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Hey guys! Can you believe that today is the last day of September?!
Can you believe that it is actually starting to feel like fall?! We are in the midst of our first official cool snap of the season. I hope that you experiencing the same thing where you are, because it is glorious! It was 56 degrees on our run this morning (as opposed to 80-something degrees yesterday evening). All of a sudden … it's FALL!
I've got a 5K tomorrow morning and I am pretty pumped about this weather. Surely it can stick around for at least one day?! Fingers crossed.
Since September is *almost* done, it's time for a monthly recap post.
MONTH RECAP: September
Total running: 273
Workouts: Lots of workouts this month!
2 mi. WU, 12 X 400 w/ 200 recovery (83, 83, 83, 82, 83, 83, 85, 82, 84, 84, 84, 84), 1.5 mi. CD
1 mi. WU, 3 X 2 miles w/ 400 rec. (6:33, 6:21, 6:17, 6:21, 6:15, 6:09), 1.5 mi. CD
14 mile moderate pace LR @ 7:43
3 mi. WU, 4 mi. wave tempo (6:40, 6:25, 6:24, 6:26), 1.6 mi. CD
2 mi. WU, 8 X 800 w/ 400 rec. (3:02, 2:56, 2:57, 2:58, 3:00, 3:00, 3:04, 3:12), 2 mi. CD
14 mile moderate pace LR @ 7:26
2 mi. WU, 5 X 1 mile (6:15, 6:11, 6:07, 6:03, 6:00), 2 mi. CD
Races: Only one race again this month … the Hurricane Run 5K.
Favorite Race: By default this category goes to the Hurricane Run 5K. I would take this category away, but the fall racing season is about to be in high gear. I've got at least 3 races planned each month in October and November! Woo hoo!
Longest run: 15 miles
Shortest run: 3.5 miles
Favorite run: I can't believe that I am going to say this, but my favorite run this month was the 3 X 2 mile workout I did a few weeks ago. It was a killer workout that was a huge confidence boost for me. I typically do longer repeat workouts like this on the TM, but this time I took it to the track (what?!). I negative split the workout and finished up faster than my goal range. Woo hoo!
I actually had a hard time choosing one run as my favorite (#runnerproblems). I've really been enjoying the track workouts. This is coming from a runner that used to strongly dislike the track (side note: my parents taught me not to use the word "hate" when I was a little kid, so "strongly dislike" is code for the H word).
I guess the main change is that my mindset and specific goals have shifted in the last month. Each track workout is now an easily identifiable, measurable action step leading me closer to the goals that I have set for this training cycle (in general: focus on speed and shorter distances and specific: sub 18 5k, sub 37:30 10k, sub 62 10 mile, sub 1:23 half).
Rest days: 1
Other: I got in a couple of walks and went paddle boarding a few times. Success!
I'll leave you with this little gem. Y'all know I love a good sunset. The reflection on the water for this one was so pretty. It felt like it was pointed directly at us.
That's a wrap! I'm really looking forward to October. Lots of races and hopefully fast running to be done.
Tell me. What do you have on tap for October?


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RI issues guidance regarding application of section 179 expense limits
On Feb. 3, 2015, the Rhode Island Department of Revenue issued Advisory 2015-02, providing guidance regarding the state's application of the section 179 deduction following federal changes to the deduction limits enacted on Dec. 19, 2014.
Historically, Rhode Island has decoupled from the federal section 179 deduction by specifically limiting the allowable expense to $25,000 per tax year. Pursuant to legislation passed in 2013, Rhode Island re-coupled to the section 179 deduction for all assets placed in service on or after Jan. 1, 2014. On Dec. 19, 2014, President Obama signed HR 5771, which, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2014, increased the section 179 deduction limit from $25,000 to $500,000 for assets placed in service in 2014 and increased from $200,000 to $2 million the overall limit before the deduction is reduced. As a rolling conformity state, Rhode Island automatically adopted these changes to the section 179 deduction when enacted; however, some uncertainty existed regarding the application of the limit increases, particularly in relation to fiscal-year filers.
To clarify any uncertainty, the Rhode Island Department of Revenue affirmatively stated that the increased limits should be applied on a calendar-year basis and that all assets placed in service from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 31, 2014, qualify for the increased limit. Accordingly, a calendar-year taxpayer that placed assets in service during the 2014 calendar year will benefit from the $500,000 limit. Further, fiscal-year taxpayers may apply the $500,000 limit to two consecutive tax years, one ending in the 2014 calendar year and the other beginning in the 2014 calendar year. Such taxpayers can thereby obtain an enhanced section 179 benefit for Rhode Island purposes where the assets in question were placed in service during the 2014 calendar year but on specific dates that were split between two fiscal years.
Rhode Island taxpayers, and fiscal-year taxpayers in particular, should review the Rhode Island treatment of their section 179 deductions in light of this guidance.

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Be my Valentine! Adriana Lima and her fellow Victoria's Secret Angels set hearts racing in sparkly mini dresses
She was recently seen in a seductive Super Bowl ad to promote Valentine's Day for Teleflora.
And now Adriana Lima is at it again, this time slipping her sexy curves into a sparkling mini dress to promote Victoria's Secret lingerie in the lead up to February 14th.
The stunning 30-year-old Brazilian model was joined by fellow Angels Doutzen Kroes and Lindsay Ellingson for a special Valentine's Event at the company's Soho store in New York City today.
Red hot: Adriana Lima, middle, Lily Ellington, right, and Doutzen Kroes slip their sublime bodies into sparkling mini dresses to promote Victoria's Secret lingerie in New York City today
Pouting and holding up an oversized red heart, Adriana flaunted her toned and tanned body in a silver Herve Leger bandage dress.
She paired the look with some gold platform heels and wore themed red nail polish on her talons.
Both Doutzen and Lily wore similar shimmering mini-dresses for the event as they held up their own pink hearts.
Hearts on fire: All women held up giant hearts as they posed and pouted for the cameras
Doutzen opted for a flirty A-line number, which she paired with towering nude platforms.
Meanwhile, Lily looked lovely in a cream and gold strapless number with sequined zig-zag embellishment.
The two blondes held up bras and knickers from the company's collection as they posed playfully for the camera.
The goods: The women also showed off the current range for the lingerie giant
The statuesque women drew quite the crowd at the store but not as many viewers as Adriana did during her racy Teleflora ad.
The brunette beauty seduced the eyes of close to a hundred million viewers around the globe as she was seen getting ready for a hot date.
Online florist service Teleflora used the 30-year-old model to try and encourage male members of the audience to give flowers for the upcoming romantic holiday.
Strike a pose: The supermodels looked sublime in their silvery creations
Stunning: Adriana looked flawless for the romantic-themed event
As she was seen preparing for a date, slipping her flawless frame into a plunging LBD and pulling on stockings on her lithe legs Adriana spoke to the camera.
In her alluring Brazilian lilt the model said: 'Guys, Valentine's Day is not that complicated. Give and you shall receive.'
As she slathers lipstick across her famous pout Adriana is seen looking down at a bouquet of white flowers and red and smiling.
Racy: The beauty brown eyes to seduce nearly a hundred millions of viewers around the world as it was seen preparing for a date in his hot Teleflora Super Bowl ad[[posterous-content:pid___0]]
Adriana joined the likes of Matthew Broderick, who reprised his role of Ferris Bueller, Betty White, Clint Eastwood and Ricky Gervais just to name a few who starred in the exorbitant adverts.
As well as standing tall in a pair of heels with her Amazonian legs appearing to stretch out forever a wind machine is seen blowing her brown locks around as she stares into the camera.
Given the advert for Teleflora last 33 seconds and the Kia commercial was around a minute and a half long that totals around $14million-worth of commercial time starring Adriana.
Showing some front: The 30-year-old was seen wearing a plunging black dress as she spoke to men saying: 'Give and you shall receive'
You know these three are the only Victoria Secret angels that doesn't try too hard to be sexy unlike the others. Just saying if you follow their careers. Also all three are more likeable!
- jenerin, usa, 09/2/2012 18:06
Adriana Lima, for me, is one of the most beautiful women in the world. There is something, besides her stunning looks, that radiates from her and she is just so likeable. I love that she has slightly off-lined teeth because I think it makes her more real, not cloned like so many women. She would appear to be a wonderful mother and her husband must be so proud to have her as his wife.
- Michelle, Island of Ireland, 09/2/2012 14:40
Hmm, I'd find it a tough choice.
- Mack, EUSSR, 09/2/2012 12:57
Adriana....I hate u for being so damn gorgeous! How is it possible to be this beautiful??? amazing!
- Larissa Torres, Brazil , 09/2/2012 12:35
I'm melting!!!
- Snowman, The North, 09/2/2012 10:31
Another ad for VS
- Dee, UK, 09/2/2012 08:58
Adriana, if I saw you on the street I would kick your butt for being so beautiful. I hate you! :-)
- Sassy, Portugal, 09/2/2012 08:31
I think its safe to say that adriana lima is the only angel with both inner beauty and outer beauty, considering how beautiful she is physically, her gisele comment, the fact that she doesn't seek attention and respects her private life, and she isn't always like this, she isn't always in the "sexy/cute" character and comes across as a good humble person in interviews (she gave this little girl who was interviewing her a real gold neck-less right off of her neck, just because the little girl mentioned it) This is why I will never understand why people may think she is overrated or that others are better than her just because they look good.......For adriana to be the beautiful on the outside, she has alot of inner beauty that matches it, I still don't know any other angel that is like that.
- mia, atlanta, 09/2/2012 01:13
they all are insanely gorgeous.
- jenerin, usa, 08/2/2012 23:37
Adriana Lima has to be the worlds most overrated woman. For me, she is one of the plainer girls out of them all but then I don't fall foul to brainwashing!
- Mememe, Hereandnow, 08/2/2012 23:22
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Hi guys! I know some of you are still laying in bed from that food coma that thanksgiving seems to put us in, or exhausted from all the black Friday shopping! The stress of November is gone for most of you but for people with bipolar disorder it's still probably lingering in the air, just like the smell of fresh Christmas trees.The holidays are not the easiest for people with bipolar disorder sadly. The stress of making the perfect meal, or finding that special gift, even meeting new people can trigger an episode! So I'm going to give you some tips on how to survive the holidays, and also give you some helpful links that will provide further information!
- Black Friday sales are super stressful and being around a lot of people can bring upon some not so desired moods, my tip is to shop online. Shopping online takes away the stress from having to wait in long lines, or witnessing some very unwanted things at Walmart at 4am on black Friday.
- Don't worry about creating the "perfect meal", you do your best and people will love it.
- Keep occupied, look up DIY videos and let your creativity take away any stress or bad moods.
- DONT OVERSPEND or OVERTHINK too much. Make a list, check it twice, and stick to it.
- Try to surround yourself with people you love, and that won't cause you any stress.
- Lastly if you still feel an episode about to come on, call your doctor. Don't hesitate just because you have company coming over, your health is always number one.
So those are my personal tips for surviving the holidays! I know I used all of them this Thanksgiving. Trust me, shopping online is number one on my list for a reason. Anyways here are also some very helpful links with some more info on how to survive the Holidays!
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NEW BEDFORD — New Bedford First Night 2008 is celebrating the New Year this year with an entertainment extravaganza, and combined with the efforts of AHA! are producing an event with more entertainment, arts and activities than ever before!
Buttons cost $10 each, but there is no admission fee for children under three years of age. New exciting performances are scheduled - the popular Beatles tribute band, Octopus's Garden will rock the Zeiterion Theater with incredible impersonations of the Fab Four, John, Paul, George & Ringo. New England's premier sound alike Beatle band, Octopus's Garden features Ron Manzone with his amazing ability to channel the voices of all the Beatles. Radio personality Evan Rousseau will MC the evening at the Z. Back by popular demand are the old-fashioned horse and buggy rides along the cobble-stoned streets of historic downtown New Bedford. Also, there will be cart/tractor rides around Custom House Square. Swing dancing by the HepCats and the Bob Hunt Messengers featuring Billy Couto will perform at The Times Square Atrium. Children will again enjoy a fun time at the YMCA with Lulu the Clown, caricatures by Ken Partello and interactive events for youngsters and teens. Pop Pop Dancing, a new fun children's activity, will take place at YMCA and Custom House Square. Children dance on large bubble wrap sheets making for lots of noisy fun.
Familiar favorites performing at the Whaling Museum Theater are John Harrison trio with Bill Mieli and Jackie Santos, featuring Ann Austin; as well the ever popular Matty B and Joe. Jedlie's Magic Circus is brought back to the Whaling Museum by request. Children's performers, Marcy's Music Show, Magician, George Cleaves and the one man circus show, The Great Benafuchi light up the New Bedford Public Library with lively and hilarious performances. Internationally renowned Fado Singers Ana and Jose Vinagre perform at Pilgrim United Church and Back Eddy Bluegrass will perform traditional & contemporary bluegrass, including original songs and exciting instrumentals at Pilgrim United Church. The Elks Lodge will welcome the Ellie Mae and Big Bill blues duo and magician, Walter Childs. Citizens-Union Bank will feature vocal artist Candida Rose whose uniquely compelling voice combines the overtones and undertones of jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel with just the right touch of international spice; and also a performance by Dave Spencer. With his soulful vocals and masterful guitar, Dave will perform acoustic solo, jazz, R&B and contemporary music. In UMass Cherry & Webb building a photograph exhibit, "Families of the South Coast: Portraits of Diversity" will be displayed.
The highlight of the evening will be at 10 p.m. when the festivities culminate with a ground fireworks show to celebrate the New Year.
"Throughout the night, Custom House Square is the hub of activities with lots of entertainment on stage including vocal group, Voices in Time; Chris & Shawn, two talented young men who have successfully made a name for themselves in Portuguese music, featuring their dynamic dancers, the Diamonds; a performance by Backstage Dance Academy as well as DJ, Peter Rivet keeping the night lively with lots of great dance music. First Night will be selling buttons at Custom House Square and hot chocolate and popcorn will be available for purchase. By having the fireworks earlier this year at 10 p.m. we are anticipating lots more families will be able to stay with their children to enjoy the exciting colorful spectacle. It's a fabulous way to celebrate New Year with family and friends," said Susan Encarnacao, this year's First Night president.
This year with the participation of AHA!, First Night promises to be brimming with activities and fun! AHA! will be joining First Night as a free venue from 5-9 p.m. with a "Fire and Ice" celebration in downtown New Bedford. AHA! Program Director Lee Heald states that AHA! received over $90,000 in in-kind support in 2007 from local non-profit venues and businesses and that this evening is as a way of showing appreciation to the downtown community and partner venues.
This exciting night will include ice sculptures created on site and Boston fire performers in the Wing Court Public Space off Purchase Street. A special performance of Boston's "el Arte Flamenco" will include fiery flamenco dance and music in the Bristol Building Hallway. Solstice will be holding a skate jam on Purchase Street between Union Street and William Street from 5-7 p.m. The festivities will also include crafts for children and adults including the making of luminaries and "flames of peace" (at Elaine's T-Shirts).
Local eateries such as No Problemo, the Green Bean, the Spicy Lime, Jimmy's Steamy Hot Dogs and AHA! partner venues on Purchase Street and William Street will be open from 5-9pm. The New Bedford Art Museum will be open and offer the artMOBILE Center for children's crafts. Storyteller Toby Dills will be stationed at the Visitor Center (33 William Street) from 6-8 p.m to regale the crowds with stories for the New Year.
View Fire and Ice AHA! graphics by Mediumstudio: www.ahanewbedford.org
All AHA! activities are free and open to the public. Year-round AHA! programming is funded in part by the Mass Cultural Council's John and Abigail Adams Arts Program, The Island Foundation, The City of New Bedford, the AHA! partners, individual supporters and in-kind marketing support from the Standard-Times and WBSM. For more information call 508-264-8859
New Bedford First Night 2008's buttons are now on sale. Buttons are $10. Children three and under are admitted free.
Buttons are available at Artworks, Baker Books, Bank of America, Beautiful Things., Café Arpeggio, Citizens Bank, Citizens-Union Bank, , Dorothy Cox's Chocolates, Elaine's at the Black Whale, Elks Lodge, First Citizens' Federal Credit Union, New Bedford City Hall, Saint Anne Credit Union, Saltmarsh's, Seaport Village Shops, Shaw's Supermarkets, Sovereign Bank, Trucchi's Supermarket, Webster Bank and YMCA. Buttons may also be purchased at Custom House Square on New Year's Eve.
New Bedford First Night 2008 is a family-oriented, alcohol-free festival that showcases arts and entertainment throughout the night. Performance venues are in the fine historic sites of downtown New Bedford such as the Zeiterion Theater, City Hall, Whaling City National Park and many others. First Night New Bedford brings many visitors and local residents together into the heart of the city to enjoy the camaraderie of celebrating New Year's Eve.
First Night New Bedford is the fourth oldest First Night celebration in the country and is celebrating its twentieth year. It is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council but primarily it is supported each year by fund-raising events, sales of attendance buttons and contributions from community-minded businesses. Major sponsors of First Night New Bedford 2008 are The Standard Times, WBSM and FUN107 and the City of New Bedford. First Night New Bedford depends on the support of businesses and volunteers for its success.
The First Night New Bedford committee consists of The First Night New Bedford committee consists of Susan Encarnacao, Claudia Ostiguy, Dottie Dagnall, Chuck Dade, Susan Grace, Dave Antunes and Jessica Farr.
To volunteer or contribute financially to help make New Bedford First Night 2008 the best ever, contact First Night President, Susan Encarncao at 508-971-0851 or send your donation payable to First Night New Bedford Inc., PO Box 1701, New Bedford MA 02741. To volunteer contact Claudia Ostiguy 508-995-7613. Visit their website at www.firstnightnb.org.


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We have lamented the rise of unpainted carbon-fiber surfaces on the latest generation of hypercars -- and even created various renderings of the P1 with a painted nose.
But, as meeting the MSO 650S Spider shows, we have to be careful what we wish for.
Something about the painted nose section of the MSO 650s is less than perfect.
The lower air-dams and side skirts are fantastic, and seeing chromed exhaust tips out back is unique.
But still... something is not-as-dreamed with this nose....
McLaren Special Operations 650S Spider
As if the all-new P1 GTR were not enough excitement at the McLaren Centre of Pebble Beach -- the McLaren Special Operations team will be on hand for the best concours of the year as well!
McLaren Special Operations is the newly minted custom-car division of McLaren Automotive. Based with the engineers and designers at the Woking HQ, MSO has shown some amazing creations over the years. A return to Pebble Beach for MSO is exciting because it will put them up close and personal with a core client group. The US has been a run-away success for all McLaren sales, and the dealer body for North America is expanding rapidly to suit.
Feet on the ground for MSO is an exciting commitment to their next projects, and will surely drum up a slew of orders from McLaren owners worldwide.
The MSO 650S Spider will make its US debut since being shown at Goodwood, while the MSO P1 is a one-off creation showing the potential to maximize the P1's already-explosive hypercar appeal.
Stay tuned for all the details - live from the event - in just two weeks time.
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I feel that I must respond to Ron Koronka's letter to the editor on Jan. 12 in which he blamed the Kundrats (note the plural) for turning his life upside down. I'm writing not so much to Ron, but to the great number of people in this community who are blaming Pat Kundrat (Cindy's husband) for the horrendous crime his wife committed.
Pat has been harassed, hated, ostracized, maligned. Is he guilty? Was he driving that car? Could he have stopped his wife?
In your perfect 20/20 hindsight you say he was supposed to be with her 24/7. That sounds so easy in theory, but let's be practical. How many of us could live more than a week or two without our next paycheck? Quitting your job is not an option. You don't get paid to care for a loved one - you can't even draw unemployment. He had a job that was close to home where he could keep an eye on her. He was trying to do just that.


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This kitty cat must be from Austria I think or it spent a lot of time on Disney's Movie set while 'Miracle of the White Stallions' was being filmed.
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Stop the presses!
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) has officially reached the milestone of 1 million active monthly advertisers on its ecosystem.
Before you bust out your favorite bottle of bubbly to celebrate, this headline could benefit from a little perspective.
It turns out that the vast majority of advertisers that do business with Facebook are of the small-business variety. Take a wild guess how many small businesses have a presence on Facebook: 16 million.
The less than 6.25%
When you break it down, 1 million active advertisers represents 6.25% of the 16 million small businesses on Facebook, assuming that all 1 million advertisers are, in fact, small businesses. Of course, this isn't the case when big brands like McDonalds, Coca-Cola, General Motors, and then some, are advertising on the site. The exact percentage of active advertisers is difficult to pinpoint, because Facebook doesn't release total business Fan Page statistics, but it's safe to say that it's lower than 6.25%.
Why so low?
When I read between the lines, Facebook doesn't appear to be rapidly winning over marketing budgets, and there are two factors likely at play here. The first is how infantile Facebook's ad measurement technology is -- it only recently improved when the company purchased Atlas from Microsoft last March. It's worth noting that Atlas did help persuade General Motors to re-establish its campaign after an 11-month hiatus, but, as a whole, it's still too early to call Atlas a smashing success.
The second factor is how Facebook has essentially become a freeloader's paradise for businesses. According to BIA Kelsey, a research firm that specializes in local advertising, more than 50% of small business owners utilize Facebook to promote their businesses, but only 16% spend money on ads. The fact that businesses get a free Facebook Page to grow their presence could be undermining the company's advertising ambitions. For the businesses that have the ability to grow their fan base organically, there could be little incentive to spend money on advertising.
A change of tune?
I'm left wondering exactly how Facebook will convert a larger percentage of freeloading businesses into paying customers. More robust advertising tracking technology could help convince the bigger advertisers with deep marketing budgets, but what's going to incentivize businesses that are perfectly content running a free Fan Page?
With Facebook's massive scale, the company does have pricing power, and could begin charging business pages a monthly fee if they have more than a specified number of likes. If other efforts to grow its base of advertisers fail, I wouldn't be surprised if this last resort becomes a reality.
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NEW YORK -- Several members of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) were among 16 people injured in a high-rise fire in Queens, CBS New York reports. The fire broke out around 11:30 a.m. Friday on the 11th floor of a 13-story building on Shore Front Parkway in Far Rockaway.
An NYPD spokesperson told CBS News that nine officers were taken to local hospitals with smoke inhalation after rushing into the building to rescue people from the blaze.
Resident Winston Ali waited in his apartment for help as the fire engulfed the apartment below. "I tried to get out, I saw the smoke," said Ali, whose son was among those injured.
"This is what we do, this is our day to day, this is how we react. It's innate, it's in them, and that's what it means to be a police officer," NYPD Capt. Vincent Tavalaro said.
Three firefighters sustained minor injuries. One civilian is listed in critical condition. At least two of the injuries are considered serious. Officials said the fire is under control.


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I've built my career as a "technical community person" who "thinks beyond the technology," and as a teacher and researcher of learning environments — so this may come as a surprise to people who know and have worked with me. But if my teenage self had had her way, I would have VASTLY preferred to "just focus on the tech stuff."
As a kid, I wanted to choose the privilege of being oblivious and keeping my head down and immersing myself into the beauty — the sheer beauty! — and joy of STEM for STEM's sake. I didn't become an ECE to work on educational computers or hearing aids or anything like that. As my friend (and former roommate) Kristen Dorsey said, "I just geek out about nerdy stuff, OK?"
But I couldn't "just geek out about nerdy stuff." The environments where I was trying to "learn about nerdy stuff" were sociotechnically broken in a way that made it hard for me (as a disabled minority woman, among other things) to join in. If I wanted to even start being part of the technical community, I had to start by fixing the technical community — patching the roof and fixing the plumbing, so to speak — before I could even walk inside and start to live there. And when I patched the leaking roof, I patched the roof for everyone, and other people who needed non-leaky roofs to be in the community could now… be in the community as well!
For instance, I got really, really good at facilitating meetings because it was the only way I had to make meetings accessible to me — when other people facilitated meetings, they'd often forget I need to lipread, so… I just quietly started leading them myself, and ended up making meetings work better for everyone. And I found that when I drifted towards "humanitarian" projects, the people there were much more conscious of sociotechnical things and more likely to have already-healthy environments, so I would have less leaky roofs to patch, and less resistance when I tried to patch the roofs — and people actually recognized and valued roof-patching labor instead of looking down on me for not writing code full-time.
After a while of patching roofs and unclogging toilets and plastering the rotten drywall, I got a reputation in industry for being really, really good at open-source software/hardware (technical) community facilitation. It's almost as if I could only enter the makerspace as a janitor. And part of me resented that, but never said so. But, I told myself, at least I was in the building. And I saw that my "janitorial" work made it possible for other people to enter the building and do the things they wanted to do — which were often the things I wanted to do, too! — and so I thought: okay. That's okay. At least somebody gets to do it. I can see my gift to the community doing so much good, that I will give up my desire to learn and do the technical things — so I let my own STEM learning slide. I am good at "community work," and I did come to genuinely love it, over time.
But if I had the choice, I would have never gone into "community work." I would have chosen — if I had the choice — to focus on "shiny tech stuff" that… didn't save the world at all. If my teenage self had had her way, I would not do community-facilitation-anything, I would not be thoughtful about women or minorities or disabilities or any underprivileged group in engineering… I would be oblivious to all my privilege. I'd be a kernel hacker, or an embedded geek, or something "hardcore technical," Because I could be.
But I didn't have the wherewithal (or the desire) to shovel all the stuff out of the way that I would have to do in order to do that. If you think of "caring/environmental labor" as a sort of tax some people have to pay in order to get to "learning/doing technical things," my tax rate has always just been too frickin' high.
So I have been "the full-time community person who is ridiculously good at tech stuff that she no longer gets to do," instead of "the technical person who understands and listens to and cares about inclusion and community." Because I cannot not patch a leaky roof. But I have always wondered what I might have grown up into, if I had learned STEM in an environment that was ready for me — without me having to fix it first.]]>
We change the world with millions of tiny patches… our world of open technology and culture is built one patch, one line, one edit at a time — and that's precisely why it's powerful. It brings billions of tiny, ordinary moments together to transform the world. If we teach it for our code, we can preach it for our giving. If you'd buy me a drink, or treat an open source newcomer to dinner, send that $3-$20 to the Ada Initiative tonight. –August 30, 2013
Why do we need to do this? Well, being a woman in open technology and culture is like riding a bike on a street made for cars, where rain and dirt get kicked into your face, and you are constantly, painfully aware that if you have any sort of collision with a car… the car will win. Yes, this is happening in our world, to our friends and to our colleagues; it's happened to me personally more times than I care to remember. The farther you are from the straight white male difficulty setting, the rougher the terrain becomes.
And quite honestly, we're busy. I'm busy. You're busy. This isn't our job — we have so many other things to do. I mean, we're all:
And guess what? There are so many people who want to join us. So many people who want to help us do all this work, but don't, because they know that work — the good work — is likely to come with a lot of really, really awful stuff, like this sampling of incidents since last year (trigger warning: EVERYTHING).
The less time women spend dealing with that stuff, the more time they have to help us with our work. And the more people will want to help us with our work. I mean, would you want to accept a job description that included the item "must put up with demeaning harassment and sexual jokes at any time, with no warning, up to 40+ hours per week"?
Making our world a good environment for all sorts of people is, in fact, our job — or at least part of it. The folks at the Ada Initiative have made supporting women in open tech/culture their entire job — supporting it, supporting people who support it, and basically being the equivalent of code maintainers… except instead of code, the patches they're watching and pushing and nudging are about diversity, inclusion, hospitality, and just plain ol' recognition of the dignity of human beings.
They want to support you. With better conference environments, training workshops and materials, and really awesome stickers, among many other things. (Did you know that the Ada Initiative was one of the first woman-focused tech organizations to actually say the word "feminism"?)
So please, donate and support them, so they can support you — and me, and all of us — in supporting women in open tech/culture.
Now, my own contribution is a bit… sparse, financially. I'm a grad student earning less than $800 a month, and I'm waiting for my paycheck to come in so I can contribute just a few dollars — but every little bit helps. And there's another way I can help out: I can bribe you, dear readers, to donate.
Remember that "active vs reflective" learning styles post I wrote in August? Well, there are 3 more: sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and global/sequential. I've got them all transcribed here and ready to go. And if we reach $1024 in donations to the Ada Initiative under the Learning Styles campaign within the next week, I will release them under a creative-commons license.
What's more: the first 3 people who donate $128 or more to this campaign and email me their receipt will get a free 1-hour Skype call with me to discuss their personal programming learning styles, and will be featured as case studies on one of those three posts (I'll link to your website and everything).
Donate to the "learning styles" campaign for The Ada Initiative now!]]>
There's a world out there to patch. I love the universe of open technology and culture where I've built much of my career and friendships. It's a wonderful world that can be wide and welcoming — but it also has horrific bug reports of sexual abuse and gender discrimination, salve along with many more that haven't been reported out of fear and shame. I've lived a few not-so-good stories myself; some I've told, some I haven't. What saddens me most, though, isn't the bad stories that have happened; it's the good ones that never will — stories of women and men working together to hack the universe in marvelous ways. If we want to see these stories happen, we've got to make a world where they can happen, a world where it's safe for them to happen. Don't WONTFIX that ticket; do something. When you care about something, you want to make it better.
We change the world with millions of tiny patches. I'm a grad student; money is tight, and my $64 contribution represents half a month of groceries. I was initially ashamed of my "tiny" contribution, even if it's a nontrivial one for me. Then I remembered: our world of open technology and culture is built one patch, one line, one edit at a time — and that's precisely why it's powerful. It brings billions of tiny, ordinary moments together to transform the world. If we teach it for our code, we can preach it for our giving. If you'd buy me a drink, or treat an open source newcomer to dinner, send that $3-$20 to the Ada Initiative tonight.
Someone's got to integrate these patches into a whole… and it'd be nice if they didn't burn out in the process. Honestly? I support the Ada Initiative because it does this work so I don't have to. I'm young and energetic, but I'm often wiped out just being a woman in open technology and culture. It's not just physical and mental exhaustion; it's emotional and psychological, which is worse. And being an activist is harder still. Do I agree with everything the Ada Initiative says or does? Nope. But it's a job I want done, and I don't want the job. This is why we hire maintainers for Free Software; we give them the gift of bandwidth so they can help us contribute more for a project with less effort by supporting and connecting our patches with the bigger picture. Val and Mary are good maintainers for feminism in our open universe — and I'd like more. After all, it's a big world out there that we've got to work on.
The last day of their fund drive is tomorrow. (I'm coming late to the game; summer travel + school year start + RSI = no internet for Mel.) But it wasn't too late for me to throw in my $64 patch this morning — and it's not too late for you to contribute your patch today. If my work in open technology and culture has touched, helped, or inspired you in some way, please help me pay it forward and create a supportive, welcoming environment for everyone in the open world.]]>
Also: my parents will be in the audience for the first time (since I started speaking over half a decade ago), so they get a special call-out on slide 29.
Ok, off to hyperventilate!
(Disclaimer: I'm transcribing my own talk about a week after having given it, but I am deaf, so I'm typing this out through a combination of residual hearing, remembering what I said last Thursday, lipreading myself in the video, and reading slide content. It's probably 98% accurate; patches welcome on Universal Subtitles.)]]>
It's from April 13-14 and is a no-cost event. Go to https://openhatch.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Python_Workshop for the full details and to RSVP.
Catherine said it best:
Our goal is to widen and diversify the computer programming community with outreach events that overcome the technical and social barriers that hold too many people back from learning to program. Basic programming skills are so empowering and useful that we think everyone should have them, whether those skills lead to a career, a new hobby, an occasional handy trick, or just a deeper understanding of the computers that surround us. We'll borrow the curriculum – and some of the teachers! – from the famously successful Boston Python Workshop, which has already brought programming skills to dozens of women and their friends.
Some people have asked what "women and their friends" means. It's simple; all women are welcome, and men are welcome as guests of women who are attending (you can calculate the gender ratio; see this talk by Jessica and Asheesh for the rationale). If you already know Python, we'd love to have you come and help teach; we're located right in the middle of Indiana LinuxFest in downtown Indianapolis
I believe past workshops have included librarians, teachers, and non-engineering members of software and technical companies who wondered what their co-workers were doing all day; we're also hoping some local high school students will join us. Please spread the word to people in the area you think would like to know about this event; we'd particularly love to reach groups of women who might be curious about programming but may not have had opportunities to play with it in the past. It should be a blast!]]>
Now then.
Seb Benthall's post about academic vs open culture reminded me that I'd like to track my fellow FOSS-to-academia migrants somewhere. Seb and myself are members of a fairly short tradition that includes folks like Martin Krafft (Debian developer to CS/Sociology PhD) and Mako Hill (Debian developer and Ubuntu hacker to interdisciplinary PhD student and Berkman Center researcher).
If you think about it, there's no way the tradition can be anything like short. Undergraduate degrees tend to focus on "study to be able to do" for a broad area rather than a more focused "study of" a particular topic, so I'm mainly looking at grad students and those who've gotten their graduate degrees. To enter graduate school, you typically need an undergraduate degree — which means you're likely at least in your early twenties. That's how old the Free Software and Open Source movements are themselves.
It's not that we're the first generation of grad students to grow up in FOSS culture — that distinction belongs to people now in their mid-thirties to early forties, who were college-aged in the mid-90′s when the FOSS world was ramping up for the firs time. But we're the first ones to enter grad school at a time when FOSS culture was widespread enough to be considered a legitimate topic of study by open-minded advisors; in a prior day, we might have studied CS, math, education, or any number of things with "proper" topics as our primary research focus, with open source remaining a devoted side hobby mostly separate from our "real academic work."
It's a good time and place in history to be. Plenty of opportunities to find and make — and we're hackers, so we're used to finding and making our own way through a chaotic world. Perfect.]]>
You really need to keep poking people in private asking them to put their messages public. It's thankless and invisible work. It takes a while to build a new cultural habit, and for a while it's going to seem like you'll be doing this forever… but trust me, it will come. It's going to take longer than you want it to, it's going to take an unexpected route, but keep the faith – it will come.
There are three strategies it's useful to have up your sleeve for times like this.
Start the conversation in private, then say something like "hey, this is really good, could you resend it to the public list and I'll reply there?" This is good for starters if folks are new to the "default to open" concept and are reacting with great nervousness. This nervousness stems from wariness that they may not want to go public with some hypothetical future thing – in effect, worrying about a problem that hasn't happened yet. Going this route allows beginners in radical transparency to look at something they've already written and assess the risk for only that specific situation – no unknowns here, no future commitments. After a few times of going "oh, I guess that retroactive transparency was okay!" it's much easier to ask people to give "open by default" a chance.
Publicly announce that you'll only respond to things sent to the public list. Reply to private emails with a reminder of this. This only works only if the people you're trying to persuade are unable to route around you. It's also a bit of a strongarm tactic, not appropriate for all situations and best used in moderation if at all. But if you're a project manager, or an instructor, or a senior engineer, or something of the sort, you might be able to get away with it – and boy, folks learn fast this way.
Get others to help you with the nudges-to-public. Those 20 private emails to get a single public email? No reason why you've got to be the only one doing it. Train others to become Agents of Transparency as soon as you can, especially if they were once on the other side of the conversation. To begin with, ask them to work specific mailing lists, specific people, or specific conversation threads into the public eye – coach them from behind if needed. After a little while, they'll be able to do it on their own – then just ask them to keep an eye out in general, and hey presto!
The key thing to keep in mind is that this is an investment. You're putting resources into something that may not see returns for a little while. But the returns will come, and they'll be worth it – when a project tips over into living, breathing, and practicing true realtime transparency, the results of the culture shift can be stunningly refreshing.
Keep going.]]>
From the introduction:
This is a preliminary and extremely incomplete literature review surveying the current academic scholarship on open source and education. It can be summarized in three words: there's not much. I'll begin… by discussing what I am not looking at… I am not looking at the use of open source software in educational contexts… open source as an IT solution. Nor am I looking at open source with a focus on content licensing… open source as an information access solution.
Instead, I am concerned with an analysis of what sorts of practices and processes for learning are exhibited in open source communities themselves and how these practices might be made transferable back to the classroom. In other words, I see open source as a way of operating learning communities: radically cross-functional, collaboratively constructed realtime transparency.
Aaaaand here's the whole dang thing, below. Why push now? Well, after a certain point, I decided to stop agonizing over it and release early and often because hey, maybe what I need are some other eyeballs to kick me out of the mental ruts I've gotten into. Also, I finished writing it and turned it in 20 minutes ago (which may explain why the quality of the writing degrades considerably in the last 3 paragraphs). It's been a rough week. Month. Semester, really.
Literature review: the open source way and education (alpha)
Essentially, I spent my entire first semester of grad school finding that nobody's really done research on my topic of choice (engineering education happening in open source communities) before – which is both awesome (because that means I get to do it) and depressing (because WHY AM I ALL BY MYSELF OUT HERE I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING). And now I'm standing here unsure of what to do next; I want to read some of these more deeply, talk about them with people, have folks tell me where I'm wrong and why, get into debates over a bunch of these ideas, throw them off the wall, bounce them off other people's heads…
And so I fling this out to you, my friends. Thoughts? I apologize that this is not in comic book form – it was a little harder to get away with that for a lit review… but I'll keep trying.]]>
who don't know English strongly prefer to use software in a language
they know… People who do know
English often prefer to use software in English even if it is available
in their native language. The two most frequent explanations for that
is that the translation is bad and that people who want to use computers
should learn English anyway. The problem is that for various reasons
lots of people will never learn English even if it would be mandatory in
schools and useful for business. They will have to suffer the bad
translations and will have no way to fix it.
So this is the paradox – to fix localization bugs, someone must
notice them, and to notice them, more people who know English must use
localized software, but people who know English rarely use localized
software… Even people
who know English well should use software in their language… especially
if it's translated badly, because they are the only ones who can report
bugs in the translation or fix the bugs themselves…
I am glad to say that i convinced most people to whom i spoke about
it at Wikimania to at least try to use Firefox in their native language
and taught them where to report bugs about it. I also challenged them to
write at least one article in the Wikipedia in their own language, such
as Hindi, Telugu or Kannada – as useful as the English Wikipedia is to
the world, Telugu Wikipedia is much more useful who speak Telugu, but no
My comment,
summarized: can the software be hacked to make this easy for
multilingual users to contribute to? Imagine being asked to opt-in for occasionally
having the application start up in (or switch into) another language
you know — for instance, "every 25th time you log into this website,
you'll see it in Hindi" — with a reminder shown during those
language-switching times thanking you for aiding with translation
quality and giving you a direct link to report translation problems?
Because sometimes the problem is just a little too much friction;
switching the language of an application takes 5 too many mouse-clicks
to be thoughtlessly easy, and the vast majority of users don't wake up
in the morning and think "you know, I could contribute to the localization of the software on my computer!" The lazier people can be and still help you, the more likely they'll be to do it.
Which applications, or which types of applications, would be easiest to do this with?]]>


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Texas A&M University is listed as a "best buy" in the 2014 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges, a publication created by former New York Times higher education editor Edward B. Fiske and which is now in its 30th year of issuing annual assessments of college and universities.
The new edition of the guide includes separate "best buy" lists for public and private institutions in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Texas A&M is cited as one of 21 "best buy" public institutions, with the guide's editors noting all of those included "fall into the inexpensive or moderate price category." The institutions were listed alphabetically rather than being ranked.
Texas A&M has a long record of figuring prominently in rankings focusing on high quality of education coupled with costs. Most recently Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine, in announcing its "top 100 best values" in public schools, ranked Texas A&M 18th nationally and tops in Texas. Earlier, Texas A&M placed second in a Washington Monthly survey that also includes values of research contributions and overall service to the nation.
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Before & After: $15 IKEA Hack Turns These Floor Lamps From Drab to Fab
Amit had been using these two IKEA floor lamps for TEN YEARS — ever since senior year of college. From dorm room, to first apartment, to the first home, which Amit moved into about a year ago. But while they functioned great, they were drab — boring office gray with a plain white plastic shade that disappeared against the new house's gray walls. After renovating and buying new, mid-century modern furniture, Amit realized a makeover was needed to keep these ultra-functional lamps lighting up for years to come.
From Amit:
I decided to see if I could transform these lamps into something similar to the lamps I've been coveting for so long. After sanding the lamps, and removing all the removable pieces, I painted it with two coats of flat black spray enamel. I then taped around all the details areas I thought should be highlighted with brass. I sprayed these parts, as well as the removable parts, with metallic gold paint. After letting everything dry, it was time to reassemble the lamp.
Once I put the lamp back together, it actually looked surprisingly great. However, the white plastic shade didn't seem to work with the rest of the lamp. I was determined to finish this project in one day and without having to buy anything else. I rummaged around and found a sample of black fabric a curtain vendor had left during the renovation. I wrapped it around the shade, used packing tape to hold it tightly in place, and cut around the top and bottom.
I'm really not at all crafty, and the projects I take on have a 50/50 chance of success or abject failure. I actually thought this project would fit into the latter category, but surprisingly the lamps turned out almost exactly as I had envisioned and fit really well with my other furniture. The project took two to three hours of actual work time spread out over an extremely hot day, with a couple hours between coats of paint. I had to purchase primer and paint which cost around $15 altogether.
Thank you Amit!
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Amethyst Rising
I wanted to share with you Artist Stanley Weaver Jr's rendering of Marla Owens and her Amethyst Skatian body. All the Skatians have a humanoid and an alien form that the shift between. Tall and strong, a Skatian's abilities are fed by the power they store in their bodies.
The second installment in The Skatia Narratives, Amethyst Rising tells the story of a young queen battling treason and sabotage while settling into her role as monarch and adult.
Queen Marlaveenia has been on the throne for two years and has finally gotten the hand of ruling — sort of. In need of a break, she and her friends travel to Haster, Texas on Earth for some R&R and find nothing but trouble.
Caught in the middle of a plot to minimize her ability to save her people from assimilation by the treacherous Verishe, Marla, along with Madoc, Rhisiart and her mother, Andi, will use every trick up their sleeves and make a few up along the way. And in the process, Marla will discover that she can have everything she wants if she's willing to fight for it.


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ahhh this tea smells absolutely magical!
fruity black teas are 100% my favourite, so i have high hopes for this one, although i'm a little afraid of the hibiscus, being number one on the ingredient list. i've read a lot of reviews that say adding a little agave evens it out, so i am steeping 30s less than the recommended time with an agave stick ready and waiting!
oooh i forgot this has green tea too! they were hidden, but steeped those leafy greens float to the top! and i honestly don't see any black tea leafs at all. hmm…
blech. yep. waaayyy too tart. adding agave…
alright… better, but still too tart for my taste. i'll let it cool and add some ice and see how that goes. i'd also like to try it with my favourite fruity black; The Earl's Garden, just a 1/4 tsp. or so to jazz it up a bit.
we'll see!
no rating because there's still a lot of playing around to do!
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Step-by-Step Instructions to Make a Simple Rice Pudding
If you like desserts, you will love this simple rice pudding recipe. It is delicious to eat, easy to make, and your family will thank you for making this tasty dessert. Simple rice pudding is so quick and easy to prepare, you and your family will be enjoying it often. Simple rice pudding is also an economical dish to make and to serve. Since simple rice pudding is baked, make it when you are using the oven for a roast, casserole, or anything that needs to bake for a while. That way, you'll be cooking your dessert right along with the main course - two for the price of one. Since you will be using your oven to the max, cooking this way, this will save energy, and of course, save you money.
Gather the ingredient to make this simple rice pudding recipe.
3 cups milk
½ cup white-rice, not instant
½ cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. lemon juice
¼ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. nutmeg
raisins are optional
Let's Cook!
Pour the milk into an oven safe glass casserole dish. Add the rest of the ingredients, and using a spoon, mix until the sugar has dissolved. Raisins may be added if your family likes them.
Place the simple rice pudding in a preheated oven, and bake at 300 degrees for 1 ½ hours or until the liquid is absorbed. When baking the simple rice pudding with other foods, adjust the length of cooking time according to the temperature. When baking at a higher temperature, bake it for a shorter time. Over 350 degrees is not suggested for this recipe. About halfway through the baking time, stir the simple rice pudding again.
Serve the simple rice pudding hot or cold. My family particularly likes it served hot, with a scoop of ice cream in the center, and extra nutmeg sprinkled on top. This recipe makes four good adult servings. If adding ice cream, the simple rice pudding can be stretched to five servings.
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Simple rice pudding is a good recipe to teach your children how to make - a great way to introduce them to cooking. Teaching children to cook is a fun and educational experience to share. Other of my dessert recipes, you might want to make with your children, are chocolate four-layer dessert and Scottish shortbread.
And if you find, for some reason, you have extra milk on hand, which you would like to use before it spoils, then use it to make this yummy simple rice pudding. Typically, I use brown-rice in most recipes I make, but for some reason, brown-rice does not absorb the milk as well. And if you are trying to cut back on sugar usage, use 1/3 to 1/2 cup of sugar. Keep modifying the sugar until you get the sweetness you desire.
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In his GAM Swiss Opportunities Equity fund, Daniel Häuselmann looks for companies with the potential for big margins.
One such firm is Lausanne-based Logitech – a company which had a tough start but which has managed to get into the right shape over the past few years.
'Logitech changed from a bureaucratic company with low growth into a dynamic leader. It is possible that we underestimate even now what the company is able to develop over time,' says Häuselmann, the head of Swiss equity at GAM.
He adds that one of Logitech's most attractive features is its broadly diversified portfolio. Not every theme has played out perfectly in the past, as when the company's remote controls brand Harmony became a 'problem child' in the early 2000s. But the fund manager says it's important to have faith in the management.
The fund manager said Logitech used to refresh its product portfolio with major product launches for the Christmas season. However, today renewal is on an ongoing basis.
He added that the company has ample opportunities to tap into new adjacent businesses to grow – it's always good to have a broad range of things to invest in.
'Some years ago it developed out of the PC-keyboard business its iPad business and more recently it developed out of the webcam business its unified communication business, which is growing strongly.'
Häuselmann adds that gaming is one theme that the company could explore further. Five years ago, Logitech missed the gaming trend but now invests heavily in this area.
'Electronic gaming is where Logitech can really dream big. This market is growing at 20%, they are gaining market share and can continue to grow for quite some time.'
This article was originally published in the September 2017 issue of Citywire Switzerland.


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Now everyone asks me how to get a job in Germany, and my Father, who recently died, counted his visits with my Mother to Germany as some of his happiest memories. What has changed so much in the intervening time? Twenty years ago, just after unification, Germany was labeled the sick man of Europe, as it struggled with outdated labour practices that were exacerbated by the reunification. The loss of the camera industry, and other consumer electronics, almost over night had sent shock waves through the industrial elite and the Economist magazine regularly lambasted the country for its lack of innovation. Now, the result of relentless control of costs, and loosening of labour rules, has resulted in a well-trained workforce and a sense of purpose. This sense of purpose, by which I mean the common drive of society towards shared goals that stretch across political parties and walks of life, is a central feature of German life. It is remarkable that this sense of purpose has been maintained and strengthened despite the upheavals of the reunification of Germany.
When people ask me, which they regularly do, for the secret behind German success, one of my answers is that Germans have a theory for everything, be it education, or crossing the road. This theory is worked out through extensive discussion across all sections of society, including the pub, the newspapers, and the television as well as the voting booth. Once agreed on, Germans stick to it with remarkable tenacity. This hysteresis to change prevents successive Governments changing everything when they come to power, as is the case in my Mother Country England. There all institutions are buffeted by the political message of the day, which has resulted in poor schools, lack of industry and a health system where doctors have to concentrate on performance targets rather than health. My impression is that most Germans don't realize how impressive their country is in this regard. Because the message has been discussed and communicated to the general public, this results in a sense of unity and defined purpose. The resistance to change does have problems, for instance during times of rapid technological change as we saw with the rise of the computer industry. But as we have now come to realize Germany will generally catch up and succeed in new areas. We have seen this in action in the reunification. The Aufbau Ost and the Solidaritätszuschlag were discussed and worked out in the manner I have described resulting in a remarkable unity of purpose. For 20 years the majority of Germans have been prepared to put up with large transfers of money to a different part of the country. I think you would be hard put to find another country that would have similar resilience.
In many ways, a shock such as reunification is an excellent stress test for any system. Indeed, the old bundeslander found it hard to generate enough cash to support the reunification and had to radically change the way that industry was supported and regulated. The industry of the new bundeslander grew up to support a very different type of command economy, and was put under severe strain as it struggled to cope with a market economy. History will judge that the reunification of Germany was an incredible stroke of luck. By stress testing both the BRD and the DDR, the economy and the society was ready to handle the economic shocks that have left the rest of the world reeling.
After the reunification, cities such as Dresden had to sit down and think how to cope with the future. One great advantage Dresden had over cities from the BRD was that because much of its infrastructure had been frozen in time, such as roads and pipes, it meant that the city could look at the failures of town planning in the old West and do better. Indeed one important aspect of Dresden is its compactness. It has not been ruined by the suburban sprawl of western cities. Who really believes that our beloved Elbewise would have survived the road-building program of the postwar West, which saw large roads along all major rivers. This compactness has been maintained and supported, as for instance by our Burgermeister Marx who has promoted more inner city shopping. However there are other areas where one asks oneself if lessons have really been learned. Most prominently is the issue of building the city around cars. 60 years of experience in most cities in the world have shown that you can never build enough roads: The more roads you build the more cars will come. I was against the bridge not because I did not see the need for a traffic crossing, but because building a four-lane concrete motorway-like bridge seems a reprise of failed traffic policies of the West in the sixties. I would love to see Dresden become a world model for innovative transport systems in a city. For instance supporting modern public transport systems, cycling, and other energy-efficient alternative transport modes.
I want our city to be beautiful for a number of reasons. Of course, it is because I like to live in beautiful places. As Daphne Myers, the American wife of Gene Myers who has recently become a Director of our institute told me recently "When it rains, Dresden is as dreary as any other city, but when the sun comes out, I don't know of anywhere more beautiful". However, I also want it more beautiful because many of our colleagues and I are engaged in an experiment. Can we make Dresden one of the top cities in the world to do biomedicine? We have made a great start in this direction, with so many important institutions here that have brought an estimated 2000 jobs to Dresden. The TU Dresden as an Elite university is another great step in that direction, as together with our colleagues in other faculties we have taken Dresden to one of the top eleven Universities in the country. However, continued success requires continued recruitment of top talent from around the world. Only by bringing in experts can the growth continue. We are in a constant competition with other cities both in Germany and the rest of the World to attract the best talent. This is why we need Dresden beautiful.
It is a salutary lesson to realize that Boston in the 1960s, was a sleepy postindustrial university town. Since then, the relentless focus on bringing in academics and exploiting the world class universities has resulted in the bringing in of over 90,000 jobs and billions of dollars of research grants. A similar focus in Dresden over the next decades can deliver similar results. Our university, the TU was at the turn of the century, one of the greatest universities in the world, with more patents than any other university in Germany (check again). And our city is as beautiful and livable as any of the major university cities of the word. That is why I say that the primary focus of the Dresden city council must always be on how to be as attractive as possible for foreigners and foreign investment. "No!" I hear many of you roar, the primary focus must be for Dresdners. To that I would counter they are one and the same thing-the most important issue is that Dresden continues to generate jobs so that our children can stay, if they want, in Dresden, that we can see our grandchildren continue to build Dresden into one of the top cities of the world. Only by creating jobs will Dresden continue to grow. Without them, the city will whither and the young people will leave, as I experienced in England, when all the young people left the Northern cities and moved to London. Only now, 40 years later, are those cities beginning to recover. And Dresden can only create jobs if it continues to attract outside investment. Attracting this investment requires an open and friendly atmosphere' to foreigners. After all, if a foreigner on the street asks for directions how does one know if he/she has a million euros in their pocket to invest? It requires a reputation as a tolerant and open city so that when Dresden businessmen are selling their products abroad, they can proudly display the label "made in Dresden".
My Father's initial shock at my move to German was because he was still very much influenced by his Jewish origins and the suffering of his family during the war. Over the years, he came to love Dresden because of the beauty of the city, but also the warmth and openness of the people in the friendship circles into which my wife and I are have been welcomed during our 12 years in Dresden. He came to realize that Germany had examined its dark past and learned the lessons for the future. As he reminded me shortly before he died "to know all is to forgive all". However, in contrast to the unity of purpose seen in economic issues, the relationship to foreigners is still a very divisive issue in Germany. This I believe is one of those "theories" I mentioned above, that is still being worked out, especially the competing views of the East and the West. On the one hand Germans are happy to welcome foreigners to drive their industry. On the other hand, they are not sure to what extend they want them in their society. I see this every month as a member of the auslanderbeirat, where there are quite competing views among German politicians about how best to integrate foreigners in Dresden, and the extent to which foreigners should be accommodated in decisions of the city council.
There are a number of problems to do with welcoming foreigners into Germany, until Germany solves its dopplestadtsburgerschaft problem, it will never sort of the issue of foreigners in its country, because people will only move here if they believe that their children can have a good future. For this I often use the example of my children, who were born in Germany, German Kindergarten, German Grundschule, and for one of them, two years of Gymnasium. These are well-educated children that one could imagine wanting to retain in German society. After all, Germany has paid for most of their education. Not only are they bilingual, but bicultural, in other words when they switch languages, they switch cultural reference. But they don't think of themselves as German and are focused on Universities abroad. Why is this? Well its because they don't have a German passport. Parents want their children to be as similar to themselves as possible, indeed that is one of the key issues in Erzieung. What chance does a child have to fight against that if they are told that they will no longer have a right to live in Germany, when they are 18? In countries such as America, where you can have a passport by right of birth, children can use that to strengthen their feeling of belonging to the country. Here, by the time foreign children can apply for a German passport, they don't feel like giving up the citizen ship they have had since birth, around which they have forged their identity.
This is why the initiatives of Minster Ulbig on pushing to make it easier for foreigners to work in Dresden have been so important. By supporting a welcome culture", he has realized that even if every Saxon is well trained and has a good job, that still wont' be enough people to drive the Saxon industry. It is not that other countries are doing a better job on immigration. Even the USA, which used to be a model for intelligent immigration policies, has slipped back since 9/11. Given the central place of Germany in Europe, Germany must work out a modern policy on immigration and work with its European partners to implement a policy acceptable to its citizens. Saxony is lucky right now to have an interior Minister through whom Saxony is taking a lead Bundes wide in coming up with new solutions to this problem.
The school system is another area in which Saxony must decide how committed it is to becoming an open and tolerant city. As we all know, when children get to a certain age, the only acceptable topic of conversation at a dinner party is children's education. There are many excellent things about the Saxon education system, particularly the kindergarten system. The concept, brought into unified Germany from the DDR, that care should be provided to children from an early age, is a wonderful part of life here. Many people were surprised when we said that we preferred Dresden to Heidelberg, but one of the important reasons was that my wife was no longer called a RabenMutter. The German school system is also an excellent example of how a country can deliver excellent education to the majority of its population, independent of their wealth.
However, nowhere in the world have I experienced parent's anxiety more than during the build up to the Bildung's empfehlung. This dual education system is clearly one of Germany's major strengths and is crucial to its industrial success. It must be protected at all costs. However it is a system as currently conceived that is totally unsuited for integration of foreign children. This is because of the demands for a 2 in German are very difficult to achieve. As an example, I remember coming into my son's school around the BE time and seeing a bright young boy I knew well looking a bit glum. When I asked him what the matter was, he said that he had got a 4 in his last German test and therefore could not get the BE for Gymnasium. He had come to Dresden with his parents a few years previously, and his Father was a foreign engineer. I talked to him for half an hour, and when his Mother turned up, she burst into tears at the news. Is it likely that this family will spread positive news about living in Germany? More generally it is difficult to understand why the decision has to be made so early. Surely ten year olds should be primarily learning social competence and foreign languages? This is why there is so much stress, because children at this age are too young to make decisions on the direction of schooling for themselves. My understanding is that this streaming decision was made in the DDR times much later and my experience certainly does not suggest that those educated in the DDR times has a worse academic educated. Quite the reverse! Maybe its time to reassess which aspects of the old Saxon school system should be adopted? After all the maintenance of the kindergarten system has been a key issue for attracting young families to Dresden, German or foreign. It's to be celebrated that Dresden has one of the highest birth rates in Germany! But, if Germany wishes to attract talent from around the world, it must have a school system suitable for educating their children.
Twenty years later, we can look back and say what a resounding success the reunification of Germany has been-The reexamination that it forced on all aspects of society are at the heart of the current ability of Germany to cope with the worst economic down turn since the thirties; industrially by reformation of labour practices and stimulation of innovation and financial probity; socially by reaffirmation that the twin pillars of education and tolerance are at the center of German life. Given the way Germany responded to the crisis of the thirties, this must be seen as an immense and monumental achievement. We can only hope that in the next twenty years Germany continues to provide an example for the rest of the world of a country in which entrepreneurship is encouraged, but that the right to a good education and the right to be healthy, as well as the possibilities to use these to obtain a skilled job, are at the cornerstone of a happy and successful country.
Anthony A Hyman FRS, Director Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics


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Premont High School seniors received their diplomas Friday
Melissa Ash, The Premont Journal
More than 50 Premont High School seniors received their diploma as they walked the stage on May 25.
The night's graduation started out with cheering as the seniors walked into the high school auditorium which was filled with friends and family that had come to show their support.
Once the seniors were seated on the stage, student Erica Balboa began the ceremony as she sang the Star Spangled Banner. Shortly afterwards, superintendent David Garza introduced the guest speaker.
Guest speaker Dr. Magdalena Williams is currently serving as the Dean of Admissions and Student Services at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg. Williams had much advice to offer to the gradating seniors as she spoke to them.
"This is truly a great time and seniors you should be honored to be here," Williams said. "All of you have something to be proud of, but you also have some big shoes to fill. Try to understand who you are and why you feel the way you do. We are all leaders. I expect every single one of you to be leaders. Lead, don't follow and lead by example."
After Williams was done speaking, the superintendent presented her with a plaque. The salutatorian and valedictorian made their address as well and then the diplomas were distributed as the class of 2007 walked their way across the stage. Many of the seniors were very eager to begin their night of celebration.
"Tonight I am going to party with my friends and enjoy our last night together," senior Maria Gonzalez said. "But in the fall, I will be going to school at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. The thing I will miss most about high school is playing sports."
Other seniors also had similar plans for the night.
"As for tonight, I am going to celebrate with my family and friends," senior Olivia Trevino said. "I am really going to miss my friends and the memories I have. I plan on going to school at Del Mar and the transferring to San Marcos later on."


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The Roma Education Fund (REF) is organizing the first ever international Toy Libraries Conference for practitioners working in Roma communities, June 6-7 in Belgrade, Serbia.
On the occasion of a conference at the University of Sussex, REF Chair Andrzej Mirga shared his thoughts with experts from within the European education sector about how young people from Roma communities can be better included in higher education. The event, on May 19, 2016, brought together key policymakers and researchers to discuss the issues which prevent the inclusion of Roma students in secondary schools and universities across Europe.
As the Roma Education Fund enters a new cycle of sustainability and growth, important administrative changes have been implemented in the governing boards within its network of foundations. Before going into details, REF would like to thank all outgoing board members for their service, their time and their efforts to shape the growth and governance of REF. We would also like to thank all newcomers, whether appointed or recruited, for their contributions so far and we look forward to your guidance and advice as we shape REF's long-term goals and operations.
Experts from within the European education sector are to come together at the University of Sussex to discuss how young people from Roma communities can be better included in higher education.
The Roma Education Fund is pleased to present its 2015 Annual Report that covers the year's activities, achievements and outcomes.
On April 8, 2016, the Roma Education Fund's tertiary education Scholarship Program (REF SP) announced the opening of its scholarship competition for 2016-17 academic year, addressed to Roma students.
Today, many Roma communities and non-Roma institutions across the world celebrate April 8 as International Roma Day.
The Roma Education Fund has been awarded a grant in the amount of EUR 181,000 to implement an early childhood and adult education project in five localities in Macedonia. Improving Roma Employment through Education Innovation aims to increase the long-term employability of marginalized Roma communities through adult education and training, literacy programmes, and increased access to early childhood education and care.
The Roma Education Fund has joined a consortium of Velux Foundations, Open Society Foundation's Roma Initiatives Office and the Central European University to launch the Roma in European Societies initiative, a new interdisciplinary effort to support existing work to improve the inclusion of Roma in all sectors.
The Roma Education Fund wishes to welcome Mr. Pierre Mirel to its Swiss governing board. Mr. Mirel began a distinguished career in public service in the French diplomatic corps before joining the European Commission in 1981. He spent much of his career with the Commission on pre-accession and accession issues, tabling multiple negotiations and supervising the expansion of the European Union. The governing board is honored that Mr. Mirel has agreed to guide the Fund in the upcoming period. To read a short summary detailing Mr.
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