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Historic Night for Marijuana Legalization, too!
Another interesting result in the 2012 election is the legalization of possession of small amounts of marijuana in CO and WA. Rachel Maddow offered a deft comparison to the end of Prohibition and the questions that remain now:
"When prohibition ended in 1933, Americans could legally buy and sell and drink booze for the first time in thirteen years," Maddow says. "And people were obviously psyched when prohibition ended, but there was a lot of policy to figure out in terms of how the country would sell and regulate alcohol. Would cities do it? Would states do it? The federal government? Should you have to apply for a license to sell alcohol? How old should you have to be in order to drink alcohol?...States came up with their own answers to those questions and the laws between the states -- even all these decades later -- are still really diverse."
Connecticut and Massachusetts both passed medical marijuana laws this year, joining 16 other states and the District of Columbia in allowing pot use for various health conditions, while the CO and WA versions are explicitly for recreational use. So what might Thomas Aquinas think of all this?
Civil law, per Thomas, is not intended to legislate every virtue nor to prohibit every vice:
[H]uman laws do not forbid all vices, from which the virtuous abstain, but only the more grievous vices, from which it is possible for the majority to abstain; and chiefly those that are to the hurt of others, without the prohibition of which human society could not be maintained: thus human law prohibits murder, theft and such like. (Summa Theologiae, I IIae, q. 96.2c)
Moreover, laws too that are too strict for "the majority," "unable to bear such precepts, would [lead them to] break out into yet greater evils." (Loc.cit, ad 2.) Certainly this kind of question is relevant regarding pot legalization. There's little evidence that marijuana's health risks are worse than those of a number of legal drugs like alcohol or tobacco. From what I see at WebMD, the health risks seem greatest for heavy smokers. Legalization doesn't seem to be contrary to the common good, at least not more than the legal drugs we already tolerate. Another factor related to Thomas' view of civil law is this: something like 43% of Americans have at least experimented with pot. I don't have data, but I suspect there's a generational shift: even when I was growing up (a long time ago now...) it was ordinary to have both alcohol and weed at social events. And if you've been to a rock concert lately, there's lots and lots of folks smoking. Gateway drug? No real evidence supports that except--my concern is that your local pot dealer also has other drugs to sell you, hard drugs for which questions of legalization are more difficult, (but still not a slam dunk against, it seems to me.) So a kind of social gateway, perhaps, in which you have access to truly harmful drugs by having to go to an illegal purveyor instead of a legal smoke shop. Plus, since you already have discovered that pot, while illegal, isn't really harmful, why not try the dealer's other wares? And so Thomas' fear that we'll break out into greater evils is at least plausible.All this before we deal with the larger justice issues of who goes to jail and why, and the effects of large drug organizations on the security of national governments...So all in all, I can see a pretty decent Thomistic argument in favor of legalization. That doesn't solve all the particulars of sales where, how and by whom that Maddow raised, but might at least give Catholics a place to begin. Of course, as in all Thomistic discernments of particular courses of action, other prudential persons might think otherwise...so...whaddya think?
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Lisa Fullam is professor of moral theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. She is the author of The Virtue of Humility: A Thomistic Apologetic (Edwin Mellen Press).
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I'm in favor of legalizing marijuana, mainly because keeping it illegal has spawned a drug trade whose costs in the flowering of gangs and the ruin of neighborhoods we have not even begun to fathom.Of course making it legal doesn't mean it's moral, in the Thomistic sense of doing what will cause you to flourish into the happiness of the contemplation of God. Anyone who has lost family or friends to alcoholism knows the price of abuse of *that* quite legal drug. I say use the money for rehabilitation rather than incarceration; practically speaking it does a whole lot more good.
"The law is required to be tolerant of many evils that morality condemns." John Courtney Murray, SJ., quoted by John E. Brandel, Dear Constituent (article), "Commonweal", 12/1/89.
For those who can access archived Commonweal articles, the Brandel comment is from here: http://search.opinionarchives.com/Summary/Commonweal/V116I21P5-1.htm
Practical question: why do Colorado and Washington see legalization of marijuana as a source of revenue? If you buy it at your local store and pay a purchase tax, that will go into state coffers, of course. But if you grow it yourself -- and in some places in grows like a weed -- how will that benefit the state? Or is that kind of private cultivation illegal in CO and WA?
I don't see anything at all immoral about the responsible recreational use of marijuana. I think in moderation it's the equivalent of a having a glass of wine once in a while. In excess it wold be problematic, but, doesn't it seem much less harmful overall than alcohol? I know alcoholics that have lost job , family and home. But you never hear about people's lives destroyed because they smoked too much pot.
I believe the lessons learned by Prohibition are persuasive arguments to legalize marijuana. I'd want it to be regulated and taxed, and in fact heavily regulated and heavily taxed.FWIW - I was part of the high school Class of '79, which at one time was - and perhaps still is - the senior class among which marijuana usage peaked in the US. Many of the teens with whom I grew up have had their lives compromised in some way because of marijuana use. Legal penalties are part of that life damage but by no means all of it. My own observation is that there aren't many regular-but-casual marijuana users, in the way that there are many regular-but-casual drinkers. Most people either dabble in it once in a very great while but can truthfully say they're really not marijuana users; or they become regular users - and incur the heavy costs that come with habitual marijuana usage. It's not conducive to responsible and mature behavior.None if this is social science; it's just my own observation. But my view is that the "dead head" is more than a cartoon caricature. If it becomes legal, I'll still tell my children not to use it and will punish them if they do, and I'd have no problem telling people from the pulpit of my parish church that they shouldn't use marijuana.
Not just marijuana laws need reforming. The whole "War on Drugs" must be ended ASAP. This is the moral equivalent of ending slavery in the 19th century. Drugs must be dealt with as a public health issue, not a criminal issue.Our jails and prisons, certainly here in CA and similarly across the nation, are overflowing with non-violent offenders incarcerated for some kind of drug prohibition. The US outranks China and every other repressive regime in the world for incarcerating large segments of its population. Most of our inmates are disproportionately young men of color. Most inmates are incarcerated for drug-related purposes - a majority of them non-violent.It is not an accident that prison sentences for crack and methamphetamine possession and use - drugs that are channelled purposefully into impoverished communities - have higher mandated prison sentences than for their chemically identical cousin, cocaine - the drug of choice for those who have substantial disposable incomes (read, whites).From my time practicing at a local juvenile hall, I can't recall one middle or upper class white kid that was arrested for marijuana possession - although you could smell the pot smoke in the air if you just drive around some of the tonier neighborhoods of Marin County. Most of the drug arrest at JuV were for marijuana possession, and almost all of those arrest where kids of color.To the south across the border in Mexico, a bloody war is raging where violent, armed criminal gangs outgun the Mexican government because of drug trafficking that supplies mainly US drug habits. Thousands of people have been killed. It seems that American gun suppliers with the tacit approval of American politicians, like that wacka-doodle Jan Brewer in Arizona, have been arming all sides of the Mexican drug cartel war. Wake up, America! Our Prison Industrial Complex, increasingly given over to "for-profit corporations" is the economic, political and moral equivalent of slavery in the ante-bellum South. More times than we would like to admit prisons are located in rural areas of the US where they are the major local employer for mostly whites constituting the major economic enterprise infusing $millions in these communities - especially now that vulture capitalist like Mitt Romney over the last 30 years have shipped most factories and good paying jobs to low-wage slave economies mostly in repressive countries in Asia and Latin America.Slave-prison plantations, where especially the poor are economically exploited, thrive in America today. The question is really whether Christians today have the moral fortitude to mount a second abolitionist movement: END THE DRUG WAR!Don't look for the morally corrupt American Catholic bishops to lead the way! The hierarchs are too consumed with preserving their own political power and investment portfolios, controlling women's vaginas, and hiding their shame at maintaining the dominance of their homosexual subculture in the clergy.A good number of the major contributors to the anti-pot smoking forces in these referendum elections [besides alcohol distillers and tobacco companies - now there are some good corporate citizens???] are the prison guard unions and the private prison corporations - both of whom have the politicians dancing at the end of a string for their campaign cash. They know that if pot smoking is decriminalized, their gravy train is over. Wake up, America!
Hi Nickolas,While it is true that some folks will continue growing their own, most people will simply find it more convenient to just buy the pre-packaged (and probably better tasting) MJ cigarettes. Relying on this aspect of human nature then, if the states require an mj cigarette tax stamp on each pack sold, like they do with every pack of tobacco cigarettes, they will see a rise in both cigarette tax and sales tax revenues.If a state has a lot of mj smokers, legalizing, regulating and taxing mj cigarettes is probably a reasonable financial move for that state.
And I imagine, once its commercially grown, the quality will improve. (like the difference between wine from a vineyard vs. homegrown.) Maybe Colorado Springs will become the American Amsterdam. People can go there on vacation to smoke pot. Not that Colorado isn't already a fabulous vacation spot.
Per Jim Js rant . . .Dont look for the morally corrupt American Catholic bishops to lead the way! . . Oh please spare us your moral indignation on this it is not that big of a deal one way or the other.In any case, marijuana laws are not in the purview of the bishops, any more than tobacco or liquor laws are. Many a bishop likes a good cigar and a glass of brandy; the phrase fruit of the vine and work of human hands comes to mind. Of course people must be prudent in using treats like tobacco, booze, candy, soda pop; one cannot have treats all the time. The good bishops would remind people to be responsible, prudent, and to not fall into gluttony or sloth. We also must not eat too much food, as that too is the sin of gluttony.That we have laws prohibiting the possession and use of certain things like marijuana is the responsibility not of bishops but of the civil government of our nation. As I have noted time and again, all societies have the right to organize themselves as the majority in the society sees fit. In other words, when a majority of Americans wanted to prohibit alcohol, as a nation we were well within our rights to try that. It failed of course, but as a society, we nonetheless had the right to give it a try. As a society we have until now, basically preferred a prohibition on marijuana, we have spent a lot of money to keep it that way and that is our right. Now it seems though, that in some areas of this great land, in some states, the majority of the locals want to try legalizing marijuana.Unlike legalizing booze back in the 1930s, as a practical matter, there is no Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the possession and consumption of marijuana just federal law. And so if enough localities decide they want to permit, regulate and tax marijuana, ultimately the federal government will have to follow suite.Either way it goes, marijuana smoking is no more a matter of morality than tobacco or booze. The important point is that the majority ultimately will - and should - have the say regarding it.As a side note, I suspect many federal employees do not like the specter of not being paid to chase down MJ weeds and growers from NY to CA, and so they will wail to high heaven about losing their jobs, federal unions will fight this all the way, the prison guard unions and the lawyers will fight this also, as for them, there is a lot of money to be made (jobs, pensions) in "fighting" this relatively easy portion of the so-called war of drugs.It will be interesting; we will watch and see.
Just recently I saw in the health news that marijuana use in teens is linked to cognitive damage, but I guess that might be also true of alcohol? When I was in high school/college I used drugs and I found smoking dope to impair judgement, but then so did drinking. If they'd only legalize cocaine ...
Really, Ken? "It's not that big a deal ..."?Don't be so dismissive, so quickly, so easily. I thought that was what the MORAL lesson behind the parable of the Good Samaritan when he came upon the victim in the ditch? A large proportion of the kids in CYA (California Youth Authority - an euphemism for "prisons for children") are Latinos - most are from Catholic families, at least nominally I believe. The very ones that Catholic hierarchs are always posturing with when they want to establish their "concern" bona fides with the poor. No racism operating here??? The majority of these children are in the "system" because of marijuana/drug possession. Once in the juvenile penal system the chances they will NOT graduate to the "big house" diminishes rapidly. Prisons for children are a big black hole from which no light escapes.Since you, Ken, mentioned the comparative "morality" of marijuana - but didn't mention the immorality of the wreckage to the lives of thousands of children, isn't that something that religious leaders should speak out about? Should WANT to speak out about? I would think that it would be more worthy of the Catholic hierarchs attention than say their investment portfolios or protecting their pedophile brother priests or misguidedly intruding into presidential politics or going on witch hunts among American religious women.I wonder if you, Ken, would be so smug if it was your b _ _ t in prison, or your children or grandchildren, for as you seem to argue, for violating outrageously unjust drug prohibitions?Sorry, if my ranting about my moral indignation offends you ... NOT!!!!!As my sainted sixth-grade teacher, Sister Mary Adelaide, would say: "The twin daughters of Hope are Anger and Courage."
Jim In this land we have a representative form of government where for the most part, the majority makes the rules - and that is a good thing. When the majority of voters decide to legalize marijuana, it will be legal. After so many years of nonsense regarding this, thankfully (in my opinion) the tide is beginning to turn toward MJ legalization.You correctly point out what I alluded to; that institutions like the CYA will strongly resist legalizing marijuana, mainly for narrow reasons associated with their jobs and pensions. Many, many young folks are routinely fed into systems like the CYA, and in the process of trying to wind their way through that bureaucracy towards the door, they keep guards and social workers of all kinds employed for years. I cant be as dramatic about this as you, but I do not think we disagree. Like I said, this will be interesting; well see.
Ken: Marijuana legalization is not going far enough. End the prison industrial complex! END THE WHOLE DRUG WAR NOW!
[...] Historic Night for Marijuana Legalization, too! – Commonweal Connecticut and Massachusetts both passed medical marijuana laws this year, joining 16 other states and the District of Columbia in allowing pot use for various health conditions, while the CO and WA versions are explicitly for recreational … http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/ — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:44:02 -0800 [...]
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In other business Monday, the Leavenworth County Commission:
• Heard from resident Dan Duffin about a desire for the county...
In other business Monday, the Leavenworth County Commission:
• Heard from resident Dan Duffin about a desire for the county to pave portions of 171st Street and Gilman Road as part of the county's Participatory Road Program.
In the past, county officials have required 100 percent participation from property owners in an affected area of a PRP project, but two people who live in the area of 171st Street and Gilman Road have not signed on for the project.
Public Works Director Mike Spickelmier suggested discussing this and other potential PRP projects during a Sept. 8 work session.
• Approved a bid from Linaweaver Construction, Lansing, for $190,415 for rehabilitation of a lift station for Sewer District No. 2. The project will be paid for with funds from the sewer district.
• Approved a bid from Welborn Sales, of Gardner, for $42,235 for the purchase of metal culverts.
• Approved a memorandum of understanding with the city of Linwood regarding street maintenance.
Leavenworth County commissioners voted Monday to close a section of Gilman Road east of Lansing.
Leavenworth County Public Works Director Mike Spickelmier said the stretch of Gilman Road between 127th Street and Wolcott Road is a dirt road used to provide field access to property owners.
"It's existed probably close to 100 years," he said.
He discussed the roadway during a public hearing on the issue.
Spickelmier said that section of Gilman is not an open, through street and had been classified as a minimum maintenance field road.
He said residents have complained about problems associated with people using the roadway such as illegal dumping and other nuisances.
In 2010, officials looked at vacating the roadway. But, this idea was abandoned because AT&T has utilities in an easement, and as the city of Lansing grows, it may someday need the roadway.
Spickelmier said commissioners still have the option of officially closing the road.
"It would allow the residents to barricade the roadway," he said.
He said property owners could barricade the roadway with a fence as long as AT&T workers have the ability to open the gate to access utilities.
"Once it's closed we will no longer do any maintenance out there," Spickelmier said.
Spickelmier said his department had received correspondence in favor of closing the roadway from two of the property owners along that stretch of Gilman. He said the Public Works Department has not heard from a third property owner.
Diane Rudnicki, who owns property along the south side of the affected roadway, spoke in favor of closing the street.
She complained that teenagers drive back and forth on the roadway, and sometimes vehicles become stuck. She said drivers rev their engines when their trucks get stuck.
"The trash has been a terrible thing, too," she said.
She said someone threw old mattresses onto her property.
Rudnicki said the county posted a "no trash" sign but someone yanked it out of place. It later was replaced.
Commissioner Dennis Bixby said he wants "it abundantly clear there is no road anymore."
Spickelmier said the county will take down streets signs and can put a new sign indicating it is not a road for public use.
"It looks like a driveway," he said.
Commissioner Clyde Graeber said just because a sign is posted doesn't mean people will stop driving the road.
Bixby asked Rudnicki if she would place a gate across the road.
"I don't know how I would even do that," she said.
Spickelmier said there have been other situations in the county in which property owners have put up gates on closed roadways.
Page 2 of 2 - He said every time the county puts up something, there's an expectation the Public Works Department will maintain it.
If the Public Works Department were to barricade the road, Spickelmier said he wouldn't use a gate. He'd use concrete barricades.
"We've never put in gates like this before, but we will do what we're told," he said.
Bixby said he sees old Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office vehicles parked at the county shop. He suggested one of these vehicles could be parked across the road. The car can be moved when someone from AT&T needs to access the road.
Graeber said the county could be sued if someone crashes into the vehicle.
County Administrator Pat Hurley said this doesn't mean the county would lose the lawsuit.
"I would suggest we look into how we permanently close it," Hurley said.
He said the reported nuisances have been an ongoing problem.
"It isn't enough to just declare it closed," he said.
Hurley said he will meet with Public Works officials to discuss the issue.
Bixby asked Rudnicki if she can maintain a gate if the county puts it in place.
"I think I can do that," she said.
Commissioners proceeded with a vote to pass an order to close the roadway. Graeber initially questioned why they were proceeding with a vote when they had not resolved the gate issue.
Spickelmier said commissioners could vote Monday on the order and decide later the type of barricade they want installed.
The order to close that section of Gilman Road was unanimously approved.
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I am trying to install xcode 4.1 with lion. Apparently at 3/4 of the installation problem, it says to close itunes, which is not open. How can I fix the problem?
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I encountered this problem with Xcode as well. The solution I found was that iTunes was open in another account. iTunes must be quit in all acounts to complete the installation. Also make sure that you quit iTunes(command q)not just close all the windows. Those are the two most likely reasons for that error message.


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colkrause I have thought the same thing from the start and I think we all are thinking the same thing. There were probably girls there too but we won't know for sure if they don't tell us. I want to know just as bad because I understand that girls can be just as sadistic as guys. In the end I'll talk crap and smear the pigs and punks all day because there i sufficient reason too but I don't know if there i any evidence of that so I don't wanna open mouth until I know. You are very right to be concerned though, keep speaking up.
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McVey said: "As a school district, our goal is to graduate students who are well educated." Yesterday this paper showed the top spellers in Steubenville School District. You will find one from The Virtual Learning Academy, eight from Bishop John King Mussio School and one from his city schools. I say he has a lot of work to do. This is what happens when the majority of the teachers are hired because they are directly related to school board members or very close associates instead of the best qualified teachers. See Indian Creek, Multimillion dollar buildings have nothing to do with it. You must have students willing and able to learn and the most qualified teachers that can communicate.
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We believe it's way past time for the Ohio Dept of Ed. to get invoved and take a look at how badly the school, local school board, all invoved dealt with this nightmare, or rather did not deal with it. Time to clean house in Jeff. Cnty. Long overdue.
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We believe it's way past time for the Ohio Dept of Ed. to get invoved and take a look at how badly the school, local school board, all invoved dealt with this nightmare, or rather did not deal with it. Time to clean house in Jeff. Cnty. Long overdue.
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Yes...open the wallets WILL occur once the lawsuits rightfully explode...yes, the entire rotten system should be scrapped....hey...let's do something different in the ville...let's actually honor education, ethics and intelligence...fire those who were negligent and suspend football.
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Lab1660...really? You think because the football coaches did what football coaches do all over this country when their boys are in trouble, and because a FEW students participated in a heinous crime that the parents of EVERY student in the ENTIRE school system must be punished?? Really?? You're ignorant. Beagle..."open up your wallets, SCS". That'll CERTAINLY help improve things in the district...paying out already stretched educational resources to pay for lawsuit verdicts. I agree absolutely that sports, and in particular, football, gets WAY too much priority around here. But the way some of you want to demonize the entire district, which includes thousands of students who did NOTHING WRONG and around 200 teachers, bus drivers, cooks, secretaries, etc., who ALSO did NOTHING WRONG is shameful & counter-productive. Punish the guilty. Absolutely. And remove those who stood by or actively hindered the investigation. But let's not condemn the innocent with them.
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OK - After reading all the comments, there is an overwhelming consensus of the corruptness of the school system. Mike McVey is an old HS jock from E. Liverpool who needs to grow a set and do two things: 1. Fire every coach immediately peripherally involved in the case, who threatened reporters or witnesses, held parties, gave favoritism, or failed to act promptly to suspend players; 2. Fully suspend the Steubenville HS football program for at least 1 full season to insure the program is broom clean.
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With all the posts you all are making, only one person acknowledge the lack of female voices at the parties.
Does anyone know if girls attended the parties. No one has mentioned this fact.
If they were why are they silent.
I think we are in this to protect our young ladies; where are they?
Someone in the area knows if girls attended.
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Drm1979 I am not sure if that is why it was on the DL for so long busy your theory is just as good as anyone elses. It is interesting that you brought it up because I never thought of it that way.
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All this proves is that mcvey doesn't really care about the incident or his students. He only cares about how bad this makes his school and specifically his precious football program look. We can see right through you man just give up.
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Of all the people involved in this it is the superintendent's lack of leadership that has been the most upsetting.
I don't blame the police for any of this. They seem sincere. It seems to me through all your statements that it took you over five months to express any support for the victim. You shed responsibility from day one and seems far more interested in the rest of the students than you did this girl.
It really seems to many people that you have a sick school system in a sick town. I would encourage you to be more swift and then more sincere int he future when dealing with a violent crime and the likely criminals you have sought to protect. Or, worse, inconvenience.
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Shouldn't the coach lose his job for threatnig the reporter and his family. And for playing the rapist and kicking the kids who did right off the team. Great school. No matter how much you win you will be hated unless you clean house.
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I left Ohio b/c of my experience as a 14 yr old girl who was also raped by HS athletes. I can say that in some sick way, I will love that day. I learned crudely how disgusting humans can be. The way the boys who raped me were protected, due to their entitled status as athletes and the silence of the other girls I knew it had also happened to. I will always remember that day...regardless of media coverage, or whether justice would be served...this is not something I am afforded the luxury of forgetting, thanks to the fact that I was conscious, but drugged left unable to move or speak. At the very moment the door was locked I was taken into, terror set in...I don't remember my clothes being removed.I remember the full weight of me being held up, as I limply hung in someones arms...being stood up like a dummy. My arms dangling over his. My head hung forward bobbing around because I had no control over my neck muscles. They passed me around quickly as if to play hot potato w/my body CON'T
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@Donning Maybe it's a huge conspiracy against Big Red Football that this is my story and it happened in another city in Ohio where just as much is invested in it's high school athletes...maybe it's all a big conspiracy against the precious Big Red team...or maybe...you are proving the point that too much emphasis is placed on the importance of high school football in Steubenville...so much so that the kids who play the sport think they can get away with murder...do you know that being raped is like someone is murdering you...something dies in you that you don't get back...maybe it's a conspiracy that people like you are still so focused on the football team that you're evading the culture of rape that your football team is a part of that could potentially rape one of your daughters some day...or maybe already has...does even this resonate with you? Or, maybe I'm just trying to smear the football team.
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How the Steubenville case exposes the cruelty faced by rape survivors...
Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, USA, 636-433-2511. snapjudy@gmail****, "SNAP (The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 12,000 members. Despite the word priest in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, teachers, Protestant ministers and increasingly, victims who were assaulted in a wide range of institutional settings like orphanages, summer camps, athletic programs, Boy Scouts, etc."
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When the FBI offers its help, and your own department doesn't have the technology know how to investigate this monumental case---you take the help.
The devil is always in all the details---if its an economic crime you follow the money, if it a crime that involves teenagers you follow the text messages and the social media---cell phone records for two weeks prior to this crime need to be analyzed and the dots connected then start pullin' a Columbo on these kids.
Come on Steubenville get it together and do the right thing. Even if these teenage girls don't understand the severity of this crime as yet ... as the grown ups its your job to show them the way.
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Without trying to be too controversial...is it me or does it seem none of this was discussed in the public eye from August until December? What took up a majority of that time frame...? Steubenville Big Red football. It seems to me they brushed this under the rug so not to avoid any problems with the money maker known as high school football. Especially since reports are stating a few assistant coaches and instructors were involved in the under age drinking parties etc.
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I would like to know what is the proper protocol when the school finds out that their students are drinking underage, with coaches, at coaches houses and passing pictures of naked girls via cell phones to each other and the rest of town. What is the proper protocol when coaches tell students to delete information which would help the police with finding the truth, when the head coach orders the police off the football field when they come to ask the students questions. Is it protocol to write letters of support for those who harm other children?
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Were the accused players suspended from playing football?
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The School Board, Superintendent, Principal, and all of the coaches need to go. If you don't think the state is going to investigate all of this, you are sadly mistaken. I find it funny how one of the defendants just happens to be a foster child of a school official. Is that how you recruit talent in Steubenville to get around the rules? Your town is up there with Penn St. You have to clean house, everyone in charge has to go. THE WORLD IS NOW WATCHING YOUR CORRUPT TOWN, HAVE FUN LIVING UNDER THE MICROSCOPE. Since it involves sports, people won't forget.
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Wow where to begin.HS I am ashamed, this article belongs on news 9, or in the LTE with Joe's ramblings. Where were your programs at the beginning of school when your school had rapists? Where was your concern for the victim? Where is ANTHONY CRAIG'S suspension? What punishment did he REALLY ever receive? National news, a STUDENTS threat and NOW you want to CRY? How about you,RENO & ABDALLA start comparing stories because you say something different every time you open your mouths.
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Mr. McVey wrote letters to the court on behalf of his star athletes suspected rapists, did he not?
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McVey is a fraud. It took national and international shaming before he came out with a statement. There is nothing to indicate that he has done anything but facilitate the Steubanville's rape culture. Rumor has it that the coaches coached the rapists to destroy incriminating evidence. If true, McVey and law enforcement need to say how they dealt with this. If not true, the rumors should be dispelled.
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McVey must backtrack because he has to save his face. School officials only act like they are sympathetic to a victim when it suits them--and this suits McVey because he is now in a media foray. More to the crux of the problem in this is where were the parents of all of these minor children? Why were they permitted to behave in a manner that escalated to this? The parents are just as culpable because of bad parenting. Perhaps the juvenile court should make a blanket order that all parents of children in this school district be ordered into parenting classes and further monitored by the county child services division. I forgot -- that might be too imaginative and may be the provence of a well-known judge in Lake County.
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President's Choice Award Winners
Congratulations to President's Choice Award 1st Prize winner Insa Evans and Honorable Mention winner Portia Roy for their work in the BFA Juried Exhibition.
PNCA President Tom Manley announced his picks for President's Choice Award in the BFA Juried Exhibition this week. Each year two students are selected by the President to receive awards.
GFA Major Insa Evans '13 received 1st Prize for her piece Soon.
"This piece is about love, distance, and empathy; but most importantly it is about the life of loving a solider," Insa explained in her artist statement. "No matter where we may be, we are always together at heart."
In reference to the size of her piece, she writes, "Never have I ever I felt a love so strong and powerful… I wanted the observer to be overwhelmed by the size and the amount of emotion this piece releases; just as I was when I first
fell in love with this solider."
Portia Roy '11 was awarded Honorable Mention for her cast chocolate Chocolate Teapots.
Of her work, she writes, "I explore simulation, deconstruct popular culture, and recontextualize the banal. The hybrid nature of my artistic practice requires continual experimentation in process and medium. This type of experimentation has led me to explore diverse media such as fused plastic, sewn foam, or cast chocolate."
Both works are on view in Swigert Commons until the end of the day April 30.
Podcast: Natalie Chanin MFA Lecture
PNCA/Cyan PDX Cultural Resident and Alabama-based artist and designer Natalie Chanin presented a lecture on "Craft, Identity and Commerce" at the MFA Applied Craft and Design Studios at the Bison Building. This Graduate Visiting Artist lecture took place on April 15, 2010 and was co-presented by Oregon College of Art and Craft.
Chanin spoke about forging a modern day model for cottage industry production; how she and a bunch of ladies in Northwest Alabama have influenced global fashion industry; lessons learned while establishing her sustainable fashion business; the urgency of the situation that the US is facing right now as it continues to lose small-scale industry and multi-generational family businesses to globalization; and how sometimes "all it takes is to bake one cake to make a difference."
Chanin's projects reflect a wide range of disciplines, from sustainable clothing and home furnishings to a limited edition jewelry line. She is best known for her work as co-founder and designer of Project Alabama, which became known for elaborately embellished and completely hand-sewn garments, made from recycled materials by local artisans and sold in stores around the world. Her design collective, Alabama Chanin, describes itself as "a lifestyle company that focuses on creating an array of products through focusing on slow design and sustainability." They craft limited-edition products for the individual and for the home.
Natalie Chanin, Graduate Lecture Series
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Slideshow photos by Heather Zinger '10.
Podcast: Renny Pritikin MFA Lecture
Renny Pritikin, Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California Davis and former Chief Curator for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, presented a graduate lecture on April 8, 2010 at the Museum of Contemporary Craft.
Pritikin has received numerous awards including a Fulbright Fellowship to lecture in museums throughout New Zealand. Pritikin gave early support to such noted artists as Nayland Blake, Nancy Rubins, Fred Tomaselli, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Chris Johanson and many others.
Renny Pritikin, Graduate Lecture Series
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Good Food and Hospitality
A Benefit Exhibition for Sisters of the Road
Students in Mary Preis' Art and Design in Contemporary Society class are organizing a benefit exhibition for Sisters of the Road, a non-profit organization supporting community driven solutions to the calamities of homelessness and poverty. The exhibition will be part of First Thursday events on May 6th, 2010 on the loading docks of PNCA on NW 13th between NW Johnson and Kearney, from 5 to 8pm.
Students invited the entire PNCA community to utilize a provided 8" x 8" panel of wood to create a piece of art for the show. The benefit will sell each panel for $30.00. The event will also feature cupcakes by Bliss, brownies from Best Little Road House and performances by Portland's very own Lee Corey Oswald.
"We wanted to engage PNCA's great talent in a way that would directly support our local community," said student Carolyn Reagan.
Summer of Making
PNCA's Continuing Education "Summer of Making":http://www.pnca.edu/making program explores the confluence of art, design and craft practices. The Summer 2010 "catalog":http://homeroom.pnca.edu/download/606321.pdf is now available.
Ex Libris: Collector Talk
JoAnn Pari-Mueller will speak about her collection and the world of ex libris prints on Wednesday, April 28, at 1:00 pm in the PNCA Main Campus Building, room 125.
Ex Libris: A World of Miniature Prints, is an exhibition currently on view in the Corner Gallery in the PNCA Main Campus Building.
Hannah Higgins Lecture Postponed
Postponed due to family emergency, Hannah Higgins' CraftPerspectives lecture originally slated to take place this Thursday April 22, will be rescheduled for a future date. In the meantime, sate your Fluxus curiosities with this Hannah Higgins "interview":http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2010/04/hannah_b_higgin.html published today on PORT.
Year in re:view
The Spring 2010 issue of re:view, the PNCA newsletter featuring recent institutional news, student and alumni profiles, and a message from President Tom Manley, is now available for "download":http://homeroom.pnca.edu/download/606977.pdf.
An Interview with Stephen Slappe
Finn Grey '10 speaks with PNCA faculty member Stephen Slappe, who is part of Portland 2010, a biennial of work in Portland presented by Disjecta and curated by Cris Moss.
Slappe talks about the metaphysical space of Crossroads, his new 4-channel video and sound installation at the Leftbank Building. Grey also talks to the artist about the interplay of nature and technology in his work; how media affects the way we interact with the world and with nature; humor as bait; and the trickster archetype.
An Interview with Stephen Slappe
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Portland 2010 takes place in a variety of galleries and warehouse spaces across Portland in March and April. The Templeton Building features work by faculty members Holly Andres, David Eckard, Damien Gilley and Jenene Nagy, as well as alumni Pat Boas '98 and Oregon Painting Society. "Visit the Portland 2010 web site for more information.":http://portland2010.disjecta.org.
Stephen Slappe, Crossroads
On view March 20-April 25, 2010
Artist reception: April 21, 5:30-7:30 pm
Leftbank, 240 N Broadway, Portland
Gallery hours: Friday through Sunday, 12-6 pm
Podcast: Shashi Caan MFA Lecture
Internationally recognized interior and product designer Shashi Caan presented a graduate lecture, Design Futures: The Art, Science and Craft, at the MFA Applied Craft and Design Studios at the Bison Building on April 1, 2010. Caan discussed previous projects, megastructures, why architects won't take interior designers seriously and her role as an educator for design. Co-presented by Oregon College of Art and Craft.
Caan is founder of the The Shashi Caan Collective, and former Director of Interior Design at Parsons School of Design in New York City. The widely published and honored Collective strives to create a bridge between art and science, the esoteric and the pragmatic, and between practice and education.
Shashi Caan, Graduate Lecture Series
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Slideshow photos by Heather Zinger '10.
Podcast: An Interview with Mung Lar Lam
Finn Grey '10 interviews Mung Lar Lam, who was in residence at Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art from April 1-3.
Mung Lar Lam performs Ironings, a meditation on labor, gender and class, in which the task of ironing becomes the means of mark making. Lam works principally with reclaimed factory-produced textiles that she carefully steams and presses into origami-like folds. While some works remain discreet pieces, maintaining their autonomy, others are opened to expansively tile the walls, creating an environment for her performative labors. Lam recycles her Ironings for subsequent performances by un-ironing and re-ironing, and inscribes dates on each piece to disclose the number of iterations it has been through and the number of memories each one holds. Working with rudimentary textile operations, and pulling from practices of drawing, painting, sculpture and architecture, Lam has been developing a new and overtly gendered discipline for herself.
For more information about Gestures of Resistance, visit the Museum of Contemporary Craft "web site":http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/exhibitions/index.php?f=2010_01_gestures.
An Interview with Mung Lar Lam
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Slideshow: Mung Lar Lam performs Ironings at Museum of Contemporary Craft, April 1, 2010. Photos by Chloe Dietz '13.
Contemporary Animated Arts to Launch in Fall 2010
The newest BFA program at PNCA, "Contemporary Animated Arts":http://www.pnca.edu/caa embraces the hybrid-moving image by combining fine art practice and digital technologies. The interdisciplinary approach inherent in contemporary moving image arts leads students to construct images from many sources including: live action, models, photography, objects and textures. Read the full "press release":http://www.pnca.edu/news/press/829/pnca-embraces-the-hybrid-moving-image-and-launches-new-contemporary-animated-arts-program.
Podcast: Michael Mandiberg Artist Talk
In conjunction with The Great Recession at The Feldman Gallery + Project Space, Michael Mandiberg gave a lecture on his work at The Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft on March 31, 2010.
Michael Mandiberg is an artist, programmer, designer and educator. His work varies from web applications about environmental impact to conceptual performances about subjectivity, to sculptures made from laser cut reference books.
Mandiberg's work has been exhibited at such venues as the New Museum for Contemporary Art in New York City, Ars Electronica Center in Linz, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, and Transmediale Festival, Berlin. An Assistant Professor of Design and Digital Media at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, he is currently an Senior Fellow at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. Raised in Portland, Oregon, he rides his bicycle around his adopted home of Brooklyn.
Michael Mandiberg Artist Talk
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Slideshow photos by Chloe Dietz '13.
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Program Welcomes Natalie Chanin
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Lecture | Natalie Chanin
"Craft, Identity and Commerce"
Thursday, April 15, 6:30 pm
MFA in Applied Craft and Design Studios at The Bison Building
421 NE 10th Ave. and Glisan St.
Free and open to the public.
PNCA/Cyan PDX Cultural Resident Natalie Chanin will lecture at PNCA as part of the Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Chanin is an Alabama-based artist and designer creating projects that reflect a wide range of disciplines, from sustainable clothing and home furnishings to a limited edition jewelry line. Natalie Chanin is best known for her work as co-founder and designer of Project Alabama, which became known for elaborately embellished and completely hand-sewn garments, made from recycled materials by local artisans and sold in stores around the world.
Her design collective, Alabama Chanin, describes itself as "a lifestyle company that focuses on creating an array of products through focusing on slow design and sustainability." They craft limited-edition products for the individual and for the home. Their products are hand-made, utilizing a combination of new, organic and recycled materials. Natalie sees herself as a perpetuator of what she calls the "Living Arts." These Living Arts consist of craft and traditions that have been passed down through generations of women and men — connecting us to our roots, our past, our community, and consequently to our present.
PNCA Faculty Member David Eckard Awarded Bronson Fellowship
David Eckard, Associate Professor and Chair of the PNCA Sculpture Department, was recently awarded the 19th annual Bonnie Bronson Fellowship. His practice as a visual artist includes exquisitely fabricated sculpture, drawings, prints, and installations. The Bronson Fellowship is awarded annually to recognize an outstanding Pacific Northwest artist.
Multimedia: Julie Lasky and Ernest Beck PNCA / Cyan PDX Cultural Residency
PNCA hosted internationally respected journalists and design critics, Julie Lasky and Ernest Beck, who visited Portland as part of the PNCA / Cyan PDX Cultural Residency Program in Spring 2010. Lasky and Beck engaged in a series of public events, discussions and exchanges with members of Portland's art and design community, as well as students and faculty at PNCA.
Social Innovation-The Designer's Voice
March 29, 2010, Jimmy Mak's
A Conversation with Julie Lasky, Editor of Change Observer, and Ernest Beck, Journalist and Editorial Director of 2009 Aspen Design Summit. Moderated by Randy Gragg, Editor-in-Chief, Portland Monthly. The Bright Lights series is presented by Portland Monthly magazine.
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3BY10 IDSA Series: Design and Social Change–What are the critical questions?
March 31, 2010, Design Within Reach, Portland Studio
Julie Lasky and Ernest Beck reflect on the critical conversations that designers and design educators need to engage. Moderated by Carl Alviani and presented with Art Institute of Portland and Industrial Design Society of America Oregon Chapter.
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Video excerpts from these programs will be available soon.
Slideshow photos by Heather Zinger '10.
Podcast: An Interview with Frau Fiber
Finn Grey '10 interviews Carole Lung aka Frau Fiber, who was in residence at Museum of Contemporary Craft in partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art from March 18–27. Grey also speaks with project assistant and PNCA Intermedia student Austin Adkins.
Frau Fiber, itinerant textile worker, addresses Portland's garment culture by "hacking" a Columbia Sportswear design for rain gear and sewing multiple sets of the garment using a bicycle-powered sewing machine constructed specifically for this project. High Performance Apparel Production (HPAP) is a two-person apparel micro-manufacturing unit consisting of Frau Fiber (operating the sewing machine) and volunteer citizens (providing power by pedaling the bike). The synchronized efforts of this Production Team are necessary to accomplish daily manufacturing goals of two pieces of high performance apparel each day, for seven days. Manufacturing takes place throughout Portland's shopping districts and items are for sale at prices based on local wages at Columbia Sportswear manufacturing locations. A Manufacturing Code of Conduct for KO Enterprises are developed and posted on the machine.
For more information about Gestures of Resistance, visit the Museum of Contemporary Craft "web site":http://www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org/exhibitions/index.php?f=2010_01_gestures.
An Interview with Frau Fiber
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Slideshow: Carole Lung in residence in Portland. Photos by Heather Zinger '10 and Leslie Vigeant MFA '11.
MFA in Visual Studies Visiting Artist Renny Pritikin
Renny Pritikin, Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the Fine Arts Collection at the University of California Davis and former Chief Curator for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, will visit PNCA for the MFA Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series. The lecture will be held on April 8, 6:30pm in the Lab at Museum of Contemporary Craft.
Pritikin has received numerous awards including a Fulbright Fellowship to lecture in museums throughout New Zealand. Pritikin gave early support to such noted artists as Nayland Blake, Nancy Rubins, Fred Tomaselli, Barry McGee, Margaret Kilgallen, Chris Johanson, and many others.
BFA Juried Show
Outside art professionals Helen Hiebert and TJ Norris selected work for this year's "BFA Juried Show":http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/calendar.php?event_id=1476&list_type=04&cat=1&year=2010. The exhibition highlights select work by students from the Communication Design, General Fine Art, Illustration, Intermedia, Painting, Printmaking, Photography, and Sculpture departments. PNCA students Zachary Combs and Mona Superhero coordinated the exhibition. The exhibition is currently on view in Swigert Commons in the PNCA Main Campus Building.
Podcast: Susan Brandeis MFA Lecture
Susan Brandeis presented an MFA in Applied Craft and Design lecture at the Bison Building on March 18, 2010. Susan Brandeis is a fiber artist and Director of Graduate Programs for the Department of Art and Design at North Carolina State University, where she also coordinates studies in Fibers and Surface Design and the Anni Albers Scholars Program. Her work is in numerous private and public collections nationally and internationally, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian. This lecture was co-presented by Oregon College of Art and Craft.
Susan Brandeis, Graduate Lecture Series
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Law enforcement officials announced a federal grand jury has indicted 17 individuals on charges of providing pseudoephedrine pills to methamphetamine manufacturers. The offenders charged face up to 20 years imprisonment and $250,000 in fines. The case will be prosecuted by the United States Attorney's Office in the Southern District of Illinois.
In March of 2012, authorities arrested 26 defendants in Franklin County and Williamson County linked, in part, to the same drug conspiracy. The 17 defendants were arrested on January 15, 2013 and the investigation continues. The case was investigated by the Illinois State Police (ISP), Southern Illinois Drug Task Force, and the ISP Methamphetamine Response Team with assistance from United States Marshals Service, Franklin County Sheriff's Office, Williamson County Sheriff's Office, Jackson County Sheriff's Office, Benton Police Department, Royalton Police Department, West City Police Department, Williamson County State's Attorney's Office, Franklin County State's Attorney's Office and the Jackson County State's Attorney's Office.
"The Illinois State Police has dedicated dozens of trained officers to work with area task forces and investigate methamphetamine related activity," said ISP Zone 7 Captain Scott Rice. "Pooling resources with our partners in local and federal law enforcement is critical in investigating criminal activity and impacting the methamphetamine problem in Southern Illinois."
A law that became effective in 2012 introduced a pilot program aimed at tracking pseudoephedrine purchases a permanent process. The program, which took effect in 2009 following the introduction of the Methamphetamine Precursor Tracking Act, requires pharmacies to track purchases of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine online at The National Precursor Log Exchange. Pharmacies are also required to block purchases of more than 7.5g of pseudoephedrine made within 30 days and 3.6g of pseudoephedrine in a 24 hour time-span.
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This year's war college is proving to be even better than last year!
With leading sponsors in the healthcare industry (Siemens, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, and more), this conference is set to be a huge benefit for those working in hospital laboratories.
In fact, not only will we be attending, we are one among many of this year's sponsors! Here's an excerpt taken from their website with some info on this year's conference:
Featured at the opening general session on April 30, 2013 is an unprecedented analysis of the existing business model that has sustained independent clinical laboratories over the past three decades. Prepare for a shock… because BIG changes are ahead in 2013.
On the following day, Wednesday, May 1, the attention shifts to how genetic testing and molecular diagnostics are poised to transform clinical practice—and create new opportunities for clinical labs and pathology groups to add value. Yes! Even as the financial foundations of the traditional lab business model erode, nimble labs will transition into value-added providers of information-rich diagnostic tests.
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We are looking forward to networking with top healthcare professionals and hope you know that you could be one of them! Check out our social media pages for updates on our company, events like War College, as well as some great reading material we find on the web that is tailored to the healthcare industry in general. Ultimately we want to be your source for bettering your lab and your bottom line, whether we take you on as a client, or as your informant with the FREE resources we provide via our social media channels.
I'm beginning a monthly series on my favorite lean books to give you some insight on where I turn to for ideas, lean management techniques and, yes, for my own encouragement.
This month, I'm focusing on my all-time favorite: Creating a Lean Culture by David Mann.
Quite simply, I like his theories about implementing lean:
"Why, when is seems so simple, are successful lean implementations so difficult to achieve? The answer is in an overlooked but crucial aspect of lean. It requires an almost completely different approach in day-to-day and hour-to-hour management, compared to anything with which leaders in conventional batch-and queue environments are familiar or comfortable."
I tell my clients all the time that Lean is easy to understand, but asking people to change is very difficult.
We are wired to avoid pain, yet change is rarely painless. We must work through the uncomfortable parts to realize the remarkable benefits of lean – good things for the employees, like less stressful work, less physically demanding shifts, less mentally fatiguing days.
And so you must LEAD to LEAN.
Mann writes that the first thing we must do it get rid of the "Do Whatever It Takes" approach, which just kicks the can down the road. We must learn the discipline to stop putting out fires and focus on the process: designing it, implementing it and maintaining it. This is what produces the results.
This is LEADING to LEAN.
I keep my copy, all yellow-highlighted and tagged with Post-it™ flags, within reach, to remind myself that my role is to help you go about making that change.
All the best,
–Happy New Year
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On the Geisinger System:
This is such a terrific model…It costs less and gives better results. In a Darwinian business system, you have to wonder why it doesn't spread. Only about 335 of Americans get their healthcare through systems like Geisinger. But the model is becoming more popular, encouraged by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which has run hundreds of pilot projects over the past six years. If you're a group practice that joins one of the CMS pilots and prove you can improve service while cutting Medicare costs, you get to keep a portion of the savings.
To Watch Joe Klein Talk About his Story, Click Here.
In a few weeks, Leslie will be presenting a workshop titled "Lean for Lab Leaders: Achieving Mastery with Concepts, Implementation, and Outcomes." This workshop has been the highest rated session at LQC since its inception. Read more and find out why!
On November 8th, at the 6th annual Lab Quality Confab and Process Improvement Institute, Leslie will present a unique workshop that affects how you visualize better lab practices by thinking about process improvement and Lean Six Sigma processes in a fun way (there's Legos!).
To those attending this lecture: Leslie will navigate you through Lean patterns and processes in order to encourage you to SEE past the sometimes s c a r y analytics of Lean Six Sigma theories; the lesson in point will be to help you visualize a better path forward (which is reflected in our company motto - better results for hospital labs).
No one wants to be intimidated into changing their habits, but everyone wants to develop better ones; Leslie's workshop shows you how simple the path to both of these realities really is.
As the webmaster and director of media and marketing, I have no real background in healthcare - I'm just here to help you better understand Leslie and the quality of her services. With that said, and even with my lack of knowledge about Lean Six Sigma theories and the intricacies of a hospital laboratory, I must tell you that the first time I attended one of these workshops, I left with a tangible conceptual understanding of how lean processes work, and why they are important.
(She spoke of how this process drastically effected all those batch time thingy's and how well couriers and stock counts make or break the health of process management. I'm not claiming to be able to recant it - but me being me, after watching her work for a day, I felt like I should write a congressman about government funding for services such as Leslie's.)
To get to my point: waste is waste, and inefficiencies are always a problem to be dealt with. We can all equally understand this, for more reasons than just fiscal or environmental. But, in my opinion, Lean Six Sigma implementation in Hospitals improves the one thing that matters most of all - our humanity. When applied properly, Lean Six Sigma practices improve employee satisfaction, and not to forget, it also improves the overall quality of care for their patients.
If you can, please come join us, you'd be surprised how much you can learn with Leslie, Legos, and 'Larry the Lab Bot' in just a few hours...
Want to attend this conference but don't know how? Visit the link above for more info or register here!
Several years ago, my son's school changed headmasters; it marked the beginning of a new era for their school. Their motto, their direction and focus – everything was on a course for evolution for the better. I liken their situation to my company at the present moment.
One of the first things the new headmaster did was to develop a new motto for the school. He said he wanted a motto that was simple, yet complex. Clear, yet adaptable. Easy to remember. And he found it in the two words 'Go Beyond.'
Now I felt I could use this opportunity to have a chance at positive change in my company, an evolution in our value and focus. I focused on the question, "What is Sprick Group's purpose?" For me, the bottom line is to help laboratories get better. It's the key ingredient that led me to a career in laboratory medicine and it is still my purpose. It's why I get paid – literally. I focus on how to better my clients situation as a business: how to better their bottom line, all the way to the trickling down effects of bettering the services they provide their clients.
Our new motto is "Better Results for Labs." I am committed to helping you achieve better results: to exceed expectations, to strive for superior outcomes, to reach for new heights, and, yes, to stretch beyond the comfort zone.
I'm excited for the next ten years and the increased potential of continuing to help my clients achieve better results for their labs. That's always been my goal: and now, more than ever, an increasing number of healthcare incentives are changing the way that hospitals operate - that's where I will focus the efforts of my company. I'm using this ten year anniversary to better my focus of making the best out of your lab, just as I have been doing all these years – only now we do it better. Find out how: for more info, continue to read our blogs, or visit our Facebook page - you can even find us on twitter...
"I hope the new motto inspires and encourages you, too. No matter where you are, I believe you can always get better."
All my best,
Leslie Sprick (CEO)
P.S. Follow me on Twitter @lsprick and @sprickgroup...
I sometimes say that starting a lean journey is like starting a marriage. In the first few months, the honeymoon phase, we are super-motivated and very disciplined about keeping the fire alive, whether it is lean or our new marriage. We have that "lovin' feeling." But then, reality sets in and the going gets a little tougher.
Perhaps you have completed a 5S project, but now you realize it is time to take a deeper dive into your operations. Perhaps you are starting to realize how hard it is to get people to let go of old habits and learn new ones. I remind my clients that, just as in a marriage, it is important to push through challenges - to rekindle that "lovin' feeling."
Try to find something to anchor you back to those early, happy feelings: before and after photos of 5S, memories of lean team experiences or pictures of freshly organized cabinets. I hope they remind you how far you have come and help motivate you to push on towards more good feelings.
I look forward to your comments.
Leslie Sprick
For example, I get so frustrated with the boarding process that the airlines use, including Southwest. On most flights, there is a pre-boarding ritual that entails queuing travelers up at the gate area near the entrance to the jet way. It doesn't bother me that customers are lining themselves up for the cattle call. If they want to stand there waiting for the boarding process to begin, that's their call.
What bothers me is that the airlines can't seem to figure out how to implement small batch sizes of travelers to improve flow and board the plane in the fastest way. We all know the drill. The gate agents call first for seniors and passengers traveling with small children. Next, the agent calls for first class travelers and then passengers by zones. Passengers feed into the jet way as quickly as possible, but there is no consideration given to the fact that halfway into the jet way, the line to the plane stops everyone cold. In the summer, travelers may stand for 15-20 minutes in the heat on the jet way, waiting to board, having left the comfort of the terminal and often carrying baggage and other items.
As I'm waiting in these lines, I think about how to improve the flow so the agents can get the plane boarded and pushed back from the gate on time. I don't think it would be difficult to set up a system where passengers were sent down the jet way at a pace that equaled how quickly they settled into their seats. I'd love to see an airline try this so their customers wouldn't have to cue up in the transport tubes, i.e. jet ways and board like a cattle call.
I always counsel my clients that working with smaller batch sizes improves flow. This is a key component of Lean, and I never tire of seeing this concept hit home in our Lean Boot Camps.
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I know what they say about putting your best face on, and to be honest my feeling is to hell with that, I'm just not that person.
Looking back to the first 5 years of my career I can tell you that I wasn't paying attention. I was working to pay enough of my loans back to go back to school and try my hand as an actor and writer. It was a very directed approach to the field, and I was able to apply myself with great focus because the real challenge had nothing to do with my day job; it was more like a very rewarding hobby than anything else.
I learned a great deal by only ever looking at the world of programming out of the corner of my eye. I learned the basic lessons of humility that a coder must learn - it is always your code, even when it's not; learn to say "I don't know" as early as possible; find people who are smarter than you and pay attention to them. I make use of these lessons every day.
After those first years, I had the chance to go do that other thing for a while. I came back to the field disappointed but confident I could at least take care of myself with my skills. It turns out, however, that merely taking care of the basics is not particularly interesting. One of the reasons why I left the field in the first place is that I am reasonably good at it, and I am not the kind of person to really enjoy being good at something. I like the feeling of struggling with difficult problems and overcoming them.
In an acting program, the basic challenge is to learn not to think at all in the normal, rational sense. You must connect with a character at a level entirely separate from the rational. The first time I did this I recognized the same beautiful astonishing feeling that I get when I code something that I feel truly proud of.
So that is my goal. I want that feeling, perhaps not every day, but on a regular schedule. I want my work to matter, and I want to struggle with it, to grapple with problems that very smart people grapple with. I won't pretend to be in the top 5%; you should take those people over me, unless they are lazy (but if they are really top 5%, they won't be). But I'm smart, and I get things done, and I'm mature enough to appreciate the immaterial rewards of the work nearly as much as the material ones. If that is the kind of person you need, I'm your guy.
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BLOOMINGDALE - Some members of the legal community are warning property owners not to sell themselves short when it comes to natural gas pipeline easements.
William A. Goldman and Michael Braunstein of Columbus-based Goldman & Braunstein LLP, said the general public typically doesn't realize the impact a pipeline can have on the long-term value of their property.
"People might think a pipeline is going to be underground, so it won't be much of an issue," Braunstein said Wednesday prior to a landowners' meeting at the Jefferson County Joint Vocational School. "We tell them as with any real estate transaction, they should get a second opinion."
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LANDOWNERS MEETING — Columbus attorney William A. Goldman, right, reacts to a question posed by Ed Hashbarger, a member of the Jefferson County Oil & Gas Committee, at a meeting for landowners concerned about gas pipeline easements. The meeting was held at the Jefferson County Joint Vocational Center in Bloomingdale. -- Linda Harris
The problem, Goldman said, is that a gas pipeline severely limits how a property can be used in future: Nothing can be built above it, nor can you plant trees on the site, though annual crops are permitted. There also are restrictions on heavy vehicles driving across the surface above the underground pipelines.
"A pipeline can really restrict your ability" to use the property, Braunstein said. "It causes problems with the land that's taken, also with the land that's not taken."
He said in some instances, the pipeline may well be placed "a few hundred feet from (a) home."
"Everybody tells you it's not dangerous, but the fact is, they do explode sometimes, sometimes they leak and sometimes the pipeline companies don't maintain them the way they ought to," he said. "It decreases the resale value of a house, sometimes significantly."
The 1,230-mile Appalachia-to-Texas pipeline (ATEX Express) is slated to transport ethane from the Marcellus and Utica shale of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio all the way to the Gulf Coast. Goldman & Braunstein said the northern portion of the pipeline involves laying 353 miles of 16-inch diameter pipeline, all the way from Washington County, Pa., across Ohio to Seymour, Ind., where it will connect with an existing Enterprise pipeline.
Properties in the pipeline's route will be surveyed, after which the company typically will offer a cash settlement. Property owners sometimes feel pressured to sign, he said, pointing out that declining the offer doesn't mean the pipeline will go elsewhere. Those who do decline the cash offer could find themselves being targeted with eminent domain proceedings.
"If anybody tells you they can stop the pipeline from going in, they're kidding you," Braunstein said. "You can't stop the pipeline but sometimes you can alter its course" if the intended route goes through wetlands or an archeologically significant area, for instance.
He said things like drainage, crop loss and future use of the property must be considered before signing on the dotted line, not to mention the minutia like keeping fences locked if you have livestock or limiting the number of keys you give out.
Then there's the matter of compensation.
"You really need to have an expert look and determine what fair market value is and what the changes will be," he said. "Realize, eminent domain value is different than other values - it's not about what the land's worth now or what the landowner is using it for. Eminent domain values land at 'its highest and best use,'" Braunstein said, "(and) that may be very different from what you're using it for."
Braunstein said it's important for people to understand that in eminent domain cases, "the individual does have more rights than in other cases."
And he said the only way to be sure what the pipeline company is offering is fair is to get a second opinion to help "level the playing field" between homeowners being pressured to sign and the landsmen who sometimes can be intimidating.


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5 Factors That Secretly Influence How Much You Like a Movie
#2. Violent Content Doesn't Increase Our Enjoyment (Even Though We Seek It Out)
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We human beings just love us some violent content. Boy howdy, if an action-jawed man-pile ain't blowing something's face inside out with a pornographic hand cannon, we just plain don't want to see it. But a study by Indiana University revealed that we might not like our entertainment served with quite so large a dollop of violence as we think. In the study, researchers created two different descriptions for a TV show: one sanitized, nonviolent version, and one that was all killing and stabbing and maiming and America! Then they created two versions of the TV show in question: a violent and a nonviolent one.
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"They're a band, but they also solve crimes."
To the surprise of no one, the violent version was initially chosen more often. However, even when they had chosen the show based on the more violent description, participants enjoyed watching the nonviolent version more than the violent one.
So wait -- if we don't enjoy it, then why do we flock toward promises of violent content? One possibility is that we assume the presence of violence means that there will also be other elements we do enjoy, like intense action sequences, bitchin' Camaros, and sweet-ass jump kicks. But perhaps the most interesting theory put forward by the researchers is based on evolutionary psychology: Our brains are simply wired to pay closer attention to violent images, "given the severe costs and potential payoffs associated with violence." But just because your distant ancestor Ugg had to pay close attention to the gore-slathered fangs of roving packs of saber-toothed cats every time he set foot outside his cave, that doesn't necessarily mean he liked it. So, too, you may not actually enjoy the high stakes of violent content any more than, say, the gripping drama of a friendly snuggle-fest.
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"Game of Thrones is OK, but why couldn't it be Game of Teddy Bears?"
#1. Commercials Add to Your Enjoyment
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It's clear that commercials are the one thing we universally hate about our TV- and movie-watching experiences. After all, multimillion-dollar companies have based their entire bottom line on creating technologies that allow us to enjoy our entertainment commercial-free. But multiple studies have shown that commercial interruptions not only do not detract from our enjoyment of our favorite shows -- they occasionally make us enjoy certain media more.
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"Wow, this is damn near tolerable."
In each study, groups of participants were shown commercial-free and commercialized versions of TV shows, and in every case, participants enjoyed the shows more when they were interrupted by commercials. In fact, one study found that when shown a nature documentary, participants not only enjoyed it more with commercial interruptions, but were also more willing to donate money to a nature charity. Where it gets really interesting is that the phenomenon isn't limited to movies and TV, but extends to any enjoyable experience. For example, one study found that participants enjoyed a massage more when it was interrupted in the middle -- presumably via a clown face popping up halfway through and screaming "HE WAS DEAD THE WHOLE TIME HUHUHUH!!!"
So how is it that something we're all convinced we hate is actually heightening our enjoyment? Researchers propose that, as with any experience, we adapt to it over time. Our first kiss is freaking fireworks; the tenth one's, like, maybe a firecracker; the hundredth one's pretty OK, but it's no burrito, you know? We'll kiss later; we're kinda hungry. So as we watch an hour-long TV show, our enjoyment of it lessens because we adapt to the experience over the show's run time. But breaking the experience up with commercials interrupts that adaptation process -- so each time the show comes back from a break, we're able to continue experiencing it with that higher level of enjoyment.
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"After an hour of the Home Shopping Network, I'm excited for Two and a Half Men."
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Random phone calls are being made throughout our community, by someone falsely identifying themselves with some familiar organizations in hopes of getting donations.
Officials say a man calling himself Phil Barkley has been making these calls and telling people he's with one of several emergency organizations throughout the area, like Warren County Emergency Management or the Warren County Fire Department. Officials also say people tend to be more vulnerable to these type scams during the holiday season, as they're in the spirit of giving, but they're urging you to watch out.
If you are suspicious someone is trying to scam you, do your homework before making a donation. All you have to do is make a quick call to the sheriff's office or police department. Since they keep lists of organizations with solicitation licenses, they'll be able to tell you if the organization asking for money is legitimate.
If you think you may already have received on of these scam calls, you're asked to contact local law enforcement immediately.
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