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As the British and Irish Lions squad touched down at Sydney Airport on Thursday afternoon, their ninth flight of the tour since leaving Heathrow in May, the Australia squad were running through their final training session ahead of Saturday's series-deciding Test match in the salubrious surrounding of St Joseph's College, an independent school in the Hunters Hill area of the city.
Ominously for the tourists, there has been a spring in the step of the Wallabies players all week.
It began with a light recovery session following the drama of their second-Test victory with a light recovery session under glorious sunshine in the eastern suburbs beach resort of Coogee and has been followed up with three slick sessions at St Joseph's.
The perception that the Wallabies, having recovered from the injury crisis of the first Test, are peaking physically just as the Lions are traditionally at their most stretched before the third match is hard to dismiss and it has certainly not happened by chance.
Scott Murphy, Australia's new strength and conditioning coach who joined coach Robbie Deans' management team in May after five years as the high performance director at Saracens, has overseen a conditioning programme to ensure that the Wallabies will be at their most potent tomorrow, with the series on the line.
While the Lions have also put a major emphasis on conditioning during this tour, Murphy believes the Wallabies have benefited from a programme that has involved much less travel than their opponents.
"I am very confident that the way we have tailored the training load will mean we will be in our best possible shape that we could have handled over the five-week build-up to this Test match," Murphy said.
"We have tried to minimise travel, and make it short and sharp and succinct with what we have done. As a result there is less stress of actually being around each other.
"We have a lot of time away from each other and when we come together we switch on and then switch off.
"It is not so much the physical stress of travelling around the place, it is the mental stress of getting in to a bus, out of a bus. You become drained.
"We have controlled our workloads to ensure that players feel leg-fresh and mentally alert. We are very ready, we have done all the work."
While the Lions have been criticised for opting to add an extra internal flight and another 900 miles to their travel itinerary this week, Murphy has ensured that the Wallabies have travelled as little as possible.
When the squad first gathered together after their Super Rugby commitments in early June, they spent a week together in Coogee before flying to the Sunshine Coast, near Brisbane, for two weeks before they moved to the Queensland capital at the start of the week ahead of the first Test.
The squad then flew to Melbourne the following day before returning to Sydney last Sunday to prepare for the series decider.
During that time players have been allowed to leave the camp for the odd night if they were close to home.
The Lions have had to endure long-haul flights from London to Hong Kong and then to Perth.
Their trek across Australia has involved internal flights from Perth to Brisbane, Brisbane to Newcastle, Sydney to Canberra, Canberra to Brisbane, Brisbane to Melbourne, Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast and finally from the Sunshine Coast to Sydney yesterday.
"I would have prepared a bit differently [than the Lions] but they have their own unique set of circumstances and their own situation that they feel appropriate to do," added Murphy, formerly an Olympic shot put and discus coach with Australia and who also spent time working with the Brisbane Lions Australian rules side when they won three Premiership titles between 2001-2003.
"There are smart people that are involved there and they will have made their conclusions.
"They have been jumping on a plane midweek, every week, for six weeks and might have welcomed the opportunity not to [this week] but they make their decisions based on a set of circumstances and information presented to them."
There are no such concerns for Murphy over the outstanding physical condition of players such as Wallabies wing Israel Folau.
Murphy, who takes pride in the fact that four of his former Saracens players – Owen Farrell, Mako Vunipola, Matt Stevens and Brad Barritt – have made the Lions squad, assesses Folau as "one of Australia's best athletes."
"He is learning the game of rugby and I think we haven't seen anything like the potential that he can be yet," Murphy added.
"He has the physical capacity to continue to improve. He is professional, he knuckles down, he is very easy to work with and his potential really is untapped.
"But I get excited by working with someone like Ben Alexander because he has certain strengths as much as Israel.
"The crowd appreciate the things Israel does on the wing but something that Ben may do – such as hold a scrum when he is under enormous pressure – it might come down to that little bit of extra flexibility or strength-work that allows him to get the ball back to Israel."


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Ruffin Gallery Archive, 2012-2013 Schedule
Earth. Fire. Air. Water.
August 31 - September 21
Earth, Fire, Air, Water is the first in a two-part series of exhibitions featuring recent works by the University of Virginia Studio Art Faculty. Spanning painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, and video, the diverse body of works on display each engage with the legacy of the landscape genre. Very few of these works, however, offer traditional depictions of the earth, sea, or sky. Some works isolate and enlarge particularly evocative facets of the terrain to create moving depictions of the spirit of a place. Others works instead offer clues to the experiences or sensations associated with the four elements through physical artifacts or painterly abstractions. Whatever their technique or approach, the works share a common interest in capturing the subtle beauty that can be found in otherwise unremarkable corners of the world and a willingness to explore the basic substances that compose it.
Earth, Fire, Air, Water offer students a rare opportunity to see and learn from their professors' mature work. For the university at large, this exhibition is a chance to share in the creative research that members of the university community have produced in the last two years both on and off grounds. As a showcase of some of the best new artwork from Central Virginia and elsewhere, Earth, Fire, Air, Water is a must-see event for everyone in the Charlottesville area.
New Natural History
Faculty Exhibition
September 26 - October 22
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Odd ducks, exotic specimens, curious artifacts--the second and final installment of the University of Virginia studio faculty exhibition features an eclectic mix of objects that merge the real and the surreal. Combining figurative and non-representational modes, the works on display belie any straightforward reading, and instead playfully juxtapose the natural with the artificial, the recognizable with the strange. Many of these pieces present seemingly pedestrian or familiar objects in a new or unfamiliar light. Other works feature abstract forms that have been fashioned with uncanny intimacy. Still other pieces appropriate objects or imagery with established uses, changing their significance in the process and achieving highly personal results. While some works take their inspiration from the Ages of Exploration and Enlightenment, marked as they were by an incessant drive to discover, study, and categorize the knowable world, still others tackle unresolved questions of identity, authority, and belonging left in their aftermath. New Natural History offers a present-day cabinet of wonders where the spectral, the natural, and the post-colonial collide.
Julie Heffernan
Second annual Painter-in-Residence
October 2 - 26, 2012
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The Studio Program at the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Art presents its second annual Lee-Ellen Fleming Painter-in-Residence, Julie Heffernan.
Ms Heffernan is a New York artist and Associate Professor of Art at Montclair College in NJ who will be in residence and creating her own work from October 2-26, 2012 in Studio 323, Ruffin Hall. She will present a public lecture on her work Wednesday, Oct 3 at 5:30 in Campbell Hall, Room 153.
Julie Heffernan has been the recipient of many awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts grant, (1995), and the Lila Acheson Wallace Reader's Digest Artist at Giverny, (France.) Her work is included in many national and international collections, including the Columbia Museum of Art (Columbia, South Carolina), the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (Richmond, Virginia), and the Zabludowicz Art Trust (London, United Kingdom). Ms. Heffernan's paintings have been featured in solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Lux Art Institute (Encinitas, California), the John Michael Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), and the Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, North Carolina) as well as prestigious galleries like POWW, (New York, NY) and Catherine Clark Gallery, (San Francisco, CA.) Her work has been written about and published in Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, and The New York Times.
David Cohen, art critic of The New York Sun, aptly describes Heffernan's art: "These paintings are a hybrid of genres and styles, mixing allegory, portraiture, history painting, and still life, while in title they are all presented as self portraits."
At the end of her U.Va. residency, Ms. Heffernan will have an Open Studio on Final Friday, October 26 from 5:30-7:30 in Studio 323, Ruffin Hall. The public is invited to both her lecture and open studio.
Margaret McCann | From Rome to Atlantic City
October 26 - December 7
Terrestrial Transmissions
January 25 - February 22, 2013
The new media program in Studio Art will mount an exhibition entitled Terrestrial Transmissions in Ruffin Gallery for a month that straddles January and February of 2013. Assistant professor Lydia Moyer will curate the exhibition, which will include recent videos by artists who play with the tropes of science fiction in relation to femininity.
Art Student Society's (A.S.S.) Juried Art Show
February 22 - March 8, 2013
The End of Language
Justin Quinn, Suzanne Silver, Adam Wolpa, Lauren Catlett
Four person exhibition
March 1 - March 29, 2013
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We are a Sign, unreadable.
- Friedrich Hölderlin
We are grateful that these four artists - Lauren Catlett, Justin Quinn, Suzanne Silver and Adam Wolpa - have allowed us to gather their works together in this exhibition, and we are grateful likewise for Monica's McTighe's supporting - and supportive - essay on the works. Her essay helps establish the broader context for artist's working in this genre. The artists have provided us a rich installation, one slow to reveal, or at least to reveal fully. The installation is not entirely formless. The end is not the end.
Each of these artists has thought deeply about their works, working over a long period of time, and to bring them together into this collaborative venture has, we hope, enriched the individual works. We sense the diligence and devoted study of these artists. I hope even that the artists might gain something from the collaborative installation of their works. Perhaps they have found a new friend, or a new dimension to an old friend.
These artists are not dismayed by the everyday failure of language, just the opposite. In the ruins they see an opening and an opportunity. Let's here reprise Walker Percy's wonderful title: Love in the Ruins.
The first version of The End of Language was a portfolio a number of us put together around 2001. Wolpa and Quinn were in graduate school at Iowa at that time, and together with fellow graduate student Alan Harmon, provided the organizational principles guiding that portfolio. In the intervening years I have watched their works continue to develop ideas nascent in that early portfolio, and have long considered reanimating the project. Suzanne Silver had left Charlottesville for Columbus by the mid '90s, yet I have continued to follow her installations. Two years ago she visited again, and our conversation in Ruffin that day provided the impetus to go forward. She was, after all, already familiar with, and enthusiastic about, Quinn's work. Lauren Catlett, the fourth in our quartet, is a recent graduate of the Studio program at Virginia, and from the first works I ever saw her realize, it was clear she could join this group.
Wolpa closes the 2001 prospectus with the following sentence, as good today as then: "Please do not respond, these words have already begun to look only like horizons."
Welcome to the exhibition!
Professor Dean A. Dass, Curator
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Top Luxury & Boutique Hotels In Chennai
My previous article on traveler's guide to a day in Chennai was met with queries regarding luxury and boutique hotels in Chennai. Hence I decided to put together a list of luxury and mid-segment hotels in Chennai.
(Luxury hotel bookings in Chennai for business & leisure travel in alphabetical order)
Rarely do you find such a massive space as ITC Grand Chola in middle of the city. The Chola era architecture and the size of the hotel is jaw-dropping. This is probably among the most opulent hotels with interesting architecture drawing inspiration from the regal patterns of South Indian temples. ITC Grand Chola is the place for an opulent stay in Chennai.
Located next to the governor's residence, alongside the Guindy Forest Reserve, Park Hyatt Chennai is highly recommended for short stays for business and leisure travellers. The hotel is at close proximity to the airport and prime business districts of the city and is better than Hayyat Regency (Teynampet) in terms of the look, design and amenities. The Flying Elephant located in the hotel is among the most famous lounges in Chennai and the infinity edge pool on the rooftop that captures breathtaking views of the city.
Sheraton Park is located in the heart o Chennai echoing the city's comfortable amalgamation of heritage within a modern metropolitan reality. The hotel is also home to Chennai's one of the most popular night club Dublin. The club has multiple levels, which makes it fun because you have space to move about.
The Leela Palace is the city's first and only seafront city hotel. Right from the royal motifs & lighting on the wall as you alight from the car late in the night, the place is grand & opulent in its decor. Ask for a room facing the bay for a splendid view of sunrise from the sea. If you are looking for an extra bed go for the city view room as they are more spacious.
Located next to the Phoenix Mall in the bustling and developing commercial hub of Velachery, the hotel is cosy with elegant and sophisticated spaces and a great restaurant. The view from the room facing the pool offers a bird's eye view of the city.
(Few boutique hotels in Chennai in alphabetical order)
E Hotel, the chic and trendy boutique hotel located in Express Avenue Mall. Having the mall connecting is an additional plus point to do shopping without having to go out to the streets. This boutique hotel has contemporary interiors, global vegetarian cuisine, and pleasant service amidst a tranquil environment.
The Park Pod is a 20 room boutique hotel located in the high street of Chennai's fashion district – Khader Nawaz Khan Road, Nungambakkam. The hotel's decor is elegant and contemporary. A driveway studded with twinkling lights slips into a space dominated by floating lights & lots of lustrous glass. Enjoy a swim in the startling red mosaic-tiled lap pool while the Resident DJ plays lounge & house tracks.
This hotel is not for the sassy but gentlemen. If you are among those who like wood over metal and plastic, head to Vivanta by Taj, Connemara – Chennai's 19th century vintage property in heart of old Chennai with exotic art deco ambience. It's a beautiful property reminiscing the colonial British era. The property and rooms are both spacious and quite. There are a lot of photographs of some of the historic moments in the property's 160 years of existence. In one word, the stay here is 'enchanting'.


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ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) — The Army says a military recruiter who shot and killed a recruit in what police are calling a murder-suicide was a 9-year veteran who had served overseas in Korea, Germany and Turkey.
Staff Sgt. Adam Arndt was found dead of a gunshot wound Monday morning inside his Germantown home. Also dead was 17-year-old Michelle Miller, a senior at Rockville High School. Police believe Arndt fatally shot Miller before killing himself.
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Canal de la Fontana a tiny bit of Venice in Javea
The Canal de la Fontana runs through the community of Javea and was formally the Rio Gorgos river mouth before it was diverted to the Port area. While the Canal is quite scenic and adds charm for sure to the streets of the city, it also has a practical use as it has been utilised for over five decades to moor small boats. In fact, small boats line the sides of the Canal that has been recently been remodelled. The end result is more space for practical use and more decorative banks and bridges to make it a more pedestrian friendly area.


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1. We expect that many submissions will
deal with the role a Human Rights Commission should play in supporting
individual victims of human rights violations through the courts
or otherwise. We endorse the importance of that role. But in our
submission we would like to emphasise the proactive role a Human
Rights Commission should play in facilitating the positive compliance
by the executive of its obligations under the Human Rights Act
2. The proactive role envisaged for a Human
Rights Commission mirrors the proactive, forward looking nature
of the HRA 1998. The duty imposed by Section 6, which makes it
unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible
with a Convention right, goes further than simply requiring the
body to respond to complaints from victims. It creates a positive
duty to ensure that all actions comply with the Convention. This
is also reflected in Section 19 HRA 1998, which requires pre-legislative
screening of all Bills to check for compatibility. Both these
are positive duties, to be pursued at the initiative of the relevant
public body, rather than as a response to a complaint by an affected
individual. This accurately reflects too the many policy statements
made during the passage of the HRA, which emphasised that the
aim of the Act was not just to create an avenue for aggrieved
individuals to pursue their rights in court. It has from the start
been an avowedly "mainstreaming" measure, attempting
to create a culture of human rights, so that all public decision-makers
will ensure that their decisions do not impact adversely on human
3. Despite the proactive nature of the HRA,
there are no express provisions in the HRA to ensure compliance
in respect of positive duties. Yet compliance measures are clearly
necessary. We submit that a Human Rights Commission would be ideally
placed to perform this function. The need for compliance measures
has been demonstrated by research into the effectiveness of the
voluntary measures undertaken within Whitehall in the period leading
upto the implementation of the HRA.[39]
The strategy was one of deliberate decentralisation, the aim being
to ensure that affected actors themselves took the initiative
and responsibility. However, Zifcak's research demonstrates that
this approach led to a set of fragmentary responses, which were
often far short of comprehensive. Instead of asking: "Can
we be absolutely sure that this provision is fully in compliance
with all our international obligations?" the question posed
within Whitehall, was usually "If it gets to court, do we
have a reasonably solid argument to put up in support of our claim
that this provision is in compliance?" Even less guidance
and support has been given to the numerous public authorities
now covered by the Act. The result is to create either a highly
defensive "bunker" mentality, or a situation in which
public authorities are continuously taken by surprise and forced
to take rearguard action.
4. Experience since the Act came into force
bears out this pre-implementation analysis. This is clearly evident
in respect of the Home Office, which has generally regarded the
HRA as an obstacle to be avoided rather than as embodying sensible
restrictions on public action. In particular, there has been a
complete reluctance to set out the human rights issues in any
White Paper or consultation paper. On too many occasions the government
approach is "What can we get away with?" Three examples
illustrate this well. First, the anti-social behaviour order in
the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 was attacked widely for its failure
to measure up to human rights standards. Yet in not one of its
publications did the Home Office advert to his issue, let alone
explain its own position. The second example was the Dangerous
People with Severe Personality Disorder Bill, which was also attacked
strongly on human rights grounds before it was withdrawn from
Parliament. There was a green paper, "Managing dangerous
people with severe personality disorder", which did advert
to the human rights issue. But it put only one side of the issue,
and failed to acknowledge that its view was a contested, not to
say a minority, position. The third concerns the provision in
the Criminal Justice and Court Services Bill 2000 providing for
the withdrawal of social security benefits from persons who failed
to comply with community sentences. Although the government conceded
in significant ways to objections on human rights grounds, it
consistently failed to acknowledge that its approach to the Convention
was a minimalist, read-it-down-as-far-as possible approach.
5. While the Joint Committee is in a position
to play a crucial role in remedying this defect with respect to
proposed and existing legislation, we suggest that a central role
of a Human Rights Commission should be to facilitate the proper
implementation of these positive duties by public bodies in their
executive functions. The Joint Committee has already demonstrated
the effectiveness of vesting scrutiny powers in a body independent
of the executive. Provisions in the Criminal Justice and Police
Bill 2001 were potentially in breach of Convention rights, especially
those relating to on-the-spot fines. The Joint Committee on Human
Rights became involved at this point, and questioned ministers.
The justifications given to the Joint Committee in the letters
from ministers are much clearer and more substantial than the
explanations offered to the public when the proposals are put
6. A Human Rights Commission should have
powers to facilitate compliance with the duty of all public authorities
to act compatibly with the Convention. The nature of these powers
and the extent to which they include an element of compulsion
would need detailed attention, but there is a wealth of recent
experience in respect of positive duties to promote equality under
the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and the Race Relations Amendment
Act 2000. The Equality Commission in Northern Ireland has powers
to require public authorities to draw up equality schemes, which
must be approved by the Commission. It may undertake an investigation
without receiving a complaint, in pursuance of the general duty
keep under review the effectiveness of the statutory provision.
We suggest that this is too rigid for these purposes. Instead
we suggest that the starting position should be powers which are
essentially advisory and conciliatory, encouraging authorities
to create proper auditing mechanisms, and assisting them in setting
them up. As a fallback position, there should be a sanction equivalent
to the compliance order which may be imposed in respect of breaches
of the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000. In any event, we would
suggest that the Commission be closely allied to the joint Committee,
in much the same way as the Parliamentary Commissioner relates
to the PCA Select Committee.
7. Participation and Transparency. A key
aspect of successful proactive action is participation by affected
group and transparency. The need for both has been underscored
by the evasive position taken by government so far. The government
generally responds to questions by stating simply that government
has received advice that a certain proposal or provision is Convention-compatible.
On several occasions that advice is based on a particular contested
view, and seems to be the answer of one lawyer to the question
"can we possibly get away with this?", rather than a
rounded assessment of the human rights position and a recognition
that the proposal goes to the vary edge of compatibility. Zifcak
shows that in both Canada and New Zealand, the centralisation
of human rights promotion and interpretation has been accompanied
by a substantial degree of openness. In particular, a detailed
manual containing guidelines with respect to the interpretation
of particular convention provisions has been issued, updated regularly
by reference to relevant judicial decisions. By contrast, it has
been made clear that no statement of reasons will accompany ministers'
declarations that legislation they introduce is compatible or
incompatible with the Convention. Ministers may, however, respond
to questions about the compatibility of particular provisions
in committee. We submit that the compliance role of the Human
Rights Commission should include powers to facilitate participation
in decision-making by affected persons, and to require transparency.
Question 1e. Proceedings on human rights issues
in the public interest
8. As well as the proactive role outlined
above, we submit that a Human Rights Commission should be able
to take a leading role in litigation. This requires that it should
have standing in its own right in relevant circumstances. We suggest
that a Human Rights Commission should have power to bring the
matter to court where appropriate in the following situations:
9. These are situations are of particular
significance because they involve the most marginalised and socially
excluded in society. One of the strongest arguments that has been
raised by those who oppose human rights is that human rights are
only of use to the rich and powerful and are not accessible to
the poorest and weakest in society. Without a Human Rights Commission
there is a danger that this argument will provide an indictment
of the UK's Human Rights Act.
10. Even if it was not thought appropriate
for the Human Rights Commission to institute proceedings we submit
that it should have standing to intervene as amicus curiae
in a case brought by an individual. This might enable a court
hearing a case involving two parties to receive arguments concerning
the wider human rights issues raised by the case.
Question 4. Devolution
11. Context: Neither the Scottish Parliament
and the Northern Ireland Assembly may legislate in a way which
conflicts with a right protected by the European Convention of
Human Rights. This is unlike the Westminster UK Parliament, which
retains the right to adopt primary legislation that is inconsistent
with rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights.
The National Assembly of Wales has no power to adopt primary legislation
as devolution in Wales is purely executive devolution. In the
case of all three bodies, executive action or inaction must not
be incompatible with a Convention right.
12. The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
was established by the Northern Ireland Act 1998.[40]
There presently exist no similar Commissions for England, Scotland,
or Wales, but there has been considerable debate in Scotland in
particular as to whether such a Commission should be established
for Scotland. In response to a motion in the Scottish Parliament
on 2 March 2000,[41]
the Scottish Human Rights Forum, facilitated by the Scottish Human
Rights Centre, has published proposals for a Human Rights Commission
for Scotland.[42]
It takes the view that there are reasons to justify a separate
Human Rights Commission for Scotland, namely that it believes
that human rights have not been embraced in Scotland to the same
extent as elsewhere in the UK, and that Scotland has its own distinctive
legal system, education system and culture.
13. We submit that there should be one Human
Rights Commission for the whole of the United Kingdom rather than
separate Human Rights Commissions established for England, Scotland,
Wales and Northern Ireland (subject to the retention of the Northern
Ireland Human Rights Commission as required by the Belfast Agreement).
It is important that the Human Rights Commission reflect a human
rights agenda for the United Kingdom (as illustrated by its domestic
legislation and its international obligations), rather than be
seen as reflecting any agenda of devolution or of actors within
the constituent parts of the United Kingdom.[43]
Human rights ought to enjoy equal protection throughout the United
Kingdom as a matter of principle, and a single Human Rights Commission
would contribute to this principle, whilst separate Commissions
could dilute it. Moreover, a single Human Rights Commission would
enable a better use of resources, ensure a more efficient and
streamlined agenda, and avoid duplication of costs and effort.
14. This proposal is made in the recognition
of the fact that the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
is already in existence, and must continue to exist as part of
the Belfast Agreement. Aside from this requirement there is a
stronger case in principle for a separate Northern Ireland Human
Rights Commission than for any other regional Commission, given
that human rights and discrimination in Northern Ireland has a
context far more directly related to issues of devolution than
is the case of Wales and Scotland. [44]
15. Should the proposal for a single Commission
be rejected in favour of some type of separate structure for the
devolved regions, we suggest that Commissions established for
Scotland and Wales ought to enjoy a regional remit under the umbrella
of a United Kingdom Human Rights Commission (which should have
ultimate power over them). Those Commissions ought to have special
concern for the "audit" function in relation to their
regions (both legislation and executive action in Scotland, and
executive action in Wales), and for education on human rights
in their regions. However, they ought to operate under the direction
of, and be accountable to, the national Human Rights Commission,
so that matters of principle are treated the same across the United
Kingdom, and best use is made of resources. Given that there is
no devolved English assembly or government, there need not be
a special Commission for England. With regard to the Northern
Ireland Human Rights Commission, it will be important for the
United Kingdom Human Rights Commission to liase with it so far
as possible without usurping its role.
Question 6. Relationship with other Commissions
16. We suggest that the Human Rights Commission
should co-exist with these bodies in the first instance, with
the possibility of merging with them at some point in the future.
17. A single commission with responsibility
for all aspects of human rights would have several advantages:
18. But there are some significant disadvantages
with this proposal:
19. We would therefore suggest a compromise
position in which separate Human Rights Commission is established
in the first instance. To be successful, this compromise would
need to have several features:
These arrangements should be kept under review.
If joint working failed to develop successfully a single Human
Rights Commission might be necessary in order to overcome organisational
boundaries. If joint working developed very successfully, a single
Human Rights Commission might emerge as a more natural organisational
structure. Thus, a separate Human Rights Commission should be
established in the first instance, with a single umbrella body
as a possible future development.
*The participation of Faculty members does not imply
that the content of this Response represents the view of the Law
Faculty or has the official endorsement of the Law Faculty.
16 July 2001
Northern Ireland Act 1998 Section 68. Back
See Minutes of Proceedings, Vol 1, No 57 Session 1, Meeting
of the Parliament, Thursday 2 March 2000. Back
Protecting our Rights-A Human Rights Commission for Scotland
(see http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/shrc/human-rights-commission.htm Back
See Simeon Beckett and Ian Clyde "A Human Rights
Commission for the United Kingdom: the Australian Experience"
[2000] 2 European Human Rights Law Review 131, 136. Back
Beckett and Clyde, 136. Back
Saran Spencer and Ian Bynoe, A Human Rights Commission: the options
for Britain and Northern Ireland (1998). Back


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Kentucky Department of Education
Kentucky Hybrid School Buses Head Nation's Class
"We have seen some huge gains in fuel efficiency. When we compared the fuel consumption to a bus that we were using the previous year with the same specifications, the MPG went from 6.3 to almost 10 and even 11 depending on the driver and where the vehicle was being driven."
Ancie Casey
Transportation Director for the Pike County
School District
Already very much proud, and deservedly so, of its bourbon, thoroughbred racing, college basketball and the Colonel's original recipe, the state of Kentucky now has bragging rights to yet another noteworthy achievement – the largest number of hybrid electric school buses in the nation.
More than 125 through August 2011, in fact, and the numbers are climbing.
A host of individuals, associations, departments and governmental agencies have all had a role in bringing about the success of the hybrid bus program in Kentucky, including the U.S. Department of Energy, the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition (KCFC), as well as administrators, transportation directors, bus drivers and maintenance professionals located in school districts throughout the state.
"Teamwork has been key to our success," says Melissa Howell, executive director for KCFC.
The environmentally friendly vehicles are now operating in 33 different school districts, where the buses have accumulated more than 500,000 miles of road service.
A good portion of the funding for all of those vehicles, notes Howell, is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy, with the department picking up the tab for the difference in cost between a hybrid-powered bus and a non-hybrid-powered bus.
As a responsible governmental agency, the Department of Energy just does not simply dole out money for that many buses without accountability.
Howell says it's that same teamwork with all of the many people involved with the school bus purchasing process that's delivering the answers. Providing those answers requires an extensive collection of data regarding the fuel consumption and performance of every one of those vehicles.
For help she and the others turned to Eaton Corporation, which supplies and supports the hybrid electric systems on all of the fuel-saving Thomas Built and International school buses.
"Eaton has been an outstanding supporter and we have been so fortunate to be affiliated with the company," says Howell. "Hardly a day goes by that I am not speaking with someone who works for Eaton. Having that kind of relationship is a nice place to be, especially in this day and age when voice mail and emails have practically replaced direct communications."
George Johnson, who has been with the Breathitt County School District in eastern Kentucky for 30-plus years as a bus driver, mechanic and driver training instructor, says, "The folks at Eaton have been doing a very good job, and they seem to be really interested in trying to save fuel and protecting the environment."
Sam Sanders, superintendent for the Larue County School District in central Kentucky, adds that his transportation director and maintenance supervisor have been equally satisfied with Eaton's support.
That transportation director, Phil Fulkerson, says the four hybrid buses in Larue County's fleet are averaging about 9.59 miles per gallon. "We were getting about 6.3 miles per gallon with similarly equipped non-hybrid buses," he says. "So that's an impressive 50 percent improvement."
Ancie Casey, transportation director for the Pike County School District in the eastern most region of Kentucky, has also been impressed.
"We have seen some huge gains in fuel efficiency," says Casey. "When we compared the fuel consumption to a bus that we were using the previous year with the same specifications, the MPG went from 6.3 to more than 11 depending on the driver and where the vehicle was being driven."
His bus driver trainer with more than 33 years of experience, Kenneth O'Quinn, says Pike County, with a total area of roughly 789 square miles, is geographically one of the largest counties in the country. His school bus fleet services some 24 schools and averages about 14,000 miles of road service per day.
The pair of school transportation veterans figures a county that big deserves an equally big investment in hybrids.
"We are currently running 37 hybrid buses, which is the largest school bus fleet in the nation," boasts Casey. "We wanted to take the lead in this project and we have. We don't like to follow."
He adds that his drivers especially like the quiet operation of the hybrid units, with one older driver telling him recently "this is the Cadillac of buses."
Back in Breathitt County – with one high school, one middle school and three elementary schools – Johnson says his eight hybrid buses are generating fuel consumption gains from 3.5 – 4.5 miles per gallon when compared to conventional buses. With some of his hybrid buses now closing in on 12 months of service, Johnson has also noticed significant improvements in brake wear.
"One of the buses operates on hilly terrain and the brakes usually wear faster than on the other buses," he says. "Well when we inspected the brakes you could hardly even tell that the brakes were being used. I guess the regenerative braking is doing what it's supposed to do."
Larue County's Fulkerson agrees. "We put one of our first hybrid units, which was actually the first hybrid school bus in Kentucky, on a real brake-pad-eating route. There are some big hills, and typically in a year we have to put new brakes on it. But with this charging set-up that Eaton has, it is saving all kinds of brake wear. That bus now has about 15,000 miles on it, and the brakes are not any where near needing to be changed."
Transportation officials at all three of the school districts say they are looking forward, with more funding currently available, to additional hybrid purchases in the future. Summarizing the success of Kentucky's hybrid bus project so far, KCFC's Howell, says, "What I know from the data that we have gathered so far, is that the Eaton hybrid buses should be capable of doubling the MPG figures of conventional buses.
I know because we have districts that are nearly 12 miles per gallon.
"So Eaton is definitely delivering on what they told us the systems would be capable of doing."


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Opioid Addiction
Opioids, like morphine, codeine and OxyContin®, are a class of drugs that are used to treat pain. While these medications are safe when used as prescribed by a physician, they are highly addictive when used indiscriminately or illicitly.
When an opioid dependent individual stops using drugs they experience withdrawal, including flu-like symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, sweating and muscle aches. Some people cannot stop taking opioids because they cannot tolerate withdrawal. Even once withdrawal symptoms have passed (usually about 7-10 days after discontinuing use of opioids) many people feel depressed and irritable because of long lasting changes in the brain, and the relapse rate of untreated opioid dependence is extremely high.
Buprenorphine is a synthetic opioid drug that can be used as replacement therapy for patients who want to stop using opioids illicitly. Buprenorphine binds to the same receptor as other opioids, but it only partially stimulates the receptor. Patients taking buprenorphine do not get high from their medication, nor do they experience the "lows" associated with stopping opioid use "cold-turkey." Because Buprenorphine only partially stimulates the opioid receptor it has fewer side effects, such as decreased respiration, than other drugs (such as Methadone) in this class.
Changes in federal law allow physicians who have met certain training and accreditation requirements to prescribe Buprenorphine from private offices. ASAP has several accredited providers, and offers a Buprenorphine program for opioid addicted adolescents.
Patient Eligibility
Young men and women under the age of 21 with opioid dependence are candidates for the ASAP Suboxone program, if they meet the following conditions:
For information about Boston Children's Hospital Adolescent Substance Abuse Program (ASAP),
click here.


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Last month, Retribution Gospel Choir, the trio led by Low frontman Alan Sparhawk, released their free-download The Revolution EP. Today, we get the video for their song "The Stone (Revolution!)," which turns out to be a pretty funny look at what might happen if the group indulged some unlikely marching-band ambitions. Sparhawk himself directs. Watch it below.
To download that EP, click here.


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An Artist in Demand
Steve Hannock '74, the most accomplished and well-connected artist you've never heard of.
One day, in 1970 or 1971, Stephen Hannock was in the basement of the Psi Upsilon fraternity house. He was painting.
"I used to paint in the dark with a black light. These huge phosphorescent canvasses," he says. "I was doing these paintings, these big animated paintings, with these Disney-esque Fantasia scenes going on, just raging day-glo, under the black light, these scenes of satyrs chasing wood nymphs. It was amazing."
When considering the medium, or the subject matter, or the viewer response that you're about to hear, consider that this was the tail end of the sixties. One of Hannock's Psi U brethren gazed at the painting with saucer eyes and proclaimed with sublime awe: "Maaaaan, you're a geeeeenius!"
Flash forward 35 years to a cavernous studio, suffused with the acrid but pleasing scent of oil paints and thinner, on the third floor of an old mill, tucked in a leafy valley of North Adams, Massachusetts. Hannock, 55, is still painting. He's still enamored with color and light, but he's toned it down just a little bit. And if he's not a genius, he's certainly amazingly talented.
Tacked up on a wall is a study for a sweeping, nocturnal vista of Newcastle-on-Tyne. The sky is a dark cerulean, and Hannock points out the lavender starbursts marking illuminated coal mines, the ghostly river shipyards glowing blue-green. Newcastle is the hometown of a musician you may have heard of named Sting. The painting was commissioned by the man himself, a commemoration of how the city has been "dug out from under feet of coal dust and closed shipyards by an amazing activity of culture," says Hannock. When completed, Sting would like the painting to be donated to the prestigious Tate Modern museum in London.
Sting is one of Hannock's good pals. ("We've been getting in trouble for about twenty years," he chuckles.) New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is another close friend. So is Tom Brokaw. And Robert Redford. A diverse and impressive group, but they're all drawn to the artist as much for his good-guy exuberance and the sheer force of his personality as his stunning landscape canvasses - huge paintings so luminous that they sometimes seem to actually emit light. Katie Couric, John McEnroe, and Candice Bergen all have his paintings on their walls. Many more wish they could.
As Hannock has honed his craft over the last 25 years, he's also cultivated a group of high profile collectors who treasure his expressive, emotionally resonant works. He's a hugely in-demand painter - there's a two-year waiting list - and his larger canvasses can fetch as much as $500,000 each. Yet despite that, despite the well-known patrons and friends, despite an Oscar, he still somehow manages to fly under the radar. According to a Fortune magazine profile (written by editor-at-large Andy Serwer '81), he's "the most accomplished and well-connected painter you've never heard of."
His journey started at Bowdoin. And while the art program - or relative lack thereof - back in 1970 necessitated a sort of self-imposed exile to Smith and Hampshire colleges after his freshman year, he's remained close to Bowdoin, and his affinity for the College has only been enhanced in recent decades as the studio art program and museum have blossomed.
"I knew, even when we were still in college, that he was going to be a famous artist," says Jed Lyons, President and CEO of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group in Washington D.C., one of Hannock's good friends from the Class of '74. "Not only was he talented, but he was extremely ambitious and savvy about the ways of the art world. There was never any doubt that he would become one of the best."
Trading Blades for Brushes
Steve Hannock played hockey. A goalie. Ever since fifth or sixth grade, growing up near Albany, he was at home on the ice, standing stolidly in front of the net, deflecting black discs of vulcanized rubber flung at him in excess of 100 miles an hour.
He played through high school, and during a post-graduate year at Deerfield Academy. And once it was time to start thinking about college, Bowdoin, with its powerhouse puck program, seemed like it might make sense. "Bowdoin really clicked with me."
And he got in - just in time. "I was getting ready to take the team photograph, at Deerfield, when I got nailed for my preinduction physical. I was getting ready to go to the Army. They wouldn't give me a deferment for being in high school because I had already graduated from high school, and I wasn't in college yet." Naturally, this lent a certain urgency to his desire for a quick matriculation. "I didn't get in early decision. Didn't get in regular decision. They put me on the waiting list. Then I got on the final waiting list. Some kid ended up going to Harvard instead of Bowdoin, and they called me up. That year I was the last guy accepted to the class."
Jed Lyons says the Class of 1974 was meant to be different. "We arrived in 1970," he says. "The first class recruited by [then admissions director] Dick Moll. Bowdoin then was an all-male, fairly traditional school, with fewer than 900 men. And Dick Moll nicknamed our class 'The Class with Pizzazz.' It was his way of signaling that there would be a change to the composition of the student body. He came through big time with significant changes, making the College much less traditional and attracting kids with more diverse backgrounds, more interest in the arts. But Hannock, ironically, was not an example of that pizzazz. He was pretty much a traditional preppy jock from Deerfield. He was a hockey player."
Sports were Hannock's driving passion. And, he thought, they were a big reason he was on campus at all: "Athletics can get you some places where you wouldn't go normally," he says. "[Hockey] opened up a lot of opportunities."
But, he'd also begun developing other interests. At Deerfield, he'd taken an art class with a professor, Dan Hodermarsky, who'd piqued his interest with a low-pressure approach to appreciating the visual world. "He'd say, 'Don't mess around in class, just go out and draw,'" says Hannock.
So, while he wasn't manning goal for the Polar Bears, he was in art class or drawing cartoons for the Orient.
Or engaging in, er, other artistic endeavors as a Psi U pledge. "He organized the freshman pledges, and all of us got together in the middle of the night on Winters Weekend to participate in the annual snow sculpture contest," Lyons remembers. "We built a 15-foot-high snow sculpture of two polar bears mating on the front lawn of the Psi U house. This creation, which was Steve's inspiration, lasted until about eight o'clock the following morning when the Dean called and demanded that it be dismantled. But I still have a picture of it. To me, that was the beginning of his artistic career."
Berkshire Bound
To Hannock's concern, however, he soon realized that the Bowdoin art program, in those days, was a good deal more circumscribed than he would have liked.
When asked what the Bowdoin art department was like when he was there, Hannock says, "It was almost nonexistent." There were intelligent and talented professors, sure. In particular, Hannock mentions Thomas Cornell, whom he'd heard great things about, but wasn't on campus his freshman year. But more often than not, the instruction seemed hidebound to him. His professor at Deerfield had offered him "a little more freedom than I was used to. At Bowdoin, I wanted to do more of that."
So, after freshman year, Hannock decided to take advantage of the 12 College Exchange. Smith College was an all-women's college, but it had a terrific art program, headed by the late Leonard Baskin, the renowned sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, and graphic artist. Hannock, at that time, was still a neophyte and didn't know much about his future mentor. "I decided to go to Smith. But I didn't know who Leonard Baskin was. Turns out he's one of the half-dozen great artists in the world at that time."
Baskin's primary concentrations were sculpting and printmaking, but he took the young painter under his wing as an apprentice, and over the next several years became an enormous life influence on Hannock, who considers his time at Smith to coincide with the first efflorescence of his art. "I was supposed to go just for a semester, but I just kept re-upping every semester," he says. (Because of his Ychromosome, he couldn't get a degree from Smith. He solved that dilemma by taking classes at nearby Hampshire College.)
Hannock's friend Jed Lyons has another theory about why Hannock headed south instead of staying at Bowdoin. "I would argue that he left for the girls down at Smith, rather than the art," he says with a laugh.
At the very least, it was an interesting place for a good-looking athletic man to be a student in those days. "On the weekends, Smith was invaded by all these guys," Hannock says. "But during the week, it was crazy. They were climbing through windows in the middle of the night ... it was terrifying, I tell ya!" He vividly remembers one late night visit. "It's two in the morning. Crash! On the floor. This stunning woman. She says, 'I really have to talk to you.' I'm like, 'OK, I'll be right back.' So I grab my toothbrush and toothpaste, grab a towel, and I go into the bathroom, in this raging fluorescent light. I'm just trying to compose myself, brushing my teeth....and I realize that [instead of toothpaste] I'd grabbed a tube of dioxin purple oil paint."
Oil paint is not water soluble. It isn't easily rinsed out of one's mouth. So he tried to wipe it off with a paper towel, which only succeeded in smearing it into the cracks between his teeth. Eventually he realized that it was a lost cause. So he returned to his dorm room, where the only light was from a bare bulb lamp on the floor. One can only imagine how hideous he must have looked. "I don't know what she had in mind, but what she saw clearly wasn't it."
Run-ins like that aside, Hannock enjoyed his time at Smith. He ventured north for regular visits to Psi U, but the Berkshires was where he'd stay. Would he have remained at Bowdoin if there had been a stronger art program in those days? "Probably. I didn't want to leave."
He missed Psi U. "They're smart folks there. It makes a difference. Going to these communities where there are smart folks there, even if they're confused, it's creative confusion. They're trying figure out something. Getting loaded is one thing. Getting loaded and not thinking is another. After the parties you wanna learn something."
And he missed hockey. "We had a really good freshman team that year," he says. "One regret I have is that I never went back to play for Sid Watson."
Many people might think of art and athletics as almost opposite pursuits, but Hannock embraces them both. "Steve was not only a good hockey goalie, but also a championship Frisbee player," says Bill Belichick. "He is an amazing athlete, who can roller blade all day long." The Pats coach also says that, while he's "far from an art critic, I love Steve's paintings and he has done several for me. When I was in Cleveland, we had them hung outside the football meeting rooms. His work is pleasing to the eye."
For Hannock's part, he says that "art has a lot in common with athletics. You practice, honing skills, and then you respond spontaneously to events."
A Modern Twist
Looking at Hannock's sprawling canvasses, muscular but still studied and restrained, you can see what he means. He's deeply influenced by the great American landscape painters of the 19th century, especially the Hudson River School - George Inness, Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church - whose sweeping vistas of rugged Eastern terrain were imbued with a sense of the romantic and the sublime.
He also takes some cues from painters like the English proto-impressionist J.M.W. Turner, whose canvasses, bathed in golden glow, treat light almost as a sacrament. Hannock feels the same way. His subjects - the Connecticut River oxbow luxuriating in summer dusk, glinting waterfalls beneath glowing pink skies, flooded plains refracting and amplifying the light of setting sun, a train traversing the horizon at twilight, rockets piercing the dark night with deafening illumination - revel in the transportive aspect of luminosity. He said that when he paints, he's not painting mountains, water, and trees so much as he's painting light itself: they exist only to give it a place on which to play.
Early summer evenings are his favorite. "There's just something about the mood that's created during these short-lived times of day. Whether it makes the viewer or somebody who's witnessing the event more appreciative of what's going on. It just seems to be a time of day where people take pause. The motion of light, whether it's fireworks, or a car that's just gone by where you just see a streak of light, or light coming through a fog bank, it's an unlikely miracle moment that's a detonator for all sorts of stuff in people. It's something different for everybody. But I respect the power of what's going on there. I don't understand it, but I think the more I paint it, the more I'm beginning to understand it. It's the kind of thing where that search, that effort to learn what that's about, is an exciting trip. If anything, it's a reminder that it's the trip that's worthwhile."
His landscapes are unique. "I don't have any foreground," he says, pointing at a canvas in the corner that might as well be the view out a flat window. "You have to break that two-dimensional plane before you get the objects that are holding the light. Water or air. It's a neat way to bring you into the painting." Also, he doesn't tend to lug his canvas and paints out into the wilderness, as many of his 19th century forebears did. Nor does he work from photographs. "It's all imaginary. Sometimes I'll do ink drawings [as studies]. I tend to exaggerate things that are being interpreted. That exaggeration creates these rhythms that disappear with photography. Photography is flat."
Hannock, who's ambidextrous and paints with both hands, achieves his remarkable effects - canvasses that literally seem to glow - with a technique of his own invention: polishing the oil on the canvas with wet-dry sandpaper on a power sander. By painting, sanding, applying more paint and gloss, then sanding them again, it gives his works a texture and luminosity he couldn't achieve with a brush alone. "It creates accents and gives you a surface that really reflects a pure light and allows you to achieve a mood much better than the traditional way of applying paint."
Landscapes, to put it plainly, are not currently in vogue in this world of conceptual art and envelope-pushing provocateurs. Some have called Hannock an anachronism, with his candid affection for "old-fashioned" painters. He doesn't care. And anyway, his aren't exactly "traditional" landscapes. Back in 1990, quite by accident, he discovered what would become another hallmark of his style. "I used to take old envelopes and soak up excess paint," he says. "One day I soaked up the paint and threw it away and missed the wastebasket." He noticed that text on the front of the letter showed through the paint, just a little. Eureka.
Hannock now underlays many of his painting with documents or photographs or handwritten letters that are resonant to him. Sometimes he'll write, subtly, directly into the paint, giving his canvasses an added texture. These personal notes are hard to see - especially in reproduction - but once you get near enough to look closely, to really lean in and inspect them, the effect is profound, giving the sense of a multilayered excavation of history. "I'll just use anecdotes that strike me in certain ways," Hannock says. It makes his paintings exquisitely evocative of a particular space and time.
Not everyone liked the technique at first. Some thought it ruined a perfectly good landscape. "Even these abstract expressionist guys, these guys from the New York School, were saying, 'Oh, why are you writing on them?!' Of all people!"
But Franklin Kelly, senior curator of American and British painting National Gallery (which counts Hannock's "A Recent History of Art in Western Massachusetts: Flooded River for Lane Faison" among its collection), likes his twist on a traditional form. Kelly met Hannock through a common interest in Frederic Church, and says that while the two artists share similar hallmarks, "his paintings aren't like those 19th century landscapes." Rather, they offer a decidedly modern twist.
"You look at his Connecticut River"- a vista originally made famous in Thomas Cole's 1836 painting, "View from Mt. Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm (The Oxbow)" - "and there are highways and highway bridges," Kelly says. Moreover, the buried text and painted-over photos lend the paintings an honesty and emotional integrity. "He isn't dependent on the irony that so many artists today use."
It's also true that Cole or Church never worked for Hollywood. In 1997, Hannock was enlisted by Eugenio Zanetti, production designer for the Robin Williams film "What Dreams May Come", a lushly visual exploration of the afterlife and the endurance of love. Hannock painted the huge triptych, supposedly painted by Williams's character's wife. After he dies suddenly, he finds himself in a heaven that's intensely reminiscent of her painting. Hannock worked with the film's computer animators, designing the special effects of walking through three-dimensional wet paint. It won him an Academy Award for visual effects. He was also amused by the experience. "In an afternoon, more people see you in a movie than saw your gallery show during its entire run."
Light & Dark
Leonard Baskin introduced Hannock to the work of the French Symbolist Odilon Redon when he was at Smith. One of his favorite quotes is from the artist:
Black is the most essential of all colors. It finds its glorification, its life, shall I say, in the direct and deeper springs in Nature. Black should be respected.... It does not please the eye nor awaken the sensuality. It is an agent of the mind far more than the beautiful colors of the palette or prism.
Stephen Hannock is a luminist painter. He has studied light for decades, and has made solving its nuances his life's work. And he knows that light cannot exist without darkness.
In 1998, he met Bridget Watkins, the beautiful, vivacious executive assistant to New York City restaurateur Danny Meyer, in many of whose establishments (Gramercy Tavern, Eleven Madison Park) Hannock's paintings hang prominently. The two were married in 2000, and before long Bridget was pregnant with their daughter Georgia.
During those nine months, Bridget experienced bouts of double vision that doctors assumed were attributable to her pregnancy. But when the affliction persisted after Georgia's birth, they ordered up tests.
In Andy Serwer's Fortune profile, he writes, "On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the couple watched from their Greenwich Village apartment as the second plane slammed into the World Trade Center. 'I was about to run outside to get cash and water because I knew something was up,' recalls Hannock. Five minutes after the plane hit, the phone rang. Bridget answered it and became hysterical. She told Steve it was the lab calling with her test results - something was very wrong and they had to see a neurologist right away. 'You could say it was a very bad day,' sighs Hannock."
Bridget had a brain tumor. And over the next three years she fought valiantly through radiation, an apparent remission, surgery, a stroke on the operating table, and a recurrence of the cancer. In October 2004, Bridget Watkins-Hannock died at age 42.
In Hannock's studio, Georgia, a gorgeous, towheaded five-year-old, watches TV while Hannock talks about his mammoth painting, "American City with Restored Park," which hangs majestically on a window-side wall.
It shows New York's Flatiron Building, accentuated with powerful light that emanates from the street behind it, towering over Madison Square Park - which Bridget fought passionately to restore, and now features a plot of land called Bridget's Garden, where 3,000 pink tulips bloom each spring. Initially, the painting was meant to be "a capsule of the 25 years I spent living full-time in New York," Hannock says. But "it eventually turned into the story of my wife's trials and tribulations." Layered under the paint are a nude photograph of a pregnant Bridget, and a letter Hannock wrote to Georgia the day Bridget awoke in the hospital after suffering the stroke. It's a hugely affecting work.
Carpe Diem
"Even in the last days, when Bridget was so sick, he was just so upbeat," says Williams College president Morton Schapiro, who's one of Hannock's good friends, and whose daughter is best friends with Georgia. "It sometimes seems like he never has a bad day. Most of us, in that situation, would be all over the place. He's just always optimistic. Always outgoing and engaging."
Bill Belichick shares that appraisal, and is struck too by the artist's humility. "Steve is a great friend ... you'd never know he is a star. He's down to earth, and really hasn't changed too much since he was in college. He is smart, personable, and funny, and he gets along well with everybody - from my dad, who was in his mid-eighties, to my kids, who he's been close to since they were born."
The fact that so many of Hannock's paintings are dedicated to friends and mentors should tell you something. The feeling is reciprocated. "How can you not love Steve Hannock? Not only is he amazingly talented, but he's just so much fun to be with, says Schapiro. "And he's one heck of an artist, God knows. The diversity of the kind of stuff he does, from representational to abstract. He's just really an innovative artist. We have three or four of his paintings up in the president's house. We love to go to restaurants where his stuff is hanging, like Eleven Madison Park and Gramercy Bistro."
Of course, Hannock's work is hanging in more than just restaurants. His "Flooded River for Lane Faison (Mass MoCA #12)" is in the National Gallery. ("[O]ne of America's foremost contemporary landscape painters," they call him.) His most famous painting, "The Oxbow: After Church, after Cole, Flooded (Flooded River for the Matriarchs E. & A. Mongan), Green Light," is hanging in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He has a piece in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Smith College Museum of Art, the Williams College Museum of Art, and many others.
And soon one will be hanging at Bowdoin. Hannock is just about to donate another in his series of Connecticut River oxbow paintings - "The Oxbow for Leonard Baskin and David Becker (Mass MoCA #49)" - a six foot by nine foot canvas of polished oil over acrylic and collage to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. A tribute to curator and scholar David P. Becker '72, whose "astounding patronage" has been invaluable to the school, it will be a fine addition to the museum once its extensive renovations are completed in 2007.
Hannock is especially excited about the new Walker Art Building. "You can't believe what a successful college art museum does in a community. Here [in the Massachusetts Berkshires] they have three, all within a few miles radius. It could be the only place in the country like that. Wait till you see the people coming from all over the country to Bowdoin. Just to see the art museum." And he's effusive in his praise of museum director Katy Kline, who "has exhibited the patience of Job as she has escorted and prodded the famed McKim Mead and White landmark into the third millennium."
Just as gratifying for Hannock is seeing how far the Bowdoin art program has come during the thirty years since he was there. Today there are nine professors in the visual art department, teaching everything from painting and drawing to sculpture and printmaking to architecture and 3-D computer animation. There are fifteen courses on offer for this fall semester. Spacious studio space in the McLellan Building. An exchange program with the Maine College of Art. "The atmosphere up there has changed dramatically," he says.
Advice to undergrads who might like a career as a successful painter? "You don't do this because you want to be a famous artist. You do it because you're just not happy if you're not attacking a given idea," he says. Also, there's this little reminder: carpe diem.
"College is where you really get your last shot at bringing to life ideas with no editing. That's the thing about the art that's so cool. You're thinking about something that you have to do for a class or whatever, but then you get excited about something and you go about doing it - whether it's an essay, or music, or whatever, and you get to bring that idea to life. By yourself. No committees, no boss that's gonna fire you. What a cool way to discover that creative process."
And if they're like him, Bowdoin art students should aspire to elicit something simple in the viewer, a slight motion that all painters live for: quick stopping in one's tracks, followed by a bend at the waist - and a closer look. "When people go by, you want to get 'the lean,'" Hannock says. Painters talk about trying to get a 'lean.' That moment. That's the thing that keeps you going."


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Social Hacking – How millions of Users hack Visa and MasterCard
The recent hacks on Visa and MasterCard are an interesting social media topic: Social hacking. A group of hackers has been taking out sites that cancel relationships with Wikileaks and now invite everyone to join the process of hacking. They are calling this Operation Payback.


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Tera Letzring, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Psychology - Director of Experimental Training
B.A. (1999), University of Puget Sound
M.A. (2002), and Ph.D. (2005), University of California, Riverside
Research Interests
Research interest is in the accuracy of personality judgment, and more specifically the characteristics and behaviors of people who are good judges of personality, the types of situations that are most likely to lead to accurate judment, and the kinds of information that are most likely to lead to accurate judgment.
Selected Publications
Hall, J. A., Gunnery, S. D., Letzring, T. D., Carney, D. R., & Colvin, C. R. (in press). Accuracy of judging affect and accuracy of judging personality: How and when are they related? Journal of Personality.
Letzring, T. D., Rone, C. R., & Colman, D. E. (in press). Investigating the effects of fear of negative evaluation, state anxiety, and dominance labels on person perception. The Journal of Social Psychology. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2016.1140117 (badges for Open Data and Open Materials)
Letzring, T. D. (2015). Observer judgmental accuracy of personality: Benefits related to being a good (normative) judge of personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 54, 51-60. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2014.05.001 (data and R script are available on the journal website)
Letzring, T. D., & Human, L. J. (2014). An examination of information quality as a moderator of accurate personality judgment. Journal of Personality, 82, 440-451. doi: 10.1111/jopy.12075
Letzring, T. D., & Noftle, E. E. (2010). Predicting relationship quality from self-verification of broad personality traits among romantic couples. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 353-362. doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2010.03.008
Letzring, T. D., & Noftle, E. (2010). Predicting relationship quality from self-verification of broad personality traits among romantic couples. Journal of Research in Personality, 44, 353-362.
Letzring & Noftle, 2010.pdf
Letzring, T. D. (2010). The effects of judge and target gender and ethnicity similarity on the accuracy of personality judgments. Social Psychology, 41, 42-51.
Letzring, 2010 - similarity and accuracy.pdf
Letzring, T. D. (2008). The good judge of personality: Characteristics, behaviors, and observer accuracy. Journal of Research in Personality, 42, 914-932.
Letzring, 2008-good judge.pdf
Letzring, T. D. (2008). Self-report methods. In The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd ed.). Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA.
Letzring, 2008 - self-report method.pdf
Letzring, T. D., Wells, S. M., & Funder, D. C. (2006). Quantity and quality of available information affect the realistic accuracy of personality judgment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91, 111-123.
Letzring, Wells, & Funder, 2006.pdf
Letzring, T. D., Block, J., & Funder, D. C. (2005). Ego-control and ego-resiliency: Generalization of self-report scales based on personality descriptions from self, acquaintances, and clinicians. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 395-422.
Letzring, Block, & Funder, 2005.pdf
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We are currently looking for a Workday Human Capital Management Consultant , Bringing the best of Workday's HCM Cloud platform to our clients!
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Within our Accenture Cloud First Technology Practice your focus will be on the cutting edge of HR business processes and HR applications. You will advise our clients and play an important role in the implementation of Workday's Human Capital Management (SaaS) solution. Based on your HR and IT experience knowledge sharing, coaching colleagues and business development, you will support the management team to further strengthen the Cloud First Technology Practice.
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Preity Zinta's New Year plans: learning to ski in Colorado
Everyone is planning their New Year trips and so are our bollywood stars. While some of them are planning to bring in New Years in Mumbai, others like Preity Zinta are busy planning their trip abroad. Come New Year's and Preity Zinta will be off to the chilly climate of Colorado where she's going to learn skiing. Preity wants to learn a new sport and feels that it's never to late to learn, hence she's headed off to the snowy slopes of Colorado. Whether pretty Preity's boyfriend Ness Wadia will accompany her on her mini vacation remains to be seen.
Preity is all excited about learning to ski this New Year and says "I've been in the snow a lot, but I have never gone skiing. I want to learn a new sport and it's never too late to learn." Preity will spend two weeks in the open hilly outdoors learning to ski and relaxing. Preity is all excited about the New Year 2007 but she is also extremely satisfied with the past year of 2006. Though both Preity's films may have not fared so well at the box-office in 2006, Preity says "Ten years from now I'll be extremely proud of both my films and that's exactly what I need to feel about my films."
Preity looks forward to 2007 as her film 'Jhoom Barabar Jhoom' will be releasing. Preity will also be doing more films in 2007 and already has three films lined up. Preity says "I've never looked anxiously over my shoulder at the so-called competition. As I grow older I'm more contained and even more charged up about my work." Preity claims that the two incidents that turned her life around and made her view things differently were her father's death when she was 14 years and the Tsunami incident. Preity says "Today I'm a totally different person as only when you see death so closely do you really realize what frivolous lives we lead." Preity also wants to do different and exciting roles as she now has the choice to be adventurous and she also does not want to do any roles that she will regret later.
Preity felt humbled when she was giving out the bravery awards in Delhi after seeing the extraordinary human spirit displayed by some of the people there. Preity however is guarded about her personal relationship with boyfriend Ness Wadia . Preity does not want to keep talking about her relationship as she wants to maintain her separate identity and professional life. Nonetheless on rumours of her splitting with Ness she says "I can't keep clarifying speculations all the time. No one listens and I don't lie about anything, if I'm wrong I admit it."
Preity had a great year in 2006 and she hopes that 2007 will be even more rocking, she is extra charged up for the forthcoming year.


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HPV-Associated Cancer Trends Among Men by Year
The rate of people getting HPV-associated cancers varies by year and type of cancer. "Incidence rate" means how many people out of a given number get the disease each year.
*Note: This study used cancer registry data to estimate the amount of HPV-associated cancer in the United States by examining cancer in parts of the body and cancer cell types that are more likely to be caused by HPV. Cancer registries do not collect data on the presence or absence of HPV in cancer tissue at the time of diagnosis. In general, HPV is thought to be responsible for more than 90% of anal and cervical cancers; more than 50% of vaginal, vulvar, and penile cancers; and 60% to 70% of oropharyngeal cancers.
Number of HPV-Associated Cancers Among Men by Year and Cancer Site, United States, 2003–2013
HPV-Associated Cancer Rates Among Men by Year and Cancer Site, United States, 2003–2013
Rates are per 100,000 and age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. Standard Population (19 age groups — Census P25-1130) standard.
Data are from population-based cancer registries participating in the CDC National Program of Cancer Registries and/or the NCI Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program, meeting criteria for high data quality for all years 2003–2013, and covering about 99% of the U.S. population.
HPV-associated cancers were defined as cancers at specific anatomic sites and with specific cellular types in which HPV DNA frequently is found. All cancers were confirmed histologically. Cervical cancers (ICD-O-3 site codes C53.0–C53.9) are limited to carcinomas (ICD-O-3 histology codes 8010–8671, 8940–8941). Vaginal (ICD-O-3 site code C52.9), vulvar (ICD-O-3 site codes C51.0–C51.9), penile (ICD-O-3 site codes C60.0–60.9), anal (ICD-O-3 site code C21.0–C21.9), rectal (ICD-O-3 site code C20.9) and oropharyngeal (ICD-O-3 site codes C01.9, C02.4, C02.8, C05.1, C05.2, C09.0, C09.1, C09.8, C09.9, C10.0, C10.1, C10.2, C10.3, C10.4, C10.8, C10.9, C14.0, C14.2 and C14.8) cancer sites are limited to squamous cell carcinomas (ICD-O-3 histology codes 8050–8084, 8120–8131).
Viens LJ, Henley SJ, Watson M, Markowitz LE, Thomas CC, Thompson TD, Razzaghi H, Saraiya M, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Human papillomavirus–associated cancers—United States, 2008–2012. MMWR 2016;65(26):661–666.
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Oh. Em. Gee. I'm so excited to share this with you!
After several years of following Marie Forleo and watching, re-watching, and re-re-re-watching her amazing videos on how to become a business-savvy power house with an amazing, rich life, I've decided to take action. I'm a dreamer and a planner. I've always said I could spend a lifetime putting ducks in a row and avoiding the "leaps"… but not anymore.
I signed up for B-School. Not familiar with it? Click through and read all about it, watch videos, and get excited with me! You might even find yourself signing up for this award-winning program.
I'm doing this for clarity. I'm doing this to put my creativity and passion into motion. I'm doing this for anyone who has ever looked to me for advice, inspiration, or motivation.
Last year, I tried to get a scholarship by creating a video about why I should have a spot in B-School, but after submitting the video (created frantically in one day), I realized I wasn't personally ready to take on the challenge of going next-level with my business idea.
This year, I'm all in.
I recently read Turning Pro and The War of Art—both of which were eye-opening for me as an artist and as a creative professional. I've taken stock of my dreams and what I want my life to feel like. I've organized my thoughts, and I'm ready to jump!
If you're interested in signing up, you'll find a ton of affiliates through which to receive "bonuses" in addition to the course. I personally signed up through the amazing Nisha Moodley because I feel like she is my sister from another mister and I love supporting her mission.
By the way, I'm not an affiliate. I don't benefit from writing this post in any way, except to bookmark this exciting moment in my own journey. I have high hopes and I can't wait to connect with other creators and innovators!
Here's to moving forward and upward.
P.S. If you're also a B-School student this year, or an alum, I would love to connect with you! Leave me a comment so we can stay in touch.


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Tustin Community Preschool is a child-inspired cooperative preschool, where kids learn, play, create, and interact in a nurturing, safe setting. TCP offers an engaging developmental preschool curriculum including indoor creative play; outdoor play; storytime, sharing, singing; daily art experiences; science, garden, animals; language development; small and large motor development activities; ongoing music and gymnastic classes; and field trips.
TCP's First School Days: 8/29 & 8/30 for Preschool. 9/5 & 9/7 for Parent Toddler Classes.
TCP Orientation Night on August 21 at 6pm.
The TCP online store is no longer available. All payments may be made in the school office. Thank you!
If you already shop on Amazon, it is so easy to turn your purchases into funds for our school! Spread the word!


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For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace.
Isaiah 55:12
Not only does God speak to us through His Word, and not only does He speak to us through people and circumstances, but God also speaks to us through His peace.
Colossians says, "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful" (3:15).
Another way to translate that verse is, "Let God's peace act as an umpire in your lives, settling with finality all matters that arise."
God's peace can act as an umpire in your life. He can settle with finality what you should do.
Here's how it works. Maybe you think that something is the will of God. Circumstantially, things have fallen into place. You begin to proceed, but then you have a complete lack of peace. Something inside of you is saying, "Don't do it."
The Old Testament tells the story of a clever group of individuals known as Gibeonites, who lived in Canaan.
God had instructed Joshua not to make any deals with the inhabitants of the land.
So the Gibeonites put on old shoes and clothes and pretended as though they had come from a distant country. They told Joshua they had come to enter into an agreement with him.
Joshua unknowingly struck a deal with his enemies because he failed to consult the Lord. Things can look good outwardly. Everything can seem right. Be careful. Learn to listen to that still, small voice.
Learn to pay attention to that peace, or lack of it, in your heart because that is one of the ways God will lead you.
When you're in the will of God, you will have His peace. All the ways of God are peaceful.
Prayer: Lord, teach me to listen to the voice of peace.
Scriptural Reading: Isaiah 55:6-13


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In today's video I demonstrate how to cut up a whole chicken, which is a worthwhile thing to know and not at all hard. I also show how to take the chicken back (and neck and innards, if your chicken came with them — not all of them do) and turn it into a small batch of chicken stock. I usually make the stock immediately after cutting up the chicken, but you could also save the back for later. You could freeze it if you've got the freezer space or, if you want to combine it with the leftover bones from the chicken you are cooking, like I did with the chicken curry that I describe in this week's column, you can stick the back in the fridge for a day or two.
As I mention in the video, you don't need to make a fuss when you're making stock. Covering the chicken back with water and adding a halved onion, a pinch of salt and a bay leaf will yield a delicious stock that comes together in the pot almost instantly. For more depth you could also stir in a carrot, celery stalk, garlic, peppercorns and parsley stems and/or thyme sprigs. But don't let the lack of any of these stop you from making stock. A freezer full of even bare-bones, small-batch stock is better than having a couple of chicken backs languishing, waiting for their turn in the pot.


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(Reuters) - Wireless service provider Clearwire Corp <CLWR.O> said it would draw on $80 million in financing from Sprint Nextel Corp <S.N>, which is seeking to buy it, reducing the chances for rival bidder Dish Network Corp <DISH.O>.
Clearwire, which is already majority owned by Sprint, said on Wednesday that it would continue talks with Dish but that it has not changed its recommendation in favor of its agreement with No. 3 U.S. mobile provider Sprint.
"We anticipate filing our definitive proxy in the coming weeks," Clearwire Chief Executive Erik Prusch said in a filing.
Clearwire's latest comments did not appear to bode well for its shareholders' demands for a higher price tag than Sprint's $2.97 per-share offer or for Dish's counter-offer. The satellite company run by billionaire founder Charlie Ergen had said that its $3.30 per-share bid for Clearwire was conditional on Clearwire not drawing on Sprint's convertible debt offer.
"Every month that they draw down on that $80 million gives Sprint more stock and is another nail in the coffin of a prospective Dish deal," said D.A. Davidson analyst Donna Jaegers. Dish was not immediately available for comment.
Many Clearwire shareholders said they were unhappy with the Sprint offer, which would need approval from the majority of Clearwire's minority investors.
Sprint's December deal to buy out Clearwire included the option for the smaller company to draw on $800 million in convertible debt in 10 monthly installments.
Clearwire, which also drew on the financing in March, had declined the offer in January and February because it was considering the Dish offer.
Clearwire said on Wednesday that it has not made any decisions about whether it would accept future installments of the Sprint money.
It did not explain on Wednesday how it could continue talks with Dish despite its apparent flouting of Dish's condition that it reject's Sprint financing.
The financing is in the form of debt that will be convertible to Clearwire shares in the event that its shareholders vote against Sprint's offer.
So every installment that Clearwire accepts would further weaken its minority shareholders' clout in the future.
However, Clearwire's shares were still well above the Sprint offer price at $3.24 when the Nasdaq closed on Thursday, indicating that many shareholders were still hoping for a better deal.
(Reporting by Sinead Carew, additional reporting by Nicola Leske; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Maureen Bavdek and Richard Chang)


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We created this infographic for Search Engine Journal based on their recent survey of 65 SEOs. The purpose of the survey was to find out what the industry's top SEOs are working on, their top priorities, their biggest challenges, and their vision for the future.


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