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VATICAN CITY (AP) ' The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI will be available should Fidel Castro ask to meet with the pontiff when he visits Cuba later this month.
Castro hosted Pope John Paul II during his historic visit in 1998, but the 85-year-old former Cuban leader has made only rare public appearances in recent months. He was last seen in photographs released by Cuban state media March 2 with Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who was recovering from tumor surgery in Cuba.
Asked about a possible Fidel Castro-pope meeting at a media briefing Friday, Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said that if Castro "wants to, the pope will be available." Benedict arrives in Cuba from Mexico on March 26.
During the briefing, Lombardi, asked about the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba, said the Vatican's "often-repeated position" is contrary to the measure.
"The Holy See does not hold it to be a positive or useful measure. It is something that causes the population to suffer, and therefore does not attain its purpose," he said.


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A Rise in First Time Homebuyers in AlbertaTuesday, January 22nd, 2013
A recent national survey sent out to prospective buyers in Alberta reports that over the next two years Alberta will see a rise in first time homebuyers. If this is any indication, Albertans remain confident in the marketing heading in to 2013 and the future.
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Release Date: 30 January 2013
Platform: PC (reviewed), Mac
Erica Reed returns in the continuation of Cognition. Cognition is a Kickstarter funded game from the team behind The Silver Lining, a fan-made King's Quest sequel. Erica has psychic abilities that she can use to help unravel a crime scene and discover hidden details about a case. In the first episode, you learn about Erica's ability and the untimely loss of her brother; a case that was never solved. Episode 2 picks up Erica's story.
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When we last left Erica Reed, she had just had a shootout with a criminal and found her boss had been murdered. This episode picks up right where the old episode left off. A new director of Erica's department is assigned and refuses to put Erica on the case of her boss's murder. This game starts out with a bang. As Erica talks to her new boss, a fellow employee is kidnapped right from the police station. It becomes Erica's job to take over his case, track down the Wise Monkey killer, and save her coworker.
The Wise Monkey has been killing victims and then removing their eyes, ears, or tongue. There are four victims to date and Erica must unravel the mystery to find her coworker. She starts by visiting the Dean at Berkley College of music. All the victims have some correlation with that place. Then she collects clues that will lead her to locations, both old and new.
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I had hailed the previous episode as being a very strong story, with out-of-place and illogical puzzles. This episode continues a strong story, and the puzzles have improved. The puzzles are much better integrated into the story line without feeling illogical or forced.
In this game Erica learns a new use for her power. Certain items can hold onto the memory of events that they were a part of. By using her power on multiple items at once; Erica can revisit the memory. This is the primary use of Erica's power during this game and most of the puzzles lie around finding the items that must be used together and deciphering the visions that they present. Unfortunately, a lot of the powers that Erica discovered and used in the previous episode get underutilized this time around.
I felt the graphics of this episode improved over the previous episode. I wouldn't call it a surprising jump in quality. I just suspect the team is growing more comfortable with its tools and are able to utilize them better. The colors felt brighter and the artistic style more confident.
Final Thoughts
This game continues to show that the Phoenix Online team is honing its craft and discovering good ways to tell stories through the gaming medium. If you enjoyed first episode, you'll like this one even better. If you're a fan of adventure games then you'll want to check this series out.
Grade: A
+ Even better than the first episode.
+ Story remains strong and puzzles are improved.
+ Better overall artistic quality.
Buy it now - Cognition - Episode 2 - $9.99
Release Date: Jan 30, 2013
Brief: When someone close to Erica is kidnapped by the Wise Monkey, a serial killer fixated on the gruesome mutilation of their victims, Erica is in a race against time to save his life. With the Wise Monkey case in her hands and the FBI's resources already stretched thin, she's on her own to find the killer before it's too late - again.


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Like many states, Virginia has a history as a battleground state when it comes to LGBT rights.
Recently the Governor of Virginia repealed non-discrimination protections for state employees on the basis
of sexual orientation. However, in rural parts of that same state, students like Timothy Rogers are
taking the bold and brave step to form Gay-Straight Alliances to fight discrimination.
When asked about forming a GSA at his own school, Timothy said, "Our county has two Gay-Straight Alliances. Some schools are more welcoming to them than others. Our principal at first seemed really opposed to the idea."
Every week, students outside of California call GSA Network to get more information about their rights and what they can do to start a Gay-Straight Alliance. Last week, Timothy in Virginia reached out to GSA Network's National Program Manager Danielle Askini to get information about his rights, and specifically how to talk to his Principal.
Timothy shared, "Our Principal wanted us to call the group 'Spectrum'. When we first talked to her about starting a gay-straight alliance, she seemed completely opposed to the idea of having the word 'gay' in our
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Timothy offered other students advice. "I think that students who want a GSA should fight for it. However, they should go about it peacefully and follow the school's procedures. Get together with your friends and others and go as a group to peacefully show them how much support the group has. I feel the best thing to do is to be as kind as possible and not rude."
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Automatic Emergency Braking to become standard equipment
EuroNCAP, the safety organisation that gives star ratings to most new cars has said it will not give a five star rating to new cars from 2014 unless they are fitted with Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB).
These systems are more frequently known as "City Stop", and automatically apply the brakes if the integrated radar system picks up an obstacle immediately in front of the car which the driver has not reacted to.
Euro NCAP says that real world performance data suggests AEB systems can reduce accidents by up to 27% (although our story last week suggests a slightly lower figure). A recent survey undertaken by Euro NCAP reveals that AEB is completely unavailable on 79% of the car models on sale in Europe and that 66% of manufacturers do not offer an AEB system on any of their new car models.
Premium brands unsurprisingly have the best levels of standard AEB fitment. However, some volume sector manufacturers are making AEB systems available on cars such as the Mazda CX-5, the Ford Focus, the Honda Civic and the VW Up. It is understood that Fiat will also make AEB a low-cost option on the new Panda in July 2012. AEB systems are increasingly being made available as cars are replaced by new or facelifted models, such as the Mercedes-Benz A-Class, the Ford Fiesta and Ford Kuga.
Michiel van Ratingen, Secretary General of Euro NCAP says 'A faster penetration of these technologies into new cars will make it more realistic for the European Union to reach its target to cut road deaths by 50% by 2020. Consequently, Euro NCAP has decided to include AEB assessments as part of the overall star rating from 2014 onwards and hopes that European authorities will soon require AEB as mandatory on all new vehicle types.'


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Dr. Dane S. Claussen interviewed about New York Times plagiarism Friday, May 22, 2009
Dr. Dane S. Claussen, Professor & Graduate Program Director, School of Communication, was interviewed Monday afternoon, May 18, by KDKA radio afternoon news hosts Paul Rasmussen and Rose Ryan-Douglas about the plagiarism scandal surrounding New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
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A report Wednesday of an adult male sitting in a pickup and possibly in possession of a firearm resulted in an arrest, the Polk County Sheriff's Office reports.
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In sculptures made out of an array of discarded factory materials and old office furniture, Nuno Sousa Vieira explores opposites: consumption and usefulness versus refuse and obsolescence; the mass-produced versus the handmade; function over form versus form over function. Sousa Vieira renders utilitarian materials useless, while referencing their former functions and investing them with new life as elegant sculptural works. In Próspero (2006), for example, he transforms two wooden stepladders, perilous to climb, into gently torqued sculptures of artfully composed vertical and horizontal lines.
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By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online company SurveyMonkey rolled out on Monday its new polling product aimed at business customers, the company said.
The company also is hiring its first sales people to pitch the new SurveyMonkey Enterprise product directly to corporations and other large organizations. The product will also be available internationally.
Until now, consumers have signed up for the free or for-pay versions of SurveyMonkey by visiting the company's website and creating an account.
"We think it could be long term a very good growth driver for the business," said Chief Executive Dave Goldberg in an interview with Reuters last week.
SurveyMonkey, which allows people to create quick polls that can be posted on Web sites, is already used for business purposes by the majority of its users, Goldberg said.
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"In the moment, it was crazy." Iowa State defensive end David Irving said. "It was such a huge rush, I can't really explain it."
It was a big play. Iowa State was holding a 30-23 lead at TCU on October 6 in Fort Worth. TCU faced second and eight at its 31-yard line. Horned Frog quarterback Trevone Boykin attempted a pass that Irving blocked and then intercepted. The sophomore returned the ball 20 yards for a touchdown that gave the Cyclones a 37-23 lead with 7:51 left in the game.
Irving's exceptional play helped Iowa State to a 37-23 victory that ended TCU's 12-game win streak and 25-game conference win skein.
"I had made a conscious decision to play David more," Iowa State defensive ends coach Curtis Bray said. "He was making good strides in practice and it looked like a good time to get him in the game."
At 6-7, 280 pounds, one would think Irving was a power forward for Iowa State head coach Fred Hoiberg's Cyclone basketball team. Instead, Irving uses his daunting size and outrageous wingspan to rush quarterbacks as a defensive end.
At a young age, the then much smaller Irving knew he had athleticism in his blood. His mother, Kimberly Irving, formally Kimberly Thompson, played basketball for California.
"I wasn't always this big," Irving said. "In ninth grade I was about 5-foot, 10-inches," Irving said. "My junior year I shot up six inches."
In high school, Irving played a little football his freshman year, but it was really his senior season that he started to become the dominant player you see today. He maintained a 3.0 GPA throughout his junior and senior years of high school.
Irving brings serious size to Iowa State's defensive line. Combine that with his speed and long arms, Irving is a force in the making. In 2011, he played in nine games and recorded five tackles and two pass breakups. Through six games this fall, Irving has 11 tackles including seven solo stops, a pass deflection and the interception.
Understanding the game better is the main thing to which Irving credits his development. He now has a better read of the calls and realizes the level he has to compete at every day.
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As I discuss career options with a group of third-year
medical students, I imagine a marketing brochure
for psychiatry residencies in a world of mental health
The brain is undeniably the most
complex organ of the human body.
Beyond controlling virtually all body
functions, the brain is the source of the
mind, which is but an ethereal concept,
so hard to grasp that even the language
of mental theory requires methodical
parsing. Treatments for diseases of the
mind and brain require the intricate
understanding of chemistry, physiology,
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to step outside of oneself and objectively
observe personality and emotion.
The psychiatrist must tolerate the unsettling
awareness of the mysterious relationship
between mind and matter and
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to the mysteries of the human condition.
The shortage of physicians willing
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Some medical students become cardiovascular
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based in the final frontiers of medical
knowledge. No wonder that the masters
of medicine—those who work in the vast
field of interventional psychiatry—are
so valued by society.
The time has come for my transition
from psychiatric residency to psychiatric
practice. Not surprisingly, we graduates
have encountered great demand
for our services; the posting of resumes
on Internet boards results in a slew of
telephone calls from eager recruiters.
For my younger colleagues, the prospect
of 6-figure incomes suggests reward, at
last, for years of work and debt. Most
job offers come from health care systems
looking for someone to prescribe
medication to complement their bevy
of lower-paid psychotherapists.
Under the guarantee of income and
benefits lies the expectation of productivity.
This productivity is not measured
by patient satisfaction, symptom improvement,
or reduced morbidity. Rather, the name of the game is the relative value
unit, or RVU. The way to get more RVUs
is to see more patients in whatever time
is available. While many residents long
for the independence to practice as they
see fit, their debt loads require more practical
approaches. Concerns over production
and practice limitations pale in
comparison to long-delayed plans to start
families and buy houses.
For my part, I am grateful for the
opportunity to earn good money in the
service of a challenging and rewarding
career, but I am also aware of the striking difference between the salaries of
psychiatrists and the salaries of many
other physicians. As a former practitioner
in one of medicine's more lucrative
specialties, I find myself comparing
my apparent value now with my value
then. Why is my work now worth less
than half as much as my work as an
At the end of a night in the crisis
service last week, I walked past a group
of patients huddled in the cold, waiting
for the doors of the walk-in clinic
to open. As I looked at their tired faces,
I realized the desperation they must feel
that compels them to leave their homes
or homeless shelters at such a cold and
early hour and make the trek to the clinic
by foot or by bus. Their pains were certainly
as great as the pains of any of
my patients presenting for surgery. But
for some reason, there is less outrage
over their lack of care than there would
be for a group of patients with untreated
diabetes, appendicitis, or heart disease
standing outside a hospital. I realized
that like many in society, I had unwittingly
accepted the scene before me as
representing adequate care for the mentally
The RBRVS, or resource-based relative
value scale, was instituted by Medicare in 1992 in an attempt to standardize
payments for physician services.
RVUs are assigned to physician
services based on 3 main factors: physician
work, practice expenses, and the
cost of liability insurance. Physician
work is determined by several factors,
including time required for the service,
technical skill and physical effort, mental
effort and judgment, and amount of
stress experienced by the physician
from the risk to the patient. To arrive
at the fair value of services, the number
of RVUs is multiplied by a universal
dollar value and adjusted slightly for
practice location, according to regional
cost of living indices.


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These seat covers are very thick and durable in canvas which was what I needed for the rainy season that just began. They took about 30 minutes to put on (15 minutes a piece). There was some air in-between the covers and the actual seat which goes away after about a week of use. I would have explained that in the instructions, because it was kind of concerning at first. However, with that said I like getting in my car with these new seat covers.


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British pop stars One Direction made dreams come true for a group of sick children by organising a day out for them in London this week (ends28Oct12).
The boy band teamed up with the Rays of Sunshine charity, which grants the wishes of seriously and terminally ill children, to arrange a meeting with a number of kids at a London hotel on Friday (26Oct12).
The singers spent time with youngsters including burns victim Niamh Wyle, seven, Grace Millar, nine, who has undergone a liver transplant, and nine-year-old leukemia patient Eve Kelly.
Bandmember Liam Payne says, "It's such a small thing for us but the kids get so much out of it. We really love doing things like this. We leave smiling because they are always so wonderful."
His bandmate, Niall Horan, adds, "It is totally humbling to meet kids like this. And it really makes you feel good that you can do something nice for them. We've had amazing good luck and many of these children haven't. But they are always happy and we go away feeling brilliant. It's like we're giving something back."


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Headliner: Kevin Rigby, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
VP/US country head of public affairs, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2001 – 2012 VP, public affairs/communications, Novartis
1995 – 2001 VP government affairs and policy, Hoffmann-La Roche
Novartis' Kevin Rigby, just named Honorable Mentor for 2013 by the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association, has traversed the worlds of law, politics and pharma public affairs in his career. He's been a small-town mayor, a county prosecutor, a chief of staff to a United States Senator. These days, he's VP public affairs for Novartis. Along the way, he's had many mentors, but two stand out.
The first was Senator Bill Bradley (D-NJ), who told a harried Rigby in the heat of one legislative crisis: "You don't know how good you can be."
"Not only did he express confidence in me, but he opened me up to believing that all of us have such great potential," says Rigby, who was Bradley's chief of staff from 1990 to 1992.
The other was Ron Hardiman, a Republican township council member when Rigby became mayor of his hometown, River Falls, NJ, in 1979. Hardiman, Rigby remembers, gave him two pieces of advice that he's carried with him throughout his professional life.
"Number one: Listen to what people are saying," Rigby recalls. "And second: Never lose your sense of humor. I love to laugh, and I find it's a way of changing a confrontational situation to one where it's just two people expressing different opinions."
Of Rigby, Novartis Corp. president André Wyss told HBA: "His intuition, optimism, sense of humor and willingness to provide honest, constructive feedback—combined with his skills as an active listener and strategic thinker—make Kevin a sought after mentor, counselor and confidante to a broad group of individuals. Kevin is passionate about diversity and inclusion and strongly supports the career development and advancement of associates across our organization."
Rigby, who heads government affairs, policy, philanthropy, patient access and advocacy in his job at Novartis, also finds time for a host of charitable roles—chairing the Healthcare Institute of New Jersey and the New Jersey Workplace Blood Donor Coalition, not to mention family humanitarian missions to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua—and has headed the company's Executive Diversity and Inclusion Council, which aims to make the pharma giant more inclusive of women and minority employees.
"You can only be successful when you maximize the potential of everyone, and it's critical to foster an environment where everyone can contribute," says Rigby. "This way we can ensure we have a pipeline of leaders, and it will be a better place to work and a more successful company. With today's diverse customer base, it's more important than ever to be able to get from all of our associates their viewpoints."
Rigby challenges mentees to seek honest feedback and tries to offer constructive criticism.
"I may not tell them what they want to hear, but I also provide them avenues to resolve their issues and encourage them to believe in themselves and all that they can do."
"I've found that it's not one-size-fits-all when you mentor," he adds. "Each individual is different."
Rigby, son of an NYPD detective, has always wanted to make a difference in the lives of others, as his volunteer activities attest. At Rutgers, he ran the juvenile correctional volunteer program. "I received an awful lot of satisfaction from that," he says, "and I also realized that a lot of people didn't have it easy."
He also draws inspiration from the oldest of his three children, a son who was tragically lost at age 21 in a house fire while away at college.
"When you pack away his trophies and the things he accomplished, and what you hear most often is of the difference he made in peoples' lives, there's no greater thing a father can hear than that."


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Fred Lazarus IV H'14 is president emeritus of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where from 1978 to 2014 he led the evolution of the College into a globally recognized leader in transformative art and design education. Under his leadership, MICA's enrollment more than doubled; the size of the campus increased tenfold; the endowment grew by more than 25 times; three research centers were created; and seventeen undergraduate and graduate academic programs were added. Today, MICA's MFA graduate programs are ranked in the top 10 nationally by US News and World Report, and Parade magazine recently promoted MICA's undergraduate studio arts programs as one of the top two nationwide. Programming instituted by the College in both interdisciplinary study and community and social engagement have sparked international trends in higher education. In 2013, President Lazarus was named a finalist for the Baltimore Sun's Marylander of the Year award, and won its online poll. Baltimore magazine recognized him for having the city's "Best Legacy" in their 2013 "Best Of Baltimore" edition, and Baltimore's City Paper named him the city's most powerful person during the first week of May 2013. Also in 2013, the City of Baltimore announced the creation of the annual Fred Lazarus IV Artscape Prize, to be awarded each year to a high school senior. Lazarus received an honorable mention for the 2012 Marylander of the Year award, was featured in Baltimore magazine's 2011 "power" listing of the city's most influential people, and was awarded the 2010 Founders Award for Civic Leadership from Partners for Livable Communities. More recently, he was honored by resolutions passed in both the Maryland House of Delegates and Maryland Senate, and the City of Baltimore declared March 26, 2014 as "Fred Lazarus Day."
Beyond MICA, President Lazarus is a national leader in the advancement and integration of the arts, education, and community development. He served as founding chair of both Americans for the Arts and the National Coalition for Education in the Arts, and has also chaired the Maryland Independent College and Universities Association, the Arts Education Committee of the American Council for the Arts, and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. He is the founding and current chair of Central Baltimore Partnership, a founding board member of both the Midtown Development Corporation board and the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design, and serves on numerous other boards of directors, including Partners for Livable Communities, Arts Every Day, and Americans for the Arts. He is also a founder and vice-chair of the Baltimore Design School.
While Lazarus has overseen innovations in academic programming that are global in scope, much of his work has also been focused on improving the cultural and economic vitality of Baltimore. In fact, thanks in large part to Lazarus's leadership, Baltimore's reputation as a cultural destination has exploded in recent years. He was instrumental in launching the city's annual Artscape festival, which has become the largest free arts festival in the United States. Anchored on MICA's campus and extending out for multiple city blocks, Artscape annually draws more than 350,000 visitors and has an economic impact on Maryland approaching $26 million. Likewise, his leadership in opening MICA's Graduate Studio Center on a neglected stretch of Baltimore's North Avenue triggered the revitalization of that entire area and its subsequent designation as Maryland's first official Arts and Entertainment District. Now known as Station North, and fueled by energy from MICA's student body and other cultural enthusiasts, its galleries, performance spaces, eateries, and shops are havens for individuals seeking creative pursuits and constitute an economic engine for the city. His advocacy helped persuade the MICA board of trustees to make community development an integral part of the College's mission and strategic plan, and the College has used its growth to anchor expanded business opportunities based on the arts, the development of residential spaces, and the of recruitment artists to live and work in areas adjacent to the school. Through Lazarus's strong encouragement, MICA's senior leadership staff and faculty serve on and chair dozens of cultural and economic development boards across the city.
Lazarus's unique understanding of how to leverage art and education to economically and culturally empower communities is rooted in his own education and early career. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in economics from Claremont-McKenna College. After serving two years in the Peace Corps, he eventually became president of the Washington Council for Equal Business Opportunity, where he helped secure business investment in impoverished areas of the nation's capital. He later served as senior aide to the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts before coming to MICA. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Baltimore City Mayor's Award, the National Art Education Association's Distinguished Service Award, the Sustainable Growth Award from Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission, the Smart Growth Hero Award from 1000 Friends of Maryland, the Sue Hess Maryland Arts Advocate of the Year Award from Maryland Citizens for the Arts, and honorary doctorates from Osaka University for the Arts in Japan, MICA, and The Johns Hopkins University.
Impact Beyond MICA
Americans for the Arts
In 1996, the American Council for the Arts and the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies merged to form Americans for the Arts. According to the organization, its goal was "to increase access to and participation in the arts and culture for all Americans by supporting arts education and developing leaders, resources, and strong agencies." Lazarus was selected to serve as the first chair of the newly named organization's board. Since that time, the organization has enhanced its reputation as one of the nation's leading arts advocacy organizations, presiding over numerous initiatives that have increased the visibility of and support for art and culture on multiple levels, from the halls of Congress to schools and individual households. Through advocacy, the organization has helped attract billions of dollars in federal, state, local government, and private financial support for cultural initiatives. It also provides research, such as the National Arts Index, to highlight the importance and impact of culture in America; connects organizations that empower artists and expand access to culture; and provides tools for individuals and organizations leading related initiatives and alliances.
Central Baltimore Partnership
Lazarus is the founding and current chair of the Central Baltimore Partnership, an organization that connects partners and brings development resources to neighborhood organizations, nonprofits, educational institutions, private businesses, and city government agencies in an area of Baltimore that includes Penn Station and stretches from MICA to the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. The organization, founded in 2006, works to improve the long-term quality of life in the area through support for residential and commercial development, education, and culture. It acts as a leader addressing a wide range of areas, such as safety, sanitation, appearance, traffic, schools, housing, and code enforcement.
Midtown Development Corporation
As a founding board member of the Midtown Development Corporation, Lazarus has helped guide the organization as it addresses property development needs in the Bolton Hill, Charles North, Madison Park, Mount Vernon, and Seton Hill neighborhoods of Baltimore. Founded in 2000, its core service is to help new homeowners and renovators find and work with contractors, design renovations, finance purchases, and rehab houses. Since its founding, the organization has helped foster the renovation of more than 100 buildings with a total value in excess of $25 million.
Baltimore Design School
With a focus on fashion, architecture, and graphic design, Baltimore Design School is among few in the country that allow middle school students to explore design-related fields in-depth. State Senator Catherine Pugh worked with Lazarus to plan and finance the development of the school and engineer its unique curriculum. Students moved into its permanent home in Station North in 2011, after a $26.85 million renovation of a former clothing factory. Pugh serves as the founding chair of the board, while Lazarus serves as its founding vice-chair.
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
In 1991, Lazarus and 24 other college presidents created the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD). The organization links independent art colleges together to share resources and knowledge, and promote the value of art education. Today, the association has 43 member colleges.


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The Music Industry's Extortion Scheme
The record labels want you to pay a tax on music. It's not as horrible as it sounds.
What would you do if a bully—let's call him "Joey Giggles"—kept snatching your ice-cream cone? OK, now what if Joey Giggles then told you, "If you pay me five bucks a month, I'll stop snatching your ice cream." Depending on how much you hate getting beaten up, and how much you love ice-cream cones, you might decide that caving in is the way to go. This is what's called a protection racket. It's also potentially the new model for how we'll buy and listen to music.
Let's back up for a second. Four companies (Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony BMG, and EMI) control a staggering 90 percent of all record sales in the United States, and they're hopping mad. CD sales are in free fall, and the recording industry's revenues have shrunk from $15 billion to $10 billion in less than a decade. Instead of blaming themselves for failing to embrace the Internet soon enough, Big Music has pointed the finger at piracy, shaking down scofflaw MP3 downloaders with capricious, multimillion-dollar lawsuits. This has not strengthened the record companies' position—at this point, they're losing money and everybody hates them.
Now Big Music is mulling the Joey Giggles approach. Warner Music Group is trying to rally the rest of the industry behind a plan to charge Internet service providers $5 per customer per month, an amount that would be added to your Internet bill. In exchange, music lovers would get all the online tunes they want, meaning that anyone who spends more than $60 a year on music will come out way ahead. Download whatever you want and pay nothing! No more DRM! Swap files to your heart's content—we promise, we won't sue you (or snatch your ice-cream cone)!
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has condemned this idea as a "music tax" and "the music industry's extortion scheme." Though the proposal is not technically a tax—rather, it's a call for "voluntary blanket licensing agreements"—it will certainly feel like one. And instead of paying for roads, schools, and bombs, you would be helping to keep record executives in cigars and the finest silks. As Arrington argues, there is good reason to believe that this huge pot of money will turn the music industry into a lazy near-monopoly that lives off of fat royalty checks. Once the majors get this guaranteed revenue stream, won't they just spend all their time scheming to increase the fee from $5 per customer per month to $7.50? There's also the small matter that not all Internet users listen to or download popular music. If this plan somehow goes through, millions of moms and dads who pay for Net access so junior can browse Britannica Online will find that they are subsidizing the hedonistic lifestyles of America's most-tattooed singing sensations.
Despite all the downsides, something like the music tax simply has to happen. Most of us don't want to steal music. But it takes a saintly person (like me) to jump through hoops to pay for something you can get for free. I use eMusic and Amazon.com, which both offer DRM-free MP3 downloads. Yet cheapskates galore still have their Limewire and BitTorrent and whatever future file-sharing tools savvy Web guerrillas haven't even dreamed up yet.
That's why piracy can't be stopped. Meanwhile, artists aren't being compensated in a sensible way. Sure, some musicians will make a living by playing live shows and selling T-shirts. A massively popular band like Radiohead can give away its music and still make millions. But plenty of other artists will no longer be able to make a living in the music business as royalties dry up, which will leave our culture a little less vital and a little less fun. What we need is a reward system, one that could eliminate middlemen and encourage a massive upsurge in creativity.
Which leads us back to the music industry's extortion scheme. It's not clear that the major labels will line up behind Warner's big idea. Universal Music Group, the biggest of the big, has pushed for a subscription plan called Total Music that is similar in some respects, so they might be receptive. The one thing that all of the major labels agree on is that they have to put iTunes in its place. Apple's online store just surpassed Wal-Mart as America's No. 1 music retailer. The record industry fears that if iTunes further extends its dominance, it will start dictating terms to the major labels—calling for, among other things, lower prices. For the major labels, things like subscription plans and music taxes are enticing because they're opportunities to cut iTunes out of the loop: If you're coughing up $5 a month to Big Music, you'll never pay 99 cents for a song again.
Of course, Apple has its own plan for world domination. Last month, the Financial Times reported that Steve Jobs was pushing the major labels to make a deal that would let them peddle an unlimited music bundle. Apple reportedly wants to pay the majors $20 per iPod or iPhone to access all the songs in their catalogs. The majors want Apple to cough up closer to $80. In practice, this all-you-can-eat plan could mean a few different things. By paying an extra, say, $100 when you buy an iPod, you could have access to everything sold on iTunes. (Or, perhaps iPhone users could pay a subscription fee for the same deal.) While the details are still hazy, the upshot is that owning an Apple product would become even more appealing. The nice thing about this deal for the majors is that the labels earn less than $20 per iPod in download sales now, so anything above that would be gravy. The not-so-nice thing is that it would further entrench iTunes as a musical monolith. Are the major labels sure they want to become Steve Jobs' lackeys? Right now, iTunes controls more than one-fifth of all music sales in the United States. If Jobs gets his way on all-you-can-eat, that share will grow and grow until the labels will never be able to say no to him again. Cue maniacal cackling! The scrappy folks at eMusic have already cried foul, pointing out that the rumored deal smacks of a Microsoft-style antitrust violation. The major labels would be wise to take eMusic's lead.
All-you-can-eat iTunes works for Apple. Voluntary blanket licensing works for Big Music. The problem is that both of these grand plans cut out the little guy. Apple wants to ensure that the iPod will crush all other music-playing devices for 1,000 years by building an overwhelmingly dominant music retail platform. Big Music sells 90 percent of records; if they manage to squeeze money out of the ISPs, one suspects they'd be more than happy to screw the independent labels that make up the other 10 percent.
What plan will work best for music lovers and artists? Instead of a fake music tax, the best solution might be—sorry, libertarians—for the government to step in with a real music tax. In the book Promises To Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment, Harvard Law School professor William Fisher devised an ingenious reward system that levels the playing field for artists. At first glance, it looks a lot like the music biz extortion scheme. The feds would levy a small tax on all broadband subscribers. Musicians, signed and unsigned, would register their creations with the U.S. Copyright Office, who would then set up a massive Nielsen-style sample of music listeners to track the popularity of different songs. The more your song is played, the more you get paid. The revenue from the tax would be parceled out to the copyright holders.
The beauty of this approach is that it has the potential to cut out middlemen like Steve Jobs and the fat-cat record execs. My a cappella version of "Chocolate Rain" would have as much chance of making it as "Purple Rain," at least in theory. When the costs of discovering new music are zero and artists are paid on the basis of how often songs are played, listeners are more adventurous and bands with dedicated followers can make as much scratch as bands that record big hits. Bands get paid, music lovers can listen to their hearts' delight, and the record companies will slowly turn to dust. What's not to like?


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2014: NCAA Qualifier (decathlon) … NEWMAC All-Conference (400m hurdles, 4x100m relay) … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … (Outdoor): finished tenth in the decathlon at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (5/24) … recorded a season best time of 53.71 in the 400m hurdles in the prelims at the NEICAAA Championships (5/10) … won the decathlon at the New England Division III Championships (5/3) … at the NEWMAC Championships (4/26), won the 4x100m relay, finished second in the 400m hurdles in 54.70, and finished fourth in the long jump (21-03.25) and the 110m hurdles (15.77) … (Indoor): finished third in the heptathlon at the ECAC Championships (3/8) with 4651 points … scored 4796 points to break the varsity record and win the heptathlon at the New England Division III Championships (2/22), also finished sixth in the long jump with a season best 21-07.25 … recorded numerous season bests at the Gordon Kelly Invitational (2/8) en route to a first place finish in the 60m hurdles in 8.82, a fifth place finish in the 600m run, crossing the line in 1:26.90, a seventh place finish in the high jump, clearing 6-00.00, and a 33rd place shot put with a final distance of 34-02 … finished fifth in the heptathlon at the Harvard Multi Meet (1/25) scoring 4437 points.
2013: (Indoor): finished tenth in the long jump with 6.18m at the Harvard Challenge (1/19) … came 23rd in the 60m hurdles with a 9.54, was part of the winning 4x400 relay that crossed the line in 3:24.28, which now holds the MIT freshman record and came sixth in the triple jump with 12.79m at the Tufts Stampede (2/02) … was 17th in the 200m with a 24.02 and seventh in the 400m with a time of 51.95 at the Cupid Challenge (2/11) … was part of the Distance Medley Relay that finished in fourth place at the New England Division III Championship (2/16) with a 10:19.07 … (outdoor): came in third place in the 110m Hurdles with a time of 16.19, third in the high jump in 1.80m and fourth in the 400m Hurdles in 59.19 at the Westmont Collegiate Classic (3/30) … finished in second in the high jump against Bates, Colby and USM (4/13) with a jump of 1.88m … at the NEWMAC Championships (4/27), he came in fifth in the 110m Hurdles in 16.32 and third in the 400m Hurdles with a time of 55.36 … was seventh in the decathlon at the New England Division III Championships (5/04) with 5843 points.
Off the Track: Majoring in mechanical engineering … FSAE Team.
High School: A 2012 graduate of Morris Hills High School … five-time All-Conference, three-time All-American, two-time All-Area and two-time All-County … nine-time varsity letterwinner … treasurer of the National Honor Society … vice president of the History Honor Society … Science, Math and Spanish Honor Societies … second place in New Jersey for FBLA Parliamentary Procedure.


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