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Each term African and African American Studies sponsors the Angelina Weld Grimké lecture series and at least one additional event or lecture.
October 2018
Wednesday, October 17th
- Apocalypse & Imperialism: Racism, Colonialism & the Making of the US
- "Apocalypse and Imperialism: Racism, Settler Colonialism and the Making of the United States"--A Conversation with Dr. Gerald Horne
- 3:30 pm, Leighton 305
Thursday, October 18th
- Fall Phi Beta Kappa Lecture - Prof William Chester Jordan
- Fall term Phi Beta Kappa Lecture to be presented by Professor William Chester Jordan, Princeton.
- 7:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum (pending)
September 2018
Saturday, September 15th
- Sona Jobarteh Concert
- Renowned vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Sona Jobarteh performs in Kracum Hall on September 15
- 7:00 pm, Kracum Performance Hall
May 2018
Tuesday, May 29th
- WGST/AFST Patio Party
- 5:00 pm, Alumni Guest House Patio
Tuesday, May 22nd
- West African Drum Ensemble Concert: Jay Johnson, director
- 12:00 pm, Bald Spot
Tuesday, May 15th
- Mellon Mays Undergraduate Poster Session
- MMUF & MGSEF fellows present their projects.
- 3:30 pm, Great Hall
- Hanif Abdurraqib: American Lyric and the Politics of Genre
- Please note that this event has been rescheduled.
- 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Wednesday, May 9th
- Charles E Crutchfield, MD '82 A Conversation on "Skin of Color"
- A visual tour of common issues in skin of color and some successful treatment outcomes. Dinner provided
- 6:30 pm, Weitz 236
Tuesday, May 8th
- OIIL Talk: My Skin Identity
- A presentation and discussion about the impact skin, in all its forms and colors, has on emotional and behavioral health. Dinner provided.
- 5:00 pm, Weitz 236
April 2018
Thursday, April 26th
- "Shari'a, American Muslims, and American Politics"
- The Grimké Lecture & Middle East Studies Lecture Series presents a fireside chat with Ahmed Ibrahim in conversation with Thabiti Willis
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
Thursday, April 5th
- Global and Regional Studies Minors Fair
- Infuse your Carleton experience with expertise in foreign languages and cultures by pursuing a language or area studies minor!
- 5:00 pm, LDC 3rd Floor Lounge
February 2018
Tuesday, February 13th
- Reverse the Stage: Black History Month in the Past and the Present
- For the 2018 Winter Grimké Lecture, Jeff Synder will explore the meaning of Black History Month.
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
November 2017
Tuesday, November 7th
- Rev. Al Sharpton
- Rev. Al Sharpton
- 5:15 pm, Chapel
October 2017
Monday, October 23rd
- International Film Forum: BLACK GIRL
- Part of the Tournees Festival of French Films on campus this Fall
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema
Wednesday, October 18th
- Responding to Charlottesville: A Panel Discussion
- A discussion about systemic racism, the politics of monuments, white nationalist groups, and the impact of these issues near and far.
- 7:00 pm, Leighton 305
Tuesday, October 17th
- Senior Year Comps Fellowships Application Deadline
- Seniors are eligible to apply for support to engage in research or creative activity related to their comps project during winter break.
- 12:00 pm, Online
Friday, October 13th
- Internship Reflection Poster Session
- All academic departments, faculty, students, and community members are invited to attend the poster session.
- 3:30 pm, Weitz Center Commons
Thursday, October 12th
- Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court
- Paul Finkelman Public Talk: Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation's Highest Court
- 5:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
Tuesday, October 10th
- Radicalism, Reaction, and Africana Studies
- Charisse Burden-Stelly in conversation with Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg and Walter Paul
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
Thursday, October 5th
- Majors Fair
- Wondering what to major in? Confused about different interdisciplinary programs? Everything you need to know is here.
- 6:30 pm, Great Hall
- "I Am Not Your Negro" Film Screening
- The CCCE is hosting a screening of the James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro."
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema
Tuesday, October 3rd
- Princeton in Africa, Asia, Latin America Programs Information Meeting
- Seniors! Come learn about the Princeton in Africa, Asia, and Latin America programs.
- 12:00 pm, Leighton 236
September 2017
Monday, September 25th
- International Film Forum: EXAMEN D'ETAT
- Second in the Tournees Festival of French films this Fall
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema
June 2017
Friday, June 9th
- African & African American Studies Dessert Reception
- Department dessert reception for graduates and families with faculty.
- 2:30 pm, South lawn of Leighton Hall
March 2017
Monday, March 6th
- West African Drum Ensemble Concert: Jay Johnson, director
- 6:00 pm, Sayles Hill-Great Space
February 2017
Thursday, February 9th
- "She Needs Me": Vocal Agency in the Ballads of Marvin Gaye"
- Prof. Andy Flory, Assistant Professor of Music
- 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Thursday, February 2nd
- History Winter Lefler Talk: "Southern Horrors" by Crystal Feimster
- Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching in the American South. REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED - COMMON TIME EVENT!
- 12:00 pm, Leighton 305
- Toward a Political Theory of Antiblackness/Antiradicalism
- Charisse Burden-Stelly, Postdoc in the Department of African-American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- 5:00 pm, Leigton 426
January 2017
Thursday, January 26th
- Camisha Russell: Race as a Proxy in American Kinship
- "I Just Want Children Like Me": Race as a Proxy in American Kinship
- 5:00 pm, Leighton 426
Wednesday, January 18th
- William C. Wilcox and Black Empowerment in Colonial South Africa
- by Chérif Keita, the William H. Laird Professor of French and the Liberal Arts,
- 5:00 pm, Weitz 236
Thursday, January 12th
- Kevin Wolfe: Beyond the Civil Rights Imagination
- African American Social Criticism: Beyond the Civil Rights Imagination
- 5:00 pm, Leighton 426
November 2016
Wednesday, November 2nd
- Adam Bradley: "The Poetry of Pop"
- Adam Bradley, professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, will talk about the fundamental mysteries in the language of popular music.
- 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
October 2016
Thursday, October 20th
- DEADLINE: Government & Nonprofit Career Fair
- 5:00 pm, University of Minnesota
- Humanities in Focus: Mass Incarceration in the USA
- Race, Mass Incarceration, and Human Rights: A lecture by David C. Fathi, Director of the ACLU National Prison Project.
- 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Wednesday, October 19th
- Humanities In Focus: Mass Incarceration in the USA
- Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy
- 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Tuesday, October 18th
- Humanities in Focus: Mass Incarceration in the USA
- Finding a Way Back: The Perspectives of the Formerly Incarcerated - Jon Vang & Willie Lloyd share experiences of life after incarceration.
- 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Thursday, October 6th
- Fall Grimke Lecture in African and African American Studies
- "Sex Across the Color Line During the Jim Crow Era: A Comic Book Biography of an Infamous New Orleans Madam."
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
May 2016
Monday, May 30th
- AFAM Wine and Cheese Celebration
- All seniors who did comps related to African, African diaspora or African American themes and their advisors are invited to a celebration.
- 4:30 pm, AGH patio
Tuesday, May 17th
- Dr. Rebecca Neel '02 - The Stigma of Perceived Irrelevance
- Dr. Rebecca Neel '02 is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Iowa.
- 12:00 pm, Olin 141
Thursday, May 5th
- World Music: Singer-songwriter FATOUMATA DIAWARA
- Presented by the Department of French and Francophone Studies and the Arts @ Carleton with Special Projects Africa, GEI, Humanities and AFAM
- 8:00 pm, Concert Hall
Tuesday, May 3rd
- Lee Gonzalez' Comps Talk
- Youth Renderings: A Contemporary Black Chicago Renaissance
- 4:00 pm, Leighton 402
April 2016
Tuesday, April 26th
- Spring Grimke Lecture By Constanza Ocampo-Raeder
- How to Cook a Cat: Culinary Privileging, Nation Building and a Contested Afro-Peruvian Eating Tradition
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
Thursday, April 21st
- Cincinnati Goddamn Film Screening
- Screening of the film Cincinnati Goddamn followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
- 7:00 pm, Olin 149
Thursday, April 14th
- Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: Dr. Vincent L. Wimbush
- Prof. Vincent Wimbush, Institute for Signifying Scriptures, gives talk: "SIGNIFYING ON SCRIPTURES: THE BLACK ATLANTIC READS KING JAMES"
- 5:15 pm, Severance Great Hall
February 2016
Thursday, February 25th
- Winter Grimke Lecture by Noah Salomon
- Escaping the Islamic State: Reflections on Sudan at a Crossroads
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
Friday, February 12th
- "Democracy in Black" Book Discussion
- Lunch discussion of the book Democracy in Black with the author, Eddie Glaude. Lunch provided for the first 25 people.
- 12:00 pm, Weitz 236
November 2015
Tuesday, November 3rd
- Fall Grimke Lecture in African and African American Studies
- Professor Chérif Keita will present "Report from Djoliba, an American Village in Mali"
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
October 2015
Tuesday, October 27th
- Weitz Fellows Program Information Session
- 12:00 pm, Great Hall
Monday, October 26th
- Black Lives Matter: Remembering Trayvon Martin
- William Hart, the Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester, visits campus to give a talk on Trayvon Martin.
- 6:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Thursday, October 15th
- a public talk presented by Adja Gildersleve. (NOTE: Date, time and venue changed - previously 10/8/15)
- 5:00 pm, Boliou 104
September 2015
Thursday, September 24th
- Music from Mali: KASSÉ MADY DIABATÉ
- One of West Africa's finest singers provides an evening of music.
- 8:00 pm, Concert Hall
May 2015
Saturday, May 16th
- Afr/AFAM Comps Talks
- Ta'sierra Johnson and Lindsey Walters will present their comps talks.
- 10:30 am, Leighton 304
Friday, May 15th
- Convocation: Chude Allen '65
- A Freedom Summer participant, Chude Allen relates the experience of African-American voter registration in Mississippi in 1964.
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
Wednesday, May 13th
- Violence, Legitimacy and Prophecy: Nuer Struggles in South Sudan
- Sharon E. Hutchinson, Anthropology Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will present this talk.
- 4:30 pm, Leighton 304
April 2015
Thursday, April 16th
- Spring Grimke Lecture in African and African American Studies
- Kevin Wolfe - "Pragmatism, Racial Solidarity, and the Negotiation of Social Practices: Evading the Problem of 'Problem Solving' Talk."
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
Friday, April 3rd
- Convocation: Ysaye Barnwell
- Musician, actress, and educator Ysaye Barnwell is a former member of the acclaimed a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
- Discussion with Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako
- Discussion of film "Timbuktu" with Oscar-nominated Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmana Sissako. In English.
- 1:10 pm, Fireplace Room, East Dining Hall
Thursday, April 2nd
- Public Talk,Mapping Urban European Histories of Slavery,Dienke Hondius
- Mapping Urban European Histories of Slavery: New Developments in Historical Research, Commemoration, and Heritage
- 5:00 pm, Leighton 304
March 2015
Monday, March 30th
- Screening of "Timbuktu"
- A masterful fictional account of the 2012 jihadist invasion in northern Mali. By Oscar-nominated Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako.
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema
February 2015
Monday, February 23rd
- Public talk by Professor Kevin K.Gaines,History Winter Lefler Lecturer
- "New York is like Johannesburg": The Global Dimensions of the African American Freedom Movement
- 4:30 pm, Leighton 305
Thursday, February 5th
- Thinking Ethnographically in the Archive
- Thabiti Willis, Ass Prof of History, will give the winter Grimke Lecture in African and African American Studies. Lunch will be provided.
- 12:00 pm, Leighton 304
Tuesday, February 3rd
- Education Reform Week Speaker - Dr. Bernadeia Johnson
- Dr. Johnson, a former superintendent of MN public schools, will be talking on Education Reform and her role in reducing the achievement gap.
- 5:00 pm, Boliou 104
Monday, February 2nd
- Nuclear Natives to Ebola:Anthropology's Contributions to Public Health
- Ed Liebow '75 will talk about the notion of the social production of vulnerability to risk and hazard.
- 3:30 pm, Leighton 304
January 2015
Thursday, January 22nd
- Reflections: What Matters to Me and Why
- Talk titled "Stories That Connect People" by Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg, Broom Prof. of Social Demography and Anthropology. Lunch provided.
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
Tuesday, January 20th
- #BlackLivesMatter: Conversations for Change
- Panel discussion with Carleton faculty and guest speakers followed by a Q&A session.
- 5:00 pm, Skinner Memorial Chapel
Sunday, January 18th
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Service of Remembrance and Celebration
- Guest speaker: The Reverend Oliver White on "I Can't Breathe." Musical guests: Carleton Gospel Brunch singers. Soup supper follows service.
- 5:00 pm, Chapel Main Sanctuary
Thursday, January 15th
- OCS World's Fair
- Annual student-to-student fair highlighting hundreds of off-campus study programs available to Carleton students.
- 11:30 am, Severance Great Hall
November 2014
Wednesday, November 12th
- Open Discussion on Ferguson
- Curious? Outraged? Passionate? Come join us for a discussion and free pizza.
- 6:00 pm, Leighton 330
October 2014
Thursday, October 23rd
- Reproducing Belonging in the Shadow of the Leviathan
- This talk is part of the Angelina Weld Grimke Lecture series in African and African American Studies.
- 12:00 pm, Gould Athenaeum
Saturday, October 18th
- Jazz Night
- Performances by jazz singer Marcya Danielle, history of jazz by a music professor, spoken word and other performances. Everyone is welcome.
- 8:00 pm, Concert Hall
April 2014
Thursday, April 17th
- Student Lunch with Prof John Comaroff
- Students in SOAN, AFAM and all departments are encouraged to attend.
- 12:00 pm, LDC 51
- Ethnicity, Inc.
- John Comaroff, Professor of African and African-American Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University.
- 4:00 pm, Olin 141
- Faculty dinner with Prof John Comaroff
- 5:30 pm, Great Hall
- John Comaroff Reading Group
- Faculty reading group discusses John Comaroff's Theory from the South
- 7:00 pm, Sayles Hill Lounge
June 2013
Tuesday, June 4th
- African Drum Ensemble Recital: Jay Johnson, director
- 4:00 pm, Great Space
May 2013
Wednesday, May 8th
- Braided Worlds (Book Reading)
- Alma Gottlieb, Professor of Anthropology and Philip Graham, Professor of English at UIUC, share their memoir of their time in Ivory Coast.
- 5:00 pm, Weitz 236
March 2013
Tuesday, March 5th
- African Drum Ensemble Recital: Jay Johnson, director
- 4:00 pm, Great Space
February 2013
Thursday, February 21st
- Spirits that Mount, Spirits that Dance
- an AFAM talk by Professor Thabiti Willis
- 12:00 pm, Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
Wednesday, February 20th
- AFAM Concentration Info Session
- Considering a concentration in African and African-American Studies? Come learn more!
- 4:30 pm, Leighton 303
Saturday, February 16th
- Bridging the Gap: African Diaspora Studies, Area Studies & Disciplines
- A symposium sponsored by the African and African American Studies Program.
- 9:00 am, Weitz 236
Friday, February 15th
- "Old" and "New" Diasporas, Globalization, and Africana Studies
- Professor Jean Rahier, Florida International University Keynote for AFAM Symposium "Bridging the Gap"
- 7:30 pm, Weitz 236
Thursday, February 14th
- Global Diasporas in Dubai, Panel discussion
- 6:00 pm, Leighton 304
January 2013
Sunday, January 27th
- Gospel Brunch
- 11:00 am, Chapel Lounge
Saturday, January 26th
- Diversity Institute
- Social Justice: When Diversity Isn't Enough
- 9:00 am, Weitz 236
Wednesday, January 16th
- Dr. Roderick Ferguson will present a public talk for American Studies
- entitled "The Erotic Life of Diaspora: Black Queer Formations in the History of Neoliberalism."
- 4:30 pm, Leighton 304
November 2012
Tuesday, November 13th
- African Drum Ensemble Recital: Jay Johnson, director
- 4:00 pm, Great Space
October 2012
Monday, October 29th
- Race, Media, and the Election
- 7:00 pm, Boliou 104
Thursday, October 25th
- St. Olaf Lecture by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- 4:00 pm, St. Olaf, Tomson Hall, 280
Tuesday, October 23rd
- Election Film Series: SILENT CHOICES
- Film about abortion and its impact on African-American women. Part of the RED, WHITE, BLACK AND BLUE Election Series.
- 8:00 pm, Weitz Center Cinema
Saturday, October 20th
- St Catherine University: Pan-African Women's Film Forum
- 1:00 pm, Jeanne D'Arc Auditoreum, Whitby Hall
Thursday, October 18th
- A celebration of of African song, with Dobet Gnahore, Manou Gallo,and Kareyce Fotso, with Leni Stern
- 8:00 pm, Concert Hall
Tuesday, October 16th
- Election Film Series: FLAG WARS
- A poignant account of the politics and pain of gentrification. Part of the RED, WHITE, BLACK AND BLUE Election Series.
- 8:00 pm, Boliou 104
Tuesday, October 9th
- St Olaf Talk: Freedom from Slavery Along Mason-Dixon Line - Max Grivno
- 3:00 pm, Buntrock Commons, Viking Theater, St Olaf
- Election Film Series: DISLOCATION
- Documentary exploring the demolition of a Chicago housing project. Part of the RED, WHITE, BLACK AND BLUE Election Series.
- 8:00 pm, Weitz Center Cinema
Tuesday, October 2nd
- Motown and Film
- 12:00 pm, Weitz 236
- Election Film Series: STREET FIGHT
- Documentary follows the 2002 race for mayor of Newark. Part of the RED, WHITE, BLACK AND BLUE Election Series.
- 8:00 pm, Weitz Center Cinema
September 2012
Thursday, September 27th
- Macalester Lecture: "The Politics of Sexuality in Africa"
- Lecture by Sylvia Tamale at Macalester College on debates surrounding sexual diversity in contemporary Africa
- 7:00 pm, Macalester College: John B. Davis Lecture Hall
Tuesday, September 25th
- Election Film Series: BROTHER OUTSIDER
- Documentary examines the life of Bayard Rustin, one of the first freedom riders and an organizer of the March on Washington.
- 8:00 pm, Weitz Center Cinema
Tuesday, September 18th
- Election Film Series: FREEDOM ON MY MIND
- Documentary about the Mississippi freedom movement in the early 1960s. Part of the RED, WHITE, BLACK AND BLUE Election Series
- 8:00 pm, Weitz Center Cinema
May 2012
Wednesday, May 30th
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
Tuesday, May 29th
- LTC Lunch
- "Independent Islam: Religion and Secularism at the Birth of South Sudan" by Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion
- 11:45 am, Weitz Center for Creativity, Rm. 236
- African Drum Ensemble Recital: Jay Johnson, director
- 4:00 pm, Bold Spot or Rain Location at the Great Space
Saturday, May 26th
- Multicultural Senior Ceremony & Celebration
- 1:00 pm, Great Hall
Wednesday, May 23rd
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
Wednesday, May 16th
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
Saturday, May 12th
- Beyond Angels: Broadway Theatre and AIDS Epidemic, 1981-2006
- Professor Virginia Anderson '00, Cal Poly, will present on theatre as historical evidence focusing on the AIDS epidemic in the US
- 7:00 pm, Athenaeum
Wednesday, May 9th
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
Tuesday, May 8th
- Author Danielle McGuire public talk
- Author Danielle McGuire will present a public talk about her book "At The Dark End of the Street." Pizza lunch provided.
- 12:00 pm, Leighton 305
- AFAM Senior David Tullis to present comps talk
- Masked Identity: Reinventing Tradition Through Lágbájá's Musical Performance
- 12:00 pm, Olin 004
Monday, May 7th
- Africa Through the Lens of Carletonians ends
- Photography exhibitions by Carleton students
- Room 226, Weitz Center for Creativity
Wednesday, May 2nd
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
April 2012
Saturday, April 28th
- Reproductive Justice Conference
- "Sex Lies and Things Our Mothers Never told Us: How Reproductive Justice Fits into Every Aspect of Our Society" conference
- 8:30 am, Weitz Center
Thursday, April 26th
- "What is African Philosophy? The Discussion of Orality & Islamic Thought in Francophone Africa"
- Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French, Columbia University will be giving a talk.
- 7:00 pm, Great Hall
Wednesday, April 25th
- Africa Through the Lens of Carletonians begins (through May 7)
- Photography exhibitions by Carleton students
- Room 226, Weitz Center for Creativity
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
Monday, April 23rd
- Cameroonian Studio Photography: Why I am obsessed
- Lecture by David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford University
- 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Wednesday, April 18th
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
Friday, April 13th
- Convocation: Kwame Anthony Appiah
- One of America's leading public intellectuals examines what it takes to turn moral understanding into moral behavior.
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
- Student Meeting with Kwame Anthony Appiah
- 1:10 pm, in the east / fireplace end of Severance Great Hall
Wednesday, April 11th
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
Wednesday, April 4th
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
March 2012
Wednesday, March 28th
- Black Student Alliance Weekly Meeting
- Come to an all inclusive forum focusing on issues in the Black community on campus and abroad, and how we can affect change to create a more inclusive and informed environment.
- 7:00 pm, Williams House (Black House)
February 2012
Monday, February 27th
- Zoe Charlton, Artists Lecture
- As a complement to the exhibition, 'A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art', featured Baltimore-based artist Charlton challenges notions of gender, race and class in vigorous figure drawings.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Cinema
Sunday, February 26th
- Black History Month Chapel Service
- Led by Jermaine Ross and the Carleton Jubilee Singers. Brunch follows the service.
- 11:00 am, Chapel Main Sanctuary
Tuesday, February 21st
- The Legacy of Slavery in the Atlantic World
- Dr. Kwame Nimako, a professor of InternationalRelations at the University of Amsterdam will be presenting a book he just wrote called 'The Dutch Atlantic: Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation,' which came out in September. He will be introduced by Dr. Steven Small, a Professor in the Africana Studies Department at UC Berkeley, author of the foreword to Dr. Nimako's book.
- 5:00 pm, Boliou 104
Sunday, February 19th
- Zuzu Acrobats
- Talented acrobats, musicians, and dancers from all parts of Africa whose show includes tumbling, juggling, arm-linking, chair-balancing, aerial ballet, and much more!
- 3:00 pm, Great Hall
Friday, February 10th
- Teach for America Application Deadline
- Having just received a great education ourselves, more than most people we can appreciate the the value of study and learning. Knowledge and skills open every door, regardless of one's background. Teach for America gives young teachers the opportunity to help students vault over the disadvantages of their childhood and take the path to success through learning.
- Convocation: Michelle Alexander
- Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar who currently holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University. Prior to joining the Kirwan Institute, Professor Alexander was an Associate Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where she directed the Civil Rights Clinic. Alexander challenges the conventional wisdom that with the election of Barack Obama as president, our nation has "triumphed over race." Jim Crow laws were wiped off the books decades ago, but today an astounding percentage of the African American community is warehoused in prisons or trapped in a permanent, second-class status, much like their grandparents before them who lived under an explicit system of racial control. Alexander argues that the sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of African American men, primarily through the War on Drugs, has created a new racial under caste – a group of people defined largely by race that is subject to legalized discrimination, scorn, and social exclusion. The old forms of discrimination – discrimination in employment, housing, education, and public benefits; denial of the right to vote; and exclusion from jury service – are suddenly legal once you're labeled a felon. She challenges the civil rights community, and all of us, to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America. The title of her presentation is "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
Thursday, February 9th
- Prison Reform Week: Rob Stewart: "College Access and Incarceration"
- Presentation from University of Minnesota student Rob Stewart on College Access after Incarceration. He will discuss his current research on college access and incarceration, as well as his own experience. Lunch will also be provided to those who attend on time. This is part of BSA's Prison Reform Week.
- 12:00 pm, Leighton 304
- Myron Orfield: Segregation in Schools and Housing in the Twin Cities
- Myron Orfield, Professor of Law and Executive Director, Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota Law School, will speak on Segregation in Schools and Housing in the Twin Cities.
- 4:30 pm, Library Athenaeum
- Returnee event for students who studied in Africa
- Event for African Studies faculty and students who have studied, volunteered, or worked, or are from Africa. Meal served. RSVP below.
- 5:30 pm, Weitz 236
Wednesday, February 8th
- Prison Reform Week: Screening and discussion of documentary "Girl Trouble"
- Screening and discussion of the documentary "Girl Trouble". This documentary examines the personal stories of three teenage girls entangled in San Francisco's juvenile justice system. Snacks will be provided. This is part of BSA's Prison Reform Week.
- 6:00 pm, Leighton 305
Tuesday, February 7th
- Prison Reform Week: Sarah Walker presents "Persistent Cycle: Efforts to Reform Minnesota's Criminal Justice System"
- Sarah Walker, a Carleton alumna, is the Chief Operating Officer at 180 Degrees, Inc. and the founder of the Minnesota Second Chance Coalition will be presenting. Dinner will also be provided to those who attend on time. This is part of BSA's Prison Reform Week.
- 5:30 pm, Boliou 104
Friday, February 3rd
- Convocation: Shelton Johnson
- Shelton Johnson is the author of Gloryland, the fictional memoir of a buffalo soldier – a black U.S. cavalryman and the son of slaves – who finds true freedom when he is posted to patrol the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903. Johnson is an advocate for bringing minorities, particularly African-Americans from the inner city, like himself, to the National Parks and connect them to the natural world. He claims that "one of the great losses to African culture from slavery was the loss of kinship with the earth." Although he was born in Detroit and spent much of his childhood there, early on he briefly lived in Germany where his father was stationed in the Army. A family trip to the Bavarian Alps planted a seed in him, a seed that was kept alive only through later experiences with nature via television and movie screens. He dreamed of mountains as a boy growing up in Detroit. While doing graduate study in poetry at the University of Michigan, Johnson applied to be a seasonal worker at Yellowstone thinking the park would provide a quiet place to work on his writing. That visit would change the course of his life and his career, which has spanned twenty-five years as a ranger with the National Park Service. He dedicated his work to this issue when he came upon the history of Buffalo Soldiers (the African-American regiments of the segregated U.S. Army at the turn of the 20th century) in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. For the past fifteen years Johnson has told the story of the Buffalo Soldiers in print, on camera, and in person. He has traveled to public schools throughout America, tracked down descendants of the soldiers, and authored an award-winning website. All the while, he has remained true to the reason he started this work. "I can't forget that little black kid in Detroit," he says. "And I think of the other kids, just like me – in Detroit, Oakland, Watts, Anacostia – today. How do I get them here? How do I let them know that our national parks are part of their heritage, and that they own them like all Americans?" The title of his presentation is "Gloryland: Using History and Literature as Tools for Social Change."
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
Wednesday, February 1st
- Student lunch with AFAM / SOAN Job Candidate
- 11:30 am, Sevy Meeting Room
- AFAM/SOAN Job Candidate Talk
- "From Shrine to Stage: India's Sidi Goma and African Diaspora Identity Politics"
- 4:30 pm, Leighton 305
January 2012
Monday, January 30th
Thursday, January 26th
- Climate Rights and Obligations for Emerging States: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa
- A talk by Kathryn Hochstetler, CIGI Chiar of Governance in the Americas, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo (Canada)
- 4:30 pm, WEITZ Center Room 236 (new location)
Sunday, January 15th
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Candlelight Service of Remembrance and Celebration
- Service led by Rev. Oliver White, Sr. Pastor of St. Paul's Grace Community United Church of Christ, and the Carleton Jubilee Singers. A soup supper follows the service.
- 5:00 pm, Chapel Main Sanctuary
Tuesday, January 10th
- Lori Pappas, NGO Ethiopia, Global Team for Local Initiatives, Public Talk
- "The Magic of Yes: Stepping Beyond Fear and Embracing the New," an illustrated, exciting, compelling and immediate talk about global outreach and Lori Pappas' work in Ethiopia. Sponsored by the Economics department and The Humanities Center at Carleton.
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Center 236
Friday, January 6th
- Teach for America Application Deadline
- Having just received a great education ourselves, more than most people we can appreciate the the value of study and learning. Knowledge and skills open every door, regardless of one's background. Teach for America gives young teachers the opportunity to help students vault over the disadvantages of their childhood and take the path to success through learning.
November 2011
Saturday, November 5th
- Somali Famine Panel: Special Envoy Mr. Abukar Arman, Prof Ahmed Samatar, Macalester & Mr. Mohamed Hassan, ARC-Somalia
- Asiya Mohamoud Gaildon, '14, and the Somali Famine Relief Group at Carleton have organized a panel discussion featuring Mr. Abukar Arman, Representative of the Somali Transitional Federal Government, Professor Ahmed I. Samatar, Somali professor of International Relations at Macalester College, and Mr. Mohamed Hassan from ARC-Somalia, to raise awareness of the devastating famine currently crippling Somalia and Somalia's delicate sociopolitical state. This panel is sponsored by The Humanities Center, the African and African American Studies program and the Chaplain's Office. Everyone is invited to attend. The panel is scheduled for Saturday, November 5 from 12:00-2:00 p.m. in Boliou 104. Please contact Asiya Mohamoud Gaildon for further information at: firstname.lastname@example.com
- 12:00 pm, Boliou 104
October 2011
Tuesday, October 25th
- Reading by Nuruddin Farah
- Award winning novelist from Somalia, Nuruddin Farah, will read from his work.
- 5:00 pm, The Weitz Center's Large Meeting Room, 236
June 2011
Friday, June 10th
- African & African American Studies Faculty, Students, Parents reception
- African and African American department reception for faculty, graduates and their families on the day before Commencement.
- 2:30 pm, Leighton front lawn; Rain: Lei. main floor
May 2011
Tuesday, May 31st
- Mbira Ensemble Recital: Melinda Russell, director
- 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Tuesday, May 10th
- Thabiti Willis VIZ Presentation, "Mother Chiefs and Husband Researcher: Gender, Power, and Masquerade in Nigeria"
- 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
- Cherif Keita Discussion & Booksigning
- Join Carleton Professor of French Cherif Keita for the debut launch of his new book "Outcast to Ambassador: The Musical Odyssey of Salif Keita". A brief booksigning will follow the event. Copies of the book will be available at the event as well as prior to the event in the Bookstore.
- 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
April 2011
Wednesday, April 20th
- A Discussion with Richard Philcox, translator
- Philcox has translated most of Conde's books (beginning with her first novel) and Conde has both expressed her confidence in him and said that she considers him "responsible" for the book in English - that is, for the flow and rhythm and music of the language.
- 4:00 pm
- Maryse Condé, "The Journey of a Caribbean Writer"
- Maryse Condé, internationally acclaimed French Caribbean writer and Professor Emerita of Columbia University, is the author of sixteen novels including Segu, Windward Heights, Crossing the Mangrove, and Tituba, Black Witch of Salem, as well as Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood. Condé has garnered numerous literary awards including the prestigious "Prix de l'Académie française." Through her historical fiction, Condé has given voice to lesser-known populations in the African diaspora. Sponsored by French and Francophone Studies, the Humanities Center, The Elizabeth Nason Distinguished Women Visitors Funds, and African and African American Studies.
- 7:30 pm, Boliou 104
Tuesday, April 19th
- A Conversation with Maryse Condé
- A conversation with Maryse Condé, a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel "Segu" (1984–1985). Condé's novels explore racial, gender and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trials in "I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem" (1992) and the 19th century Bambara Empire of Mali in Segu (1987). Her novels trace the relationships between African peoples and the diaspora, especially the Caribbean. She has taken considerable distance from most Caribbean literary movements, such as Negritude and Creolité, and has often focused on topics with strong feminist concerns. Her recent writings have become increasingly autobiographical, such as "Memories of My Childhood" and "Victoire", a biography of her grandmother. "Who Slashed Celinaire's Throat" also shows traces of her paternal great-grandmother.
- 4:00 pm, LDC 104
March 2011
Tuesday, March 8th
- African Drum Ensemble Recital: Jay Johnson, director
- 4:00 pm, Great Space
Saturday, March 5th
- Voice Studios Showcase Recital
- The recital will feature applied voice students from all class years performing a variety of repertoire from classical art songs and arias to songs from Broadway musicals.
- 4:00 pm, Carleton College, Concert Hall
Thursday, March 3rd
- The Ghana Program Poster Session took place today
- The Ghana Winter Break OCS Poster Session and Slide Show took place at Common Time, 3 March, in Great Hall. The 12 student participants presented their research. Among the topics were child labor, sustainability, the Chinese business community in Accra, homosexuality, secondary education, pornography, politics and hip hop. Refreshments will be available.
- 12:00 pm, Great Hall
February 2011
Saturday, February 26th
Thursday, February 24th
- "Poverty Always Has a History"
- Presentation by Brian Sirchio (founder of Crosswinds Music Ministries and Haiti activist) and Nathan Yaffe '11 about the history of poverty in Haiti. Part of Haiti Human Rights Week.
- 4:00 pm
Tuesday, February 22nd
- TODAY, 2.22.2011!!! Prof Behnaz Mirzai, Transformations in African Identity in Iran,public talk,refreshments reception
- Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:00-6:30 Behnaz Mirzai - Transformations in African Identity in Iran NOW IN Leighton 305!
- 5:00 pm, Leighton Hall, Room 305
Monday, February 21st
- Haiti Human Rights Week Dinner & Panel
- Join Haiti Relief Carleton and the Haiti Justice Alliance of Northfield for dinner in the Great Hall followed by Q&A with Mario Joseph (Haiti's most prominent human rights lawyer), Brian Concannon (Director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti), and Paul Miller (Executive Director of the Haiti Justice Alliance of Northfield). Part of Haiti Human Rights Week.
- 6:30 pm, Great Hall
Sunday, February 20th
- Jazz Concert: David Singley, director
- "The Carleton Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of David Singley will present its' Winter Concert. The program will include selections from the Big Band repertoire of the Swing era as well as compositions of modern jazz composers. The Carleton Jazz Combos will also perform."
- 3:00 pm, Concert Hall
- WILL TAKE PLACE! AFRO IRANIAN LIVES, film showing,conversation and discussion with producer/director
- 7:00 pm, Leighton Hall, Room 304
Thursday, February 17th
- "Holywood, Pirated Videos and Child Soldiers", Lecture by Emmanuel Dongala
- Emmanuel Dongala, Professor of Chemistry at Bard College, is the winner of numerous literary prizes including the Grand Prix de Littérature de l'Afrique Noire, the Prix de la Fondation de France, and the prize for the best French novel of 2010 from the literary magazine Lire. His works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. In 1998, the Congolese Civil war forced Dongala, who was then professor of Chemistry and Dean of the University, to flee his country, which he was able to do with the help of his friend, the novelist Philip Roth. Dongala's novel, Johnny Mad Dog,was made into an award-winning film.
- 4:00 pm, LDC 104
Wednesday, February 16th
- Film Screening of "Johnny Mad Dog"
- Directed by Jean Stéphane Sauvaire and based on the novel by Emmanuel Dongala. The novel recounts the poignant fate of child soldiers in the Congolese civil war. Winner of the prestigious prix de l'espoir at the Cannes film festival in 2008. Here's the NYT review of the film from January 20, 2011: http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/movies/21roundup-JOHNNYMADDOG_RVW.html?scp=1&s
- 8:00 pm, Boliou
Thursday, February 10th
- Public Lecture and Book Signing by University of Toronto Assistant Professor Lance McCready '90
- "Black Masculinities in Urban Education" Lance McCready teaches "School & Society" for the Secondary Teacher Education Program and "Approaches to Urban Education" in the new Urban Education M.Ed. Cohort at the University of Toronto. His most recent book is Making Space for Diverse Masculinities (Adolescent Cultures, School and Society) published by Peter Lang Publishers. Lance's research seeks to develop and promote "intersectional" perspectives on urban education that look at the ways race, class, gender, and sexuality have an impact on teaching and learning in inner-city schools. In particular, he is interested in the way intersectional perspectives can help teachers, students, and policymakers better understand disparities in achievement, participation, and discipline. His most recent publications focus on "making space" for diverse masculinities in urban education and how the experiences of gay and gender non-conforming Black male students reframe the "troubles" Black males face in urban high schools. This event is co-sponsored by the educational studies department, the African and African American Studies department, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and the Gender and Sexuality Center. A brief book signing will follow. Copies of Professor McCready's most recent book will be available for purchase at the event as well as prior to the event in the Carleton Bookstore.
- 4:30 pm, Library Athenaeum
Wednesday, February 9th
- Prof Marlon Bailey, Engendering Space: Black Queer Performance & Ballroom Culture in Detroit
- 4:30 pm, Leighton Hall, Room 304
Tuesday, February 8th
- Prof David Wiles presentation,The Color Line,Af/Af Am Angelina Weld Grimke Brown Bag Conversation Series
- The African and African American Studies Program is pleased to announce Professor David Wiles, who will be doing a reading with a student cast of a section of his play. The working title of the play is "The Color Line." It's set in New York in 1928 during the Harlem Renaissance and deals with, among other things, the issue of racial passing. This event is part of the AF/AFAM Angelina Weld Grimke Brown Bag Conversation Series. This series honors Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958), the first African American female student to attend Carleton's Preparatory Academy from 1895 to 1897. Future presentations will explore subjects related to black diasporic experiences and histories across a broad geography including Africa, the Caribbean, North and South America, Europe, and Asia.
- 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
Friday, February 4th
- Convocation: R. L'Heureux Lewis
- R. L'Heureux Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at the City College of New York – CUNY. His research concentrates on issues of educational inequality, the role of race in contemporary society, and mental health well-being. The changing national and international landscape necessitate deeper, more sustainable, and meaningful engagement conversations and research. Through his writing, speaking, and commentary his work analyzes some of the most pressing issues in the post-Civil Rights era. With specializations in race and ethnic relations, his research and activism grapple with the areas of education, youth culture, public policy, and mental health. As a scholar-activist, he is engaged in projects relating to the reformation of education, Hip-Hop culture activism, and race-conscious policies. His commentary has been featured in media outlets such as US World News Report, Diversity in Higher Education, National Public Radio, theRoot.com and the Detroit Free Press. The title of his presentation is "Stony the Road We Trod: The March Towards Educational Justice." Free and open to the public. Sponsored by: College Relations, Contact: Kerry Raadt, College Relations, x4308
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
January 2011
Saturday, January 29th
- Voice Master Class with Simon Estes
- World renowned operatic bass-baritone Simon Estes has taught numerous master classes throughout the United States and abroad, including at the Juilliard School of Music and the Moscow Music Conservatory.
- 2:30 pm, Carleton College, Concert Hall
Wednesday, January 26th
- A public talk presented by Professor Kevin K. Gaines
- "Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' as a cultural artifact of the Long Civil Rights Movement"
- 4:30 pm, Leighton 304
Tuesday, January 25th
- Joan Baez at Spring Hill College: A Study of Intersecting Histories
- On May 7, 1963 Joan Baez gave a concert at Spring Hill College in Mobile Alabama. This little-known performance takes on extraordinary significance when viewed from the intersection of multiple histories: social, musical, institutional, and personal. This presentation will reveal the larger meaning of this event using eyewitness accounts, photographs, and a precious unreleased live recording, which includes Baez' comments on the racial climate. Presenter: Steve Kelly, Dye Family Professor of Music. Lunch provided for 50. Angelina Weld Grimke Brown Bag Conversation, co-sponsored with African/African-American Studies Program.
- 11:45 am, Alumni Guest House Meeting Room
November 2010
Tuesday, November 16th
- African Drum Ensemble Recital: Jay Johnson, director
- 4:00 pm, Great Space
Saturday, November 13th
- Campus-wide Poetry Weekend: J Ivy Poetry Workshop
- Poetry Workshop with J. Ivy
- 3:00 pm, Boliou 104
- Campus-Wide Poetry Weekend: Open Mic
- Poetry Open Mic at the Cave
- 7:00 pm, The Cave, Evans Hall basement
Friday, November 12th
- Campus-wide Poetry Weekend: Poetry Performance J. Ivy and Dana Gilmore
- Two part poetry performance (intermission includes DINNER provided by Subway!)
- 6:30 pm, Sayles Hill Great Space
Friday, November 5th
- How does Sexual Violence Affect the Women of Color at Carleton?
- Dinner and discussion at Stimpson
- 4:30 pm, Stimpson
Thursday, November 4th
- Dinner with SOARS cast in Stimpson
- Dinner with SOARS cast in Stimpson Catered by Kurry Kabob
- 5:00 pm, Stimpson House
- SOARS performance in the Great Hall
- Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS) is a performance about one woman's journey to reclaim her body, sexuality, spirituality, and self esteem after being sexual assaulted in college. Performed by a diverse cast of women and featuring photographs taken by her sister during the recovery process, SOARS uses modern dance, spoken-word, and music to educate the public about sexual violence and to ease the shame, guilt, and self-blame that rape victims too often feel with a story of hope and healing
- 7:00 pm, Great Hall
October 2010
Tuesday, October 26th
- Film showing: "Oberlin-Inanda: The Life and Times of John L. Dube"
- Cherif Keita's film "Oberlin-Inanda: The Life and Times of John L. Dube" (2005, 54mn, Special Mention at the 2005 Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou) will be screened as part of the Carleton International Education Week in Leighton 305, 7:00-8:30 pm (with discussion) (Tuesday, October 26, 2010)
- 7:00 pm, Leighton 305
Friday, October 22nd
- Disability Rights in Ghana: Do NGO's Cause More Harm than Good?
- A presentation by Kathryn Guerts, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Hamline University. Bagels and coffee will be served.
- 8:30 am, Leighton 330
Tuesday, October 19th
- Big Freedia, Queen Diva of Bounce
- Big Freedia, the Queen Diva of Bounce. Bounce music emerged from the New Orleans housing projects. Public talk 7-8 in Boliou 104, live performance at the Cave 9 pm. Big Freedia performs a derivative of Bounce for self-proclaimed "Sissies"
- 7:00 pm, Boliou 104 and the Cave
Thursday, October 7th
- Fall History Dept Herbert P. Lefler Talk, Dr. Kathleen Brown, U. Pennsylvania
- We are delighted to announce that our History Department Fall Term Lefler speaker, Kathleen Brown, History Dept, U Penn, will present a talk on Thursday, October 7, at 5:00 p.m. in Leighton 304, "'Am I Not a Man and a Brother?' Anglo-American abolitionism and the concept of human rights." https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/UpcomingEvents/ for more information.
- 5:00 pm, Leighton 304
Tuesday, October 5th
- Haiti - After the Earthquake
- Rea Dol, Founder and Director of the SOPUDEP School near Port-au-Prince, will speak about the current situation in Haiti. Featured in the New York times as "The Mother Figure of Morne Lazarre," Ms. Dol has been leading Haitian efforts to reestablish normalcy after the earthquake. Hamline professor Max Adrien, also a Haitian native, will speak briefly about Haitian culture today, and student leaders of Haiti Relief will propose ways to help. Sponsored by the Humanities Center, Haitian Relief, and the Haiti Justice Alliance.
- 4:00 pm, Boliou 104
Saturday, October 2nd
- B-Boy Master Class
- A b-boy (breaking) master class with New York City's Kid Glyde, Whorah, and Gravity.
- 10:00 am, East Gym
Friday, October 1st
- Convocation: Rudolph Byrd
- The Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies at Emory University, Rudolph Byrd began his academic career at Carleton College where he was a member of the Department of English and Chair of the Program of African and African American Studies. He joined the faculty of Emory University in 1991 and is the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, established in 2007. Named for James Weldon Johnson, author, composer, educator, lawyer, diplomat, and pioneering leader in the modern civil rights movement, the Johnson Institute is the first institute at Emory University established to honor the achievements of an American of African descent. One of the premiere sites in the nation for the study of the modern civil rights movement, the work of the Johnson Institute is to offer a framework for understanding the history and legacy of civil rights, and to provide a context to explain the ways in which the civil rights movement continues to have relevance. The Johnson Institute is the home of the Alice Walker Literary Society, of which Byrd is the founding co-chair. An engaged scholar committed to service and scholarship at the local and national levels, Byrd is also a consultant to the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Programs. The title of his presentation is "Regarding James Weldon Johnson."
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
- B-Boy Battle
- Some of the hip hop world's best b-boys (or "break-boys") will take to the floor in a not-to-be-missed battle on Friday, Oct. 1, beginning at 7 p.m., in the Carleton College Recreation Center. The battle--a competition between a half dozen "crews" from the Twin Cities, Carleton and Northfield--will be judged by three world-class b-boys hailing from New York City: Kid Glyde, Whorah, and Gravity. Featuring fancy footwork, acrobatic style, and back-beats provided by Chicago-based DJ Lester Burnem, this event is free and open to all ages.
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IP Showcase
Peggy Aycinena
Peggy Aycinena is a freelance journalist and Editor of EDA Confidential at www.aycinena.com. She can be reached at peggy at aycinena dot com.
ARM: A Gnawing Sense of Unease
July 12th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
The UK decided to Brexit the EU on 23 June 2016, and ARM announced it had been sold to Tokyo-based SoftBank three weeks later, on 18 July 2016. For some, these developments would have been unthinkable up to the moment they unfolded, but now they're both a reality.
Article 50 was triggered by the British PM on 29 March 2017, and the UK will no longer be in the EU as of March 2019.
ARM is no longer publicly traded, and although it was once the crown jewel of Britain's technical portfolio, it is now a wholly owned Japanese enterprise. Or at least it was, until 7 March 2017 when SoftBank announced an even more astonishing bit of news.
SmartFlow: The Importance of Export Compliance
June 22nd, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
I last spoke with Miracco in November 2015 when the company launched, offering tools and strategies to software companies who have lost product to theft and piracy. At the time, Synopsys was dealing with a publicly-acknowledged system breach, so that conversation with SmartFlow was particularly pertinent.
This current piece, however, is about export compliance, a topic also of intense interest to the EDA industry.
Cadence's Larry Disenhof is the industry's subject expert in this area. Having heard him speak numerous times, although the piece below ends with a plug for SmartFlow, Disenhoff would undoubtedly agree with an articulate reminder that export compliance is neither optional nor for the faint of heart.
The message is clear: If you're running a software company, ignore these issues at your own peril.
Read the rest of SmartFlow: The Importance of Export Compliance
UltraSoC: Addressing their Customer's Customer
June 15th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
When I spoke this week with company CEO Rupert Baines, he started with Shanghai: "There is so much interest in RISC-V in China. The attendance there [exceeded] the headcount at the previous meetings at Google and MIT, although the numbers may be confusing as there were so many students at the Shanghai event."
Asked if the RISC-V event would be in China again, Baines said, "I believe going forward there will be one conference in the U.S. each year, probably in Silicon Valley, and one international. Nvidia sponsored the latest one through their presence in Shanghai."
Turning to UltraSoC, I asked about the company's origin, market and competition.
Baines said, "We do semiconductor IP that solves a problem. The chips are so big and complicated today, understanding how they work – with lots of processors and lots of software interacting with each other and the real world – is incredibly difficult.
Read the rest of UltraSoC: Addressing their Customer's Customer
Aart de Geus: Grand Challenges in IP
June 8th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
To say Aart de Geus is synonymous with Synopsys, an organization he's led for over 30 years, is not an understatement. His entire professional zeitgeist is wrapped up in the company. Neither is it an understatement to say de Geus is always on-message, always on-point. The interview below is no exception.
Dr. de Geus' vision of Grand Challenges in IP is informed by the daily, working realities of the needs of the customers that constitute the IP market, and an IP vendor's evolving response to those needs. We spoke by phone on June 1st.
Warren Savage: Grand Challenges in IP
June 1st, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
This week's dialog is with Warren Savage, founder and CEO of IPextreme. The company was purchased by Silvaco in 2016, where Savage now serves as GM of the IP division.
Warren Savage has been an energetic leader in the IP community, working to get companies in the industry to link arms, address common concerns, and give greater visibility to the importance of their products in the global semiconductor supply chain.
When we spoke on May 24th, Savage began by addressing my question about protection for IP blocks as they move down the manufacturing chain
Hal Barbour: 8 Grand Challenges in IP
May 25th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
The first installment in the series, published last week, was a conversation with Sonics co-Founder and CEO Grant Pierce.
Pierce argues that today's Grand Challenges in IP center around the complexities of delivering sub-systems and related technical expertise to customers, helping develop edge-node devices targeted at Machine Learning, and providing IP for myriad automotive systems – all while meeting demands for greater bandwidth and throughput, and astonishingly low power.
In this week's installment in the series, Hal Barbour talks about a completely different set of Grand Challenges in IP – those related to the business issues surrounding the industry.
Grant Pierce: Grand Challenges in IP
May 18th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Asked to enumerate the Grand Challenges in IP he sees today, Pierce began: "Having been in the industry for 20 years myself, I am surprised that we still have some challenges ahead of us. We have new entrants into the industry that are more focused at the system level, however, with customers coming in to interact with the IP guys directly to get their custom designs done.
"What I am seeing today, versus 20 years ago, is the emergence of Machine Learning. And that brings with it some technical challenges. On the one hand, they are very familiar – the age-old challenges about bandwidth and throughput – but on the other hand, they are also very new. Today's applications are driving things together in a totally new way.
IP News: Bad outweighs the Good, and your point is?
May 4th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Then this week, that same Imagination announced it was selling MIPS – a company it bought back in 2012 with great fanfare for [a mere] $60 million. [It's true, MIPS' patent portfolio was worth a lot more.]
Also this week, TSMC announced it is charging a former employee with IP theft: The former employee is alleged to have stolen manufacturing data from TSMC specifically related to Nvidia and AMD chip production, taken it across the Straights of Taiwan, and turned it over to his new employer in the PRC, HLMC.
Read the rest of IP News: Bad outweighs the Good, and your point is?
Celebrating Accellera's UVM: Now it's IEEE 1800.2
April 27th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
The effort has consumed upwards of 10 years, and represents thousands of man-hours of effort, consultation, compromise, consensus building, rinse and repeat. Over and over until the final product was polished, presented and approved by the IEEE. Not an easy process by anybody's estimation.
When we spoke by phone this week about the Accellera announcement, I asked Tom Alsop [Principal Engineer at Intel] how difficult the whole thing had actually been.
He chuckled slightly: "For us, it was fairly difficult."
Read the rest of Celebrating Accellera's UVM: Now it's IEEE 1800.2
IP for Cars: Lawsuits are like Sandstorms
April 20th, 2017 by Peggy Aycinena
Chips in cars today need to manage the power train, or they need to provide safety and security for the driver – but either way, they need to work perfectly every time, all the time, and in some pretty hellish conditions. It's hot under the hood and the road today is unforgiving. So are the lawyers.
So what's a third-party IP provider supposed to do? Turn tail and run? Never sell into the automotive market where litigation looms larger than a sandstorm in April on the Texas Panhandle? Or try to man-up and work with the automotive market to provide IP that fits well into the chips that such customers need?


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The Fugitive Slave Act was passed by congress on September 18, 1850, as part of a compromise allowing California to enter the Union as a free state and ending the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The act made the federal government responsible for tracking down and apprehending slaves who had escaped to the northern states. No statute of limitations applied, so that even slaves who had been free for many years could be returned. The passage and enforcement of this law enraged many people in the North--even those who were not ardent abolitionists. As noted in this article, an 1843 Massachusetts law prevented "all officers of the commonwealth from engaging under severe penalties in the arrest, detention, or imprisonment of a fugitive slave." Shadrach Minkins was the fugitive slave who had been rescued by a mob when he was arrested and then held at the courthouse on February 15, 1851. This article mentions that four men had been arrested for their part in Shadrach's escape, but a total of nine abolitionists were eventually indicted. All were ultimately acquitted.
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Off the top of my head would Taurog be more useful if you could get CP from the items? I can't get into game still from my laptop to verify if you can. So make it useful for early players as a staightforward deity, and then for advanced players balance picking up items for later CP advantage(or even immediate but that is harder).
Overall I think it is ok that some gods are very niche, some gods are useful for advanced and some for basic. Balance is a funny thing. If they were all "balanced" you are looking at one of three scenarios in my mind: Either choice and selection of god has no impact on your game other than knowing what they do, all gods make the game equally more complex and therefore only worth using once you are a vet, or all gods make the game easy and you just hope for the one that best fits your current class each time(but don't worry if you don't get it because they others will do).
I am probably over simplifying to a degree.


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DiRT 2, NHL 10 Demos Arrive on Xbox Live
This time, we've got playable samples of Codemasters' racer DiRT 2 and the latest hockey title out of EA Canada, NHL 10. As with Mini Ninjas, that DiRT 2 demo should hit PlayStation 3 later today, and don't be surprised if NHL 10 shows up there too.
The full version of DiRT 2 rolls into North American retailers on September 8 in Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, DS and PSP form, with a PC edition due in December. Meanwhile, NHL 10 is due on PS3 and Xbox 360 come September 15, the same day as NHL 2K10.


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Proposed veterans' home stirs controversy in AshlandBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
September 29. 2013 6:35PM
ASHLAND — A controversy that has erupted in town over a proposed housing complex for homeless veterans came to a head recently at a meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment, when a group of residents made it clear that they don't want it in their town.
Judging by applause to residents speaking last Thursday, it appeared that most of the roughly 70 people in the audience supported the veterans' home proposal. But there was also loud applause for residents speaking against the zoning change requests.
After three hours of sometimes heated arguments among audience members, the board decided to continue the matter to the next meeting.
The complex proposal comes from a group of area businesses and organizations that have partnered with Soldier On, a national homeless veterans advocacy group, to develop nine acres of flat woodlands on Riverside Drive. The plan is for four buildings with at least 50 one-bedroom units.
If permitted, it would be the first such facility in New Hampshire. It would be patterned on the Gordon H. Mansfield Veterans Community in Pittsfield, Mass., Soldier On's first facility, completed in 2010. Soldier On works closely with the Department of Veterans Affairs and other agencies to get funding for its work.
Soldier On housing projects are permanent cooperatives that provide formerly homeless veterans with safe, sustainable, affordable housing while transitioning them from homelessness to homeownership, as veterans are able to buy their dwellings with special payment arrangements.
To build the complex, the groups need some leeway in the town laws. Their first request was for an appeal of a zoning law that requires unit sizes to be at least 750 feet, as the design for the complex has rooms of between 455 and 525 square feet.
Zoning board chairman Elaine Allard began the meeting by asking that all comments only address the requested zoning changes, explaining that other town boards would deal with questions of whether to allow the development.
But that didn't happen. Supporters of the complex spoke at length of the problems of homeless veterans, while those opposing it said they didn't think Ashland was the right place for formerly homeless veterans to live.
Willis Holland, a resident who identified himself as a veteran, said the formerly homeless veterans could be a danger to the town.
"Who vets these vets before they get here? How do we know one isn't going to show up somewhere with an AK-47?" Holland asked, bringing groans from the crowd.
Mark Scarano, chairman of the town's budget committee, was among those groaning. "This has to be seen as a good thing for the town," he said. "It's bringing in $10 million (to the tax rolls), and we need that, badly. It's a beautiful thing."
But former state representative and current town selectman Philip Preston said there are too many unanswered questions with the project, and said the zoning board should not change town laws.
"We have a zoning ordinance that's been vetted by the town, I think it's important that we adhere to town law," Preston said.
Liz Cote said Ashland doesn't have the services needed for aging veterans, and complained that there were no on-site medical services proposed for the complex. She said after the veterans die, the town could be left with a complex that no one wants to buy.
"This project is too enormous for Ashland," she said.
Everett Mills said he is against the project for the same reasons. "My concern is can this community support this kind of thing," he said.
Several speakers said they worried that the veterans would cause problems in the downtown area, though they did not say how or why that would happen.
Soldier On officials assured the audience that the veterans would be "stable, responsible individuals."


text: San Francisco—Targeting and personalization company Demandbase Inc. has introduced an advertising retargeting solution to enable companies to target messages to buyers throughout the purchase cycle. The product, which extends the capabilities of Demandbase's company ID technology, identifies buyer intent based on the Web browsing patterns of multiple decision-makers at a single company who are researching and evaluating products and services, Demandbase said in a statement. Last month, Demandbase added a marketing consultancy, with a suite of such services as marketing analytics, metrics and landing-page optimization.


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Hi all,
I am kinda little stuck with this.Seeking your help on this. Infact the problem is that we tried to run a ghost image on machine from a USB storage and someone removed the USB storage even before it started.
Now when I tried to reboot the system it gave me the ugly "disk not found" error. I popped in couple of live distros(astrumi and Knoppix) and tried to mount the hard disk. I was unable to mount the internal hard disk with the live distribution.(Since knoppix can mount during the boot). I tried to mount it by
"mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd"
and it gave me an error of "invalid block device or bad superblock". So i was unable to munt the hard drive. Now I popped in Windows XP cd (since the OS is Windows XP SP 1a) and tried to do a "fixmbr". But the machine is automatically turned off when it tries to configure and detect the hardrive.So unable to do that as well.
Please note that I can see all the partitions healthy and active when i use some partitoning tool (fdisk,partd). I hav'nt formattd it, since the data in the partition is valuble.
Any suggestion on this would be appreciated.
Thank you all for bearing me all along.


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Tech Titans Hit the Beach
As Silicon Valley moguls go on a home-buying spree in Los Angeles, they're reshaping the real-estate landscape
The tech industry is going south.
In growing numbers, Silicon Valley executives—long based in tech strongholds like Santa Clara and Palo Alto—are buying homes in Los Angeles, as the lines between the technology and entertainment businesses grow blurrier.
Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPal's co-founder and Facebook 's earliest investor—paid $11.5 million in January for a 6,000-square-foot house on a promontory above the Sunset Strip. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 million last summer from singer/reality star Nick Lachey, who in turn had acquired the home from model Heidi Klum and singer Seal. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 million for a modern house on the ocean in Manhattan Beach, according to public records. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north.
"It's the Facebook flop house," Mr. Jacobson jokes. "We have a surf in the morning before going into the office."
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the entertainment industry. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these
areas are growing at a faster rate
than in other parts of the city.
"There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. "When I arrived in Hollywood, everybody had written a screenplay," he says. "Now, everyone has an app."
Kurt Rappaport, a Los Angeles broker specializing in luxury real estate, says the number of his house-hunting clients from Silicon Valley has doubled over the past couple of years. Earlier this year, Mr. Rappaport sold a beach cottage in Malibu to a Facebook executive for $6.8 million. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's compound in Malibu for $37 million—Mr. Ellison's 27th Malibu property purchase, says Mr. Rappaport. Mr. Ellison did not respond to requests for comment.
It isn't just Silicon Valley-based techies who are buying. Last summer, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss—twins best known for suing Mark Zuckerberg over the origins of Facebook, and who recently formed a venture-capital firm—bought an 8,000-square-foot bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills for $18 million. Ted Waitt, co-founder of computer company Gateway, also bought in Bel-Air, paying $14 million this past June for a six-bedroom Mediterranean.
Another client of Mr. Rappaport's, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft and a longtime Seattle resident, paid $11.5 million for a 12,000-square-foot home in Holmby Hills in March. From her new perch in Los Angeles, she's helping to launch a company that she says lies "at the intersection of marketing and digital entertainment, philanthropy and lifetime experiences." Ms. Mathews is currently remodeling the seven-bedroom home, adding a wine cellar and a cabana for the pool.
More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A. over the last few years, according to Represent.LA, an open-source project that tracks the growth of start-up communities, bringing with them engineers and executives looking for housing. The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there.
Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Previously known for an edgy vibe, the area has grown increasingly upscale with the arrival of gourmet restaurants and mainstream stores. In Santa Monica, the median price of homes jumped 16% in the first eight months of 2012 compared with 2011, after a 9% decline over the same period the year before, according to Multiple Listing Service data compiled by Paul Habibi, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Venice's median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.
Venice: 13% | L.A. County: 0.9%
Median single-family home price increase, Jan.-Aug. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.
In Los Angeles County, median home prices went up by just under 1% during the first eight months of 2012, compared with the same period in 2011, according to Mr. Habibi's MLS data. Nationwide, the median home price rose 3.3% during that time period to $186,000, according to DataQuick, and in California the median price rose 4.8% for that same time period.
A substantial portion of Venice's real-estate boom is attributable to Google. Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. To create a campuslike setting for its more than 500 employees in L.A., the company took over a funky Frank Gehry complex resembling a pair of binoculars. Like Google's other locations, it offers amenities like a climbing wall and an outdoor movie theater, as well as bicycles and surfboards that can be rented during the workday.
"Want 300 days of sun a year?" Google says on its website. "Forget the Valley—pack your bags for Google L.A."
In February, Google's YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista. It will open later this year. And in August 2011, Facebook began leasing about 13,000 square feet in Playa Vista.
The arrival of techies has also had a profound effect on the rental market, brokers and real-estate developers say. Kevin Miller, president of Westside Rentals, which bills itself as Southern California's largest home-finding service, says he has seen rents in Santa Monica and Venice increase by about 10% over the last 18 months—compared with other desirable areas such as Beverly Hills and Culver City, where he says rents increased by about 4% to 5%. Rents have increased by just 2% across Los Angeles over the same time period, he says.
"Entrepreneurs love being around other entrepreneurs, and that's driving demand toward the beach," says Mr. Miller. "Plus, people like to live near where they work, and the tech companies are there."
Silicon Valley buyers shop differently from other wealthy L.A. clients, brokers say. While entertainment moguls often rely on the taste, advice and social connections of the city's top brokers, tech executives frequently do their own research online before they arrive in town, and know what they want before they look.
Broker Mauricio Umansky recalls a moment earlier this year when he was showing several homes in the Hollywood Hills to an entrepreneur visiting from Northern California. "I was telling him that houses in the neighborhood sell for $1,000 per [square] foot. He interrupted me and said, 'No, they sell for $936 per foot.' He was testing me. It totally caught me off guard. And by the way, he was right." Mr. Umansky, who is the CEO of real-estate firm the Agency, adds that many buyers from up north often shy away from relying on the taste of others, preferring instead to rely on themselves. "They will challenge your knowledge of the market," he says. "And only if you pass will they trust you." In the end, he sold an $8 million home in the Hollywood Hills to the entrepreneur.
The business interests of Hollywood and Silicon Valley continue to converge. Tech companies are becoming distributors of studio content; YouTube, iTunes and Netflix have all licensed content from major entertainment players. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups.
"There's so much more traffic between these two worlds of tech and entertainment that we're seeing the social worlds blend together, and that's luring the Northern California community to buy homes down here," says Ben Silverman, former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment. "These days, there are more Internet guys at the Vanity Fair Oscar party than traditional media players."
South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, who co-founded PayPal and Tesla Motors , has also dabbled in the film business, serving as an executive producer on films like "Thank You for Smoking." He commutes back and forth on his Dassault Falcon between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. According to people close to the situation, Mr. Musk is in contract to buy the roughly the $20 million Bel-Air house he has been renting—a 20,000-square-foot estate on a private knoll with a home theater, library, lighted tennis court, gym, pool and 1,000-bottle wine cellar. Representatives for Mr. Musk declined to comment.
More venture capitalists also are putting down roots. "For years, I would watch people launch their start-up in L.A., raise capital and move up north as soon as they got successful. Now, they get successful and they stay," says Paul Bricault, a venture capitalist who founded one of Los Angeles's largest accelerators and lives in Venice. After years of traveling to Los Angeles once every few months, Timothy Draper, founder and a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, says he now flies down to L.A. about twice a month—often enough that he bought a house in west Los Angeles this year.
"I thought, 'Why leave all the activity here to compete with everyone else in NorCal?' " says Mark Suster, a venture capitalist who started leasing in Pacific Palisades two years ago.
Another factor: Even as prices have begun to creep up in neighborhoods like Venice, L.A.'s real-estate prices still tend to be substantially lower than those in desirable parts of Silicon Valley. In Palo Alto, the median price paid for single-family homes was $1.7 million in the first eight months of 2012, a 20.4% increase over the same period in 2011, according to DataQuick.
"We had a great time looking for a house in L.A., especially after living up north," says Sonya Merrill, an ex-Google executive who moved to L.A. with her husband, Douglas, a former Google chief information officer, in late 2008. "Silicon Valley is all 1960s and '70s tract houses or small bungalows—it's a sea of blah. Expensive blah—I once looked at a teardown in Palo Alto that smelled like urine and was made of cinder block. It was on the market for $1.5 million and there was a bidding war for it." The couple spent $2.8 million on a Hollywood Hills four-bedroom home where actor Bela Lugosi long resided. They spent another year redoing it.
Some tech moguls, including Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, venture capitalist Ray Lane and Mr. Ellison, have owned property in Los Angeles for years. David Sacks, a corporate vice president at Microsoft, owns a Beverly Hills house where Quentin Tarantino filmed "Pulp Fiction."
But the newest wave of Silicon Valley arrivals is heavily favoring the Silicon Beach area. Viddy, a mobile-video-sharing company, has its office a block from Google in Venice. About a fifth of new employees have relocated from Silicon Valley, says Brett O'Brien, Viddy's CEO and co-founder. One of Viddy's other co-founders, Chris Ovitz, in January paid $1.6 million for a loft on Venice's main thoroughfare.
Developers are scrambling to cater to the influx. Jim Andersen, president of prolific Westside developer NMS Properties, says the firm is opening five more buildings not far from the offices of Google and Yahoo, among other tech firms. He added that NMS has begun building smaller apartments to better serve young renters who are part of the tech scene.
Jim Jacobsen, a commercial-real-estate broker, says he first built one of his projects—a warehouse in Venice converted into 30 lofts for both working and living—with entertainment-industry folks in mind. But with just a month or so until the units, which run between $500,000 and $2 million, hit the market, he is advertising them to people in the technology industry.
Mr. Umansky, who sold two homes in Los Angeles this year to Facebook executives, has another explanation for why Silicon Valley executives are heading south.
"A lot of these guys are young, they have cashed out, they are bachelors, they like to party," he says. "And let's be honest, the partying in Hollywood is way better than in Silicon Valley."


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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the National Park Service $1.2 million to finish work on an access road at the 9/11 Flight 93 Memorial in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The memorial in Shanksville marks the grounds where a hijacked United Airlines jet crashed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Investigators determined the hijackers likely planned to crash the plane in Washington, D.C., but were thwarted when the 40 passengers and crew fought back and the plane crashed as a result.
Each year, about 400,000 visitors to the memorial use the road.
A private group, the Flight 93 National Memorial Campaign, has said it still needs to raise about $5 million more to complete the entire memorial, which includes a learning center and a tower with 40 wind chimes.


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|Kent Place School
2012: Two-year letterwinner ... Will be a contending for a starting position for the defensive unit.
2011: Appeared in 19 contests with seven starts ... picked up 13 ground balls, caused 13 turnovers and recorded four draw controls ... helped the Generals rank 24th nationally in scoring defense (8.60 GPG) ... tallied three caused turnovers and two ground balls in a 8-7 loss to Cortland (3/16) ... collected two ground balls and two caused turnovers in a 7-6 win over Lynchburg.
2010: Appeared in 13 contests with six starts during her rookie campaign ... collected 14 ground balls, 12 caused turnovers and eight draw controls ... helped the defense post an 8.00 goals-against average for the season, the 18th-best mark in NCAA Division III.
High School: Earned three letters each in lacrosse and swimming, received two letters in field hockey and one in indoor track & field at Kent Place ... helped lead the lacrosse team to a conference title as a junior ... helped the swimming team to a pair of swimming championships ... named defensive MVP of the lacrosse and field hockey teams as a senior ... received the swimming most improved award as a sophomore and junior and was named team MVP as a senior ... received second team all-conference and third team all-county honors following her final field hockey season.
Personal: Five relatives have attended W&L, including her grandfather (Walton '47) and father (Clay '78), uncles (Walton '76 & Peter '80) and brother (Ted '09) ...active with Campus Republicans, Mock Convention, and the Director of Social Enrichment for Alha Delta Pi sorority … Politics/Art History double major.


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PemberDucky wrote:Tiger's Milk Bar and a Diet Rock Star.
It's Monday.
I think I need a change.
PemberDucky wrote:I think I need a change.
But Diet Rock star has milk thistle. That's two sources of milk!
Chicken Florentine. Mmmmmm.
raw broccoli and low-cal Italian dressing
soft pretzel and dill dip
nothing...wish i was
bacon lettuce tomato peanut butter sammy. Yummmmm!
terrimeyers wrote:nothing...wish i was
Woohoo Suppertime now!
queso crunchwrap. my first one was good. this one vacuums -- hardly any meat. llo
jusca wrote:queso crunchwrap. my first one was good. this one vacuums -- hardly any meat. llo
PemberDucky wrote:Tiger's Milk Bar and a Diet Rock Star.
I'm a Gemini; I'm not built to handle this kind of rut.
PemberDucky wrote:I'm a Gemini; I'm not built to handle this kind of rut.
But Diet Rock Star, well,....rocks!
*makes dash for closest store to get one*
Pringles (original flavor)
ham salad on green salad.
Butternut squash ravioli.
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pepperoni pizza
Mediterranean nut mix from Walgreens, while my pasta primavera cooks.
muscles. my first attempt at making them at home with an asian flair to boot...
the secret is the hot peppers and ginger.
woot pistachios.
tuna salad lunch kit and diet dr. pepper
sisterC wrote:muscles. my first attempt at making them at home with an asian flair to boot...
the secret is the hot peppers and ginger.
Muscles? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFJO5LcWGfk
Mussels? http://www.nps.gov/miss/naturescience/musspicinheat.htm
Last night I cut up some eggplant, brushed them with olive oil and balsamic vinegar, sprinkled some garlic powder on them, and popped them in the oven. Good stuff.
Lunch today was a chicken fried rice Lean Cuisine. Hooray, diet. -_-;
I had a pita bread sandwich with ham, cheese, fresh spinach, red onion, dijon mustard, and some mayo. Quite tasty with the two kinds of cheeses.
faughtey wrote:Muscles? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFJO5LcWGfk
Mussels? http://www.nps.gov/miss/naturescience/musspicinheat.htm
Southwest stew and peanut m&m's.
faughtey wrote:Southwest stew and peanut m&m's.
kirkland swiss chocolate 72% cocoa (with "cocoa inclusions")
guava yogurt
joyner wrote:guava yogurt
ice cream sandwich desert I made for co-worker
sauteed baby bella mushrooms w/garlic
Weight Watchers turtle sundae ice cream
A piece of (my) homemade blueberry pie warm from the oven.
Local supermarket had blueberries on sale 5 lbs for $10 today. I froze most of them, but could not resist baking a pie!!
Yay! Taco!
egg salad sammich
Chicken salad sammich.
Nothin'. I'm hungry but there's nothing here to eat!
wheat bagel
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The key to running a successful large-scale Web site with a focus on organic search traffic is scale. It is obvious that a site with millions of products cannot be manually managed on a product-by-product basis. You would need a staff of over 1,000 employees and a cost center far beyond anything feasible.
A fair-sized team for an in-house SEO department should, at minimum, consist of one director, one manager, one analytics expert and a strong tie into your public relations team. A team of this size should be able to efficiently drive forward even a site with massive scale.
The team should also be capable of working with other departments to educate co-workers on the value of SEO. When SEO is a large unknown, many people will resist it at first. Getting buy-in from the various stakeholders can make or break your search plans. Getting your co-workers to understand why things work the way they do will get them to fight for you. They will be your eyes and ears, especially when you have a really small team.
Write the Way Your Customers Search
To accomplish an SEO task of epic proportions, you must first start small, and slice your site into two main areas: page types and categories. An example of different page types would be the difference between a category page and a product page. These pages will usually be constructed differently and should allow you to utilize different SEO practices, including writing logical page titles that target your particular search audience based on their searching behaviors.
I recommend looking at tools like Google Trends, so that you can easily identify simple category naming mistakes. For example, the choice between naming a category "MP3 Players" vs. "Digital Media Players" can mean a difference from 7 clicks a day to thousands of clicks per day.
From a keyword perspective, it is imperative that short, distinct product names are used. Search engines will index the page with the exact keywords you have on the page, of course. Many retailers make the mistake of trying to optimize the page for the full manufacturer's product name. For example, a digital camera reseller might use "Nikon D40 Digital Camera with G-II 18-55mm Lens." Not many searchers will ever type this query into Google.
The best product name for this would be Nikon D40. This process can be automated fairly easily, since the manufacturers name and model are already in your database. The extra descriptors should be put in the product description content area. This simple fix can mean as much as a 30-percent lift in organic traffic.
Look Behind the Scenes
Another extremely common pitfall is sloppy code generation. Take a look at any large site and you will see machine-generated white spaces, poorly closed tables, div tags and my favorite, meaningless comment tags. This usually is creating extra code that has no real value and will make the page load time longer, which is not a good user experience. In general, if you pay attention to the minute details, they will add up to big successes in the long run.
Data center setup is a show-stopper; it's amazing what your operations department is capable of unintentionally messing up. In some cases, I have seen operations block spiders because they were coming into the site too often. Another common operations nightmare is IP-based redirection to single nodes, when they route spider traffic to a slower subset of servers. When that happens, it will indicate a much higher latency to Google, and can possibly damage your rankings. If you think about it, why would Google want to rank a site that is going to provide an extremely slow user experience when a faster one is right around the corner?
Measure Your Results
Once you start getting things underway, it is critically important to track your progress. With extremely large sites, this can be a very difficult task, but it can also start with something as simple as a spreadsheet with a small sample of your keywords. If you are using an outside vendor for Web analytics, you will quickly find that their ability to handle your specific needs will be scarce. Therefore, a custom metrics strategy will become a high priority and you could be pouring an incredible amount of money into this project.
When it comes to analytics, be prepared to scale immediately. You will quickly find that when you combine traffic, ranking samples, and revenue and conversion data together, it becomes almost unmanageable. Thus, a large-scale database is necessary – so don't skimp out!
Go for the best, or you will be frustrated with speed, availability and data loss problems. Consider hiring a business intelligence expert to come in and build this system. The specific level of knowledge required to design and maintain this type of system is massive and should not be taken lightly.
Building an in-house SEO team can be a daunting task, especially for large organizations. With proper planning, the experience becomes more manageable, and success becomes more likely. The important thing to remember when planning such a big project is to start small, and pay attention to the smaller details within the larger project.
Aaron Shear is off this week. Today's column ran earlier on Search Engine Watch.
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Some employees aren't afraid to retaliate against their bosses because they know they can get away with it, new research suggests.
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The study found that employee retaliation against abusive bosses — which includes things like spreading gossip about their boss, playing a mean prank or making an obscene gesture — is most likely to occur in situations in which the supervisor lacks the means to punish an aggressing subordinate.
The researchers said that the outcome of situations in which employees are aggressive toward their supervisors depends on the extent of both the supervisor's coercive power and the subordinate's self-control. The study discovered that the combination of low supervisor coercive power and low employee self-control vastly increases the likelihood of retaliation. [5 Celebrity Personality Types To Avoid Hiring]
"Our findings [demonstrate] that the absence of self-control capacity or resources need not necessarily lead individuals to behave aggressively in response to abusive supervision," the study's authors wrote. "Given the proper incentives (i.e., perceiving potential punishment from supervisors), individuals appear to be quite capable of mobilizing their inner resources to override their natural inclination to directly harm an abusive supervisor."
Huiwen Lian, who did much of the research for the study as a doctoral candidate at the University of Waterloo in Canada, said that at first, retaliating against an abusive boss sounds intrepid even to the point of folly, but upon further analysis, the less courageous and foolish it turns out to be.
"There's a great difference between retaliating against a powerful boss who can do you a lot of harm and a boss who cannot — and cases of the latter are much more common than instances of the former," Lian said.
The study was based on surveys of 384 employees in a wide variety of industries. Questions in the survey centered on the following:
- How frequently employees were subject to one or more forms of supervisor abuse, such as being ridiculed, getting the silent treatment or being lied to;
- The extent of supervisors' coercive power (e.g., making work difficult for employees or assigning them to undesirable jobs);
- The extent of supervisors' reward power, such as the authority to bestow raises;
- How frequently employees resorted to some form of aggression against their supervisors; and
- The participants' capacity for self-control (e.g., whether they found it difficult to plan ahead, how quickly they would give up on a difficult task or their likelihood of yielding to temptation).
The research also revealed that a high degree of self-control not only keeps subordinates' hostility to supervisors from generating outright acts of aggression, but also diminishes the amount of hostility that subordinates actually feel.
"By reappraising the situation in favor of a nonhostile interpretation or deploying attention away from anger-provoking stimuli or thoughts, individuals may mitigate the extent to which they experience negative emotions," the study's authors wrote.
The authors propose that companies screen job applicants for self-control at both the supervisory and subordinate levels, and that they provide training in it for employees at both levels. In addition, organizations should create situations that motivate employees to increase their self-control.
"In particular, our findings suggest that punishment or perceived potential negative consequences can be particularly effective at mitigating aggressive behaviors directed toward supervisors," they wrote in the study.
The research, published in the February issue of the Academy of Management Journal, was co-authored by Douglas Brown, Lindie Liang and Rachel Morrison of the University of Waterloo; D. Lance Ferris of Pennsylvania State University; and Lisa Keeping of Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada.
Originally published on BusinessNewsDaily.


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So Power Line's West Coast Bureau had a meet-up last night, where John and I, duly forming a quorum as well as a majority of the board of active bloggers, made big plans for our fall election coverage, and many other things, over several (as in more than two) bottles of fine local Paso Robles wine. Naturally, we decided Scott will do most of the work. Stay tuned for some big announcements about this over the coming weeks.
Anyway, here's John describing his ordeal on California'a less than perfect coastal roads getting here yesterday, and later tonight I'll post up a second conversation where we reflect on the Obamacare Supreme Court scene.
JOHN adds: Lest anyone get the wrong impression, Steve and I had some help on the wine!


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Perhaps this has been addressed already and I have missed it. Is the population of the Undead World static or are there always more arriving? And if so, where are they coming from and how do they get there?
Also, insects are a big problem for the undead. They eat away at the flesh and lay their eggs for their ravenous young in their soft rotting skin. A thriving business amoung the Animated could be balms and salves created from the moses and lichens of the Dusty Gardens. These help repel insects and preserve the skin. Or if it's too late and you've already become a nesting ground for vermin, you could visit the local groomer, a shop or parlor where a trained Animated with keen eyes (keen for an undead) and using delicate tools such as picks and scapels will attempt to remove the worst of the insectiod infestion.
Why not have potions and unguents of assorted types that kill vermin and remove them from your system?
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Britney Spears' Engagement Ring Revealed
Britney Spears shows off her 3-carat engagement ring alongside fiance Jason Trawick at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on Friday (December 16) in Las Vegas.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Britney Spears
Earlier today, the 30-year-old pop star changed her Facebook relationship status to "engaged."
"Throwing a Bday Party for Jason at Chateau Night Club," Brit tweeted earlier today. "So fun. Xxoo" Can't wait to see the other pics!
Earlier in the evening, Britney was seen arriving in Vegas via private jet.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Britney's engagement ring?