offices. In the post-war disillusionment of the 1920s and 1930s, many blamed him for doing the wrong thing by entering the war. Later, in the 1940s and 50s, some blamed him for not taking the country into war sooner.
"Realists" have persistently scorned his plans for the League of Nations as foolishly idealistic and possibly inspired by religious-based views of himself as a secular messiah. Liberals and free speech advocates have deplored his wartime actions, especially because he feared and predicted what he allowed to happen. Yet, during most of this time, he has also had strong admirers and defenders who have praised his actions in most areas and pointed to the contexts in which he thought and acted. Controversy still rages over who he was and what he did, and "Wilsonian" remains a widely used term, though most often pejoratively.
It might seem odd for this man to be buried in an Episcopal cathedral. He was the son, grandson, nephew, and son-in-law of Presbyterian ministers. Born in Virginia and raised in Georgia and South Carolina, he was the only southerner to be elected president for nearly a hundred years after the Civil War. He received his college education at Princeton and studied law at the University of Virginia. After a brief stab at practicing law, he went to graduate school at Johns Hopkins University and would be the only holder of the Ph.D. degree and the only professional academic to become president.
In his writings he established himself as the leading political scientist of his generation and one of the few great scholars of politics that the United States has produced. He taught briefly at Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan (Connecticut), then returned to Princeton, where he taught for 12 years before becoming its president. In his eight years as president, he transformed Princeton into a front-rank university by upgrading the faculty, revamping the curriculum, and launching ambitious initiatives to reform college life; thereby, he made himself the best-publicized and often most controversial college president in the country. This public visibility attracted political kingmakers, who tapped him to run as the Democratic nominee for governor of New Jersey in 1910.
Wilson instantly made a huge success in politics. Despite having been picked by his state's political bosses, he ran as a progressive reformer, and, once in office, he pushed through a major program to clean up politics and regulate business. People marveled at how this professor did so well in politics, and he had a stock answer for reporters who asked him about it: after academic politics, the "real thing" was so much easier and aboveboard. He also applied lessons and approaches he had gathered from his academic study of politics. Having concluded that parliamentary governments acted more efficiently and accountably to the people, he acted like a prime minister as governor and president. He became the first holder of either office to draw up a legislative program in advance, then he worked through his party to get his programs enacted. The theorist of party government became the practitioner of party government, and no career in the history of the United States has better justified the study of politics as preparation for the practice of politics.
Wilson's success as governor made him an early favorite for the Democratic nomination for president in 1912, which he won after a hard-fought campaign. Next, he profited from the split in the Republican party between the incumbent president William Howard Taft and his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt, who was running as the nominee of his new Progressive Party. The campaign's main event was Wilson versus Roosevelt, and it featured the finest intellectual exchange between candidates in all of American history. Wilson, under his slogan of the New Freedom, expounded a vision of social and economic renewal to be achieved through government intervention to restore competition; Roosevelt, under his slogan of the New Nationalism - which sought to tame big business -, expounded a vision of transcendent national purpose to be fostered through government oversight and regulation of big business. Wilson won an electoral landslide, although he captured only 42 percent of the popular vote; Roosevelt finished ahead of Taft, thereby becoming the only third-party candidate ever to outpoll the nominee of a major party.
As president, Wilson prized legislative leadership highest above all other aspects of his office. In a symbolic move to bridge the separation of powers, he became the first president since John Adams to address Congress in person, and during the rest of his presidency he regularly went to the Capitol to address major issues. In his first two years in office, he oversaw passage of such monumental measures as the Federal Reserve, the income tax, and anti-trust legislation; in his second two years, despite decreased Democratic majorities in Congress, he oversaw passage of the first federal aid to farmers, abolition of child labor (later struck down by the Supreme Court), the first inheritance taxes, and an eight-hour day law for railroad workers, as well as the nomination and Senate confirmation of Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court---the first Jew to sit on the Court and arguably one of the two or three greatest justices in its history. These legislative accomplishments played a big role in Wilson's re-election in 1916. He became the first Democrat to win a second consecutive term since Andrew Jackson, and he did it in the face of a reunited Republican party, which enjoyed a much stronger following in the most populous states.
Another element in Wilson's re-election was foreign policy. The Democrats used the campaign slogan "He Kept Us out of War," although it swayed fewer votes than domestic issues. Just after his election in 1912, Wilson had said privately, "It would be an irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign problems." That irony began to overtake him almost at once. The ongoing and violent revolution in Mexico vexed him, as he fumbled and intervened there unwisely before settling on a policy of letting Mexicans work out their own destiny. That trial run served him in good stead when World War I broke out in August 1914. It could not have happened at a worse time for Wilson, because his first wife Ellen died at exactly the same moment and left him distraught with grief. At first, the world war seemed far away, but on May 7, 1915, a German submarine sank the world's largest passenger ship, the Lusitania, with more than 100 Americans among the 1,200 killed. That began a protracted diplomatic duel with Germany, in which Wilson repeatedly tried to bridge the classic dilemma between peace with honor, and he succeeded temporarily when the Germans restrained their submarines. Also fortunately for Wilson, he had met and soon married his second wife, Edith. Early in 1917, the Germans unleashed their submarines in an all-out campaign against all merchant shipping, both Allied and neutral, and their move forced a reluctant, doubtful president to take the country into war.
Ironically, Wilson made the decision to intervene after he had embraced a new way to conduct international relations and prevent war through a league of nations, and after he had made a bold move to end the war by offering mediation and a "peace without victory." Despite his yearning for peace and reluctance to go to war, Wilson mounted a full-fledged military effort. In the 18 months, the Army mobilized over 4 million men and sent 2 million of them to France to fight in the last months of the war. His administration likewise mobilized and took unprecedented control of the economy, including manufacturing, transportation, and food production. Wilson gave his cabinet officers and other appointees great latitude in running their departments, and he left military affairs to the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, General John J. Pershing.
In foreign affairs, however, he exercised direct control, and he seized command of Allied war aims in January 1918 with his Fourteen Points address, in which he laid out a picture of a healing, non-punitive program reminiscent of "peace without victory." The Fourteen Points contributed measurably to shortening the war, which ended with the Armistice of November 11, 1918. Winning the war proved easier for Wilson than winning the peace. He became the first president to leave the United States while in office when he went to Paris for the peace conference at the end of 1918. Except for a brief trip home, he stayed there until the summer of 1919, entangled in protracted, stressful negotiations with the British, French, and Italian leaders.
The resulting Treaty of Versailles struck many as an abandonment of the Fourteen Points, although the British, French and Italian Allies fell short of their sweeping demands to impose a crushing settlement. The treaty did include the Covenant of the League of Nations, which Wilson drafted and on which he pinned his greatest hopes for future peace and order. At home, however, he faced entrenched opposition to full-fledged participation in the League, particularly from the Republican leader in the Senate, Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts. In seeking approval of the treaty, Wilson first tried to negotiate with senators. then mounted a barnstorming speaking tour across the country. The tour had to be aborted as his health collapsed, and he suffered a massive stroke shortly after his return to the White House.
That stroke effectively ended Wilson's presidency, and he never fully functioned in the office again. The stroke turned him into a rigid, often delusional creature who blasted all efforts at compromise on League membership. Sadly, Wilson spun fantasies about running for a third term in 1920, which his family and friends quietly scotched. Even without him as a candidate, the Republicans made him the main issue in the campaign, and they read the landslide victory of their nominee, Warren Harding, as a repudiation of Wilson and all his works, including membership in the League. Wilson lived on for nearly three years after he left the White House. He and Edith bought a house in Washington, which served as a refuge and shrine to his memory, a place to which a steady stream of admirers made pilgrimages. He died on February 3, 1924, from the long-term effects of the stroke. He was buried in the cathedral because the Episcopal bishop of Washington wanted to make it America's Westminster Abbey, and Mrs. Wilson, who was an Episcopalian, liked the idea.
Quick Facts: Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born Dec. 29, 1856, in Staunton, Va. He attended Davidson College, the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and the University of Virginia Law School. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1886. Wilson's first wife, Ellen Louise Axon Wilson, died Aug. 6, 1914. They had three daughters, Margaret, Jessie and Eleanor. In 1915, he married Edith Bolling Galt.
John Milton Cooper Jr.
John Milton Cooper Jr. is professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of "Breaking the Heart of the World: Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations" and "The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt," among other books. He was recently a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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"Ram Transport is a trucking company, one of the top ten in the country, I think. We're meeting with the CEO and the head of operations."
"What kind of revenue do they do?"
Dick thought about it. "I'm not sure exactly."
I thought it was odd that he didn't know, but I assumed he just didn't have the exact figure in front of him.
"How many employees?" I asked.
He didn't flinch. "I don't know. I'm not even sure how many of their people are independent contractors or full-time staff. I'm guessing that most of their drivers aren't employees."
I decided that this wouldn't be the best time to challenge Dick's preparation regimen, so I stopped my questions. Soon enough we pulled off the freeway and into the parking lot of an office complex near the San Jose Airport.
As we got out of Dick's Acura, I noticed something strange. The only thing in Dick's hand was a black leather portfolio.
Without thinking, I asked, "Is that all you're bringing?"
Dick looked surprised. "Yeah, why?"
"You're not going to do a presentation? No proposal? Do you have any handouts?"
Dick shook his head. "Nope." He looked at the folder in his hands and smiled. "Heck, this thing is just a prop." He opened up the portfolio to reveal that it held nothing but a pad of paper and a pen. "I'd feel kind of strange if I weren't carrying something."
I was starting to think that our initial assessment of Lighthouse was accurate after all, and that they must be running an illegal narcotics distribution business to make their numbers look so good, maybe taking middle-of-the-night shipments in Half Moon Bay and storing the drugs in that lighthouse. It would have been a good story.
We went into the building, and this time the receptionist didn't just let us roam free, but gave us security badges and had us wait for someone to get us. The lobby was typical corporate, clean and professional, nothing attractive or interesting.
Within minutes we were greeted by a woman who was an administrative assistant of some kind. She escorted us to the elevators and to a conference room, where we declined her offer of coffee or soda and waited for what I thought was going to be a sales presentation.
When the CEO and head of ops arrived, we did our typical meet and greet and sat down to talk. The CEO went first.
"So, I was telling my friend, John Sullivan—he's the COO over at Frigidata—that we needed some help figuring out how to do better planning, and he said I should call you. And that's why we're here."
Dick nodded. "Okay. Tell me why you think you need to do better planning."
The CEO looked to his operating guy. "Well, it's getting harder and harder to make revenue forecasts. Our costs are rising faster than they should be, and we're not sure why. And we're starting to lose market share, which hasn't happened in ten years."
Pulling out his pad of paper, Dick began asking a series of questions. Revenue. Number of employees. Competitive landscape. Cost structure.
I couldn't believe it.
If this were my sales call, I'd have come to the meeting already knowing the answers to these questions. I'd be using industry language and referring to anything I'd read in the Journal or in trade reports. Hell, I'd probably be 75-percent sure what we'd propose doing for the client. And here Dick was, doing basic, primary research during his first sales call.
What was worse, the clients didn't seem to mind.
After he had exhausted his initial questions, Dick went to the whiteboard. "Okay, let me explain what a strategically healthy company looks like, and figure out whether any of this is helpful to you."
He drew a diagram similar to one that we used from time to time. Basic. Then he wrote a few questions next to it having to do with customers and competitors and core principles.
And for the next forty-five minutes we just talked. Or better yet, Dick asked questions and the CEO and his sidekick talked. From time to time Dick would draw another diagram or chart, almost always the right one given what they were talking about, and the clients would get animated.
At one point the same assistant who had greeted us in the lobby came in to remind them that they had a conference call in ten minutes. They asked her to push it back by an hour. They were too involved in the conversation to stop now.
For another forty five minutes we—yes, even I joined in the session—talked about whether the problem they were facing was really a planning issue or more about clarity around competition. I have to admit that it was fascinating, and the time flew by.
Finally, the CEO looked up at the clock and said, "Okay, we're running out of time here. I'd like to continue this conversation with the rest of my team, because we're going to need input from marketing and finance to figure this out."
Dick nodded. "Okay. Should we shoot for next week?"
The two men who were already acting like clients looked at each other, nodding.
"Why don't we use the second part of our staff meeting on Tuesday for this?" The ops guy asked his boss.
Dick scrolled though his PDA. "I'm good for Tuesday afternoon."
"Done. We'll be in the boardroom on the fourth floor. I'll have Nancy set you up."
I felt like I was going crazy, or that I was watching a bad movie about business. No one had even mentioned fees or contracts or scopes of engagement. Finally, the CEO restored my faith in humanity.
"So, should we talk about what this is going to cost?"
Dick didn't seem surprised, but he certainly wasn't waiting for the question. "If you want, we could, I guess. But why don't I just come next week and we'll see how it goes. If you decide we can help you, we can figure it out from there."
The CEO seemed to like that idea. He eagerly shook our hands, thanked us for our time, and genuinely remarked, "I'm looking forward to next week." And we were gone.
I was stunned. It reminded me of the time in high school when I finally got up the courage to ask Christine Owens to the prom. "Okay," she said, almost immediately. "Pick me up at seven-thirty."
It was all too easy.
Patrick Lencioni is founder and president of The Table Group, a firm dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products, and services that improve teamwork, clarity, and employee engagement. He is the author of several best-selling books, including "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team." For more information, visit www.tablegroup.com.


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Since I've got so much good stuff to share with you, I'm going to break it up into categories. Today's feature will be dragons and unicorns. Tune in next week for Fairies & Castles.
First and foremost, here's a flat-out AMAZING dragon from - who else? - Mike's Amazing Cakes:
You can tell this is for role-playing gamers by the corn dogs and mozzarella sticks in the background. Come to think of it, all this shin-dig is missing are some Hot Pockets! [cue Jim Gaffigan bit]
Here's another angle:
(Thanks to Christine C. and Sarah, who were among the first of billions to send these in. Check here for more shots and pics of the cake being cut.)
Next we have an equally impressive Unicorn and Fairy Combo from Sandra of Sugar Fun:
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(Laura N. was the first to send this one. Thanks, Laura!)
Next, in the "so-cute-it-hurts" category from Richard's Cakes, we have a dragon...in a tutu:
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Arg, my kingdom for decent lighting! Still, if you can look past the blinding flash and shadows, you'll see this is a gorgeous replica of the famous "Unicorn in Captivity" tapestry:
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It�s been almost a year since the massacre of Sandy Hook, Conn. and less than two weeks since Sparks, Nev. According to our top cop Attorney General Holder There has been 15 major shootings in that time. Some as close as Fayetteville and Winston-Salem. Where am I going with this � I�m referring to school security and whether or not it�s been improved since last year.
It�s been almost a year since the massacre of Sandy Hook, Conn. and less than two weeks since Sparks, Nev. According to our top cop Attorney General Holder There has been 15 major shootings in that time. Some as close as Fayetteville and Winston-Salem. Where am I going with this � I�m referring to school security and whether or not it�s been improved since last year.
First let me make clear, I�m not criticizing Craven, sort of, because admittedly Craven is among the best state wide. However, past observations show it to be deficient in many ways with lots of room for low cost improvements. Should we not expect improvements, additions, changes and such. I haven�t heard of any changes or improvements and neither has anyone I know. The media reports how well law enforcement in Eastern North Carolina and nationwide are developing response plans of all magnitude to such incidents. My observations place ENC at the spear�s tip. Thank you to all departments, but it�s a response, a rescue. It is not protection against an intruder. A response or rescue means the incident is in motion and moving with the impact of a freight train. It starts slow and erupts like a volcano.
I wonder if school systems state wide are still looking at volunteers, or placing School Resource Officers in every school. Almost every idea has been proposed, from volunteers, to almost asking for the Marines. Presently there is a list of concepts that could be shot down with little explanation. Almost all the ideas are dependent on people picking up a weapon and running into harm�s way. What we should have is a static passive/aggressive (sounds crazy) program in place. A static passive method that will stay in place with little cost that let�s everyone act normal, until activated, switches into an aggressive mode, more commonly known as lock down, protecting our children. This is where the teacher is the most important person of all. Prevention is the most important part of all. Buy time so law enforcement has time to respond.
I attended a seminar in Morehead City last spring where all kinds of state agencies brought forth all their counseling programs and response teams and such, a good back patting program. There were even a couple that had a semi-profiling (a bad word) program; however, no protection at the moment of the incident.
In all likelihood we hear about the school bus security plan that has been developed in Craven, (and a good plan at that). But that is last year�s news. Average citizens want to know what kind of new improvements have been placed in service. We don�t have to know the details or locations just assurance that they are there. An abstract view into what is coming.
I would also want to hear the projected cost of the programs. Parents want and need to know they�re placing their children in the dedicated hands of schools that will be safer than last year, even if it is only a little safer. The tax payer should know what it will cost and how it will be paid for.
I�m closing with the questions that everyone here and in the surrounding counties should be asking.
Is last year�s security of our schools good enough or do we wait until it becomes old news? Should we wait until it danger rears its ugly head here.
One way to not being bit by a snake is to cut off its head early.
Tony Michalek, Harlowe/Havelock


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ArchitectsArchitectkidd Co. Ltd.
LocationBangkok, Thailand
Principals In ChargeUdomsak Komonvilas, Jariyawadee Lekawatana, Luke Yeung
Project TeamLuke Yeung, Jariyawadee Lekawatana, Udomsak Komonvilas, Pailin
Structural EngineerSetcom Co. Ltd. - Boonsaeng Siriratchuwong
Lighting DesignerAccent Studio - Nopporn Sakulwigitsinthu
Facade FabricatorThaipat Group Co., Ltd. - Thaipat Ponkittiphan
Area630.0 m2
Project Year2008
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