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Celebrate Black Heritage Month, Feb. 18-Mar. 2
February 13, 2013
February 18-March 2
Black Heritage at Lewis & Clark
Frames of the Black Experience: A Retrospective Through Film, Photography and the Arts
Carrie Mae Weems Art Exhibit | February 2-28
Portland Art Museum: Three Decades of Photography & Video (free tickets available to LC students*)
Keynote Lecture: Leigh Raiford, Ph.D. | Monday, February 18 at 4 p.m.
Watzek Library Classroom : Photography, Film, and Art of the African Diaspora
Film Series: Classic Cinema on the Black Struggle | Wednesday, February 20
Council Chamber: Three iconic films explore contemporary & controversial racial issues that defined generations.
4 p.m. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
6 p.m. Killer of Sheep (1971)
7:30 p.m. Do The Right Thing (1989)
Keynote Lecture: Allyson Nadia Field, Ph.D. | Tuesday, February 26 at 4 p.m.
Smith Hall : Black Cinema, Filming Uplift and Projecting Possibility
"From Spirituals to Hip Hop" with Hasan Salaam | Wednesday, February 27 at 7 p.m.
Council Chamber : The History of Black Music & Black Resistance
2nd Annual Student Performance of Ntozake Shange | Thursday, February 28 at 8 p.m.
Agnes Flanagan Chapel : For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Diversity Dialogues in Community Spaces: Black United Fund | Saturday, March 2 at 1 p.m.
Templeton Bus Stop: Community based discussion on the needs and priorities for African Americans in Portland
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The release this week of the video Kony 2012 and a viral social media campaign by the American NGO Invisible Children has jacked awareness of the vicious Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army into the stratosphere. It's also provoked a significant backlash from experts who say the film is simplistic, manipulative, and that it narcissistically focuses on the filmmakers themselves over their African subjects. Invisible Children has responded to some of that criticism, and debate over the film and its prescriptions continues across the web, much of it under the Twitter hashtags #Kony2012 and #StopKony.
In this post, my friend Anywar Ricky Richard, a former child soldier of the Lord's Resistance Army, and director of the northern Ugandan organization Friends of Orphans, responds to the clamor:
I am writing from Pader, Uganda, because I believe the recent conversation about Joseph Kony, the Lord's Resistance Army, and Invisible Children is not including the voice of those that matter most– the people of Northern Uganda. I know more than I would like to know about the LRA, not from watching "Kony 2012" or reading insightful accounts of the conflict, but because personally I have seen it, have lived it, and have been in it. I was one of the now-famous "child soldiers." I was abducted at the age of 14 with my brother by the LRA, and remained with them for nearly two and half years. We were picked up in front of our home; our powerless family members were burned to death in our grass-thatched house while we were forced to watch and hear them cry for help. I saw brutality beyond description. I saw tortures, rapes, killing, abduction, and war. Since 1999, through Friends of Orphans, I have worked to rehabilitate countless former child soldiers and others affected by the war to reverse the massive damage the LRA has done to my community and to our youth. I know how bad the LRA are and I demand for the immediate end to this conflict. I believe for this to happen, OUR voices must be heard.
At this moment, the optimism and hope of the people in northern Uganda for the end of violent conflict and the return of peace is more prominent than ever. This is a direct outcome of the protracted negotiation that previously took place in southern Sudan. Even though the peace talks (2006 – 2008) sponsored by the government of South Sudan did not result in a peace agreement between the LRA and the government of Uganda, it has brought relative peace to Northern Uganda, and people have moved back to their original villages from the refugee camps where many had been confined for more than a decade. At least for now, there is no Joseph Kony in Uganda.
I support the peaceful means of ending this conflict rather than the military approach. I encourage it continually, since it has brought tangible results and has saved many lives that would have been otherwise lost to the war. The people of Northern Uganda believe more in a peaceful means of resolving this conflict because it has been tried and it has worked, they have seen the result.
Invisible Children are known in Northern Uganda as an organization supporting the education of former abductees, which is much needed in the region. But they are not known as a peace building organization and I do not think they have experience with peace building and conflict resolution methods. I totally disagree with their approach of military action as a means to end this conflict.
Since 1989 the government of Uganda has consistently used military campaigns against Kony including major operations like Operation Iron Fist (2001) and Lightning Thunder (2008 – 2009). Operation Lightning Thunder was highly expected to end the war by either capturing Kony alive in his haven in the Congo or killing him. It was carried out by the armed forces of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan with technical support from the United States government — and still it failed. Instead of ending the war, Lightning Thunder spread the LRA's atrocities to the Central African Republic as Kony relocated there. The only known result of a decade's worth of military attacks on Kony is the dispersal of his forces into smaller groups, resulting in new atrocities on civilians including the 2004 Baralonyo attack in the Lira district of Uganda, the Kanga Pa-aculu attack in Pader district, and many others. It is also well known that a majority of the LRA's soldiers are abducted children, and that he uses these abducted children as human a shields. As a result, any attack will be on the abducted children.
So, how can this be done? Instead of campaigning for military action as a means to end this war, I suggest a continuation of the failed peace talks. I would urge everyone involved in the process to examine what made the peace talks fail and how can we improve and reinstate the process. For example, the government of Sudan, a key player in the financing the war, was not involved in the previous peace talks. I strongly believe they can play a greater role.
Furthermore, there seems to be a continual call for Kony to be taken to the International Criminal Court if captured. Communities agree that if Kony is captured he should be brought to book. Some want Kony to be taken to the ICC while others say he should be tried in Uganda to bring closure to the communities affected. This becomes ever more complicated because others suggest that both parties involved in the war should be investigated and possibly tried. People like Olara Otunnu, the president of the Uganda People's Congress, have written widely about the involvement of the Ugandan People's Defense Force in various atrocities during this conflict. The Government of Uganda has denied any wrongdoing. What is certain is that this is not a simple problem that can be solved with a simple solution. Only a systematic approach can bring Kony to book and provide opportunities to all people affected by the war to have a voice in peace building, reconciliation and societal healing. This will prepare the communities of northern Uganda for true rehabilitation.
What we want is to stop the war in a way that will not cause any more atrocities. We've shed too much blood. Nobody in northern Uganda supports Joseph Kony; we aretired of wars and want to look at ways in which sustainable peace can be restored.
We thank Invisible Children for making people aware of what has happened in Northern Uganda and request they continue to focus their enthusiasm and resources toward building a better Uganda.
Anywar Ricky Richard is a former LRA child soldier and founder of Friends of Orphans. Ricky and FRO were recipients of the 2008 Harriet Tubman Freedom Award and the 2008 Humanitarian Award from World of Children.

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Awards given for bravery, police work
27 officers, 2 civilians honored in Lancaster
Awards given for bravery, police work
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Family and friends came together to honor 27 officers and two civilians for their contributions to the Lancaster City Police Department on Tuesday night.
Accommodations were handed out for bravery and outstanding police work in the line of duty.
"For these acts that they have done, it requires a ceremony, it requires the pomp and circumstance that go with it, and I'm just glad that we're able to do it for them, and I'm so glad we had such a great turnout from family members," said Lancaster Police Chief Keith Sadler.
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Congress Seeks Way to Extend a Moratorium on Internet-Access Levies That Is Set to Expire This Fall
Millions of Americans could be threatened with new state taxes on their Internet access this fall, as Congress struggles with how to extend an expiring moratorium on such levies.
The 15-year-old Internet Tax Freedom Act prevents most states and local governments from taxing access. The moratorium enjoys widespread bipartisan support in Congress.


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"I'm deeply honored and humbled to have been selected for this position," Das said. "This is a wonderful opportunity, and I'm looking forward to working with our students and faculty."
The Mathematical Association of America has chosen Kumer Das, associate professor of mathematics at Lamar University, to receive its Alder Award for 2013. A beginning college or university mathematics faculty member is given the award each year for distinguished teaching, and no more than three are awarded per year throughout the United States and Canada.
Das will receive the award at the Math Fest Ceremony in Hartford, Conn., on Aug. 2.
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Pro Audio Technology: P.A. Power, Audiophile Sound
When pro audio technology invades home theaters, it's usually in the form of a recording monitor repurposed for consumer use. Pro Audio Technology comes at it from another direction: It's bringing P.A. system technology into the home.
Of course, anyone who's heard a P.A. system may now be cringing at the thought of blaring 120 dB sound in their living room, but that's not the case here. Pro Audio Technology's speakers are designed by company president Paul Hales, who not only has designed speakers for pro audio behemoth QSC, but also had his own line of well-received audiophile speakers back in the 1990s.
"We're the only company in the residential/consumer space that truly uses pro audio approaches and technologies," Hales said.
"We use very high-powered amps and speakers with drivers designed for super high power handling and sensitivity," he continued. "You need this kind of pro technology for proper reproduction of movie soundtracks, which have much more dynamic range than music. Yet these speakers are voiced and designed with residential/consumer applications in mind. None of the pro stuff sounds good enough for home use — it's built with price and durability as the main objectives."
I've seen speakers like these in concert P.A. systems, but never in the home. They're built not from the usual MDF, but from 9-ply birch plywood covered in a tough polyurea finish. "It's the same thing they use for truck bed liners," Hales said. "If you want, I'll give you a screwdriver and you can try to damage it." Indeed, the speakers look as if they would work just fine after a fall down a flight of stairs.
If the speakers don't look beautiful, it's because they're built for custom installation — either in-wall, in-ceiling, or placed behind a faux wall of acoustically transparent fabric. There are models designed to mount in 3.5- and 7-inch walls; the biggest model is only 16 inches deep.
Hales then took me back to his test bench to demo the company's PMA amplifiers. Each PMA holds four ICEPower amp modules, each of which can be 200, 450, or 1,000 watts. A digital signal processor is built in. Using a laptop connected through USB, the installer simply selects which Pro Audio Technology speakers are installed, and the amp creates the appropriate speaker crossover. There are also eight parametric EQs per channel, so the installer can correct for room acoustics problems.
The amp's digital EQ corrects for the effects of acoustically transparent screens, but it's not just one general correction curve — the installer actually picks what brand and type of screen material is used and the amp automatically EQs for it. This is important, because as we've measured, acoustically transparent screens do not all perform the same.
Later, we drove from Pro Audio Technology's Huntington Beach, Calif., headquarters to Synergy Audio Video, a custom A/V integrator in Tustin, Calif., that has several showrooms. We started with one of the company's small systems: three little in-ceiling LCR speakers, two 15-inch subwoofers up front, and two 5-inch two-way in-wall speakers for surrounds. Hales cued up the gunfight scene from The Book of Eli, and I was amazed to hear how realistic the sound effects were — not quite like real gunfire, but clear, undistorted, and very, very loud and dynamic. Not bad for such a little system.
Next, we went into Synergy's big home theater for a demo of one of Pro Audio Technology's bigger systems. The front three speakers were the SCR15sm, a monster with a 15-inch woofer and a midrange/tweeter horn fed by a 3-inch compression driver. Now when Hales played The Book of Eli, it really did sound pretty darned close to real gunfire. I actually ducked once.
And these weren't even the company's top speakers — there are three larger, higher-priced models above the SCR15sm.
Hales then played a scene from the Cream: Live at the Royal Albert Hall Blu-ray Disc. He meant to show me how cleanly the system could play Ginger Baker's powerful drum solo, but I also noticed how neutral and musical the system sounded. Even though Baker's cymbals were reproduced at about the same level as if you were sitting 10 feet from his drum kit, they sounded clean, lush, and detailed, with none of the harshness or excessive brightness I might expect from pro gear.
Pro Audio Technology's systems start at about $20,000 and go up to about $300,000, with all amps included. VP sales & marketing Larry Reagan summed up the line nicely when he said, "No matter what situation you have, we can give you the sound you want." The company has about 90 dealers, many of whom have active showrooms, so you can verify the company's claim for yourself. Riders with heart conditions or fear of loud sounds are cautioned.


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Ryan Madson's Free Agency
Previous update (October 24, 2011):
- The Nationals may be interested in signing Madson: source.
Paul's Take: Hm. Where have we heard this one before? An impending Phillies free agent being lured to the nation's capital on the promise of a career payday? Well, it seems Ryan Madson may be the next such Philly player, joining Jayson Werth, to consider fleeing south. Madson has emerged as one of baseball's better relievers over the past few seasons – 204 strikeouts in 191 innings since the start of 2009, and an even 4:1 K:BB ratio – but the Phils may have used their Get Out of Jail Free card with Madson's agent, Scott Boras, when they signed him to a three-year deal before that '09 season. That deal bought out two free agent years, and Madson may be itching to see what he may have missed out on earlier.
Ryan's Take: I'm already wondering whether it is worth signing a reliever to Madson's actual market value. If the Nationals are going to rerun the 2010 offseason and top that value by 30% or more, I'll be bidding another bittersweet farewell. Madson, by all accounts, loves pitching in Philadelphia, but it sounds so far as if the offers he'll be seeing this winter will be impossible to turn down. Amaro's recent comments about looking outside the organization for a veteran reliever portend a serious overpay on the part of the Phillies. Bill was absolutely right when he wrote that the Phillies would do well to be thrifty in assembling the 2012 bullpen, given all we know about relievers and the market for them. Madson's possible departure, while a definite loss, gives them an opportunity to re-allocate money to other areas of need, and presently, if you believe Amaro's media face, the Phillies may squander that opportunity entirely.
Bill's Take: Not much that I can add here. Regular readers of the blog know how much of a Madson fan I am, but I don't want to keep him at a Boras price. Even if the Phillies raise payroll a bit, I think they would have hard time adequately plugging every hole while committing, let's say, $12 million for Madson starting next season. I also have no qualms about going into 2012 with Antonio Bastardo or Jose Contreras as the closer. The one downside I see to passing over Madson is that Amaro said he wants to get a veteran closer from outside the organization. When I hear that, I think of Heath Bell and cringe.


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Area long-term care facilities will spotlight residents� rights on Oct. 9.
The Centralina Area Agency on Aging is sponsoring a party for people in nursing homes and adult care homes from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the Gaston County Senior Center, 1303 Dallas-Cherryville Highway, Dallas. The Residents� Rights Celebration is an annual event that brings awareness to the rights that protect residents and ensure they are treated with respect and kept safe, said Ruth Patterson, Centralina Area Agency on Aging volunteer and co-chairwoman of the Adult Care Home Committee.
�We work to try to make sure people are taken care of,� Patterson said.
This year�s theme is �Speak Out Against Elder Abuse,� and the free party takes place during Residents� Rights Week. The care facilities will be coordinating transportation for the interested participants, who will enjoy ice cream, cookies, entertainment, games and giveaways at the senior center. Each facility is creating a table decoration, and the entries will be judged and raffled off.
Event organizers could use the community�s help in preparing for the event, Patterson said. Each resident who attends the party is given a goody bag, and donations are needed to fill them with food and personal items. Examples of food items are Little Debbie cakes, soft candies, crackers and snack packs. Suggested personal care items are toothpaste, toothbrushes, lotion, soap, deodorant, shaving cream, pens, writing pads, calendars, socks and combs.
Patterson said the event aims �to make sure the residents are aware of their rights, that they do have rights, and to provide a social event away from home that they can go to and enjoy.�
To donate items for the goody bags: Call Ruth Patterson at 704-864-1418; Anne Shopshire at 704-866-8601; or Ellen Fenters at the Senior Center in Dallas, 704-922-2170.
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Barbara A. Weber, 72
Barbara A. Weber, 72, of Celina, died at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at the Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Ind.
She was born on Oct. 2, 1939, in Celina, to Franklin Eugene "Buzz" Wise Sr. and Rita Clara Mary (Fischer) Wise, and they preceded her in death.
She married Robert "Chico," and he survives in Celina.
She is also survived by a daugher, Jill (Hiro) Tanaka of Austin, Texas; three grandsons; three sisters; a brother; two sisters-in-law.
She was preceded in death by two brothers.
Private family services will be held at a later date.
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ITASCA, Ill., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE : AJG ) today announced the acquisition of Insurance Risk Managers of Missouri, Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 1996, Insurance Risk Managers of Missouri (IRM) is a retail insurance broker providing commercial property/casualty and risk management insurance services for their clients throughout the United States. They specialize in insurance coverage for the moving and storage industry including owner/operator segments. Patrick E. McAleenan, Novis D. Adkins and their associates will continue to operate in St. Louis under the direction of Mike Henthorn, head of Gallagher's South Central retail property/casualty brokerage operation.
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30 November 2017
ThisisFINLAND, Finland's official country website, and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland will tomorrow launch a limited edition urban fashion collection to celebrate the courage and against-the-odds mentality that have come to define its newest craze: hobbyhorsing.
Hobbyhorsing has been sweeping the Nordic nation in recent years, with thousands of enthusiasts making and selling horses and riding them at events inspired by real equestrian disciplines such as dressage and show jumping.
Riding hobbyhorses has even taken the form of an organised sport, with the Hobbyhorse Championships held annually in Finland. The sport is estimated to have more than 10,000 followers in Finland alone.
To support the hobbyhorsing community, and the fans' gutsy attitude, the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs worked with leading Finnish fashion labels IvanaHelsinki, Wwoollff, Tebian, Riski, Uhana Design and R-Collection to add a whole new level to the craze – by creating a limited edition urban fashion collection.
Designed under the banner of #BraveEnoughToRide, items from the limited edition collection will be made available on a pop-up webshop, www.braveenoughtoride.fi, each Friday leading up to Christmas, with the first items released on 1 December. The collection will be made available at production cost, with €1 per item sold donated to the hobbyhorsing community.
The Ministry, together with hobbyhorsing superstars Alisa Aarniomäki and Vilhelmiina Keskilä, is also launching a dedicated online toolbox, www.thehobbyhorse.fi. The site will be available in multiple languages (English, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, and Finnish) and is aimed at inspiring a new generation of hobbyhorsing enthusiasts. It will include, among other things, advice on how to build your own hobbyhorse and videos with tips about everything from jumping obstacles to performing proper dressage movements.
"Hobbyhorsing is huge in Finland," says Petra Theman, Director of the Unit for Public Diplomacy at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. "Adults are often tempted to snicker at the phenomenon, but hobbyhorsing takes guts, and it isn't as easy as you might think! We want to show that this sport is something really edgy and can be practiced all over the world. The toolbox came about because we want to give back to the hobbyhorse community and create a platform for people to learn about the community, the sport, and the art of hobbyhorsing."
"A lot of hobbyhorse enthusiasts are still worried about how they're seen, as many have faced some sort of bullying or ridicule," says Vilhelmiina Keskilä, hobbyhorsing enthusiast. "That's why I'm so excited about these products. They show that there's nothing awkward or embarrassing about hobbyhorsing – quite the contrary. We should be proud of the phenomenon we've built."
Viivi Huuska, the Finnish filmmaker who directed the short film that kicks off the campaign, says: "I want to show the whole world just how amazing these young people are and how unique their love for hobbyhorsing is. They have the courage to be themselves and everyone should notice that."
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Cars, Computers, and "Engines of Change"
When I was in 9th grade (in 1984) I subscribed to 4 car magazines: Motor Trend, Car & Driver, Road & Track, and & Automobile. Today, my fondest dream is to own zero cars and to rent an occasional Zip Car (preferably a Prius, Volt, or Leaf) whenever the need for driving should arise.
Reading "Engines of Change" was a good reminder for me about how important automobiles once loomed in my worldview. At some point my passion for cars was replaced by a passion for computers and technology. At 14 I thought I wanted to be an automotive journalist, and 42 I'm very happy to work at the intersection of education and technology (and to be driving a minivan - slowly).
I'm betting that my story, one of a shift from a love of automobiles to a love of computers, is not unique. How many teenagers who once spent time changing spark plugs and reading car magazines morphed into building PCs and hanging out on computing message boards? I have this theory that today's computer geeks were yesterday's car enthusiasts - and that is why today's Apple new product announcements are so much more exciting than the new model car launches.
Ingrassia takes us back to a time when new cars really mattered. He profiles 15 cars that have had a large impact on American culture. These stories are all engaging and well-told, and in learning about the Model T or the Corvette or the Mustang or the Honda Accord we also learn a great deal about the times in which they were introduced. This is not a book about the "15 best cars of all time", rather Ingrassia is interesting in describing the cars that had the biggest cultural impact.
Ford's Model T literally changed how American society was organized, as an affordable mass produced automobile was a prerequisite to a rural to urban migration and a mobile society. The Honda Accord was the first Japanese car to be built in a U.S. factory (in Ohio), and ushered in a long-term transition away from UAW dominance and the decline of The Big 3. The Chrysler minivan (a Lee Iacocca encore after bringing to life the Mustang) killed the traditional station wagon, empowered a new generation of soccer parents, and eventually led to Mercedes Benz's disastrous and short-lived purchase of Chrysler.
Ingrassia is a terrific writer, and is also the author of the excellent Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road to Bankruptcy and Bailout-and Beyond. I hope that Ingrassia's next project is about the only cars that really excite me now, cars that run on electricity (although his chapter on the Prius in Engines of Change is excellent).
I think that there is a huge market of computer geeks (and educational technologists!) just waiting to buy our first batter powered car, as soon as the technology improves and the costs come down to a point where electric cars are nearly competitive with gas powered vehicles.
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
Concise and Wonderful
The world, or at least my world, needs more high quality concise books. Bryson's new Shakespeare, from the Eminent Lives Series, is one of the genres better examples.
The Modern Library Chronicles is another imprint with some excellent texts. To quote from their page:
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
Wonderful, sweeping economic history of the world by one of my favorite writers (Bernstein also wrote "The Birth of Plenty"). These "big" history and "big" thought books are a great antidote to the short time frames and disposable knowledge of our blogging and information overload world. Helps to have a long-term framework to understand our own material lives. Excellent counterpart to Friedman's The World is Flat.
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
Fascinating extension of the evolutionary psychology framework. Argues that our brains have evolved in often "klugy" ways, meaning that evolution favors what works (and what comes first) and not what is optimal. I learned a good deal about things like memory, emotions, and perception...and now I know why I can be so dumb sometimes. Well written....a fun read.
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
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Fun book from the NYTime's Magazine Consumed column...delves into the world of "murketing" - the new method of connecting with consumers who are immune to traditional mass marketing. Some interesting connections on how we could "market" educational technology.
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
Start Snooping Around
You will never go into someone's house or office in the same way again. A psychologist who pioneered the field of personality research based on peoples stuff.
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
Very Very Smart
The author, a physicist at Cal Tech, is among those rare academics who both write beautifully, and can manage to make complex explanations understandable. This book definitely changed how I understand some fundamental aspects of my life and the lives of those around me, as getting a handle on randomness and probability (which again, our brains don't seem to be built easily to accomplish), helps illuminate some of the fundamental errors in judgment that I seem to make all too often.
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
A Book I Keep Coming Back To
Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein covers many of the same studies and experiments, and then puts a public policy slant on the conclusions. I'm finding in these sorts of books that the same academic studies and examples pop-up time after time, which is good as it takes me about 5 times to get them straight. Where Sway helped me understand why I'm susceptible to make bad decisions, Nudge helped me understand how I can use the principles of "choice architecture" to influence events and decisions. Both worthwhile reads for folks like us who have a vision of education we are trying to implement, both in terms of why people do things the way they do, and some "libertarian paternalistic" ways to shape decisions and actions.
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior by Ori Brafman, Rom Brafman is a sweet, short popularizer of the current social psych and behavioral econ research.
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Reviewed: 06-10-12
My Gut Says You Should Read This Book
The original academic and body of research that Gladwell based his best-selling "Blink" on. Gigerenzer experiments on "fast and frugal" decision making have many implications for situations we face all the time in our lives - I just have not quite worked out if I'm so easily swayed and nudged (see below), and my mental probabilistic machinery is so poor (again see below) when I should trust my gut feelings and when I should do the opposite.
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- nephrotic syndrome: a group of symptoms that occur together and include edema or body swelling, protein in the urine, low blood protein levels and high blood cholesterol
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- renal tubular acidosis: a condition that involves an accumulation of acid in the body due to the kidneys' failure to filter urine properly
- glomerulonephritis: inflammation of the glomeruli, the structures inside the kidney that help to filter the blood
- effects of structural birth defects on the formation of the urinary tract: hydronephrosis (swollen kidney), obstruction (blockage), vesicoureteral reflux and renal agenesis (born with one kidney)
- multicystic kidney disease: abnormal fetal development that leads to the development of multiple cysts in the place where a kidney should be
- Fanconi syndrome: a disorder of the small kidney tubes in which certain substances normally absorbed into the bloodstream by the kidneys are released into the urine instead
- acute renal insufficiency: a rapid, sudden decrease of kidney function due to damage, inflammation or injury
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Because many kidney problems overlap with diseases of the urinary tract, our pediatric nephrology staff at Nemours duPont Pediatrics, Lancaster often collaborates with Nemours specialists from urology. Other specialists, such as rheumatologists, may also be involved, as in the case of lupus-related kidney disease. Together, we can offer the most up-to-date and effective treatment plan for your child.
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Because kidney problems and high blood pressure (hypertension) often occur together, your child's blood pressure will need to be carefully monitored. However, a single reading taken at the doctor's office isn't always accurate. Some children and teens have what's called "white coat hypertension," meaning that their blood pressure rises at a doctor's office because they're anxious. That's why we offer ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, a test that involves your child's blood pressure being measured at regular intervals over the course of a normal day at home. This gives a more accurate picture of your child's hypertension, and allows us to form a better plan for keeping your child's blood pressure under control.
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Remember Operation Fast and Furious? Mexicans sure do. And now some are planning to sue their government, and ours, for one of the dumbest maneuvers in the history of warfare — part of a 6-year drug war that has exacted more casualties than any other involving the United States in that period.
Mexican legal sources tell me that lawyers there are putting the final touches on a massive lawsuit by relatives of Fast and Furious victims against the American and Mexican governments that launched the botched operation.
Washington careers, perhaps even that of Attorney General Eric Holder, may be destroyed. But the moment also presents an opportunity.
President Obama's election victory last week, the partial legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington state and the new Mexican government about to be sworn in may together provide an opening for an end to the drug war that's killed more than 60,000 Mexicans in six years.
Let's recap: Fast and Furious was hatched in 2009 by Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms bureaucrats. It ended in a December 2010 desert shootout in Arizona between Mexican drug smugglers and US Border Patrol officials. An American agent, Brian Terry, was killed.
As Congress began investigating, details emerged: US officials had planned to allow arms, including high-powered rifles, to "walk" south of the border as they tracked them to the drug kingpins who used them.
Oops: Once in Mexico, the agents lost sight of most of the 2,000 weapons. Vicious killers were now free to use AK-47s and other shiny new weapons.
Terry was not the only victim. Fast and Furious guns also killed between 200 and 300 Mexican citizens, mostly innocent bystanders. And their loved ones are now demanding justice.
In the end, their lawsuit may not go through. The decision as to whether to proceed, according to Mexican sources, will be made by politicos, rather than the courts. That's the way things go down south.
Enrico Pena Nieto, who'll be sworn in as Mexico's new president on Dec. 1, has little incentive to reopen a scandal that could potentially harm relations with Obama.
And when the two presidents meet Nov. 27, Obama may want to help Pena bury the lawsuit that could harm Holder — and perhaps Obama himself.
But here's an idea: Why not work quietly with Mexico to end the increasingly grotesque US-funded drug war?
While the casualties in that war, which Mexican President Felipe Calderon launched with US aid and at its urging six years ago, are mostly non-American, this war has been fought on America's behalf, and the US finances and encourages it.
And as the "Fast and Furious" scandal aptly demonstrates, it's an aimless and unwinnable war.
Washington politics is ripe for such a move, with Republicans rethinking their approach to Hispanics. Immigration reform, for example, might become a rare point of agreement in hopelessly divided DC.
Besides that, though, nothing can be more helpful to relations with our southern neighbor than ending the drug war, which turns so many Mexicans against America.
But how?
The victorious pot initiatives in Colorado and Washington show that legalizing drugs may be the wave of the future. If so, that will reduce the profit margins that feed the drug trade.
Remember prohibition? Its repeal curbed much of the violence that sullied the gilded age.
Of course, drug legalization is likely to take a while.
Which leaves the option that the new Mexican administration apparently favors: Declare victory, however implausible, and simply end the war. Obama has experience with that kind of thing: He did it in Iraq and is about to do it in Afghanistan, for better or worse.
Ending Mexico's carnage is a net gain. It will help unify North America, creating a powerful bloc on the global stage.
It will also, at least partially, vindicate Obama's boast in his victory speech last Tuesday: "A decade of war is ending."
It's not, but in the case of Mexico it should be.
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From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc ("black, dark", also "ink"), from Proto-Germanic *blakaz ("burnt") (compare Dutch blaken ("to burn"), Old High German blah ("black"), Old Norse blakra ("to blink")), from Proto-Germanic *blakaz, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- ("to burn, shine") (compare Latin flagrāre ("to burn"), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, "flame"), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, "radiance")). More at bleach.
black (comparative blacker, superlative blackest)
- (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- (of a place, etc) Without light.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
- 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, "Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds", in New York Times[1]:
- The country's first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
- black drinking fountain; black hospital
- (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red ("of the hearts or diamonds suit")
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- 1655, Benjamin Needler, Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. London: N. Webb and W. Grantham, page 168.
- ...what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
- Nor were there wanting some, who, after the departure of Jenny, insinuated that she was spirited away with a design too black to be mentioned, and who gave frequent hints that a legal inquiry ought to be made into the whole matter, and that some people should be forced to produce the girl.
- 1655, Benjamin Needler, Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. London: N. Webb and W. Grantham, page 168.
- Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- He shot her a black look.
- Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
- 1866, The Contemporary Review, London: A. Strahan, page 338.
- Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
- 1866, The Contemporary Review, London: A. Strahan, page 338.
- (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
- (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
- Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
- (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white ("said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color").
- Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
- (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
- Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
- 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
- (dark and colourless): dark; swart
- (without light): dark, gloomy, pitch-black
absorbing all light
without light
relating to people with dark skin
historical: designated for use by those with dark skin
bad; evil
expressing menace, or discontent
illegitimate, illegal or disgraced
off coffee or tea, without milk or other whitener
chess, checkers etc.: color opposing "white"
relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.
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black (countable and uncountable, plural blacks)
- (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- black colour:
- Shakespeare
- Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.
- (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
- (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Death", Essays:
- Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, "Of Death", Essays:
- (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
- 2004, Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese, Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising (page 108)
- Prize-winning books continue a trend toward increased representation of blacks, accounting for most of the books with exclusively black characters.
- 2004, Anthony Joseph Paul Cortese, Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising (page 108)
- (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
- (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate
- (Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
- (informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
- (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
- At this point black makes a disastrous move.
- (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
- Sir K. Digby
- the black or sight of the eye
- Sir K. Digby
- (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
- Rowley
- defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust
- Rowley
- (colour or absence of light):
- (person):
- (standard) African American (in the US), Afro-American (in the US), person of color (US) or person of colour (UK), person of African descent
- (usually derogatory or historical): Negro
- (derogatory): coon, darkie or darky, nigger
- (colour, dye, pen): white
dye, pigment
pen, pencil, etc. with black pigment
dark-skinned person
billiards, snooker, pool: black ball
baseball: edge of home plate
type of firecracker
blackcurrant syrup in mixed drinks
part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black
stain — See also translations at spot
black (third-person singular simple present blacks, present participle blacking, simple past and past participle blacked)
- To make black, to blacken.
- 1859, Oliver Optic, Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn, a Story for Young Folks [2]
- "I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully.
- "Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
- 1911, Edna Ferber, Buttered Side Down [3]
- Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
- 1922, John Galsworthy, A Family Man: In Three Acts [4]
- I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. Of course father did black his eye.
- 1859, Oliver Optic, Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn, a Story for Young Folks [2]
- To apply blacking to something.
- 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin [5]
- ...he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
- 1861, George William Curtis, Trumps: A Novel [6]
- But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I black your boots for you?"
- 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson [7]
- Loving you, I could conceive no life sweeter than hers — to be always near you; to black your boots, carry up your coals, scrub your doorstep; always to be working for you, hard and humbly and without thanks.
- 1853, Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin [5]
- (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
to blacken — see blacken
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Terms derived from black
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|Colors in English · colors, colours (layout · text)
|gray, grey
|red ; crimson
|yellow ; cream
|cyan ; teal
|azure, sky blue
|violet ; indigo
|magenta ; purple
- black at OneLook Dictionary Search
- black on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Black on Wikisource.Wikisource
black (plural blacks)
black m, f (plural blacks)
- black person
- Synonym: noir
- 2015, Ilham Maad, Noir, pas black[8]:
- C'est qu'en France, les blancs n'existent pas et par contre la façon de parler des nonblancs existe et évolue avec le temps. Parce qu'effectivement, d'abord on était sur des termes purement et simplement racistes avec « bamboula, negro, nègre, bicot, bougnoule » et puis après ça a évolué et on est arrivé à « black, beur »… Donc je sais pas quand est-ce que ça a commencé exactement, moi je marque ça aux années 80, le hip hop, voilà, la black music…
- In France, there are no Whites, but names for non-Whites are constantly evolving. First we had terms that were purely and simply racist, like jigaboo, negro, nigger, coon, sambo... That evolved until we got to Black, Brownie... I'm not sure when that came in, but I guess it was the 1980s, with hip-hop and "Black music."
- C'est qu'en France, les blancs n'existent pas et par contre la façon de parler des nonblancs existe et évolue avec le temps. Parce qu'effectivement, d'abord on était sur des termes purement et simplement racistes avec « bamboula, negro, nègre, bicot, bougnoule » et puis après ça a évolué et on est arrivé à « black, beur »… Donc je sais pas quand est-ce que ça a commencé exactement, moi je marque ça aux années 80, le hip hop, voilà, la black music…
Middle English[edit]
- Alternative form of blak
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with historical senses
- en:Card games
- Irish English
- English informal terms
- en:Board games
- en:Chess
- en:Typography
- en:Politics
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Billiards
- en:Snooker
- en:Baseball
- British English
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English verbs
- en:Colors
- English basic words
- en:Blacks
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French nouns
- French masculine nouns
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- French countable nouns
- Middle English lemmas
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Rempel, Cornelius J. (1912-1994)
Cornelius J. Rempel: financial advisor and church worker; born 11 February 1912 to Johann G. Rempel and Justina (Riediger) Rempel in Millerovo, South Russia. He was one of six children in the family, two of whom died in early childhood. In 1924, Cornelius and his family immigrated to Ontario, Canada, where they settled first in Vineland before moving to Kitchener. Cornelius married Marguerite Baerg on 3 August 1938 in Ontario. The couple had three children. Cornelius died of a heart attack, following a short illness, on 13 January 1994 in Kitchener.
Cornelius completed his schooling in Kitchener, Ontario, before obtaining work at the Waterloo Trust Bank, and later at Canada Trust. His special area of work was in mortgages, wills, and estates, a field he later used extensively in various church positions. He converted to Christianity early in life and was committed to serving the church in various capacities, especially in the area of financial guidance for the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren (MB) Churches. In 1938 he married Marguerite Baerg in Ontario. After several years of working in finance, Cornelius became the first director of the Mennonite Central Committee Canada office in Kitchener, a position he held from 1944 to 1951. Much of the work during this time involved helping Mennonite immigrants coming from Europe after the Second World War.
In addition to his career, Rempel volunteered his time extensively, working with the Red Cross, Children's Aid, and Gideons, as well as serving on the boards of Bethesda and Ontario Tabor Home. He was part of the Ontario Peace Commission, served as the Canadian MB Conference Board of Management representative, and served as the Canadian MB Conference secretary from 1975 to 1983. He traveled extensively, even after his retirement, when he served as an asset and legacy adviser for the Canadian MB Conference's Board of Stewardship from 1977 to 1985. Cornelius was a member of the Canadian Peace Commission for 16 years and was also deeply involved in planning for the Mennonite World Conference in 1962. In addition, he was involved with the "Dienst am Evangelium" radio program for many years, as well as the General Welfare and Public Relations Committee of the General Conference of MB Churches from 1951 to 1966. Rempel also served the General Conference of MB Churches as conference secretary from 1972 to 1978.
Even with all of his travels and meetings, Cornelius still took the time to sing in his church choir for over 50 years, as well as in the Sacred Song Quartet, which he helped form, and men's choirs. He was also involved in various athletic activities, including golf, tennis, and baseball. He became ill early in 1994 and died of a heart attack on 13 January in Kitchener. The funeral was held at the Kitchener Mennonite Brethren Church on 16 January 1994. His wife, three children, and one brother survived him.
Cornelius J. Rempel was a dedicated church worker who used the skills he had gained from his career in banking to serve the church throughout his life. In the many committees in which he participated, he helped support the work of the church, becoming an example of faithful service for his family and the people around him.
Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches. "Rempel, Cornelius J." Web. 7 April 2010. http://www.mbconf.ca/home/products_and_services/resources/published_genealogies/personal_papers/rempel_cornelius_j/.
Boldt, Ed. "Remembering Corny: C. J. (Corny) Rempel, 1912-1994." Mennonite Brethren Herald (15 April 1994): 30.
GRANDMA (The Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry) Database, 6.02 ed. Fresno, CA: California Mennonite Historical Society, 2010: #160139.
Mennonite Brethren Herald (15 April 1994): 31.
Die Mennonitische Rundschau (19 June 1957): 1; (April 1994): 30.
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Cornelius was the son of Johann G. Rempel (29 August 1878, Rosenthal, Chortitza, South Russia - 26 May 1957, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada) and Justina (Riediger) Rempel (1 December 1882, Chortitza, Chortitza Mennonite Settlement, South Russia - 7 December 1958, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada).
Cornelius married Marguerite Baerg (24 July 1915, Tiege, Molotschna, South Russia - 4 August 2007) on 3 August 1938 in Kitchener, Ontario. Marguerite was the daughter of Cornelius Johann Baerg (4 August 1874, Lichtenau, Molotschna, South Russia - 23 September 1955, Ontario, Canada) and Elisabeth (Unruh) Baerg (11 July 1876, Temir Bulat, Crimea, South Russia - 25 November 1972, Vineland, Ontario).
Cornelius and Marguerite had three children: Carol, Paul, and Betsy.
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Mark Wilson raced through his first decade in his role as Director of Athletics at Tennessee Tech University — last year he completed his 13th year at the helm of the bustling department.
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From the get-go his priority has been enhancing the 'student-athlete' experience, challenging them with tough schedules, improved facilities, and opportunities to develop to their fullest potential, not only in competition but in the classroom, their lives and futures.
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In the Spring of 2016, for the 15th consecutive semester Tech's student-athletes teamed up to top 3.0 for their combined grade point average (GPA). Over the past several semesters, Golden Eagle student-athletes have posted the highest GPAs in school history.
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Wilson's hiring decisions have also paid off. Twenty-six Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) regular season and tournament championships have been won, along with the 2012 OVC Sportsmanship Award. The 2011 football team under Watson Brown won its first conference championship since 1975. The women's basketball team has won two OVC championships in the last six seasons. The tennis team, under the direction of three-time OVC Coach of the Year Kenny Doyle, has won the regular season championship four of the last five years, as well as the 2016 tournament title and automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.
In 2013, Wilson was named one of four winners of the Athletic Director of the Year Award for the Football Championship Subdivision, an honor selected and presented by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics
Wilson, 46, has been active in the Ohio Valley Conference governance structure, and has served as chair of the OVC Board of Director of Athletics and represented the OVC on the NCAA Leadership Council.
Well-respected on the national scene, he is highly involved in numerous committees. Following his previous appointment on the NCAA Leadership Council, Wilson serves as President of the FCS ADA Executive Committee following a year-long stint as First Vice President. He is currently serving a four-year term on the NCAA Division I Football Championship Committee, acting as Chair for 2015-16 and also serves on the NCAA Football Oversight Committee.
Wilson's first 12 years as Director of Athletics at TTU have showcased his vision, energy, and enthusiasm for providing outstanding experiences for Tech's student-athletes and fans. In addition to major improvements in Tennessee Tech's athletics facilities, high graduation and APR rates by Golden Eagle student-athletes, and outstanding academic success, Wilson has also cultivated excellent relationships with the campus, community and alumni.
In short, Wilson has facilitated growth and excellence in all areas of TTU Athletics.
Wilson also developed a strategic plan for Tech's athletic facilities and has already seen some of those plans become reality. During the past seven years Tech has completed several construction and renovation projects to athletic facilities. In addition to the APC and the basketball office complex, projects have included a new natural grass practice field, installation of new turf in Tucker Stadium, installation of lights at the Tech soccer field, renovation of the running track, football offices, meeting rooms and locker rooms, and new lights at Tucker Stadium. Last year, Tech debuted a spectacular, new video board in Eblen Center and most recently, all new seats were installed in the arena.
Additional building plans call for a new student-athlete center, an on-campus tennis center, and enhancements to Tucker Stadium.
Another step achieved under Wilson's direction has been increased fundraising and development efforts with the goal of providing the necessary facilities and resources for Tech's student-athletes, coaches and staff.
All of those accomplishments have come while the department has continued to stay focused on compliance with all NCAA rules and regulations. The most recent NCAA announcements show that all 14 of Tech's athletic programs are comfortably above the benchmark for compliance in the Academic Progress Rate (APR).
Just as important are the relationships that Wilson has developed and nurtured, including the Cookeville-Putnam County Chamber of Commerce, the student body, the campus community and the region at-large. His leadership has been instrumental in the overwhelming success in the community's host role at Tucker Stadium for the annual Blue Cross Bowl for the TSSAA high school state championship football games.
Tech has also seen growth in regional and national media exposure for its student-athletes and coaches while his hands-on approach to marketing and branding Golden Eagle Athletics has earned increased opportunities and involvement for fans and sponsors. Some of the ideas he has implemented include the Purple Pride Caravans, a new athletics logo and branding marks that have gained nationwide recognition, and an updated and modern ticketing system.
Under Wilson's direction, Tech has introduced an enhanced digital video presence for athletics, including free live web streaming productions and a variety of additional video programs, interviews and features that give fans, alumni and supporters greater access to Golden Eagle teams, student-athletes, coaches and staff.
Wilson was named Director of Athletics on July 1, 2004. He came to Tennessee Tech from a position of Associate Athletic Director at Ohio University. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Athletic Marketing for the University of Massachusetts, worked as a graduate assistant in the UMass athletic department and interned with the Northwestern University ticketing and marketing departments.
Wilson received his bachelor's degree in 1991 from the University of Maine in physical education and health, and earned his master's in sports management from the University of Massachusetts in 1994.
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