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Then it was Father's face on TV. Smoothing down the ample grey moustache that hung on his bulging cheeks, Father began to speak, holding an unlit cigarette between his index and middle fingers.
"In 1982, they had given this to me in writing when they decided to execute Jabbar Singh. Government jobs for my children… but later, when my son Ramdev Mullick was seriously injured… then they conveniently forgot the promise. How did he suffer that injury? The government ought to have had a thought. I have sacrificed my life and my family's too, for the sake of this country. Doesn't the government have any obligation towards me? This business of hanging, is it a picnic? Babu, we don't tie the noose around the neck of a hen or a snake. We tie it around a human being's neck. Here, pinch me, and see for yourself, I am no block of iron or stone. A raw man, just like you. I too have a family. A wife. Mother. Brother. Children. He, the condemned man I am to hang, is not even my son's age. I am ending his life. Is that like smoking this cigarette? No, brother, no . . ."
Father lit his cigarette and let out a puff of smoke. When the camera panned sideways, Alipore Central Jail appeared. Father was coming out after seeing the IG. Blowing the smoke out, he struck a jatra pose, gazing reverentially at something in the distance and folding his hands in salutation. Then he continued: "I am a person who calls to god every day. I don't know what lies ahead of this life. I have hung four hundred and fifty-one people with these hands… not even one of those four hundred and fifty-one has returned to tell me what death is like and what lies beyond. Look here, you, I am an old man. May leave any time… if I leave and reach there, will the four hundred and fifty-one people be waiting for me? I don't know. Will they fry me in oil? That, too, I don't know… Everything ends after death, scientists say. But to know if it is really like that, we have to go by ourselves…"
"Do you believe in life after death?"
"No, brother, that is not the issue. The issue is the big risk I have taken. Risk, Babu, risk . . ."
Father pointed the cigarette at the camera and puffed hard once more. He wiped the sweat with his gamchha.
"Till which class did you study?"
"See? This is the problem with you. Why do you worry about the class up to which I have studied? Isn't it enough to ask how much I know? I know enough to read an English newspaper. To make sense of it. I know enough of maths and chemistry and physics and everything else to do my job. Why, won't that do?"
Father raised his eyelids and laughed mockingly. His face really looked like that of a vulture.
"Are you saying that the government must compensate you for the torture you may have to undergo in the afterlife?"
"I said I know nothing of afterlife… there is risk even in life till death."
"What risk do you face?"
"My son Ramdev… my son was cut down by the father of Amartya Ghosh whom I hanged at the gallows in 1990…"
Father pulled hard on the burning cigarette. Suddenly my heart fell. We never spoke of that day. In 1990, Ramu da had been my age, twenty-two. Father's height, luxuriant hair and moustache, and Ma's fair complexion and gentle eyes made him handsome. All the girls in the neighbourhood were fastening nooses around his neck, I would tease; they threw look after look in longing. He was a good student. And reluctant to become a hangman. He argued with Father over it all night sometimes.
Those days, there were no twenty-four-hour channels. That was the heyday of newspapers. The news of Amartya Ghosh's execution continued to appear. Our family was all agog, having got a job after two or three years. But two days later, Ramu da, who was returning from college, was attacked by Amartya's aged father. The old man hacked off his fair, slender, delicate limbs.
"Didn't the government offer compensation for the injury Ramdev suffered?" The young man continued to question Father.
"They gave a thousand and five hundred rupees then… and now a pension for the disabled…"
The image of Father flinging away the cigarette butt appeared on the screen.
I thought it would end there. But the young man's voice rang again. "Only your son is disabled. Your healthy daughter is still with you. Are you not keen to hand over your job to her?"
I was stunned. Father, too, looked somewhat startled. "I haven't ever thought of that…"
Father took out another cigarette, lit it, took a drag, and continued without wasting any time. "Uh-uh… why not? She can easily do it. But, brother, that is not for me to decide. It is for the government, right?"
Ma, Ramu da and I sat transfixed as Father turned around and looked at us with a smile. The scenes that followed were these: The young man's face appeared. "Grddha Mullick made it clear that unless his daughter is granted a government job, he will not receive the court order and perform the hanging. While committed to the position that the children of a hangman may be given the same job, law minister Pallav Dasgupta announced that Grddha Mullick's demand that his job be given to his daughter is unacceptable…"
Followed by the minister's face: "No, no, no… this is not a job a woman can do… it requires a lot of strength… of mind and body…"
The young man's face: "Do you mean to say that women lack in strength of mind and body?"
The minister: "No, not that… but this is not a job like any other…"
Now the young man's face, again. "This is not just a matter of the conduct of justice anymore. The question of whether a woman has the right to work as a hangman cannot simply be denied, given the backdrop of arguments in favour of women's reservation. And this in a context where the death penalty is being abolished in many nations of the world. This is the topic of discussion today in CNC Face to Face. Viewers may take part in the live discussion. This is the question: Can women be appointed executioners to hang criminals? To voice your views, call us on…"
I was deeply shocked. Still, I thought it would end there. It didn't.
"When we reached the house of the country's most famous hangman, Grddha Mullick, his first condition was that no images of his family members be made public. But CNC channel received images of his daughter secretly. Eighty-eight-year-old Phanibhushan now bargains with the government to make the life of this young woman secure – she who passed the Plus Two examination with very high marks but was unable to continue her studies because of financial problems."
My image began to roll on screen. Me about to turn right after taking money from Kaku. Then turning left. Walking towards the camera. Passing by the camera, opening and closing my arms merrily. The camera shows my back till I reach Hari da's shop. As I return, my faded and tattered dupatta and the breasts it does not fully cover appear on the screen. Then my face comes into view on the screen, magnified. I saw the small wart on the left side of my nose, the smooth shiny hair of my eyebrows, and the bulging eyes, the same as Father's. This is how others see my face—now I saw too.
As I sat there dazed, the young man concluded: "From Bhavanipore, for CNC channel, along with cameraman Atul Kishore Chandra, this is Sanjeev Kumar Mitra."
"Sanjeev Kumar Mitra!" Father jumped up, furious. "I'll finish him with my bare hands!"
Father was wrong. He was to die by my hands. That's why I was attracted to him from that very moment. He was special, with his exceptional height, thick straight hair, long straight nose. It took me much longer to be convinced that the feeling I had for him was what people call love. The kinds of love that the likes of us experienced were all like the noose fixed between the third and fourth vertebrae. Either the noose tightened and the person died, or the cord broke and the person escaped. But even those who broke the cord could never completely untie the noose from their necks. Like Chinmayi Devi who married Radharaman Mullick, we writhed and flailed without breath, all our lives.
Excerpted with permission from Hangwoman, KR Meera, translated from the Malayalam by J Devika, Penguin Books.


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Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook, Google Aren't on Speaking Terms
On a conference call Monday evening with investors and media to discuss the company's fourth-quarter earnings and financial outlook, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg let slip a revealing tidbit: Facebook and Google aren't on speaking terms.
Responding to a seemingly benign question about the opportunities afforded to Facebook by Apple's new mobile operating system, Zuckerberg launched into a brief appraisal of the state of play in the mobile OS field. There are three main platforms, he said: Google's Android, Apple's iOS, and the mobile Web. He praised Android for the relative openness of its system, which, for instance, allows people to send text messages via the Facebook app. Then his tone turned a little peevish.
"Android is a very dynamic and open platform—as long as Google keeps it that way," he said. Then he added, "Our relationship isn't one where the companies really talk."
Apple, in contrast, has "a more locked-down system," he noted, but "they've been a great partner for us so far."
That there's chilliness between Facebook and Google is no surprise: The companies have long been arch-rivals in the online advertising business, and Facebook may have recently surpassed Google in the fast-growing mobile display advertising market. And Facebook's new search function represents a major assault on Google's core business. Still, Zuckerberg's admission is an indication of just how frosty the rivalry has become.
No wonder Facebook's new search function delivers Web results via Bing.
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S.C. STATE University has had its share of troubles, but it's hard to recall a time when it has seemed as dysfunctional as it is today.
The disheartening state of affairs at the 116-year-old publicly owned, historically black college is largely the result of sustained ineptitude on the part of the university's board.
While some committed, well-meaning people serve on the panel, it has proven over the years to be overbearing and self-absorbed. Some board members have treated the university like their own personal fiefdom, engaging in senseless and unproductive infighting and turf wars that only serve to damage the operation and image of the university.
It's understandable that some lawmakers want to shake up the board. But they must do more than reshuffle the deck. They must bring transformational change to reverse S.C. State's fortunes and improve the quality of boards that oversee all of our state's colleges and universities.
The most recent problem at S.C. State involves criminal charges filed against former board member and chairman Jonathan Pinson. He's accused of using his influence as a university leader in a kickback scheme involving a land deal and of profiting by steering a contract to someone to promote the school's 2011 homecoming concert. Former campus police chief Michael Bartley also was charged in the land deal; he has admitted his guilt.
S.C. State did nothing wrong. But, unfortunately, the indictments reflect poorly on the university and serve as an extreme example of how board members have proven to be injurious to the university rather than steady, trusted leaders who protect and promote a public institution that is charged with producing high-quality graduates empowered to improve their own lives and contribute to our state.
Just in the past couple of years, the school has had to plug a $4 million hole in its budget; former President George Cooper fired eight top administrators, including Mr. Bartley, and later left himself; and three board members stepped down within a month.
After Mr. Pinson resigned as board chair — he didn't completely leave the board until recently — there was an intense battle for the spot, with contenders resorting to technicalities and parlor tricks to seize control.
Meanwhile, the school's enrollment continued to decline, and it learned of a $5.5 million deficit attributed to an accounting error.
So, yes, change is needed. But it needs to be a structural change in board appointments. Currently, lawmakers elect college trustees, giving them undue influence on college campuses but not always resulting in high-quality leadership.
At the least, the governor should appoint board members, subject to legislative confirmation.
The better remedy would be to create a board of regents to direct all of this state's institutions of higher learning, rather than allowing them to pursue uncoordinated, often redundant plans.
Properly empowered, a board of regents would be able to spot and respond to problems — at S.C. State or elsewhere.


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I have access to a glucometer that I believe is accurate. My son told me he wasn't feeling well a few hours after we ate yesterday and his blood sugar was 187 mg/dl [10.4 mmol/L]. I checked his fasting blood sugar this morning and it was 169 mg/dl [9.4 mmol/L]. I called the pediatrician and took him in. They checked his blood sugar in the office two hours later, still fasting, and it was 80 mg/dl [4.4 mmol/L]. They assumed my reading was incorrect, but they drew an A1c and will have the results Monday. They also suggested that maybe I just am catching it really early. An hour after lunch, on our home machine (that I have compared to other machines), it was 249 mg/dl [13.8 mmol/L]. Assuming our machine is correct, can an otherwise normal child, without diabetes, have sugars at those levels? Also, how do I account for the normal blood sugar two hours after the abnormal one, assuming again that both were accurate? Or, is there no way they could both have been accurate? If I were just catching it really early, would the A1c still be elevated? The only medications he is on is Zantac for reflux and some amoxicillin for an ear infection.
A normal blood sugar for a non-diabetic ranges between 65 and 110 mg/dl [3.6 and 6.1 mmol/L]. It is common to have blood sugars higher than this if the blood sugar is read after a meal. Your pediatrician should be able to help you sort this out. Most, if not all, children that are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes have symptoms of diabetes at the time of diagnosis, including weight loss, excessive hunger, excessive thirst and/or frequent urination. Using a hand held glucometer at home is not a good way to reliably make a diagnosis of diabetes, especially when there is some doubt about whether the meter may not be functioning properly. Your best resource is your pediatrician who can order tests and follow your child for any symptoms of diabetes.
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A proposed new law would punish those who bullied, harassed or intimidated others online with jail, a fine, or both.
The "Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act", proposed by Republican senator Linda Sanchez, is designed to deter the kind of behavior which led to the death of Megan Meyers, after a cyber-bullying campaign from the mother of one of her schoolmates.
The text of the bill defines in very broad terms the kind of action that could be considered unlawful, as well as the penalties Sanchez and the supporters of the bill would like to see imposed. The text of the proposal says:
Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication, with the intent to coerce, intimidate, harass, or cause substantial emotional distress to a person, using electronic means to support severe, repeated, and hostile behavior, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
In the case of Lori Drew (the woman convicted of bullying teenager Megan Meier, who committed suicide), felony charges were dropped and Drew was found guilty instead of misdemeanour charges relating to violations in the MySpace terms of service. In proposing this law, Sanchez hopes to make it much easier to prosecute people for cyber-bullying, whether via email, social network, or text message.
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I've been a fan of Mya since the early days when she did Ghetto Superstar (feat Wyclef Jean, Pras and ODB) and the Moulin Rouge Soundtrack, Lady Marmalade (feat. Lil Kim, Pink and Missy Elliott). It was pretty cool being able to spend the day with her. The shoot went down at the legendary Sunset-Gower Studios on Sunset Blvd, where they were filming her latest Music Video. The director was no other than the maestro, Erik White (who has worked with every big name in the Industry). This shoot was for the cover of DUB Magazine. Below are the images from that shoot.
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BISPL was established at Lucknow (India), in the year 1997 for developing state of the art solutions for not yet tapped areas of operations and getting established as unique solution provider for various segments. Our uniqueness gave us edge over others and made us popular in market. It helped us a lot in starting international operations.
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From GODORT
Mark Rozmarynowski is the Access Services Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and serves as UWSP Library's Government Information coordinator. Mark is a member of ALA's Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) and the Wisconsin Library Association's Government Information Round Table (GIRT). He can be reached at mrozmary AT uwsp DOT edu. Go Badgers! <( .\_/. )>


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European hedge fund advisors will soon be faced with the same challenges – and requirements – as their U.S. peers.
The European Commission wants them to disclose to investors – and regulators – a lot more about their trading strategies and risks when they register with the securities watchdogs in their home market.
Investment firms need to watch what the European Securities and Markets Association is hatching. The new regulator is ironing out the final touches on an Alternative Investment Funds Managers Directive (AIFMD), which may go into effect in 2013. ESMA is giving the securities industry until October 1 to comment.
Created in January, the ESMA is the successor to the Committee of European Securities Regulators and will play a greater role in how the European Commission adopts regulations. While the goal of the committee was to harmonize regulations across the European Union, the body did not have the power to issue guidelines. The new ESMA can develop standards and enforce their compliance.
Luxembourg has announced it wants to be the first to implement the AIFMD into law and has an upper hand over other markets because its regulations involving investment funds already parallel the directive.
The new European directive on hedge funds will affect all funds which do not fall under regulations called UCITS, which allow traditional investment or mutual funds to market themselves across Europe. The goal of European regulators has been to create a second category of funds – such as hedge funds, real estate funds and private equity funds – that would fall under similar guidelines to UCITS, aka the Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities directive.
The AIFMD also affects U.S. hedge fund managers. Any hedge fund manager located outside the European Union – such as the U.S. – must get a "passport" to market the funds in Europe and would be required to comply with all of the provisions of the directive.
"Although regulations have not been finalized, what is known is that alternative investment managers must prove they have the resources – people and systems – to meet the AIFMD's requirements and demonstrate their preparedness to clients," says Jim Hamilton, Jim Hamilton, principal analyst with Wolters Kluwer Law & Business in Riverwoods, Illinois.
Compliance officers will likely take on a great role in ensuring their firms meet the AFIMD. The directive requires fund managers to implement and annually review adequate risk management systems in order to identify, manage and monitor appropriately all risks relevant to each fund investment strategy and to which each fund is or can be exposed. One area of contention is a list of specific safeguards the hedge fund manager should apply against conflicts of interest to ensure the independent performance of risk management activities.
Service providers such as fund administrators will potentially help out alternative investment managers with reporting requirements. "We are anticipating new client demands under the AIFMD in areas such as new investor disclosures which may end up being similar to what is required under UCITS IV," says Ian Headon, senior vice president of product management at Northern Trust. UCITS IV is the latest iteration of the UCITS directive.
The Chicago-headquartered global custodian already helps funds fill out key investor documents – summary statements of important information to investors. Also under consideration: risk and liquidity reporting.
The AIFMD says that the funds should be expected to disclose to investors a description of their strategy and objectives, the types of assets the fund may invest in, and any procedures used to alter the investment strategy.
What about regulators? The AIFMD calls for broad disclosure about portfolio investments, trading activity, liquidity and leverage. The fund manager must, according to the AIFMD, rely on an appropriate liquidity management system and procedures. The fund manager needs to also regularly conduct stress tests to determine the liquidity of the fund under normal and so-called exceptional conditions.
"Reporting will become a lot more complicated and firms may need to implement a new system to aggregate data from multiple, disparate sources," says Even Claussen, product marketing manager for SimCorp, a provider of software solutions and services for the investment management industry. Those sources include front-, middle- and back-office systems, particularly those that capture data needed for compliance. risk analysis and regulatory reporting.
Yet another key area of change: Valuation. Each hedge fund will have to calculate its net asset value on at least an annual basis. Open-ended funds will be required to carry out more frequent valuations based on the frequency in which they issue shares and redeem them while closed-ended funds will have to carry out NAVs each time the capital of the fund increases or decreases.
That's the easy part. The more challenging part: Alternative fund managers can still do their valuations in-house but will be required to have an external valuation firm or auditor validates the internal calculations.
Fund managers must demonstrate that their valuation process is independent from the portfolio management function and the persons responsible for implementing the firm's compensation policy. The goal is to avoid any potential conflicts of interest.
Although many of the requirements of the AIFMD do parallel those of the U.S.' Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, Europe will differ in one key area – and a contentious one at that.
The AIFMD appears to be placing some of the onus for ensuring the European hedge fund operates safely with so-called depositary banks – the equivalent of U.S. custodian banks. Those custodian banks could be held accountable for the misconduct of European hedge fund managers. They could also be liable for the actions of subcustodians – local agent banks in multiple countries.
The ESMA has proposed that depositaries identify and monitor what it calls "potential loss events," if it wants to avoid liability for any investor losses.
The proposal also says that depositaries must take additional steps to prevent those losses but does not define what they are. Still unclear is whether a prime broker could be considered a subcustodian when holding assets as collateral.
The new regulatory onus on depositaries could ultimately force custodian banks to implement a stricter segregation of duties between the depositary and fund administration activities performed by the same bank. Because one of the roles of depositaries will be to verify valuations, there will be a conflict of interest if it also performed the valuation and controlled it. As a result, fund administrators will likely do the valuation and have it reviewed by the depositary.
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Subrogation and Particular Injury Claims
In an perfect globe, the victim of a motor car collision or other sort of accident will have health and fitness insurance policies coverage in addition to their auto insurance policy, which should really also contain Particular Damage Security (PIP) coverage.
These forms of protection will ensure that an accident victim does not have to fork out for his or her health-related bills out of pocket whilst a own injury declare is currently being pursued.
The incident victims PIP coverage and health and fitness insurance policies strategy assuming they have suitable protection the insurance policies companies should really be in a position to include his or her health-related costs whilst they acquire procedure and their lawyer negotiates a probable settlement.
But claimants often are shocked at the summary of their assert that they ought to pay back back the revenue that the insurance coverage company delivered to cover the medical expenditures in the to start with put.
Subrogation Clauses in Insurance Contracts
The explanation a person pays regular rates for car insurance coverage or well being insurance coverage is to ensure coverage for medical bills and other costs in the celebration of an incident.
In some cases, insurance coverage will include the charges of medical remedy and other costs and thats all there is to it. But if a claimant gets a third-occasion settlement or verdict award by the representation of an attorney, the firm who paid out for the victims bills in the 1st position is predicted to be reimbursed for those people expenses.
Its genuinely all about liability and which occasion should be held economically liable for the damages that resulted from an accident. In a normal automobile incident, the insurance coverage company of the at-fault driver who brings about residence hurt and/or private injuries to one more particular person or party is anticipated to cover those people damages to the extent of the insurance coverage plan.
But when an insurance business covers damages for its own insured in an accident where by one more occasion was identified to be at fault, they see that as something they shouldnt eventually be dependable for shelling out. As a outcome, a part of the 3rd-party settlement or verdict that is sooner or later paid out to the claimant is envisioned to be used to reimburse the insurance plan company who paid out for costs at the starting.
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"If you can't get rid of the family skeleton you might as well make it dance." -George Bernard Shaw
"Your ancestors send you good wishes." -Anon
"You do know that we are descendants of George Washington," said my cousin, who proceeds to send me a text image of the index card my grandmother wrote up in her wobbly handwriting, with equally wobbly evidence of this linkage, before she died. The first time I heard this story I was sitting in my grandmother's kitchen, age 8 or 9. Every family has their mythology and this one, while glamorous and fun to think about, was about as relevant to my life as some distant person never met, which is to say, not that much. My family life bore such scant resemblance to that of a noble leader and statesman it was laughable. [Read more…]


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'Not your everyday story'
Summers leaves baseball to pursue studies; learns javelin
Until seven months ago, Houston Summers had never seen a javelin in real life.
Last week, the 25-year-old freshman from North Carolina competed for the Tar Heels at the Atlantic Coast Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
While he may not have won the javelin, Summers placed sixth and scored three points after throwing a mark of 62.97 meters in the event. Not too shabby for a converted baseball player who had never picked up a javelin less than a year ago.
But Summers is an athlete, which has helped him tremendously in this new adventure. At 17 years old, he was the youngest player drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks when he was picked by the organization in the 47th round in the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft. He spent the next six years in the minor leagues -- five years with the Diamondbacks and a season with the St. Louis Cardinals organization before retiring in 2010 and deciding to pursue an education.
Summers had always had intentions to return to school, and realized his dream of becoming a doctor, especially after a serious health scare as a young teenager.
"When I was 13, I was diagnosed with a tumor called a juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma and it was about the size of a softball," Summers said. "Ever since I had that removed, I've always had this passion for medicine and for wanting to help kids."
A native of Summerfield, N.C., Summers underwent 16 hours of surgery for the benign, yet life-threatening tumor growing inside his head.
"It was going to kill me because it was putting so much pressure on the inside of my head," Summers said. "I couldn't see out of my right eye, I couldn't hear, I couldn't smell. It was literally migraines constantly. It was awful. Luckily, the doctors removed it and the only side effect I've had is I can't cry out of my right eye."
The doctors at Wake Forest saved his life and Summers fully recovered after about six months, but it was not his own surgery that inspired him to pursue medicine, and a career as a pediatric orthopedic surgeon.
"There was a kid from Russia who was flown over to have pretty much the same procedure around the same time," Summers said. "He had undergone something like 40 attempts to remove this tumor, but none of the doctors in Russia could remove it. He was flown to the U.S. and the doctors at Wake Forest removed it. I couldn't imagine going through that 40 times and every time it being unsuccessful. The fact the process was so easy for me was amazing."
Summers enrolled at UNC last fall with that motivation driving his quest. But, after a lengthy baseball career, Summers found concentrating on strictly academics was not in his makeup.
"I thought about [being a normal student] and that was the original intention," Summers said. "I was going to devote 100 percent of my time on academics and not worry about it. In all honestly, I'm one those people who needs to go, go, go. I missed the team atmosphere and the competition."
But with baseball out of the picture, the list of sports he could try at UNC was limited because of his experience and skill set.
"Track and field was my only option, but I had nothing to do with the sport before in my life," Summers said. "I never ran in a race or set foot on a track in a competitive sense."
Summers, however, was not discouraged. He knocked on the office door of head coach Harlis Meaders, and asked him about trying out for the team.
"He looked at me like there is no chance you're making this team, but he was obviously curious because my story is not your everyday story," Summers said.
Summers went to tryouts in hopes of being a sprinter in the 200 or 400 meters. While Meadors and the coaching staff knew he wasn't sprinter material, they still thought they could use his athleticism somehow.
"[Meadors] pulled me aside and brought the team over and said, 'I don't know what this kid can do. He might be absolutely awful but he has the drive we're looking for so he is going to be on the team,'" Summers said.
Assistant coach Josh Langley took Summers under his wing, and introduced him to the javelin. Langley had known some former baseball players whom had turned into javelin throwers, and thought Summers' arm strength would be an asset. But it was only just the beginning.
"I knew he had been a pitcher for the last couple years," Langley said. "So, I told him he had to forget basically everything he had been taught about throwing because the javelin has a unique style of throw. There are some things that translate pretty well, but there are certain things that are habit that he's trying to break."
"There's a completely different motion," Summers said. "Arm strength and hand speed and rotational core strength -- all of those translate [from baseball], just at a little different angle."
The first time he picked up the javelin, Summers hit himself in the back of the head with the tail end. It flew a paltry 30 feet.
"Throughout the course of the last six months, I've gone from throwing it 30 feet to 120 feet," Summers said. "It's been quite a ride with a nice progression."
Summers has competed in meets unattached this season, but coaches decided to use him in ACC championships and see what he could do, hoping he would score some points.
"Coming into it, he was a little banged up but we talked about the goals for the weekend. His first responsibility was to score points for the team and his second was to try to get a mark that would qualify him for NCAA Regionals," Langley said. "He accomplished the first one, and with the second it looks like he'll be on the bubble. But he has one more shot to try to get a better mark [at a last-chance meet in Virginia]."
Entering the week, Summers' mark from ACCs would qualify him for the NCAA East Regional as the top-48 performers are accepted based on the descending order list for the season. It would be quite an accomplishment for an athlete learning a new skill -- and sport -- in such a short time.
"I'm like a little kid when I go out to the track," Summers said. "I don't really know where to go or what to do. My coach had to walk me to the check-in tent to get my bib number."
Summers has enjoyed learning about track and field and hanging out with his teammates, despite the age difference.
"I think a lot of times we forget [about the age difference]," Summers said. "The guys want to hear about baseball stuff and funny clubhouse stories. It is a lot of fun."
While he may have been a surprise addition to the team, Summers is certainly a welcome one.
"It's unusual to have a freshman who is a great mentor, but he is that for life skills," Langley said. "In return, his teammates kind of mentor him on track and field. Plus, he's a blast to coach. He keeps me laughing daily, telling me stories about life in the minor leagues."


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Hey guys, I've been doing lawns on the side for several years and doing pretty good! Trying to justify if a commercial grade zero turn is gonna benefit me? I have about 18 customers, currently using a Toro Timecutter SS4235 42" cut, Honda pushmower and Stihl weedeaters. Id like to keep the Toro 42" to fit in smaller gates but feel I could benefit by having a larger zero turn as well, like a 48" or 50". I would need to carry both so that means a bigger trailer but at least I could have both mowers at my disposable depending on the yard size? Any advice?
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Yes the stronger deck would be a huge plus, my toro already has a hole blown in the rear of it! Out of 18 customers. I would be able to use the new mower on 80% of them, the other 20% would be push mowed or mowed with the 42" zturn. I think the new mower would translate into faster mowing times which would allow me to take on more customers per day. I do plan to grow my business even more but I could definitely take on larger yards or commercial properties knowing the commercial zturn would allow me to finish those much faster. I plan n sticking with this because I enjoy doing and feel like the new commercial grade mower would be a good solid investment, your equipment is everything. Even tho they are offering 0% interest for 36 months, I plan to pay half cash and finance the rest and pay it off early as I did with my current mower. Thought?
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Art School Confidential
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Art School Confidential's Sexy Actresses
Actresses appearing nude or sexy in this ...
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Posing nude
Sophia walks in front of the class and drops her robe revealing a small tight rack and a sexy, biggish butt. Very attractive face on this beauty and a tight, smackable ass. She had to be nervous to strip bare naked in front of a classroom but they sure got an enjoyable eyeful of this naked cuties sweet ass and titties.
Nude art school model
To quote an anonymous source: "I just saw Art School Confidential tonight at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Below is my review of Sophia Myle's nude scene. .
Sophia is a nude model for an art class. She comes out from behind a curtain in a robe. She turns her back to the camera and drops her robe. We see her bare butt for a couple of seconds. Then she sits on a stool while the art students paint her portrait. The camera switches back and forth a few times between Sophia and the art students. We see Sophia's left breast and part of her right breast several times, but her right arm is covering her right nipple. Her legs are positioned so that we don't see any lower frontal nudity. When she stands up to put on her robe, she turns her back to the camera. We see her bare butt again for a couple of seconds. Sophia is pretty hot.
WARNING: There is also a male nude model for the art class. Unlike with Sophia, the male nude model shows full-frontal nudity in a scene that lasts quite a long time".
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Naked models!", 28 January 2006
Comments on her own nudity
From IMDb: "Terrified. I was... I mean I had a no nudity clause for Tristan + Isolde, because I didn't think it was appropriate I didn't think you needed to see anymore than you see to believe that we were in love or making love and quite often you see so much gratuitous nudity in films, especially from women, and my body is a very kind of precious thing to me. So when I was first sent the script and I opened it and flicked through it, and it says 'she enters and she disrobes' I thought no way and threw it across the other side of the room. I didn't really know who Terry Zwigoff was at this point and then it was actually James Franco who told me Terry Zwigoff is really good and you should think about that and I said 'no, no, no, no I couldn't possibly'. Apparently Terry scoured the country and I think other parts of the world... he is very, very picky about his casting and the producer had apparently got him by the throat and said 'look just tell us what you want'. There was about two weeks left before shooting and he said 'I don't know maybe like a young Kate Winslet' and I had met the producer Rus Smith when I was 21 in LA and he said 'okay I know where she is, that is fine' and they tracked me down. It was really when my agent Tony Howard ICM said 'listen you really should take it... you don't not take a meeting with Terry Zwigoff'. So I said 'fine' and they flew me out and we met at the Standard and just hit it off straight away and when I found out the rest of the cast that was attached like John Malkovich, Anjelica Huston, Jim Broadbent, Steve Buscemi..."
Breasts and Buns
Sophia Myles plays a model who, early in the film, poses nude for an art class attended by the movie's lead, Max Minghella, a young man who enrolled in art school in part because he had become infatuated with Myles' picture in one of the brochures, and hopes to win her over. In the modeling scene, Sophia steps out from behind a curtain wearing only a robe; she then turns her back to the camera (in a medium shot) and proceeds to drop the garment, and in doing so gives us a great view of her nude buns (there is some cellulite visible beneath Sophia's well-shaped posterior, but that hardly diminishes her astounding beauty).
Then, there is an extended montage in which the film cuts between Minghella's face, his etching, and Sophia, who is now seated upon a stool, her bare legs, breasts, and the side of her butt all visible (although part of Myles' right breast is obscured by her arm). If I have a complaint here it is that the lap dissolves used in the montage do not allow us to linger on Sophia's exquisite figure, and the depth of each frame is compromised because one image bleeds (overlapping) into the next.
At the end of this montage (which is set to classical music) there is a wide shot of Sophia, still perched on the stool, in front of the art class; after asking the instructor (played by John Malkovich) for a smoke break, she stands up (in the same wide shot) to get dressed, once again giving us a nice (if distant) view of her lovely buttocks.
It should also be noted (as the previous reviewer has indicated) that the film contains a very lengthy scene of Minghella's class drawing a nude male model; to some extent, this scene is played for laughs, but it includes several shots of the model in his full-frontal splendor, meaning that we get numerous well-lit views of his medium-sized penis (as he is seated posing on a stool, in addition to standing up before and after the session) and even his pasty butt as he gets up to take a break. I thought the nudity was over at this point, but it wasn't, as the model (still completely naked) tries to hit on one of the (seated) female art students during the break, his dick hanging almost literally in her face (the young woman looks down, trying to avoid the model's advances – and his genitalia, it would appear). This sequence occurs very early in the film (probably within the first 10-15 minutes), which is several minutes before Sophia's very memorable nude scene.
Breasts and buns
In the 22nd minute, the lovely Sophia Miles models for the art class, providing a couple of well-lit but relatively brief views of her boobs and ass. Miles' breasts are only medium-sized, not large, and some will find her butt and thighs a bit chunky, but she's still attractive. Nudity fans can stop watching here, because this is it, but the movie itself gets interesting as it goes on.
the nude scene
While I can't quibble with the person who started the review of this actor, since there is nudity in the movie, I'd like to add the fact the the actor is terribly unattractive. While I know that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, I suspect that the majority of members of this site would turn this movie off in a second once they got a look at the guy.
Nude male model at first drawing class.
This scene happens unexpectedly. The curtains suddenly part, and the guy strolls in and sits down on a stool. Then, during a break, he stands in front of a female student, and thrusts his privates toward her face. We get a great side view here.
This guy is nicely endowed. What takes away from the shot for me is that it looks like he shaves his pubes. Why do this !
The movie introduces some interesting characters but then, it takes a long time for the plot to take hold.
Good views
Beginning around nine minutes into the movie, the well-endowed Buzzington shows up as an art class model. Over the next couple of minutes, there are occasional views of his largish but not freakishly so cock, and his reasonably toned buns. He's not amazingly handsome but he's in good shape. Not sure why this requires a "warning" to anyone on this site.


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Like millions of children in the US today, I often went to bed hungry growing up. Sometimes my parents went without dinner so that my brother and I would have enough to eat. We learned not to ask for food when we were out, not because my mother would say no, but because she looked at us with an expression of desperation and shame as she said it. No to a lollipop at checkout, no to having a friend over for dinner, no to packed lunches for school (school lunch was free for us).
My favorite place to go was my great-grandmother's house. While I was there I'd stuff myself with Hoodsie cups and Nesquik. I never felt guilty for eating the last cookie or popsicle, there was an endless supply! We'd watch her soap operas (she called them her stories) and munch on leftovers, fat slices of custard pie and strawberry soda. When I stayed for the weekend, Nana taught me her favorite dessert recipes. On Sunday when my mom came to get me, we'd serve what we'd concocted.
Baking still feels like carefree weekends spent in my footie pajamas, a break from the anxiety-inducing situation at home. Dessert is snuggling on the couch watching Nick at Nite. Sugar is my Nana smiling and nodding as I tossed skittles carelessly into the cart.
I never thought that loving food could be a bad thing, but as I got older so much else got tangled up in food. As a teenager I nervously eyed the snack situation at a friend's house, afraid I'd get hungry and they wouldn't offer me food. I kept heaps of granola bars in my backpack out of fear that I might get stuck somewhere without food. And I gained weight, little by little. One bowl of Cocoa Pebbles for dessert, then two bowls, then three. Feeling full felt safe. Feeling even a little bit hungry felt scary. I ate as if every bite could be my last.
When there was an abundance I ate and ate. When I had extra cash I bought Ben & Jerry's and ate the whole pint gleefully in my room. My parents got better jobs when I was around thirteen, and after that they spent the majority of extra money on extra food. Our house was packed with bags of chips and Oreos and each week my mom called home from the grocery store taking ice cream flavor requests. I know this made her feel like a good mom, and after years of watching helplessly as we shuffled off to bed on a measly meal of ramen, it was a balm to her wounds.
Today I weigh 200 pounds. That feels like a lot for me. It's the most I've ever weighed, I'm only 5'3". I don't want to keep gaining weight, but I have to tread so carefully into the realm of "dieting." And by that I mean, diets do not work for me, and I suspect, anyone who has a history of food insecurity. Just the word diet triggers an ancient anxiety, a pre-verbal fear. This sounds a little dramatic as I write it, but it's absolutely true. When I go on a diet, somewhere in my subconscious I'm convinced that I'm five years old again, that I'm going to actually die if I don't get some substantial food in my body ASAP.
I know on a logical level that this isn't true. I am lucky enough to have full cabinets these days. And yet just hearing the word "diet" feels like enough to bring me to my knees. I've stood in front of the ice cream freezer at the grocery store for a full ten minutes trying to sort out the full scale psychological warzone inside of me. I want the ice cream, says five-year-old me; You're fat (and no one loves you), says seventeen-year-old me; Ice cream doesn't make you feel very good, says twenty-six-year-old me. And in the end, like my mother before me, I throw the damn thing in the cart. And if I couldn't decide on one flavor, I get two.
When I eat it is always with a ferocious anxiety tipping me toward the food. I consume and consume as though there will never be another meal. Sure, I mostly eat healthy foods, but I eat lots of them, and I douse them in oils, and I don't stop until I'm stuffed.
It's not just that I use food to comfort myself—I use not saying "no" to myself to comfort myself. When I want to sleep in instead of go to yoga, when I want another helping of cake, I don't say no. It's raw and it's vulnerable to want something and be denied it. Whether it's the tomagatchi all of my friends had when I was ten or a pint of ice cream at twenty-six.
A couple of weeks ago I decided, with a renewed vigor, that I wanted to lose weight. I don't want to buy more clothes, I don't want more purply stretch marks on my belly, I want to lose thirty pounds. And I love myself. And I think I'm valuable, beyond the body I live in—and I want to lose thirty pounds. This time the decision didn't come from "I hate myself" or "I'm ugly." It came from, Dammit I want to lose thirty pounds. I am an adult now, and for the first time I'm beginning to trust myself. But I know myself, and I know how difficult it is to lose weight when you grew up traumatized by hunger. It's scary. And it's painful. And it involves saying no to some of the things I want.
But something feels different this time. I started to pay attention to the sadness itself. When I say no to sugar, I watch the emotion that wells up. When I choose not to eat the chips. It starts in my chest, it moves up to my throat and eyes. It's grief. It's grief for a childhood of hunger. Grief for all the things I never had or got to experience. In that moment I feel like a child again. And when I say no to that child I feel ashamed, desperate—the way my mother felt.
So I started saying to myself, This is sad. This is so very very sad. I'm sad right now. I'm sad when I don't get something I want. And I hold the feeling a little. And I shut my freezer. And then ten minutes later I do it all over again. But it's been working. Not perfectly, but better than any "diet" ever has. I'm trying to sort out love and discipline, food and safety. I think this is what I always meant when I said I believe in lifestyle changes, not diets.
I think this runs along the lines of what some call "intuitive eating." I want to eat what makes me feel good, really genuinely good in my bones, not what I have a compulsion for, or an addiction to. Not the things I run to when I'm feeling down. This isn't about austerity or self hatred, it's about being a guardian to my body, giving it nourishment, and sometimes treats that don't fall into any of those categories (because we're guardians, not dictators).
I believe in self love and self care, whatever that genuinely means. Sometimes it's working hard at losing thirty pounds. Sometimes it's eating a whole entire pie when your great-grandmother dies. We do what we can. But I think I'm getting closer to a feeling of real safety in my own body. I want my body to trust me. I want my heart to trust me. Even when I'm saying no.


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Class Reunions
Vancouver Piano Ensemble, a musical group founded by Lee Chin Yen '72.
Alumni and guests of the Law School were treated to an evening of music on 11 April 2012 by the Vancouver Piano Ensemble, a musical group founded by our very own Lee Chin Yen '72. For some of our guests such as Jeanny Ong' 72 and Sim Yong Chan' 72, this was the first opportunity in 40 years to catch up with their classmates whom they had not seen since their graduation! Tan Peng Chin' 82 and Gwendoline Ong' 82 were also there to lend their support to Chin Yen, and to enjoy an evening of good music.
Hoong Phun (HP) Lee '72 with the Australian Press Council (APC) Medal (photo from Monash University)
Congratulations to Hoong Phun (HP) Lee '72, who has been awarded the Australian Press Council (APC) Medal in recognition of his outstanding service to protecting freedom of the press. HP, who is Monash University's Sir John Latham Professor of Law, says, "I am deeply touched to have been awarded the APC Medal. This honour means that I have, in the APC's eyes, contributed significantly to the promotion of good standards of media practice and the protection of freedom of the press." HP has been a member of the APC since 1987, and was Vice-Chairman of the APC from 2004-2010. During his tenure at APC, he drafted a number of adjudications for the Council and was actively involved in the Council's written responses to proposed laws that were regarded as impinging upon freedom of the press.
Two of our alumni were appointed by the President of Singapore as Nominated Members of Parliament in February this year: Faizah Bte Haji Ahmad Jamal '84 and Eugene Tan Kheng Boon '95.
Eugene has been with the Singapore Management University since 2001, and at its School of Law since its establishment in 2007. He is also co-director of SMU's Centre for Scholars' Development, and an Associate at NUS Centre for International Law. But did you know that he was also part of Singapore's national water-polo team at the 2002 Busan Asian Games; and then team manager of Singapore's national swim team at the 2004 Athens Olympics?
Jack Lee '95 on a visit to Parliament House with some of his students
The next time you run into Jack Lee '95, you might want to refer to him as Jackipedia! He says, "I am running the SMU Constitutional and Administrative Law Wikipedia Project. (Quite a mouthful, I realize!) It's a gradable component (10%) of the Constitutional and Administrative Law course that I co-teach at SMU. I wanted to introduce a group work component in my course that is more interesting than just an ordinary written assignment which never sees the light of day. The project's aim is primarily to encourage students to internalize the material covered in the course, but there is a secondary aim of enabling them to contribute towards producing a body of accurate information about Singapore constitutional and administrative law that is freely available on the Internet.
"Groups of students work together to prepare a draft Wikipedia article on an topic assigned by me. After I've graded the assignments and given feedback to students about them, I edit the draft articles and then transfer them to the Wikipedia's 'article space' so that they can be viewed by anyone who visits Wikipedia. The project has been run three times so far. You can see some of the completed articles produced by the project at this archive and this other archive."
"Quite a number of interesting facts from these articles have appeared in the "Did you know?" section on the main page of Wikipedia, and a number of them have even achieved 'good article' status."
"Quite a number of interesting facts from these articles have appeared in the "Did you know?" section on the main page of Wikipedia, and a number of them have even achieved 'good article' status."
Keep up the good work, Jack!Michael Puhaindran '96, Katherin Nusantara, and Liesl Camille Puhaindran
Michael Puhaindran '96 and Katherin Nusantara are very pleased to announce the birth of their little angel, Liesl Camille Puhaindran, on 10 April 2012. The new parents are over the moon and couldn't be happier! Congratulations to the happy family!
What comes to mind when you hear the word "mongrel"? Lillian Wang '96, Suzanne Lim '96 and Adeline Ang '96 (yup, that's me, your Editor) would like to invite you to a photo exhibition titled "Mongrel" – the inaugural event organised by their animal welfare group, Three Legs Good. The exhibition features portraits of street dogs, taken by notable photographers Teo Keng Beng, Jean Qingwen Loo, Nicholas Lee and Colleen Goh. The photographers have pledged to donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of their exhibited prints to the animal welfare group of their choice.
Date: 4 to 16 July, 2012
Venue: Objectifs Centre for Photography and Filmmaking, 56A Arab Street
Time: Mon to Fri, 11am to 7pm / Sat 12pm to 6pm, closed on Sundays and public holidays
To find out more, visit Three Legs Good's website at: http://threelegsgood.org, or "like" their Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/threelegsgood
Samuel Yuen Wei Loon '00
Congratulations to Samuel Yuen Wei Loon '00 on the founding of his eponymously-named law firm, Yuen Law LLC. The firm specializes in Corporate and Intellectual Property transactions. Samuel regularly conduct talks on legal issues and hot button topics. He writes: "Yuen Law LLC is founded on the tenets of Integrity, Honesty, Precision, Practicality and Quality. I gives thanks and glory to God for His provision and for the founding of the law practice."
Adefolake Adeyeye Ph.D. '10
Adefolake Adeyeye Ph.D. '10 sends her greetings! She hails from Nigeria, by way of the UK ,and recalls well stepping onto the humid Singapore soil in the year 2000.
After working for some time in law firms here, Adefolake enrolled in the NUS Law school PhD programme; and says she was most fortunate to be under the supervision of Professor M Sornarajah.
During her time as a PhD candidate, she designed and developed a module on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), which she now teaches at NUS Law School.
Recently, Cambridge University Press published her first book 'Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinationals in Developing Countries: Perspectives on Anti-Corruption' adapted from her PhD thesis.
In August 2012, she will teach Comparative and International Anti-Corruption Law, a new module she proposed and designed for the Law School.
Congratulations to Matthew Seet '12, who has just been awarded the Swiss Government Scholarship to pursue a two-year Master in International Law at the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) in Geneva, Switzerland, starting this September. This is a bond-free scholarship, which includes a complete waiver of tuition fees and covers all his living expenses in Geneva. Matthew intends to make full use of the opportunity afforded to him - to undertake internships with international organisations, and to seriously learn French which is imperative for an international law career.
Matthew Seet '12, who has just been awarded the Swiss Government Scholarship
Matthew says, "I would like to thank the Faculty for having supported me in so many ways over the past four years, without which this educational opportunity would not have been made possible." Special thanks go to his mentors, especially Assistant Professor Cheah Wui Ling '03 LLM '05, Professor Thio Li-Ann and Dr. Kevin Tan '86. He hopes to help Law students by letting his juniors who are similarly keen in international law careers know of such opportunities, which he discovered while doing his own independent research early on in his Law School days.
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Originally posted by fr33kSh0w2012
If it makes you feel better at least know in your heart your child doesn't have to put up with this Deranged world and all the twisted crap in it!.
Now I'm not trying to be cruel, Even though it may sound that way.
The weird crap I've seen / Been through I DOUBT there is a god
My life is totally FUBAR and this isn't the type of world I'd like an Innocent child growing up in!edit on 28/4/13 by fr33kSh0w2012 because: spelling!
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"For everyone to whom much is given, of him shall much be required." -- Luke 12:48.
Recently, the New York Times (NYT) praised Chelsea Clinton's current successes and commitment to public service. Ms. Clinton is the daughter of current U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President William Jefferson Clinton. It reported some Democrats' excitement about having Ms. Clinton in Congress, because according to Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf: "She's smart, she's charming, and she's got the last name Clinton."
Western media criticize the favorable treatment received by offspring of the politically important outside the U.S., particularly the princelings in China. In a vicious circle, princelings' access to powerful people (derived from their parents) gains them prestigious private-sector positions (with high pay for little work). These prestigious private-sector positions justify public-sector leadership positions, which justify even more lucrative private-sector opportunities, and so on. Princelings insist a sense of noblesse oblige draws them to leadership. A fawning domestic press facilitates this cycle by treating princelings as celebrities.
Government by princelings easily becomes government by kleptocracy. Companies granting princelings lucrative positions expect a return on their investment, through influence with (or at least access to) the government. Even if not overtly corrupt, this nepotistic approach erodes leaders' legitimacy (making it difficult to govern), and prevents the best qualified from leading (resulting in less competent institutions). Most corrosively, government by princelings sends a message that putting personal and family interests ahead of society's interests is acceptable.
Ms. Clinton's rapid career progress raises the same issues for America as with the princelings overseas.
The NYT reported Ms. Clinton is making the sacrifice of leading us because she feels a responsibility to serve the public good and "hopes to make a positive, productive contribution."
Ms. Clinton's newsworthy steps toward public service, noted by the NYT, include: meeting people such as Elton John and Richard Gere, taking a public role with her father's Clinton Global Initiative, presenting an award to her mother at Diane Von Furstenberg's International Women's Day event, and hosting her father's 65th birthday at a Clinton Foundation Hollywood benefit with fellow guests Lady Gaga and Bono.
Ms. Clinton's board of directors seat at media conglomerate IAC, alongside former Disney CEO Michael Eisner and former Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman, was also described. Ms. Clinton's IAC position pays $50,000 a year, plus a $250,000 grant of restricted stock. Mentioned too was Ms. Clinton's joining NBC News as a special correspondent, after her advisers arranged interviews with top network executives.
The NYT noted downsides to being the Clinton daughter, including critics attributing her success (such as the IAC position) solely to her famous parents. But the NYT didn't question why a 30ish year old (with no significant media or management experience) joins the board of a multi-billion dollar media corporation, with compensation qualifying Ms. Clinton (by my quick calculation) for America's top 1 percent, for only about 1 to 2 hours of work per week. The IAC position clearly raises the issue of whether Ms. Clinton is being paid for her skills, or access to her family.
The NYT article cited another leadership qualification: "... unlike some other famous offspring, she has never been photographed drunkenly stumbling out of a club..." (Note to the NYT: For a photo of Ms. Clinton apparently drunkenly stumbling out of a club, please see -- "Boozy Night for Chelsea".)
The U.S. has fought two wars over the past decade. Many Americans of Ms. Clinton's generation volunteered at great personal risk to support their country, in the military or in other ways -- the NYT did not report that Ms. Clinton has not.
My concern is that Ms. Clinton is not an outlier, but part of a trend. The Washington Post found a pattern of members of Congress using tax dollars to benefit their families (e.g., tax money to entities represented by lobbyist relatives). It's no wonder we've lost faith in our leaders, with Congress' approval rating in single digits.
As has been widely discussed, income inequality in the U.S. is at record levels. Such inequality would be more acceptable if resulting from individual effort. However, we are increasingly a society of class privilege and inherited opportunities. According to "A Family Affair" (OECD, 2010), America has among the lowest social mobility levels of any major developed country. The 1 percent arrange advantages for their families that aren't available to the rest of society.
We are viewed as a relatively corrupt country, where connections, family, and political campaign contributions drive business. Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index 2011 ranks the U.S. as more corrupt than Qatar, a small Middle Eastern state ruled by a hereditary monarchy with a tradition of nepotism. (U.S. ranks 24th, behind Qatar ranked 23rd and far behind New Zealand, ranked 1st.)
Ms. Clinton received opportunities other Americans -- without her family connections -- don't have. Using these connections might not be illegal, but it isn't admirable. Ms. Clinton's career isn't a cause for celebration, but an urgent wakeup call that, for America to compete effectively in the 21st Century, we need the best leaders our society can produce, whatever their last names.
We have the right to expect more from a leader than simply being smart, charming, and named Clinton.
Please let me know your thoughts:
- Do you believe Ms. Clinton achieved her positions through merit, or did family connections play a part?
- Do you feel America is increasingly a country where the 1% structure society to benefit themselves?
- If you are concerned about these issues, what would you suggest to re-focus America on equality of opportunity?
About the Author: Steven Strauss was founding Managing Director of the Center for Economic Transformation at the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). He is an Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University for 2012. He has a Ph.D. in Management from Yale University and over 20 years private sector work experience. You can follow him on twitter at: @Steven_Strauss.


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Risky business
We're now less than a week away from the US election. With global markets swinging on an increasingly tight race, and with Europe convulsing on Brexit, many investors are wondering whether the risks might in fact be lower in emerging markets. Well, to find out, Juliette and Gavin were joined all the way from New York by Dan Keeler, Editor for Frontier Markets at the Wall Street Journal.


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Kevin Costner Will Play Django Unchained's Slave Trainer
Costner goes bad.
The casting on Quentin Tarantino's slave western Django Unchained just gets more and more eclectic. Deadline reports that Tarantino has lined up Kevin Costner to play Ace Woody, a sadistic slave trainer who works for the villainous Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio). Those two, along with Samuel L. Jackson's crafty slave Stephen, are allied against Jamie Foxx's Django and Christoph Waltz's Dr. King Schultz, a German bounty hunter helping Django free his wife from Candie's plantation. That wife is yet to be cast, though Deadline suggests Tarantino may go with a relative unknown. [Deadline]


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Interrailing Eastern Europe in July 2012
Hey there, I am Jul, 22 yo, male, uni student currently studying in Wales. I am looking forward to go interrailing this summer majorly in central and eastern europe. I am planning to start in the beginning of this July. Pretty flexible as to where we go and might do a loop around Eastern Europe starting from Berlin ending in Austria. I have got a draft for the route to be taken to go all the way to Istanbul and back again. Some places which I would like to go to would be Berlin, Krakow, Prague, Istanbul, Belgrade and Vienna. However, I do realise that this may not be everyone's cup of tea so my trip is totally flexible. I am looking around to see if there is anyone who want to join in this exploration and I don't have specific requirements as to who I travel with as I'm sure any company will be great company! :D
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This week we introduced Seth & Riley's Garage. Basically, a kind of genius drink. For the kind of genius guys. With this new hard lemonade, Carlsberg Breweries is launching its first global venture into the 'hard drinks' category.
And to launch it worldwide, we created a series of print ads and 3 films featuring a funeral, crazy penguins and a lot of slow motion.
One of the print ads became a digital ad after people started to massively share a photo of the ad.
We thought this was kind of genius and the right occasion to show you the complete series.