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|Draft Schedule 7 to the Terrorism Act 2000 (Information) Order 2002
Beverley Hughes: I want to reiterate what I said earlier. I emphasise that the Home Secretary made such an acknowledgment, but on the basis that bringing forward the order today did not obviate or circumvent in any way the further consultation on implementation that we agree is necessary.
Mr. Hawkins: I have already accepted that consultation will continue. Nevertheless it was made clear in writing that, before any legislation was introduced, further consultation would take place. The view of those in the industry, which we share, is that a lot of security experts have given advice to the Government, but that, as yet, the airlines have not been given an opportunity to give the other side of the story. We and the airlines consider that they should have been given that opportunity before the enabling measure was brought forward. It is not as though last Friday it was too late for consultation to take place. It is not as if the House were about to rise for the summer recess. We have more than a week to go before then. Last Thursday, it would have been wiser for the Home Secretary to delay bringing forward the enabling order. It could have been debated in Committee in a week's time. The consultation that was promised could have then taken place in the interim, as urgent and important consultations often do. We share the view of the airlines.
I have specific questions to ask of the Minister. How much consultation has taken place between the Home Office, the Department for Transport, Her Majesty's Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry before the enabling legislation was brought forward? In particular, it seems strange that the Department for Transport is taking so many senior people from the airlines to the United States of America specifically to express worry about the way in which that country is bringing forward similar provisions in the same week as the Home Office is bringing forward the order. There seems to be a lack of joined-up government. Given that many months have passed since 11 September, more consultation should have taken place. The right hand does not know what the left hand is doing.
Will the Minister put on the record her Department's current position in respect of the USA's proposals to introduce a slightly different and less stringent requirement in that country? The hon. Lady said she anticipated another meeting in September, but can she give a firm guarantee of specific dates, even in advance of the first anniversary of the terrorist atrocity on 11 September, of meetings between her Government and their advisers and representatives of the aviation industry and passenger transport groups? Can she guarantee that there will be talks at every stage of the implementation process before further measures are brought forward?
Will the Minister confirm that the implementation of requirements to collect additional data will be proportionate, targeted and carefully planned in line with consultation with the industry? Will she give us more detail about how she envisages the phasing-in process working in practice? Can she tell us specifically why the Government have not published a full regulatory impact assessment on the order? It is
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I hope that the Minister will tell us much more about regulatory impact assessments and the cost to the industry.
What guarantees will be in place to ensure that information collected is accurate? The Minister responded to an intervention by the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey by explaining difficulties of lack of machine readability. There was an exchange about questions of home address. I am advised—this fits in with what the chief executive of the United Kingdom Passport Service told me on Monday last week—that there are several issues that relate to place of birth in addition to home address.
Will the Minister give the airlines a clear assurance that if the provision disrupted passengers to such an extent that there were huge queues and delays and the commercial activities of international carriers, especially, were hugely disrupted, she would immediately review the way in which the system operated? Conservative Members and representatives of the industry have a great fear that the Government—as a representative of the industry may have said at last Thursday's meeting—are creating a haystack in the hope of trying to find a needle.
The Minister knows that my constituents include many senior airline people and pilots because my constituency is close to Heathrow airport. I knew that we were discussing the order and I spoke to several of my constituents who have specific expertise at the weekend. Many of them stressed that however much legislation the House passes and however carefully steps are taken it is impossible to make airports and check-in procedures entirely secure—I think that we understand that. It would be a great shame if pursuit of the entirely laudable objective of preventing terrorism caused hundreds of thousands of UK citizens to have their holidays and travel arrangements disrupted while those in charge of security say that the order will not help. The Minister fairly acknowledged that long queues might hinder security, and I hope that she will say more about that.
The Minister has, to an extent, addressed the question of whether carriers will be required to collect all schedule 7 information regardless of congestion or inconvenience to travellers, something that airlines were particularly worried about. Will she tell us more about the categories of information that the Government anticipate would be required first in a phased introduction? What are we concentrating on at the beginning of the process? Which bits do the Government envisage implementing at the beginning of the process?
Will the Minister confirm that her Department's officials will adopt a flexible approach when demanding information and will not ask for data that carriers are not able to provide for good reasons?
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Beverley Hughes: Perhaps I can clarify that my Department's officials will not ask for data. The police or border agencies will do that.
Mr. Hawkins: I am grateful for that, but this afternoon, the Minister is answering for her Government, and it would be helpful to have a little more detail. From the Minister's response to my earlier intervention, it still seems that, as the airlines have told me, a misunderstanding remains on the part of the Minister and her officials about the information that is collected. Most Committee members will have seen that there has been a lot of press publicity about some no-frills airlines getting photo identification. However, it was confirmed to the Minister and her officials that the information is purely for internal bookings checks and is never retained. The Minister said that some of the airlines say that they collect the information anyway, but that is not my information. Will the Minister, who I know is extremely diligent in such matters, clarify with her officials whether they have correctly understood what happens now and, more importantly, what does not and would be difficult to make happen? That is particularly important for international carriers, from which the greatest concern comes.
A Home Office letter to carriers, dated 4 July 2002, said that the border agencies have undertaken to establish a system whereby carriers receive only one request for data on behalf of the joint agencies in respect of any inquiry, which would avoid duplication of work and receipt of multiple identical requests. In the light of that clear understanding by her officials, will the Minister say how she expects the UK immigration service or other services' ''authority to carry'' proposals relate and cross-cut with schedule 7 requirements?
I raised with the Minister the international carriers' belief that the police do not have the capacity to process the information. The Minister said that that was not her information, so will she check that carefully? I understand that no police representatives attended the meeting last Thursday.
I am concerned about the data protection issues that the order will raise for airlines and carriers. We have seen, in relation to measures under the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, that obligations put on companies with the best of intentions can be difficult to implement without those companies falling foul of the laws relating to data protection and the data protection registrar. Have the Minister and her officials had detailed discussions with the data protection registrar in the light of the proposals? If they have not, will she undertake to have discussions with the registrar, as well as with carriers, to establish what they perceive to be the data protection implications?
There been a lack of consultation with not only airlines in the UK but other countries—a point rightly raised by the hon. Member for Southwark, North and Bermondsey. The airlines perceive a lack of consistency, both among Government Departments and between this country's proposals and those of the United States and other countries in the EU. The
Column Number: 016airlines believe that it is sometimes forgotten that a lot of passport data can be taken by officials without involving the carriers. Indeed, the collection of passport data, for which the powers already exist, is not enforced. Have the Minister, her advisers and the Home Secretary examined the powers that already exist and discussed with the immigration service and the United Kingdom Passport Service whether further steps could be taken using pre-existing powers? The concern is that many of the powers are not used, and if the Government did their work properly, they might not need to impose the new burdens on carriers and passengers.
Will the Minister confirm that the Government understand that 80 per cent. of major international carriers' bookings come through travel and other agents and that many are taken from overseas? The order will impose much greater burdens on international than domestic carriers. I ask the Minister to confirm that she and her officials understand that and will take account of it in further discussions.
There are many concerns. I have set out some of them: the industry can, and no doubt will, raise others in further discussions. I ask the Minister to confirm that she will meet her ministerial colleague responsible for the delegation from the Department for Transport to the United States, and that the Home Office and the Minister' officials will learn the lessons that arise from that delegation.
In summary, the debate has been rushed. There are many unanswered questions, and it would have been much better to leave the debate at least until next week to allow more consultation before the order was presented to the Committee. However, we will not oppose it, as we share the Government's desire to combat terrorism. Opposition Members believe that the Government have gone so far beyond the limits of what is acceptable with this order, even with its virtuous aim, that they will have to be careful to satisfy hon. Members who are concerned about these matters, as well as those outside who want to work with the Government to ensure that terrorists are caught, that they will conduct future consultations better and more fully.
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by Sylvia Benner, CFI-Portland
…was the confident pronouncement by my then 6 year old son some time around 2002. I opened my mouth to respond – and then shut it. What I had been about to do was to indoctrinate.
You see, theists are not the only ones who have sacred cows, and no matter how good our reasons for holding certain beliefs or values, none of those should ever be immune from challenge. That's the gold standard of skeptical parenting, right? Even beliefs and values about race, equality, and prejudice, right?
It's a laudable standard, and I wish I could say that the first concern that leapt into my mind was a concern about the facts: What do you mean by "nice"? How do you operationalize "niceness"? How do you reliably measure the respective niceness of different racial and ethnic groups? If you do find differences, what hypotheses can you develop to explain them? How do you test them? And how in the heck do you have a conversation about all this with a 6 year old?
Unfortunately, my first reaction did not embody the highest ideals of rationality. Rather, I had a brief moment of panic. "Gah! If he ever says this in public, it will be so embarrassing! How did I manage to produce a little racist?" I am proud to say that I wrestled down my reaction that day. (For the record, I make no claim that I always, usually, or even often, succeed at doing so.)
After struggling for a moment, I made contact with my inner Tuvok and found more solid footing. My first objective, I decided, was to teach critical thinking, not to defend my beliefs or instill them in my child. Telling him that he should give more weight to my positions, or to social consensus, than to his own experience struck me as failure to model skepticism.
First, I had to admit that his conclusion was most definitely based on observation. His comment had been triggered by an incident moments earlier: On one of our walks my son had spotted a group of black teenagers on a porch and greeted them brightly. Their response was to glare back at him in silence. It was only the last of many similar experiences he had had with black neighbors in our predominantly black and low-income neighborhood, which had a strong gang presence and was undergoing gentrification at the time.
Not only was there a vast cultural difference between the long established black neighbors and the white, middle-class newcomers, but there was some amount of tension between the groups. While the white neighbors displayed similar behavior as our family, we frequently witnessed black violence, vandalism and threatening behavior, which colored my son's views. Being accosted by young black males during our walks was commonplace, and to make matters worse, the kid who attempted to bully my son in his first grade class was a black kid.
We also had a black neighbor who was mentally ill, and while usually nice, she had episodes during which she angrily berated anyone within earshot. 6-year olds don't make fine distinctions between bad behavior and mental illness, I'm afraid.
So my son's conclusion that blacks were not nice was based on his experience, and experience is not a bad place to start. It's just a really bad place to end.
I asked him to explain why he thought black people weren't nice, and he cited numerous instances of bad behavior he had encountered. I declared that, based on this preliminary information, his conclusion seemed to make sense. Maybe black people weren't nice. But when trying to figure out what's real, I told him, we need to check if we haven't made a mistake in thinking. Only if our thinking passes the error check could we be reasonably certain that we were on the right track.
A good first step to checking the quality of your thinking is to argue with ourselves: Could he come up with information that contradicted his conclusion? For example, could he think of instances in which white people had not been nice? He thought a bit, then named some. Could he think of black people who were really nice? Yes, his Kindergarten teacher, his swimming instructor, and the principal of his school, among others.
"How many black and white people have you met? How many do you think there are in the world?" He couldn't answer that, but we agreed that there were far more people in the world than either he or I knew personally. I wondered out loud how likely it was that he had simply had bad luck and met an unusual number of mean black people and nice white people. He couldn't think of a reason why that would be so (a broader view of things just begins to emerge around age 6, after all), but he conceded that it was at least possible.
I asked him to assess the quality of his conclusion now that we had played devil's advocate with ourselves. He was quite a bit less certain and we agreed that he did not have enough information to determine whether his statement was true or not. We decided to revisit the issue when we had more information.
And the battle for critical thinking was won that day.
I can't say that we actually have revisited the issue deliberately. It has just sort of gone away now that he is 15, has met a lot more people, and gotten a lot more education. But the particular question of racial prejudice was not the core problem I was faced with as a parent wanting to raise a critical thinker. What I cared about was his ability to use good methodology to arrive at conclusions in life, whether about race or any other issue.
What I discovered that day was that the critical point in good thinking is that first moment when, instead of jumping from plausible explanation straight to firm conclusion, we are willing to entertain, and even generate, some doubt. I realized that one of my key jobs as a parent was to teach my son how to create that doubt within himself. To that end, we have often played the Devil's Advocate game.
A few years ago, my son presented me with a book titled "Don't Believe Everything You Think". I think that clever title could be a motto for skeptical parenting. I don't know any secular parents who do not want to raise critical thinkers. I have come to believe (provisionally, as behooves a skeptic) that if we can manage to impart onto our children the habit of always running an error-check on their conclusions, to always argue with themselves, to be, most of all, skeptical of their own opinions, the biggest hurdle is taken.


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Accountability for Thee, But Not For Me
When I lived in Arizona, there was a controversial program wherein cameras were posted on key roadways to catch people who were speeding. I got caught doing 50 MPH in a 40 MPH zone and had to attend an online driving school to clear my record. I was mightily annoyed, because as far as I was concerned, I was driving safely. As it turned out, I wasn't the only one who was irked. The Republican governor attacked the camera system as being an "invasive" holdover from her Democratic predecessor, and the program was shut down.
Accountability is a funny thing. We love it in the third person, but we often hate it in the first person. We don't need oversight and regulation; the rules are for those other people. We encounter this attitude all the time, from the grocery store checkout line to massive Wall Street banks. We want law and order, but we also want the freedom to do whatever we choose, because—well, darn it—we're good people, aren't we? Kind and thoughtful and wise? Sure. You can trust us.
In general, we have no problem obeying rules that we already agree with; it's the rules we don't like that we tend to violate. And how much we like a given rule may depend on all sorts of contingencies. The express line at the grocery store may be fine in theory; at least it's fine on days when the store isn't crowded and we're not in a rush. But if we feel pressed for time, well . . . now it's an inconvenience, and we'll fight with the checker to let us go through with our 37 items. That is, unless there's already another rule-breaker in that line, gumming up the works. Then we'll curse that person for being selfish, and skulk back to where we belonged in the first place.
The Categorical Imperative
It would be lovely to think that we're capable of restraining ourselves without outside authority or interference—that we can all be relied upon to do the right thing in all cases. The Golden Rule has been around for a long time, after all, and we learn it at an early age. But obviously, if we all abided by that rule, people wouldn't be hogging the express line with their 37 items.
Back in the 18th century, Immanuel Kant said that we should choose only those actions we'd be comfortable seeing implemented as a universal law. That's the Golden Rule on steroids. If I feel it's okay to speed whenever and wherever I want to, then I should be comfortable with everyone doing it. And if that thought is unpalatable or frightening to me, then I, myself, shouldn't be speeding.
But I do speed. The sad fact is that we can't be depended upon to let logic rule over our baser instincts—not all the time. For good or ill, we need rules and laws to restrain our impulses and provide some external, objective standard to follow. And we need to hold ourselves and each other accountable for living within those limitations.
In an organization like a business or a school, accountability isn't just about living together in peace and harmony; it's also about working together towards a common goal and getting things accomplished. The minute you move beyond doing everything yourself, you need some kind of accountability to ensure that important things get done. Without accountability, people end up stomping around the office, muttering, "If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself." And who wants to be (or listen to) that guy?
Let Them Teach
Accountability—tricky in the business world—is even trickier in the world of education. Who do we have to depend upon, and who depends on us? Are we accountable to our students or our principals, our parents or the local board of education, or are we only accountable to the state? In theory, it feels like "all of the above"; in practice, it sometimes ends up as "none of the above."
How many of us have responded to the endless parade of mandates and initiatives with external obedience but internal rebellion—going through the motions to keep up appearances, but then closing the door on the new "flavor of the month" initiative and doing whatever we feel is the right thing to do? How many of us have grimaced during principal walkthroughs, sure that our administrators don't have enough understanding to pass judgment on our performance? How many of us have reacted to larger, state-level evaluation systems with even more scorn? How many Defenders of Teachers have responded to all of this with blog posts and tweets that say, "Leave them alone! Just let them teach!"
"Just let them teach" suggests that outside evaluation is unnecessary, burdensome, and perhaps even dangerous. It implies that only teachers can understand and assess their own day-to-day actions, because the job is too complex. We do not seem to say that this particular evaluation tool or process is flawed; we say (or at least we imply) that the entire idea of evaluating teacher performance is foolish.
But is that true? Are we educators so strange and unique that our work simply cannot be evaluated? I mean, even the wizards-in-training at Hogwarts had to pass their O.W.L. exams. If their performance could be assessed, surely ours can.
Defining Accountability
In his book, Winning with Accountability, Henry J. Evans describes in detail what it means to hold yourself, and others, accountable—and why real accountability is crucial for any successful organization. For him, accountability simply means being reliable: knowing that when someone says she'll do something, the thing gets done. When there is real accountability, Evans says, little checking-in and checking-up is required. Accountability creates trust.
Evans says that the first piece of the "accountability puzzle" is clarity. He talks about the importance of being specific in making requests or promises. If you aren't clear and specific in explaining what you need, your odds of getting exactly what you want are slim. If your people are aiming at a moving target—or a target they can't see—you're bound to end up disappointed. Evans also talks about the importance of being precise when discussing deadlines. Say you ask for something to be completed "sometime today," expecting it in your hands in mid-afternoon. Instead, you get the finished work at 6:00 PM. You're annoyed, but the person completing the task feels satisfied. There is instantly a gap between the two of you. That's true of promises as well as requests. If you tell someone you'll deliver something "later today," instead of, say, "by noon," you create the possibility of misunderstanding. And misunderstanding erodes trust.
Evans also talks about ownership. He says that you can't be truly accountable for something you don't own. Maybe you only own a small part of it. Whatever you own, you can be held responsible for. But if you don't have real autonomy in how the work is done, you don't really own it, and you can't be held fully accountable for the final product. Or if ownership is conferred ambiguously on members of a committee, with no clarity around what is expected from whom, then no one ends up being truly accountable.
Finally, Evans talks about being open and public about expectations and commitments, about making sure everyone knows, and everyone understands clearly, what has been asked for and what has been promised.
Accountability in Teacher Land
Already you can see where accountability can be problematic in the world of education. Doctors and lawyers operate within well-established and universally-accepted norms of practice—so well-accepted that proven violations can result in a loss of license to practice. Teachers have nothing like that. It's nearly impossible to lose one's teaching license because of shoddy practice. In fact, the word "malpractice" doesn't even exist in our world, partly because we can't all agree on what "best practice" actually is—which is shocking, given the amount of research that has been done in the field, from Marzano to Hattie. We should know what works and what doesn't. In fact, we do know what works and what doesn't. But if you are a teacher, what you believe about instruction is usually a personal concoction, brewed from a recipe consisting of your own background as a student, the training you received in college or graduate school, the influence of a mentor or senior teacher, and the years of experience you've had in the classroom. Your definition of "good practice" may or may not agree with the definitions of your fellow teachers in the building, or the view of your principal, and it may or may not coincide with the definition laid out in whatever teacher evaluation system your state has adopted. So already, we're in trouble. If there is no agreement or clarity about what the job of teaching means and entails, the situation is ripe for miscommunication and disappointed expectations. This is why we have instances of teachers preparing detailed, standards-aligned lesson plans, only to be dinged during a walkthrough because the standard hasn't been written in the upper right hand corner of the white board.
How about being open and public with expectations? Do we see that in our schools? I would have to say, "Not really." Far too often, teachers feel caught in a trap between what is said publically ("All students will be imaginative, creative, critical thinkers and problem-solvers with a rich base of content knowledge,") and what is actually expected ("If your kids don't ace those standardized tests, your job is on the line,")—and usually, the private expectation is the one that ends up mattering. To compound the problem, if principals are not strong instructional leaders themselves, they may not know how to set explicit expectations for what they want. They'll want the school to "improve." They'll want the students to "do better." But they may not understand what those things really mean, or how to help teachers and students get there (witness the misunderstanding around what a "standards-based lesson" is, from the paragraph above). And even if they are instructional leaders, if they don't have school-wide agreement as to what constitutes best practice, nothing is likely to change.
All "Quid," but no "Pro Quo"
One puzzle piece that Evans doesn't discuss, but which I find incredibly important, is the piece I call "The Right Tools for the Job." Maybe he feels it's so obvious that it doesn't bear mentioning, but it's massively unfair to hold someone accountable for completing a task if they don't have the resources they need to do it. And that is something we see in our schools every day. We expect excellent, thoughtful, inspiring teaching, while treating our teachers like assembly-line factory workers. We set rigorous goals for literacy, while shuttering school libraries. We talk about global citizenship, but react in horror if a teacher tries to bring too much of the outside world into the classroom. We hope for curious, well-rounded, soulful young children, but slash funds to expose them to music, theatre, and arts. We talk about 21st century skills, but we ask our schools to manage with 20-year-old computer equipment and shaky Internet connectivity locked behind a restrictive firewall that prevents science students from researching "breast cancer."
Sometimes, the problem isn't just the lack of tools; it's the setting of completely unattainable goals. Recently, Dr. Sean McGrew wrote about the legacy of No Child Left Behind, and the many reasons why the goal of "Adequate Yearly Progress" was a "useful fiction," that could never really be achieved. As he said, "a metric that is not what it seems to be is confusing and dangerous.
Accountability only works if it's a two-way street, and yet in our schools, teachers are expected to "own" a student's academic performance, regardless of that child's background, previous experience, unique abilities, and special challenges—and they are expected to effect change for that child without the time, resources, or support needed to do the job effectively.
What happens when a person is given unclear or unreasonable expectations, and is then denied the resources needed even to make an effort at meeting those goals? If teachers come to realize that the game is rigged against them, and that the consequences of failure are extreme, is it any wonder that some of them resort to cheatingto protect their jobs and their students?
Salutary Neglect
Does this mean that we should just leave teachers alone and "let them teach?" Yes and no. It would be lovely if we could stop driving teachers crazy with "This Year's New Program" at the school level and "This Decade's Political Initiative" in Congress. It would be nice if we could stop threatening to fire them if they don't achieve the impossible. But leaving teachers alone shouldn't mean leaving them isolated and unsupported. That's not good for anyone's practice. And we shouldn't say that oversight and management has to stop at the classroom door. The "shopping mall school," where every teacher operates like an independent contractor and does whatever she thinks is best, is not good for the children who move from teacher to teacher.
As educators, we've got to get over the thought that what we do is too complex to be explained, or that we are only accountable to ourselves. If there can be professional standards and protocols for conducting brain surgery, there can be professional standards and protocols for teaching. Just because we haven't figured them out yet doesn't mean it can't be done. The systems laid out by Robert Marzano, Charlotte Danielson, and James Stronge are all good efforts at capturing the domains and competencies of teaching. Each has its strong points and its limitations. Unfortunately, the states that have adopted these systems—and then turned them into quantitative, punitive instruments of judgment—have, to some extent, wrecked what's good about the rubrics, obscuring their value as tools for professional growth. The states that have fetishized student test scores over qualitative observations have made it plain that good teaching is less meaningful than test prep, whether they're willing to admit it or not. So if teachers aren't buying in, it's not really much of a surprise.
As Henry Evans made clear, a culture of accountability is a culture of trust, where every member of an organization knows what is expected and what she, in turn, can expect—a culture where everyone can be relied upon to do good work. That doesn't just happen; it has to be cultivated and managed. And when it exists, heavy-handed evaluation tends to disappear, because we hold each other (and ourselves) accountable to high standards all the time, just as a matter of course.
In 1775, Edmund Burke coined the term "salutary neglect" to refer to the British government's practice of "leaving the Colonies alone" to flourish without heavy-handed interference (a practice that was, by 1775, rapidly disappearing). He said it was clear that the flourishing Colonies owed "little or nothing to any care of ours," and had not been "squeezed into this happy [successful] form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government." It's true that the Colonies were doing just fine without his paternalistic guidance. But he was wrong that the Colonies owed nothing to Britain. They were not operating in total isolation and independence; they had developed, over a long period of time, a system of self-government based on a variety of historical models, from those of the ancient Greeks to those of their British cousins and those of their neighboring Iroquois. They had an effective set of norms at their disposal, and they were doing good work for themselves and for the mother country. The wiser heads of Parliament suggested that they be left alone to continue flourishing. Others disagreed and decided to "squeeze them" harder into more rigid compliance and obedience.
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NEWARK—Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for U.S. teens, reports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2008, about 3,500 teens in the U.S. aged 15–19 were killed and more than 350,000 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor-vehicle crashes.
"It is tragic when any young person ends up in the Emergency Department with serious or fatal injuries due to a car accident," says Michael Rosen, MD, pediatric director of the Emergency Department at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and Children's Hospital of New Jersey.
"The risk of motor vehicle crashes is higher among 16- to 19-year-olds than among any other age group. They are four times more likely than older drivers to crash. Teens are more likely to underestimate dangerous situations and are more likely to speed and to tailgate."
Two-thirds of teen occupants killed in crashes are not wearing seat belts, according to the CDC, and speeding is a factor in 40 percent of all teen driver fatalities. The CDC reports that those at especially high risk for motor vehicle crashes are:
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• Create a code word. Help teens get out of unsafe situations by calling or texting you with a previously agreed-upon code word that signals trouble. When you hear or see the word, pick them up right away.
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Every great artist has a material they like working with. Whether it's paint, clay, or the lens of a camera, these individuals know how to express their creativity in a way that's totally unique. But, what if the material you prefer working with ... doesn't exist?
It might sound strange, but Pakistani artist Anila Quayyum Agha is making a name for herself by painting with shadows. Shadow art is nothing new, with shadow puppets having existed for thousands of years, but Agha's shadows are a little more complicated than someone putting their hands in front of a flashlight. Don't just take our word for it though - in 2014, Agha won the annual ArtPrize competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The competition is broken down into two parts: the judges' award and the audience award. Agha was the first artist in the competition's history to win both awards.
The piece that won her such a prestigious honor is called "Intersections," and when you see it for yourself, you'll understand why everyone loved it so much. By suspending a large, intricately carved cube in the middle of a dark room, Agha was able to paint the walls with a beautiful pattern of shadows using only a single light bulb. Check out the images below to learn more about this breathtaking exhibit and the artist behind it.
Agha wanted to highlight the beauty of Islamic architecture. The patterns in "Intersections" were directly inspired by a visit to the Fortress of Alhambra in Grenada, Spain. "I wanted to recreate the feeling of awe and wonder that I saw on the faces of the tourists at the palace," she said in an interview with HyperAllergic.
Upon seeing this beauty, she couldn't help but reflect upon her own experience as a young girl growing up in Pakistan. " ... like the millions of women in Lahore, there was no space for me in any of these mosques, the dictates of culture relegating us all to praying at home. It is this seminal experience of being excluded from a space of community and creativity that resonated with me ..." she told The Culture Trip.
Now, anyone can experience the gorgeous details of this architecture up close.
"Having lived on the boundaries of different faiths such as Islam and Christianity, and in cultures like Pakistan and the USA, my art is deeply influenced by the simultaneous sense of alienation and transience that informs the migrant experience," says Agha in her Artist Statement. "Through the use of a variety of media, from large sculptural installations to embroidered drawings I explore the deeply entwined political relationships between gender, culture, religion, labor and social codes."
The cube measures 6.5 square feet and is made of black, lacquered wood. Agha's artistic background is actually in textile, so this project gave her the opportunity to learn more about woodcarving and design. By using lasers, she was able to increase the speed, accuracy, and scale of her piece.
As shadows are cast on slanted portions of the ceiling, the pattern is stretched and warped, creating something entirely new in the process.
All it takes is one lightbulb, one idea, or one person to change everything that surrounds them.
Here, the artist proudly presents her work.
As people move through the installation, their shadows interact with those from the cube. Can you imagine the time and effort that went into carving every nook and cranny of this enormous cube?
Four completely unique patterns are visible in this single shot.
This photograph from Agha's workshop should give you a sense of this cube's size. Countless hours went into making sure every shape was perfect.
There's no doubt that Agha has touched many lives with "Intersections." Plus, who knows how many people's lives have intersected as a result of this one installation? We can't wait to see what she makes next.
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Interview: Ron Josol – The Prime Minister of Pinoy Comedy
July 24, 2008 · Posted in General, Interviews, Videos · 3 Comments
Comedian Ron Josol from Toronto, Canada came to visit the Pinoylife headquarters in Los Angeles (aka Moonie's house) and took some time between watching MMA and a smoke break to do the first ever audio interview posted on Pinoylife.com! Get to know this Pinoy comic as he talks about his influences, his car accident, making longanisa, and soda.
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NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) – A first-time block party in a quiet neighborhood in New Hyde Park, Long Island, turned to chaos this weekend when a tree limb slammed into a crowd.
As CBS 2's Steve Langford reported, frantic rescue efforts were complicated by frayed nerves when the accident happened Saturday night.
"Just mayhem, screaming, and that whole tree just came down," one witness said.
"Mothers screaming, 'Where's my kids?'" another said.
According to the New Hyde Park Patch, the 30-foot tree limb came down around 10:40 Saturday night. Witnesses told the publication that the branch landed on two people who were on the front lawn.
Partygoers turned rescuers scrambled to try to lift the tree limb off the trapped victims.
"There's probably 60 of us; we couldn't even lift it," said Bobby Donahue of New Hyde Park. "We just swung it over."
"We were trying to pull people and look for people with flashlights underneath, and try to hold it up," said Darren Olivieri, a party guest.
"We saw that there was one guy that was down, and it looked like it was his leg," said party guest Jim Justice. "Somebody else got hurt, and there was a woman pinned underneath."
Four adults were injured, and none of their injuries were considered life-threatening. No children were hurt.
A 30-year-old man suffered a broken leg in the incident. A 43-year-old woman was severely bruised on her face, and others suffered bumps, bruises, cuts and scratches, police said.
But the problems were not over. After the accident, numerous witnesses said things turned ugly between residents, rescuers and police.
"There was some yelling and screaming," Justice said.
He said dozens of police officers rushed to the scene as tempers flared.
"Next thing you know, there was two or three guys in handcuffs, and they were in the car," Justice said.
One Good Samaritan trying to rescue someone ended up being taken into custody after an argument with police.
"He has two little girls that are worked about him," said New Hyde Park resident David Cushman. "The wife was crying all night last night."
The exact cause of the tree collapse was not known Sunday night. But since Superstorm Sandy, area residents said they have complained to local authorities to no avail about trees that appeared to be dangerously frail.
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List of Illustrations ix Introduction 1 1. A Troubled Beginning 7 2. Walking the City 41 3. Political Worlds 81 4. A Turbulent Economy and an Anxious Society 129 5. Building a New Germany 169 6. Sound and Image 207 7. Culture and Mass Society 251 8. Bodies and Sex 297 9. Revolution and Counterrevolution from the Right 331 10. The Weimar Legacy: A Global Perspective 361 Conclusion 401 Notes 409 Bibliographic Essay 447 Acknowledgments 453 Index 455
Eric D. Weitz is Dean of Humanities and Arts and Professor of History at City College, City University of New York. He is the author of "A Century of Genocide" and "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990" (both Princeton).
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice One of Financial Times's Best Books for 2007 A History Book Club Selection "In his engaging readings of these works, Weitz forgoes abstruse analysis. Instead, he presents them as fresh attempts to make sense of a world in which reliable beliefs about authority and order, class and gender, wealth and poverty, no longer held. His most innovative chapter is an imaginary walk through Berlin, observing the daily lives of the city's different classes... Better than most histories, the book connects culture, politics and city life."--Brian Ladd, New York Times Book Review "Weimar Germany is elegantly written, generously illustrated and never less than informative. It is also history with attitude. In that respect, it perhaps also reflects in itself something of the fractious period which its pages so convincingly evoke."--Peter Graves, Times Literary Supplement "Excellent and splendidly illustrated... Weimar was more than a German phenomenon... [Weimar Germany] is a superb introduction to its world, probably the best available."--Eric Hobsbawm, London Review of Books "Weitz takes readers on a walk through Weimar Republic?era Berlin in the footsteps of a 1920s fl?neur, an urban ambler... Separate chapters, with a wealth of well-chosen illustrations, explore Weimar's new theories of architecture, graphic arts, photography, theater, philosophy and sexuality. Weitz selects key exemplars of each discipline--Brecht, Weill, Mann, Bruno Taut, Erich Mendelsohn, August Sander, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Hannah H?ch, Siegfried Kracauer, etc.--for in-depth focus... A lively style and excellent illustrations make this intellectually challenging volume accessible to both academics and armchair scholars."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Now ... comes Eric D. Weitz's long-awaited Weimar Germany, a work that builds on the extant literature and gives things a refreshing new spin. A seasoned scholar of German history, Weitz offers an altogether original approach, a potent mix of cutting-edge historical analysis, rich visual and literary illustration, and imaginative excursions through the physical spaces and places of the era, bringing to bear his uncommon erudition and a prose style that is at once rigorous, wonderfully animated, and distinguished by breathtaking clarity."--Noah Isenberg, Bookforum "Weitz has produced an elegant and captivating study of Germany's Weimar years, that turbulent period from 1918 to 1933 when the old German society seemed to break apart. In this period, Germany became a constitutional democracy, the arts blossomed, modern and liberal ideas flourished, and the economic and political situation staggered from one crisis to another, ending in the Nazi ascendance to power. This period is often treated as simply the forerunner to the Nazi era, but Weitz shows that it was far more than that... Weitz has synthesized in clear and engaging fashion a great deal of the huge primary and secondary literature of Weimar... If you have only one book on the Weimar period, this should be it. For all libraries."--Barbara Walden, Library Journal (starred review) "[Weitz] is a reliable guide through Weimar's political and economic maze, and a good one on the social revolution that made many women--far from all--less dependent on husband, hearth and home. In one of his best chapters, Mr. Weitz takes us on a ramble through the sleepless metropolis of 1920s Berlin: from the glittering cafes around Potsdamer Platz to Isherwood's cabarets and seedy bars, from the bracing beaches of Wannsee Lake to the dank and stifling dwellings of the workers' quarter, Wedding."--The Economist "Brilliantly maps a pivotal era."--Peter Skinner, Foreword Magazine "Weitz offers a comprehensive history of the Weimar Republic that combines a sober approach to the politics and economics of this conflicted era with a highly engaging and readable new take on its famous cultural and social experiment...One of the book's achievements compared to previous Weimar histories is Weitz's integration of important work on gender, sex, and the body throughout his nine chapters."--H.D. Baer, Choice "It is impossible to talk about post-1918 Germany without focusing on its political and financial instability... Weitz covers this ground clearly and in sharp detail, breaking down the complex tug-of-war between communists, democrats and conservatives... But more gripping to Weitz (and to this reviewer) is the artistic and intellectual ferment that Weimar embodied--a cultural explosion he chronicles with a passionate, persuasive voice... [Weitz] wins points for his no-frills language that transports us back to the racy, cosmopolitan atmosphere of 1920s Berlin--and for saving his best for last. In the book's resonant closure about the rise of authoritarianism, Weitz seems in directly to hold a mirror up to America's own political catastrophe in the post-9/11 Bush years."--Michael Levitin, The Financial Times "Eric D. Weitz has written a splendid book... Appreciating Weimar's unique qualities and extraordinary accomplishments is something Weitz allows all of us to do with this fine book."--Robert G. Moeller, American Historical Review "The name Weimar has always carried a double charge. In politics, it means an incurable disease, a state divided against itself, a habit of hatred and assassination; in culture, it means fruitful transgression, the gratified shock of the modern. By showing how these two sides belong to the same coin, Weimar Germany serves as a perfect introduction to its subject."--Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun "It is the thesis of Eric D. Weitz in Weimar Germany that even before the Nazi coup of 1933, Weimar democracy, however brilliant its cultural particulars, never had a chance...And yet, as Weimar Germany makes elegantly clear, what a vibrant and kinetic moment it was with such artists as Kathe Kollwitz and George Grosz, such architects as Erich Mendelsohn and Walter Gropius, such novelists as Alfred Doblin, Thomas Mann, and Joseph Roth, the theater of Bertolt Brecht and Kurl Weill, the photography of August Sander and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the cinema of Robert Wiene and Fritz Lang..."--John Leonard, Harper's Magazine "Considers Germany between the World Wars from far more than merely the political perspective. Stressing the new liberalism and modernism that marked the Republic, Weitz ... devotes whole chapters in his new work to Weimar's astonishing flowering in architecture, cinema, photography, literature, painting, sculpture, journalism, and cabaret life... Presents a comprehensive synthetic history, it is thoughtfully illustrated (including wonderful color plates) and it is written in a crisp, transparent prose that might serve as a model for modern historians."--Matt Nesvisky, The Jerusalem Report "Weimar lasted 14 years, the Third Reich only 12. Yet Weimar is always seen as a prelude to the Third Reich, which appears to have been created by Weimar's failures. Actually, as Eric Weitz argues, the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was not responsible for the Reich; it was a democratic, socially aware and progressive government, way ahead of many other European governments in its introduction of workers' rights, public housing, unemployment benefit and suffrage for women. However, Weimar was, from the beginning, the target of the anti-democratic forces of the established Right... Weitz looks closely at many aspects of Weimar and demonstrates clearly just what an extraordinary time this was ... A fine and important book."--Justin Cartwright, Spectator "A well-informed, sophisticated analysis of Weimar's greatest accomplishments and their lasting significance... The best introduction to the historical setting and rich legacy of Weimar culture. And this, as [Weitz] convincingly argues, is the Weimar that speaks most clearly to us."--James J. Sheehan, Commonweal "Nothing enlivens history more than the people who experienced it, and Weitz gets at concepts and trends through the work and lives of the players. His mostly lively and descriptive writing paints visual pictures that are complemented by well-chosen photographs and illustrations... Generally, Weitz, as in his tour of Berlin, succeeds in guiding readers down the avenues of this unusually rich and complex time, until these boulevards finally meet in an abrupt dead end."--Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor "Eric D. Weitz, in his well-illustrated book, explores this contested society. He sees the 'promise' of his subtitle in the optimism of its creative community's embrace of the Weimar Republic's potential, and the 'tragedy' in the efforts of the established right to destroy the republic."--James Skidmore, The Globe & Mail "The unquestionable strength of this well-written book ... lies in the depictions of culture, everyday life, art, literature, and philosophy as well as in the deep understanding of the changing world of everyday people... Weitz's unobtrusive gender awareness and his sense of class-bound life and experiences come across in a matter-of-fact manner and show what writing about history has to offer when a talented author knows how to combine political, economic, social, gender, and cultural history and how to weave them into a lucid picture of the past."--Hanna Schlissler, German Studies Review "Weitz ... attempts far more than merely to produce a new history of Weimar suitable for the age of the 'War on Terror.' His aim is to transform the way that we approach the 1920s in Germany... Weimar Germany is a most welcome addition to the existing literature on this hotly contested period."--Tobias Boes, Modernism and Modernity "Weitz's meticulous research and excellent use of contemporary poster and photographs, along with other period pieces, make 1920s Germany, especially Berlin, come alive. Readers will stroll down Potsdamer Platz with its elegant shops. They will hear political debates in beer halls, cabarets, and street corners. They will see the birth of modern architecture and view the neighborhoods of the Jews, Poles, and Slavs fated to become Nazi scapegoats... This is a thought provoking book that gives keen insight into a society teetering over the edge."--Jewish Book World "In Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy, Professor Eric D. Weitz of the University of Minnesota fills in the details. He does a good job. He presents a case history worthy of study by lawyers of this century."--Walter Barthold, New York Law Journal "[Weitz] has written a spirited survey chat for grounds cultural and intellectual developments, and it will find a well-deserved place in many courses on German history and German cultural studies."--Peter Jelavich, Central European History "The story of the Weimar Republic is the story of Germany's journey from fallen Old World power to the ultimate symbol of modern horror--of cutthroat politics, lingering postwar resentments, new freedoms, and modernist art. Eric D. Weitz, a University of Minnesota historian, sorts through this knotty mass of narratives in order to describe how German consciousness was uprooted from the Bavarian forests and ushered into the ferocity--and beauty--of the machine age."--Colin Fleming, Wilson Quarterly "Weimar Germany is strikingly illustrated with numerous photographs, posters, and reproductions of paintings supplemented by text that is both well-written and captivating in its use of imagery. The author's interest in the period shows through as does his sense of foreboding, given the aftermath of this fiery burst of creativity."--Lou Tanner, Virginia Quarterly Review "Between 1918 and 1933 every aspect of Weimar Germany was in a state of flux. It is a great achievement that Weitz has managed to bring all the disparate strands together and to develop a cogent argument that Weimar Germany was so dynamic, so exciting and so suffused with optimism and creativity. Weitz's strength lies in his ability to make the era come alive. This is superb history."--Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald "Each era writes its own histories of earlier eras, and now we have the equally commendable Weimar Germany ... To read about Weimar is to be reminded of the stupendous number of gifted people it produced or nurtured or gave passing shelter to, and who contributed to creating 20th-century Western culture. Weitz goes into illuminating detail about their achievements and their influence, even in areas beyond their art."--Roger K. Miller, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "A concise, yet comprehensive survey of life, art and politics during a crucial period in German and, indeed, world history."--Alan Behr, CultureKiosque "An engaging representation of the cultural climate of Weimar Germany in a variety of areas."--Faith Anne Scott, eHistory "Eric Weitz paints Weimar--actually Berlin, nothing much ever happened in Weimar--as suffering from a split personality: vibrant and creative, on the verge of modernity; and sullen, backward-looking and afraid."--Harry Eagar, Maui News "[Weitz tells] a story that continues to attract us three-quarters of a century later as lived experience, a story that, while it ended badly, should not sit perpetually in Hitler's shadow... Perhaps the best single-volume history available in English."--John Kappes, Cleveland Plain Dealer "Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy is an impressive work, interesting, well researched and creatively written... He includes many important observations on Weimar politics and economics, but the greatest strength of the book is its treatment of Weimar culture and particularly the crucial place of Berlin in that history... It is a significant addition to the literature on Weimar Germany and should be read by everyone interested in the period."--Paul Bookbinder, European History Quarterly "Weitz is at his best when examining the vibrant cultural life of Weimar and the many individuals whose work both evoked and manifested the hope that a better society would emerge from the ruins of the old."--Irene Guenther, European Legacy "Weitz has done a fine job of integrating much of this material (highlighted in a short bibliographic essay) into a fresh new synthesis. His particularly judicious selection of illustrations--color plates and black and white--makes the volume a well-rounded resource for students and scholars alike."--Ulf Zimmermann, H-Net Reviews "A valuable read for those interested in what came before as well as later."--NYMAS Review "Weitz has penned an outstanding book. He gives the message of 'Berlin is Weimar; Weimar is Berlin' its most stimulating, colorful, and elegant voicing. Weitz's Weimar is visually stunning. With inviting, even friendly, prose he guides the reader through the sights and sounds of Berlin... Weitz's structure is clean yet rounded; functional yet playful; revolutionary yet organic... His bibliographic essay is a model of concision."--Kevin Ostoyich, The Historian "[A]s the discussion of right-wing discourses, parties, and movements progresses, one is struck again by the author's ability to tie specific example to general trend. Like his account of the republic's beginning, Weitz's depiction of the end is a taut, clear narrative that delivers thought-provoking analysis."--Theodore F. Rippey, Monatshefte


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Beijing Duck
recommendation by fang
Beijing Duck is undoubtedly the first food you must eat in Beijing. As far as I know, in Spain they almost don't eat duck at all, but when the Spanish taste duck for the first time they just love it so much. There are many ways to cook duck; however, roasted duck is the best one. And Beijing Roasted Duck is the specialty of Beijing, or the most popular dish. You should go to Quanjude Beijing Duck Restaurant which is the oldest and the best traditional Beijing duck restaurant. 198 RMB/duck.


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Sunday, August 31, 2014
Sugar-Free, Low-Glycemic Pecan Pie
My daughter requested a pecan pie as a special reward for all of the hard work she'd been doing for school. I have a recipe from Cook's Illustrated which calls for maple syrup instead of corn syrup - super delicious! And having made it for her, once again I found myself feeling a little sad about how I was never going to get to eat that delicious item again.... or was I?
I started thinking about yacon syrup, a nutritious, super low-glycemic syrup made from a South American tuber. Yacon syrup has been shown to have amazing properties as a product for folks with diabetes and metabolic disorders. I've been eating it in the divine chocolates created by Coracao Confections for several years now, and it has recently become the darling of Dr. Oz. Yacon syrup is dark, thick, sweet, but at the same time tangy. It reminds me a bit of maple syrup, but even more so of tamarind. I decided that it could be the perfect substitute for corn syrup or maple syrup in a pecan pie. But first I had to get my hands on some... I have yet to see it on grocer's shelves - even health food stores. My friends at Coracao turned me on to Raw Food World, which they have been doing business with for some time. That took care of that issue, and it was on to recipe creation.
You know, sometimes when I try a recipe the first time, it's just a complete fail. Sometimes it needs some tweaking. And sometimes, rarely, it's fantastic the very first time. That's the story with this pie, my friends. Go forth and enjoy the yumminess once more!
Sugar-Free, Low-Glycemic Pecan Pie
1 batch of whole grain Foodier Than Thou pie crust and a 9" regular (shallow) pie dish OR
1 batch of Foodier Than Thou almond meal crust (skip the almond extract) and a tart pan
1/4 cup coconut palm sugar OR an additional 1/4 cup of sugar substitute
1/4 cup of your favorite sugar substitute: Swerve, Lakanto, Splenda OR erythritol
1-2 tsp stevia powder - to taste. (You may want the higher amount if you use erythritol, which is less sweet than the other sweeteners.)
1 cup yacon syrup
1/2 cup heavy cream
4 TB unsalted butter, cut into 1/2" pieces
1/2 tsp salt
6 large egg yolks, lightly beaten
1 1/2 cups toasted, chopped pecans or walnuts
1. Preheat the oven to 450 F.
2. In a heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, sugar substitutes and stevia powder until well combined. Add the yacon syrup and heavy cream, place over medium heat, and stir occasionally, until the solids have dissolved, about 5 minutes.
3. Remove from heat and let mixture cool for 5 minutes. Add the butter and salt and whisk until incorporated. Then whisk in egg yolks until well incorporated.
4. Put pie crust into pan and crimp the edges. If using the almond meal crust in a tart pan, press the crust well into the pan with your hands and/or a wooden spoon. If using the almond meal crust and tart pan, you will have some extra crust and filling. If so, use them to make some small ramekins of pie.
5. Sprinkle the chopped, toasted nuts into the bottom of the crust. Carefully pour the liquid filling over the top. Use a rubber spatula to get all of the yummy stuff into the pan.
6. Carefully place the pie onto a baking sheet and place on the central rack of the hot oven, and immediately reduce the temperature to 325 F. Bake until the filling is set and the center jiggles only slightly when the pie is gently shaken, 45-60 minutes.
7. Remove pie from oven and cool on a rack for at least an hour. Then refrigerate until set, at least another hour, and up to one day, or just cool on the rack for several more hours. If you rush to cut it, it will not be solid! (It's hard to resist; believe me, I know!) Bring to room temperature before serving.
8. Serve small wedges, with optional Bourbon Whipped Cream - which really adds a lot to the party!
Bourbon Whipped Cream
(Adapted from Cook's Illustrated)
1 cup heavy whipping cream
2 TB bourbon
2 TB coconut palm sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Combine all ingredients in a bowl and whip until stiff peaks form. Serve with pecan pie. Yum!
Posted by Christine Staples at 4:42 PM
Labels: almond meal, coconut palm sugar, diabetes, diabetic-friendly, Lakanto, low carb, low glycemic, low sugar, stevia, Swerve, yacon syrup
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Organic yacon syrup is 100% natural and additive free. It has many benefits which includes low calories, low glycemic index, weight loss properties, provides body with inulin etc.ReplyDelete
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Thompson Finishes Fifth at Inland Cup
Sept. 23, 2009
PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University freshman Ali Thompson led the Cougar women's golf team at the second annual Inland Cup Wednesday, recording a top-five finish in her collegiate debut at the Palouse Ridge Golf Club.
WSU's season-opening tournament also marked the first event for first-year head coach Kelli Kamimura.
Thompson carded a 1-under 71 in the second round, and posted first- and third-round scores of 77 (+5) en route to a three-round total of 225 (+9) at the par-72, 6,126-yard course. She posted 38 pars during the 54-hole event, second-most in the 80-player field.
Fellow freshman Emma Betland also posted a top-25 finish in her first-career collegiate event, finishing with a three-round score of 237 (+21).
Sophomore Kristen Allard and redshirt junior Allison Travis each finished tied for 29th, two strokes back of the top 25, with 54-hole scores of 240 (+24). Travis was one of only five individuals in the field to record an eagle, carding a three on the 475-yard, par-five 17th hole in the second round.
Rounding out the Cougar contingent was freshman Ellen Park, who posted a three-round score of 245.
The Cougars finished in eighth place with a team total of 940, seven strokes back of the top five.
WSU also had three women competing as individuals: redshirt sophomore Kaitlin Parsons (252), freshman Brenda Jesernig (256) and freshman Julia Manseau (262).
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