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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – For its second away race of the season the Yale heavyweight crew team will travel to Philadelphia this weekend to race against Columbia and Penn for the Blackwell Cup. For the most part the Bulldogs are 1-1 so far this season, with a loss for Yale's three eights against Brown on Mar. 29 and a win last weekend over Dartmouth.
This past Saturday the Bulldogs defended the Olympic Axe with a four-boat sweep over Dartmouth. The day started with two open water wins for Yale, a six-second win in the third varsity eight, followed by a 10-second win in the second varsity eight. The varsity eight was the closest race of the day, and the Bulldogs fought against an early charge from the Big Green to win by 2.5 seconds. A nine-second win for Yale's four closed out the morning.
Last weekend Columbia and Penn both raced against Princeton for the Childs Cup. In the varsity eight Princeton won a close race over Columbia, beating the Lions by 2.5 seconds. Penn was third, 8.7 seconds behind Columbia. In the second varsity eight the order was somewhat flipped, with Princeton winning again but with Penn in second and Columbia third. The Penn 1F beat Columbia's third varsity, and the Penn four beat Columbia's four.
The order of events for this Saturday is as follows:
7:15am – Coxswains Meeting
8:30am – Third Varsity Eight (Penn 1F, Columbia 3V, Yale 3V, Penn 2F)
8:50am – Second Varsity Eight (Penn, Columbia, Yale)
9:10am – Varsity Eights – Blackwell Cup (Penn, Columbia, Yale)
9:30am – Varsity Fours (Penn, Columbia, Yale)
10:30am – Blackwell Cup Presentation
Friends and family unable to make the trip to Philadelphia will be able to call in and listen to this weekend's racing. The live streaming audio can be accessed over the phone at (213) 493-0217. The same audio feed will be available online at:
The Blackwell Cup, one of rowing's biggest trophies, is awarded in honor of George Engs Blackwell, an 1880 graduate of Columbia. Since Columbia, Penn and Yale started racing for the cup in 1927, Yale has won the most with a total of 40 times, including last year when the Bulldogs raced on the new course in Overpeck Park. In recent years Penn and Yale have traded the trophy back and forth almost exclusively, up until 2008 when Columbia won for the first time in 67 years. The Bulldogs have won the Blackwell Cup since 2010 when the race was last held on the Schuylkill River, and this year the Bulldogs hope to bring it home once again.
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A gateway to the sea
Denmark is dotted with quaint marinas, over 350 in fact, so you are never far from a gateway to a holiday on water. From smaller atmospheric ports to large modern marinas in the bigger cities, there are marinas of all kinds all around the Danish coast. Many offer shower, toilet and electricity facilities.
Prices for the use of marinas vary depending on the marina and size of your boat. Here are some average daily rates:
Boats under 8 metres: 60 to 150kr
Boats under 12 metres: 80 to 150kr
Boats over 12 metres: 120 to 250kr
Freeport Scheme
If you are a member of a club that is connected to the Freeport Scheme, you can use other Freeport Scheme marinas free of charge. There are around 150 Danish Freeport marinas, as well as Swedish, Norwegian and German ports in the scheme. Find out more about the scheme from your sailing club.
Further reading
Search here for facilities at marinas around Denmark.

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the other week i ordered these zouri from Japan and i am just so happy and appreciative of the craftsmanship put into hand making these traditional sandals! heres the website where it's from.
19 January 2012
the other week i ordered these zouri from Japan and i am just so happy and appreciative of the craftsmanship put into hand making these traditional sandals! heres the website where it's from.
22 comments:
- ❖❖мoɴιcα-αι❖❖ said...
I HAVE INSTAGRAM!! look for monrabu!
and please download "naver line" so we can chat! :D
- 2:44 PM, January 19, 2012
I love those sandals! Btw, I didn't know Japanese cellphones could work in the USA. I always thought they couldn't! Could you explain a little cos I'd love to use Japanese phones here :)
- 3:08 PM, January 19, 2012
- Jennifer said...
Those are great looking sandals. It is nice to think that people make good hand crafted items still :)
I've got instagram. coriandersea is the name :)
- 3:27 PM, January 19, 2012
- Sun said...
This is so weird, i'm thinking to get zouri for myself too, and interested to learn how to make it, because i found this website, http://weavethehearts.tumblr.com :-p
- 4:55 PM, January 19, 2012
- Sewon said...
I want house sandals for hot summer days! :] Ah, I love snail mail exchanges. P.S. I just got the new Iphone, too, and I'm on instagram all the time. I'll friend you tonight!
- 6:14 PM, January 19, 2012
- Ceci said...
How lovely! When I turn 18 and get the opportunity to shop online, I'm going to order all kinds of stuff! Handmade items are so amazing! Those sandals look really nice!
Also, I really want to buy myself an iPhone 4 as well. It isn't that pretty, but as you say - it's so convenient!
- 11:18 PM, January 19, 2012
- Bonjour Juliette said...
Haha as said Sewon up there (and we have a snail mail exchange going on right now*) i love this magic thing that wonderful internet brought us: sending and receiving little surprise parcels from and to all over the world... Would you like to get one from Paris? I'd love to swap with you!
- 12:48 AM, January 20, 2012
- Make it Easy said...
i added you! yay, and i am downloading NAVER LINE too right now! do i have to add your screen name or something? tell me how it works and how to chat with you :-)
hi! thanks for your question! my Japanese phones work in America because they are certain "unlocked" phones. not ALL japanese phones can work here, just make sure they are unlocked so you can stick your SIM card in them. the last one i had required a 3G network though... hope this helped :-)
thanks! ooh i will look for you too!! :-)
get some!!! or even better, MAKE them! we can be zouri brothers!! hahaha
Sun, you dont have a iphone do you? i think last time we talked you said you had a blackberry or something? i think you would take beeaautiful photos on instagram!! <3
thanks for adding me!! :-D
yess these sandals will be great for the hot weathers coming up!!
oh how interesting, you can only order things online when you are 18?? is that the law over there?
ooh snail mail!! switch from Paris! that would be so fun!! SURE! get my email in my profile and we can talk about it :-D
- 1:05 PM, January 20, 2012
- KC said...
handcrafted products are more compelling to be appreciated than any other really no matter how mundane they are. you can practically see the love put into them.
- 3:39 PM, January 20, 2012
- Lotte Janssens said...
lovely handmade things
enjoy the weekend
- 5:07 AM, January 21, 2012
- Jay said...
those look really cool, what are they made out of?
my instagram is realitycoma
- 8:23 AM, January 21, 2012
- See Hear Say said...
yay to iphone! it's one of my life changing gadgets hahaha.. looking you up on instagram now, mine username is lauratj :)
- 3:52 PM, January 22, 2012
- Yoli said...
龙年快乐!Loving those sandals Aron! Glad you got an iPhone, I think I am the only hold out in my antiquated phone. My husband says if I keep it up he will be able to sell it to a museum.
- 5:43 PM, January 22, 2012
- thwany said...
you should download Words With Friends so we can play together.
- 6:38 PM, January 22, 2012
Ooh, thanks for answering my question! I will keep your advice in mind when I get my next phone. I really love your blog; it makes me feel happy and light and as if I was back in Tokyo :)
- Zooey
- 7:53 PM, January 22, 2012
- Sandra Lindkvist said...
i really love your photos. You seem to get a special sparkle in them. i must ask you what camera you have, which do you use? lovely blog by the way
- 6:31 AM, January 23, 2012
- Lavender Playground said...
Love the beauty of handmade things.
- 11:00 PM, January 23, 2012
- sight said...
Ooooh I love zouri and geta, perfect Summer shoes.
I live in a neighbourhood famous for it's traditional foot ware, so buying geta has become a bit of an obsession!
I'm on instagram too,under the name sight.
- 4:13 AM, January 24, 2012
i just got an iPhone 4 too!!! *excited* i wish I switched over earlier! its so awesome!
- 4:17 AM, January 25, 2012
- Make it Easy said...
thanks everyone for the comments! and also finding my on instagram too!! heheh
do you have an instagram???
um ya, i cant play words with friends... i tried it for the first time with my 8 year old nephew and he beat me! i was putting words like CAT and things. hahahah
hii! thank you so much !! <3
i use a Casio EXILM EX-ZR100
i got it in Japan :-)
- 12:00 PM, January 25, 2012
- SandraDee said...
Thank you <3 i will take a look on that camera :)
- 9:09 AM, January 29, 2012
- LittlePerson said...
hey I love your line say "(i love how blogs bring people from all around the world together!)
Reading others' blogs just make my life full !
- 3:21 PM, April 01, 2012


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krayzie Bone wrote:Why would PWG book Vampiro if all of us hate him? That will be the ultimate disregard for the regular fans.
Souf Centrol wrote:Like I said in another thread. I might not be going to the january show. If big names are announced(Low Ki) then I'll be there. Also if Willie Mack is on the card. Gotta support my boy
CrOwNMeKiNG23 wrote:Anyone else thinking what I'm thinking? "mega" card? maybe Kenny Omega? hmmmmm :wink:
Ebessan wrote:Eh, you know what? It might be, you never know.
Did they fail at getting both Tajiri and Marufuji? Omega is international enough.
ozmania wrote:jdw wrote:Even in front of his "home" fans on the last card having gotten more of them on his side than the show before, his match with Gaston got the worst heat of the night.
I wouldn't blame Joey for this. Gatson was a sack of shit that night and has been for the past 3 or 4 shows.
The Franchise13 wrote:Odd... a post was deleted earlier on. It was from Highspots and all he put was that he heard a rumor about Claudio vs Vampiro. Was it deleted because he let the cat out of the bag?
krayzie Bone wrote:The moral of this thread; We all hate Vampiro except for Souf Centrol :lol:
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December 2014
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents a full spring season of performing arts events, including jazz and orchestral concerts, and innovative dance and theater productions, from January 31 through May 16. Highlights include the Billie Holiday Centenary Tribute, Joseph Haydn's The Creation, American Symphony Orchestra concerts, Cynthia Hopkins' A Living Documentary, Neil Gaiman in Conversation with Laurie Anderson, and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance.
James Ketterer, Bard's director of international academic initiatives and senior fellow at the Institute for International Liberal Education, has been elected to the board of directors of the Mid-Hudson Valley World Affairs Council. The organization is a nonpartisan forum for citizen participation in world affairs. Its mission is to raise public awareness of international issues and to stimulate interest in a better understanding of world affairs. The Council presents public lectures, panels and debates, and educational and cultural programs. The council also sponsors programs and collaborative efforts to reach high school and college students and faculty. The Mid-Hudson chapter is one of 94 chapters of the National World Affairs Councils of America, the largest international affairs nonprofit organization in the United States, which works to address the need for more global understanding in America.
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce the gift of almost 200 contemporary artworks from New York art collectors Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg. The gift includes mostly works from the past fifteen years, close to the time Martin Eisenberg has been involved with the center as a board member and avid supporter of the graduate program, its students, and exhibitions. The Eisenbergs have supported the annual graduate exhibitions held each spring for the past eight years. In 2010, their collection was exhibited in the Hessel Museum of Art in At Home/Not At Home, curated by Matthew Higgs. Many of the artists shown in the Hessel Museum exhibition are represented in the new gift valued at approximately $2 million.
As part of the Hannah Arendt Center's seventh annual fall conference, "The Unmaking of Americans: Are There Still American Values Worth Fighting For?" the Center asked university students in the United States and abroad to answer the question, "What core American ideals can inspire Americans to sacrifice self-interest and fight for justice?" In a large pool of thoughtful and provocative submissions, two entries stood out: those of Rosa Schwartzburg '16 of Bard College and Alix Tate '16 of Waubonsee Community College (Illinois). Read their winning essays here.
Bard Academy at Simon's Rock, located in Great Barrington, Mass. is the nation's first two year, ninth and tenth grade accelerated high school program for boarding and day students. Upon completing the tenth grade, Academy students begin full-time college study at Bard College at Simon's Rock.
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) is pleased to announce that Christine Tohme and Martha Wilson are the recipients of the 2015 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. The award carries a $25,000 prize to be split between the recipients and will be presented at a gala celebration and dinner on April 15, 2015 at 6:30 pm in New York City.
Bard College presents a special exhibition of photographs and poetry on display from December 8 through January 9, on view in the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library in the atrium and the Sussman Room, 2nd floor. The exhibition features two works, "Winter Music," a collaboration between artist/photographer Susan Quasha and renowned poet Robert Kelly, and "Madonna Comix," a series of 26 prints by Dianne Kornberg based on 11 poems by Celia Bland. There will be an opening reception and poetry reading on Tuesday, December 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Library atrium.
Over the weekend of December 5–7, Bard College hosted the fourth annual Northeast regional C2C Fellows Sustainability Leadership Workshop. Directed by Eban S. Goodstein, director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and the Bard MBA in Sustainability, the three-day workshop offers training to college students and recent graduates aspiring to become sustainability leaders in politics and business. The event drew 35 participants this year with some coming from as far away as Atlanta and Chicago. The weekend included sessions on how to raise money, pitch an idea, and build a professional network.
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On Thursday, December 4, Valeri J. Thomson, Principal of Bard High School Early College Queens, located in Long Island City, New York, joins President Obama, the First Lady, and Vice President Biden at the White House College Opportunity Summit. The Summit brings together individuals from colleges and universities, business leaders and others who are committed to supporting college opportunities for diverse students across the country.
Beginning in September 2015, Bard College and the Bard MAT Program (MAT) will partner to offer a new BA/MAT 3+2 program. The new program is designed to offer Bard undergraduates a path to a master of arts in teaching degree and a New York State grades 7–12 teacher certification in biology, history, literature, or mathematics within five years of entering college. Subject matter mastery, integration into the College's undergraduate programs, and extensive residencies in public schools during year five are key elements of the new program. Bard undergraduates will integrate disciplinary studies into field-work requirements through tutoring and other placements.
The Fisher Center at Bard College presents a special holiday performance of Nut/Cracked—The Bang Group's beloved, witty response to The Nutcracker. Showcasing choreography by David Parker '81 with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nut/Cracked will be performed in the Sosnoff Theater of the Fisher Center on Saturday, December 20 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, December 21 at 2 p.m.
As a sophomore, Carl Amritt has already carved out a distinct place of his own in the Bard community. Carl was involved in student government in middle and high school in his native West Palm Beach, Florida. Now he's brought his passion for politics to his academic work in Political Studies and Environmental and Urban Studies. He's also become a leader in Bard student government, campus sustainability efforts, and the college's voting initiative.
November 2014
Bard College students Simao Chen '18 and Vikramaditya Joshi '18 represented Bard at the 66th Annual Student Conference on U.S. Affairs (SCUSA) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, November 12–15, 2014. SCUSA is the most prestigious undergraduate conference of its type in the world, with about 200 students from more than 100 institutions attending. Participants debate and formulate policy recommendations that model American strategic responses to national and global challenges. This year's theme was "What's the Worst That Could Happen? The Politics and Policy of Crisis Management." Bard's participation in SCUSA is a component of the Bard–West Point Exchange, which provides opportunities for students and faculty from Bard and West Point to exchange ideas in the classroom, through public presentations, debates, and extracurricular activities.
Bard students Tareian King '16 and Angie Del Arca '16 have been awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to support their studies abroad for the spring 2015 semester. Human Rights/Africana Studies major Tareian King, currently studying at the Bard Globalization and International Affairs Program in New York City, received $4,000 toward her studies in Cape Town, South Africa, on the Multiculturalism and Human Rights program with SIT Study Abroad. Film major Angie Del Arca received $2,500 toward her studies at Bard College Berlin.
If the NCAA kept statistics that bridged different sports, Joanna Regan '15 might be in a category all by herself. Heading into the basketball season, this three-sport star had competed in 193 NCAA games, between soccer, basketball, and lacrosse. If she plays every game of the one basketball season and one lacrosse season she has left in her college career, she'll leave Bard with 232 games played.
The Bard College Model United Nations Initiative proudly hosted the Bard Model United Nations Conference (BardMUNC) on Saturday, November 15 in Bard College's Olin Hall. BardMUNC is the brainchild of various Bard affiliated organizations as well as the Red Hook High School Model UN Team. The high school and college students collaborated to run a daylong conference hosting competitive Model UN teams from as far away as eastern Connecticut and New York City. Over 150 students registered for the conference from Red Hook High School, Bard College at Simon's Rock, Arlington High School, Highland High School, Woodstock Academy, Bard High School Early College Manhattan, Bard High School Early College Queens, and Newark Academy.
On Sunday, December 7, acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw and members of the Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program, Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellows, Hudson Valley Brass, and the chorus from the Red Hook Mill Road Elementary School, present a program of festive songs and ensembles to benefit the Scholarship Fund of The Bard College Conservatory of Music. A Winter Songfest will be performed as a family-friendly matinee concert at 3 p.m. in the Sosnoff Theater of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.
The winners of the 2014–2015 Concerto Competition were announced on Sunday, November 16, at the László Z. Bitó '60 Conservatory Building, after two rounds of competitive performances over the course of the weekend. This year's winners are: Tianpei Ai '18 (Sibelius, Violin Concerto), Sophia Burgos M.M. '16 (Dutilleux, Correspondances), Rylan Gajek-Leonard '16 (Shostakovich, Cello Concerto No. 2), Xi Yang '15 (Tchaikovsky, Rococo Variations), and Ye Zi '15 (Bloch, Suite). The winners will perform with either the Bard Conservatory Orchestra or the American Symphony Orchestra during the 2015–2016 season.
Bard is changing the college admission landscape. From the new Bard Entrance Examination to the unique and longstanding Immediate Decision Plan, the college is committed to bringing the next generation of students to Annandale with unconventional and distinctly Bardian strategies.
On Friday, November 14, the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College brought 25 Bard students to the nation's capital for Bard Works D.C. This career development event featured 25 Bard alumni/ae presenting on their work in various fields in the D.C. area, with opportunities for students to ask questions and connect with leaders in their fields. The gathering was followed by an alumni/ae tour of the Pentagon. Malia Du Mont '95 organized the day's events.
The Bard/HESP Network (Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Foundations) and affiliated institutions will gather student leaders for a five-day conference in Istanbul, Turkey from March 13 to 19, 2015, entitled "Student Action and Youth Leadership: Civic Engagement, Social Entrepreneurship, and the Liberal Arts." Students from Bard network institutions are invited to submit proposals by December 10, 2014.
Thirty-two Bard student-athletes qualified this fall for the Liberty League All-Academic Teams. To be recognized, a student-athlete must be a sophomore or higher in class standing with a cumulative grade point average of 3.20. Bard students qualified in men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, and women's volleyball. Liberty League Commissioner Tracy King announced 580 qualifying students across the league, an increase of 95 over last fall.
What might happen if a performing arts center temporarily reimagined itself as an art museum? From November 20 to 23, the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts presents The House Is Open, an inquisitive and playful pop-up installation and performance event that attempts to answer this question, examining the complex interplay between contemporary art and performance. Performance has recently entered, and occasionally transformed, visual arts institutions, but performing arts centers have been comparatively unaffected by the art world's embrace of live performance. This fall, The House Is Open inverts the performer-in-a-museum paradigm by transforming the Frank Gehry-designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts into a temporary art museum.
The Levy Institute will hold its second annual Minsky Conference, entitled "Europe at the Crossroads: A Union of Austerity or Growth Convergence?" in Athens, Greece, November 21–22, 2014. Coorganized by the Levy Institute and Economia Civile, the conference will focus on the continuing debate surrounding the eurozone's systemic instability; proposals for banking union; regulation and supervision of financial institutions; monetary, fiscal, and trade policy in Europe, and the spillover effects for the United States and the global economy; the impact of austerity policies on U.S. and European markets; and the sustainability of government deficits and debt.
The Human Rights Project at Bard College presents a public conversation between Nuruddin Farah and Mark Danner to discuss Farah's new critically acclaimed novel Hiding in Plain Sight. Farah, who just won a Lifetime Achievement Literary Award from the South African Literary Awards, has been hailed as "the most important African novelist to emerge in the past twenty-five years" by The New York Review of Books. This event will take place on Monday, November 17, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm in the Multipurpose Room of the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College.
The Bard College Model United Nations team participated in the Northeast Regional Model Arab League tournament at Northeastern University in Boston, November 7–9. The conference—sponsored by the National Council on U.S.–Arab Relations—simulates the structure, proceedings, and committees of the Arab League, based in Egypt and representing 22 countries across the Middle East and North Africa. Bard students represented Egypt, Libya, and Saudi Arabia on topics including defense, environmental and social issues, and Palestinian affairs. Bard Model UN president Gabriel Matsakis '15 served as head delegate at the conference and played the role of a member of the Egyptian cabinet. He was awarded Outstanding Cabinet Member for his excellent work. Alison Brundrett '16 and Erind Disha '16 won Honorable Mention awards for their work representing Egypt on the Palestinian Affairs committee. "This conference takes students beyond the dramatic headlines that dominate the news about the Middle East and allows them to tackle the details of a wide variety of issues in the region," said faculty adviser James Ketterer. "The students learn about things like water resources, refugees, and education, along with defense and diplomacy—all while having to deeply understand the country they are representing."
Bard College is proud to announce a substantial donation from the LUMA Foundation. The donation, to support Bard's programs across the curriculum, will be recognized with the naming of the LUMA Theater at Bard's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Frank Gehry, in a ceremony at the Center on November 7. The naming of the LUMA Theater will also be celebrated with a special performance of a new music/theater work developed by composer, writer, and performer Amanda Palmer, in collaboration with current and former Bard students, coproduced with Live Arts Bard.
Nearly 50 years after becoming America's first early college, Bard College at Simon's Rock will establish the nation's first ninth and tenth grade program that enables both boarding and day students to receive their associate of arts degree in just four years. Bard Academy at Simon's Rock, located in Great Barrington, Mass., will welcome its first ninth-grade class in the fall of 2015. Upon completing the tenth grade, Academy students begin full-time college study at Bard College at Simon's Rock, earning their A.A. after two years and, in the case of over half the college's students, their bachelor of arts degree after two more.
On Saturday, November 15, celebrated violin virtuoso Elizabeth Pitcairn performs with the legendary 1720 "Red Mendelssohn" Stradivarius, the Christie's auction of which in 1990 is said to have inspired the 1999 Academy Award–winning film The Red Violin. Pianist Cynthia Elise Tobey will accompany Pitcairn. The program includes a world premiere performance of composer Sara Carina Graef's new work, Blue Vishuddha (2014), as well Franz Schubert's Rondo for violin and piano ("Rondeau Brillant"); Gabriel Fauré's Sonata No. 1 for violin and piano; Franz Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3; and Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata No. 9 for violin and piano.
Bard history professor Richard Aldous's acclaimed account of the life of Tony Ryan, founder of Europe's biggest airline, Ryanair, was published in the United Kingdom on November 3. Originally published in August 2013, the book was lauded as "a masterful job ... with a highly readable and compelling style" (the Independent of Ireland) and was a Sunday Times bestseller. Richard Aldous says, "What made Tony Ryan exceptional was that he turned the dreams he shared with his generation into reality. That came about not because he wanted to make a fortune—although he was happy when he did—but because he had the vision to see where the market was imperfect, the courage to stake his claim, and the tenacity to see the job through. In that regard Tony Ryan was the epitome of what it meant to be an entrepreneur."
Read More:
Tony Ryan: The Incredible Story of Ireland's Gatsby
Up, Up, And Away
The Original Tiger Proves Ireland Can Produce Her Own Cubs
October 2014
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bard College Berlin coorganized a major public conference on Germany's most important postwar dramatist, Heiner Müller (1929–1995). The event, held October 3 to 5, brought together political thinkers, critics, scholars, actors, and directors to explore the significance of Heiner Müller for the theater, politics, and literature of our own century. During the conference Bard students from Annandale and Berlin had a chance to meet some of Germany's most prominent thought leaders.
On Monday, November 10, Steven Millhauser, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Martin Dressler, The Knife Thrower, and other works, reads from his most recent short-story collection, We Others: New and Selected Stories, winner of The Story Prize and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Charles Simic, in The New York Review of Books, calls We Others "a book of astonishingly beautiful and moving stories by one of America's finest and most original writers," and David Rollow, in the Boston Sunday Globe, writes, "Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine." Millhauser will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow.
The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College presents two new exhibitions on view from November 6 to December 19. Spectres is an ongoing project of Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen, which revisits one of the most shameful events of European colonial history: the abduction, torture, and execution of Patrice Lumumba, the first elected Prime Minister of independent Congo. Hotel Palenque Is Not in Yucatán is a multilayered exhibition and architectural intervention curated by Montserrat Albores Gleason as the culmination of a three-year curatorial fellowship at CCS Bard supported by the Jumex Foundation. Organized as part of an international curatorial conference to be held at CCS Bard from November 6 to 9, Hotel Palenque Is Not in Yucatán takes its starting point from the narrative in Robert Smithson's famous Hotel Palenque (1969-72), a slide projection taken from a lecture originally delivered by the artist at the University of Utah. Learn more about Spectres and Hotel Palenque Is Not in Yucatán.
Bard MFA sculpture faculty Nancy Shaver is the first-ever recipient of the Art as Media Award presented by the National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) as part of the Exceptional Merit Media Awards (EMMAs). The EMMAs were created by the NWPC in 1986 to honor and reward journalists and media outlets in radio, television, print and the Internet that inform and educate the public about critical issues that impact women's lives. The 2014 EMMAs were presented on the evening of October 27 at The Metropolitan Club of New York City. Previous recipients include Ellen Goodman, Cokie Roberts, Barbara Ehrenreich and Diane Sawyer. Cochairs for this year's awards were Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. Nancy Shaver's work has been shown extensively in the United States and abroad in both solo and group exhibitions. She has also been the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant and fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony.
The Longy School of Music of Bard College has announced the formation of a unique training orchestra that provides a Master of Music degree, newly approved by the State of New York and is designed to prepare them for the mounting challenges facing today's orchestra players. The training orchestra, recruited from the finest postgraduate musicians, will offer advanced orchestral and leadership training and grant a Master of Music degree in Curatorial, Critical and Performance Studies. All applicants accepted into the three-year degree program will receive a fellowship, which includes the full expense of tuition as well as an annual stipend.
Visit the training orchestra website
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Read more in the New York Times and the Boston Globe
Jennifer Cordi, associate professor of biology at Bard High School Early College Manhattan, has been selected to receive a 2014 Sloan Award for Excellence in Teaching Science and Mathematics from the Fund for the City of New York. Professor Cordi joins six other extraordinary New York City public high school science and mathematics teachers in receiving this prestigious award. The prize carries a $5,000 award for Professor Cordi and a $2,500 award for the BHSEC Biology Program, to be presented in a ceremony at the Great Hall at New York City's Cooper Union on Wednesday, December 3. Professor Cordi teaches evolutionary biology, botany, and general biology. Her research focuses on Middle Devonian fossil plants and the evolutionary patterns of vascular plant groups. She is a fellow of the New York Academy for Teachers.
On Tuesday, November 18, the Bard Math Circle will host the middle-school-level American Mathematics Competition (AMC 8) exam. In its third year at Bard, this 25-question, 40-minute exam contains engaging math problems that are challenging at the middle-school level, and is intended to inspire, promote enthusiasm, and foster a healthy attitude toward mathematics. Students will be exposed to the richness of middle-school-level mathematics at a deeper level than is ordinarily encountered in the schools.
The Environmental Consortium of Colleges & Universities has awarded its Great Work Award in honor of Thomas Berry this year to Erik Kiviat '76, executive director and cofounder of Hudsonia, a not-for-profit institute for research, education, and technical assistance in the environmental sciences based at the Bard College Field Station on the Hudson River. A certified wetland scientist, Kiviat has more than 45 years' experience with natural history and environmental issues—especially those related to rare native species as well as invasive nonnative species—in the Northeast, and across North America, Europe, and Africa.
Author Laura van den Berg has been selected to receive the annual Bard Fiction Prize for 2015. The prize, established in 2001 by Bard College to encourage and support promising young fiction writers, consists of a $30,000 cash award and appointment as writer in residence for one semester. Van den Berg is receiving the prize for her book The Isle of Youth (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013). In this collection of stories, van den Berg explores the lives of women mired in secrecy and deception. The characters in these stories are at once vulnerable and dangerous, bighearted and ruthless—grappling with the choices they have made and searching for the clues to unlock their inner worlds. Van den Berg's residency at Bard College will be for the spring 2015 semester, during which time she will continue her writing, meet informally with students, and give a public reading.
The Bard College Model United Nations team participated in the annual Security Council Simulation at Yale University October 16–19. Students served on a wide variety of committees ranging from real world issues (the Syrian crisis and Mandela's South Africa) to those drawing on more creative sources (Downton Abbey and Pirates of the Caribbean). Other participating schools included the U.S. Military Academy, Princeton, Columbia, McGill, SUNY Geneseo, Emory, Mount Holyoke, and NYU. Sophomore Jeremy Kaplitt served as Head Delegate and also won Outstanding Delegate for his work as the National Security Adviser on Hillary Clinton's Cabinet. Other members of the team were: Julia Lang Gordon '17, Simao Chen '18, Sophia Foster (BRIDGE student), Aya Qumber (PIE student), Andrew Djang '16 and Vikramaditya Joshi '18. "These simulations provide an excellent opportunity for students to learn about the complexities of international politics and diplomacy," said James Ketterer, who co-teaches Bard's United Nations course. "While it is important to read and analyze the literature, diplomacy makes sense in a different way when you have to negotiate and make compromises with others sitting across the table from you." The Bard team competes again next month at a Model Arab League simulation at Northeastern University.
On September 24, Pavlina Tcherneva published an article in the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics that rocked the financial news. Examining widely used U.S. income data by economists Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, Professor Tcherneva found a startling trend: over the last 60 years, the financial benefits of economic recoveries in the United States have increasingly gone to the wealthiest Americans. Tcherneva, Bard College assistant professor of economics and Levy Economics Institute research associate, illustrated her findings in a striking chart that went viral on social media. Coverage of her research appeared in the New York Times, NPR, Moyers & Company, and Slate, among other publications.
Bard College Center for Civic Engagement and the Political Studies Program will present a panel, "Europe Wonders, What Will America Fight For?" The panel will address the increasing and overlapping challenges facing U.S.-European relations, including the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, tensions with Russia, the military drawdown in Afghanistan, and the future of NATO and security challenges across the Middle East and North Africa. Featured panelists include Simona Soare from Romania, Joe Burton from New Zealand, and Scott Silverstone from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The event will be on Monday, November 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the Weis Cinema at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College.
Max Kenner, Bard alumnus and executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), has won the 2014 Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award in Education. The awards recognize 10 of the year's most amazing achievements and the innovators behind them. On October 16, Smithsonian magazine, the flagship publication of Smithsonian Media, announced winners of the third annual American Ingenuity Awards, saluting 10 groundbreaking individuals across nine categories including technology, performing and visual arts, natural and physical sciences, education, historical scholarship, social progress, and youth achievement. Max Kenner conceived of and created the BPI as a student volunteer organization when he was an undergraduate at Bard College in 1999. Over the last decade, Kenner has led the expansion of BPI from a pilot program with 15 students to a nationally recognized education initiative enrolling nearly 300 students across six campuses in correctional facilities throughout New York State.
On Monday, November 3, Julia Elliott, winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and a Pushcart Prize, will read from her debut short-story collection, The Wilds, which Publishers Weekly describes as "a brilliant combination of emotion and grime, wit and horror… Elliott's gift of vernacular is remarkable, and her dark, modern spin on Southern Gothic creates tales that surprise, shock, and sharply depict vice and virtue." Elliott will be introduced by novelist and Bard literature professor Bradford Morrow.
Bard has received a two-year grant from the Department of Education totaling $174,623 to support a new Global Partnership Project: Connecting International, Regional, and Language Studies. The College is one of 31 U.S. institutions of higher education to receive funding through the Department of Education's Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Education program, which provides grants to plan, develop, and implement programs to strengthen and improve undergraduate instruction in international studies and foreign languages in the United States.
The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College presents the opening concert for the 2014–15 season of the American Symphony Orchestra concert series on October 24 and 25 at 8 p.m. The program includes Fryderyk Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11, with Maryna Kysla '15, piano; and Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major ("Great"). The concert will be conducted by Leon Botstein, music director. A special preconcert talk by Christopher H. Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music, Bard College, begins at 7 p.m.
Bard alumna and La Voz editor Mariel Fiori '05 has been named an Entrepreneurial Woman of the Year by Gateway to Entrepreneurial Tomorrows, Inc. (GET). GET promotes economic development in the Hudson Valley by supporting women, minorities, youth, and veterans in starting their own businesses. Every year the organization recognizes outstanding regional businesspeople with the Hudson Valley Entrepreneurial Awards. Mariel Fiori, who cofounded the Spanish-language magazine La Voz as a Bard student and has edited the publication for a decade, will be recognized for her contributions as a community leader. Fiori and five other awardees will be honored at GET's 10th anniversary celebration on Thursday, October 23, as part of the Hudson Valley Entrepreneurial Conference and Expo in Wappinger Falls.
The Classical Studies Program at Bard College presents Bracko: A reading of Sappho's poetry on October 18 by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Nick Flynn, and Sam Anderson. Bracko presents the lyric poetry of Sappho, the ancient Greek poet known to many English-speaking readers through Anne Carson's translation If Not, Winter. In addition to welcoming Sappho's most distinguished translator to Bard, the event celebrates an extraordinary moment in the history of Sappho's poetry. Sappho made headlines in the international press this year because of the rare discovery of two previously unknown poems.
Neuroscientist Stephanie Kadison, a biology professor at Bard High School Early College Queens, received a STEM Hero Award from the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) during the United Nations 69th Annual General Assembly on September 22. Professor Kadison was recognized as an exceptional educator who inspires young people to enter the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. She was a member of the first cohort of the NYAS's Afterschool STEM Mentoring Fellowship Program, in which she taught genetics to underserved middle school students, an experience that inspired her to become a teacher. The inaugural STEM Hero Awards were given to 10 individuals. Other honorees included Datin Seri Hajah Rosmah binti Mansor, the first lady of Malaysia; Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda; and Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the African Union. The NYAS award ceremony accompanied the launch of their Global STEM Alliance, a public-private partnership that brings together governments, companies, schools and NGOs to increase access to STEM education around the world.
This major international symposium, entitled The Future Curatorial What Not and Study What? Conundrum, will take place at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, November 6–9, 2014. Given the extraordinary expansion of curatorial research and its surrounding debates, the focus of this international conference, organized collaboratively by four of the world's most prominent curatorial programs, asks not "what is next" but rather the more urgent and durable question of "what futures?"
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2.5.10: Making Scheduled C-Sections Look A Little Too Easy?
The Today Show ran a segment Tuesday morning about a scheduled c-section, live from the operating room. First time parents allowed a film crew and Dr. Nancy Snyderman, chief medical editor for the show, to tag along while their baby was born. As I watched, I was filled with mixed emotions. No matter how many times I've seen it, I'm still thrilled when a new baby arrives. I love that moment when someone calls out, "It's a boy! Or it's a girl!" I love when Dad tears up, relieved that his wife and child are safe. I love hearing the baby's name announced and finding out how much he/she weighs. Birth is fabulous and I love it every time.
I expect that's what the Today Show was aiming for. This c-section was part of a series called, Today Goes Inside the OR. They wanted to show what a well-produced, c-section looks like; how normal it is, how it still contains all the elements of a beautiful birth and how easy it is on mom, dad, baby and delivery staff. How neat, clean and painless it is. The baby didn't even have any blood on him. He was an absolutely gorgeous baby boy.
And yet, the other set of emotions I felt was all about frustration. I'm frustrated at how normalized c-sections have become. Seriously guys, where's the segment about how scheduled c-sections on first time mothers are a big part of the ever-increasing c-section rate—a contributing factor in why the US ranks 30th in the world for infant mortality 30th! We suck. Yet, most women are still unaware of the risks. They're still unaware that the reason why their doctor is recommending one has as much to do with malpractice insurance as it does patient safety.
Dr. Snyderman said this mother was scheduled for c-section because she was having a "big baby." She didn't mention any other factors in Mom's medical history that played into the decision to deliver surgically. It's extremely common that "big baby" is all the indication doctors need to go to the OR without giving labor and vaginal birth a try. It's assumed a vaginal birth will fail so why bother. Just go to the OR. It's easier on everybody.
I've seen it happen countless times that the presumed "big baby" turned out to be average weight; even small. Then it's "Oops, well, it's probably for the best, right?" Except for those mothers and babies who suffer complications and those mothers (most) who will have to have repeat c-sections for any future babies.
The common ways to estimate a baby's size before birth are by ultrasound and abdominal measurement. Ultrasounds are frequently wrong by a pound or two. Abdominal measurement can also be inaccurate depending on how much fluff Mom has on her tummy.
The Today Show's healthy baby boy weighed in at ten pounds on the dot. What bothers me is the assumption that women can't have big babies vaginally anymore. I've seen countless ten-pounders delivered vaginally by first time mothers. Sure, it's tough (labor always is) but it's possible and even normal.
Dr. Snyderman asked the surgeon how many babies are born by c-section these days. The surgeon answered "somewhere between 25 and 30%." Seriously, doctor? Where are you getting your statistics? That's a very low-ball estimate. The Centers for Disease Control announced the preliminary 2007 stats for c-section rates way back in March and once again, it's higher than ever at 31.8%. Massachusetts, (where this morning's delivery took place at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston) has a c-section rate of 33.5%. I called the medical center to ask what their current c-section rate was and was told no one was available to give me that statistic.
Dr. Snyderman also asked the surgeon if Mom would be able to deliver future children vaginally, since the uterine incision was made horizontally instead of vertically. The surgeon said, "Absolutely," as if getting a Vaginal Birth After Cesarean is a piece of cake these days. It's not. The majority of doctors and hospitals won't do them.
While I think the Today Show did a lovely job showing that birth is a joyous event no matter how the baby is delivered, I really hope they round this out by providing another segment on why America needs to take a serious look at scheduled cesarean sections. Or how about a segment called "Inside the NICU" about scheduled c-section babies accidentally born prematurely or about the increased risks of complications all c-section babies face. And maybe a segment on normal vaginal birth.
C-sections are beautiful births too. The one we saw on TV was almost too easy though, almost slick. I worry about the millions of women out there who will be deciding what to do when their doctor says, "Let's schedule your c-section because I think this is going to be a big baby." Sometimes, mothers die during routine c-sections. It happened at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center during a routine c-section a couple years ago.
Jeanne Faulkner, R.N., lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and five children. Got a question for Jeanne? E-mail it to email@example.com and it may be answered in a future blog post.
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Two Chevron protesters arrested at oil spill hearing
WASHINGTON — Two protesters were taken into custody Tuesday by Capitol Police during a hearing of a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee at which the chairmen of five major U.S. oil companies testified.
The detentions came just moments after the hearing was adjourned, when a woman tried to approach the chairman of Chevron, John Watson, and hand him a bottle of dark liquid. Police stopped the protester.
The five oil executives, including Lamar McKay of BP America, were quickly escorted out by police.
The two detained women were identified as Ginger Cassidy and Kaitlin Finneran. They were described as part of the "Change Chevron" campaign run by Rainforest Action Network, according to another member of the group, Brianna Cayo Cotter.
Cotter said that the dark liquid in the bottle was contaminated water from Ecuador, where Change Chevron claims the oil company dumped 18.5 billion gallons of toxic waste sludge from 1964 to 1990. Chevron is disputing the charges in an Ecuadoran court.
Chevron spokesman Kent Robertson denied that Chevron was responsible.
"The people of Ecuador's Amazon face real challenges due to their government's failures," he said in an email. "Regrettably, there are those who seek to profit from the situation. Exploiting the Gulf spill is an unfortunate commentary on just how far some people will go in trying to legitimize an illegitimate lawsuit."
About 40 people who attended the hearing wore black T-shirts that read "Energy Shouldn't Cost Lives" and "Big Oil Lies. People Die."
Cotter videotaped Cassidy yelling out of the police car, explaining that she was arrested for trying to talk to Watson.
Capitol Police did not respond to requests for comment, and it was unknown if the women would face criminal charges.
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Finding Pat Galbraith's home in Belgravia is easy. The artist's fascination with stone is visible halfway down the older, residential street. That's because one of her earliest works - a boulder-sized, concrete sculpture she based on the letter "A" and calls Alpha - rests in the front yard.
Pat and her husband Bernie started planning their dream home after recurrent flooding and cracking of the foundation of their 1950s semi-bungalow could no longer be ignored.
Sadly, the day they signed on with a contractor to replace the home, Bernie received news of a dire cancer prognosis.
"I just thought, why would we not continue? This was something we were both looking forward to," says Pat, adding that it gave them both something positive to focus on.
The couple proceeded with plans to rent the house across the street, and settled in to watch their vision come to life.
They wanted to create a bright, accessible, low-maintenance, energy-efficient home that they could live in "forever."
"Bernie lived to see the framing of the house," Pat says.
His dream home included a central airy core, to take advantage of north and south light, and to provide a place for "the dog to run circles around," adds Pat with a laugh.
The accomplished sculptor is often invited to judge international competitions, and her passion for design and shape is evident throughout the home. For instance, at the large front entryway, a striking horizontal line of assorted brushed stainless steel planks screens the central staircase and reflects light.
The main-floor kitchen is dominated by a 15-foot curved island also clad in brushed stainless steel. Its inspiration was a circular bar carved out of ice that caught Pat's eye at a sculpting competition in Ottawa.
"To accommodate a couple of people and a potential wheelchair, I just took an arch of it and stretched it," Pat says. A nook at one end provides seating for two on shiny white leather-and-chrome, high-backed stools.
The room is tiled in rectangular, warm mid-grey porcelain that has already proven itself as "amazingly dense" and forgiving when one of her small, but heavy bronze sculptures took a tumble.
The countertops are granite, accented by pomegranate-coloured flecks of industrial garnet embedded in the soft grey-and-brown surface.
The couple designed the home with the help of architect Anneliese Fris, who was "very receptive" to their input. They also consulted friends and other new-home owners.
Pat says everyone they asked loved having a walk-in pantry but universally wished the space was bigger. So the rear room is large enough to include a tall, wooden workbench Pat found at Home Depot.
This pantry/workspace is also "perfect" for large appliances, and muted-glass cupboards from Ikea open to reveal clear glass shelves, so everything stored up high is visible from below.
Floor-to-ceiling windows and glass french doors throughout the main floor provide natural light year-round. Deep window ledges are display areas for Pat's prolific and diverse work along with favourite collections, including sculptures by Charles Hilton.
Afternoon light filtering into her large office casts wonderful shadows from her early pieces and creations, including a bestselling teapot based on a part of the male anatomy.
An elevator installed discretely behind the main staircase ensures that the home is fully accessible.
Closet-like doors reveal the small, wood-panelled lift, which Pat uses regularly to shuttle laundry to and from the basement.
In the second-floor master bedroom, a polished sled-style, cherrywood bed - that between moving and storage took Pat seven years to finish - beckons.
"I was going to carve angels from the Hansel and Gretel opera at my head and feet, but I never got around to doing that. If I get around to carving it, that's fine, and if I don't, that's fine too."
Pat tiled the ensuite bathroom herself.
A bench in the large, glass, walk-in shower was on Bernie's "must-have" list. She loves relaxing in the shiny white, claw-foot tub with dainty silver-capped feet.
The vibrant 70-year-old says this floor is where she spends the most time, because it is home to her large studio. Her previous studio was in the garage, where "there was no room left for a breath, let alone an idea."
The space is every artist's dream - north facing for ideal light - and adjacent to the backyard balcony, where Pat has spent a "very productive" winter experimenting with her passion for watercolour painting in -25C weather.
Pat loves the home even more than she imagined, and it does remind her of Bernie, but "it's not a sad feeling at all, it's really a loving sense.
"Everyone who comes in seems to feel a calmness and balance throughout the house, which I feel when I come in, too."
Much like a favourite piece of art ...
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Leaves are Falling and Tips for Yard Work and In Home Elderly Care.
The temperatures are officially dropping. The need for a coat in the evenings and early mornings is becoming unavoidable. The days are getting shorter and chilly nights are growing longer. With winter fast approaching it is time to prepare our homes and yards for the colder air.
You may have an elderly loved one who is finding it more difficult to keep up with daily household chores, let alone find the energy to winterize their home and yard. There are just a few simple tasks that can be performed to ready your elderly loved one's yard for the winter months ahead. First off, clean out and weed all of their garden areas. Turn soil and aerate the ground to save yourself and your senior loved one back breaking work planting in the spring. Remember to fertilize the areas to further prepare the ground for spring seeding.
Trim away any loose branches and any limbs off trees to help shape them and cut them back. Fall is the time of year when you can safely transplant any trees and shrubs that have outgrown their areas and dig up any other tender plants that simply need to be moved inside to avoid freezing. Tie limbs of upright evergreens and plants to prevent them from breaking in high winds and heavy snow. If you have any bulbs that can be divided, spread them to fill other areas in the yard. This will help to control their size and location.
Once your garden beds have been tilled and fertilized and the shrubs have been relocated to a better growing area, cover the ground with fallen leaves or straw. An extra layer of mulch around the roots of your trees will help to protect them from freezing.
Remember to remove the garden hose and turn off any outside water to prevent freezing the pipes. Store lawn furniture and potentially breakable lawn ornaments in the garage or shed. If your loved one lives in an area prone to major snowfall, make sure their snowblower is operational and there is plenty of fuel ready. You may even want to look into a commercial snow removal service to further lift the burden of winter off your loved one's shoulders.
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A North Carolina lawmaker thinks the names of concealed handgun permit and gun purchase permit holders should be a state secret.
A North Carolina lawmaker thinks the names of concealed handgun permit and gun purchase permit holders should be a state secret.
State Sen. E.S. �Buck� Newton, R-Wilson, is sponsoring a bill to exclude gun permits from the North Carolina Public Records Act. Senate Bill 28 appears to be little more than a kneejerk reaction to the controversy over a New York newspaper�s decision to publish gun permit-holders� names and addresses.
�I don�t see how this is in any way, shape or form information that the public should have,� Newton said.
A national debate on gun-owner privacy erupted in December after the Journal News in Westchester, N.Y., posted an interactive online map of concealed handgun permit holders that displayed gun owners� names and addresses. Gun-rights advocates fired back, proposing new laws that they said would safeguard permit-holders� privacy.
The North Carolina bill�s backers say handgun permits should not be public because published lists could help thieves target the gun owners. It�s a specious argument made on purely theoretical grounds, as neither lawmakers nor the North Carolina Sheriffs� Association could provide a single example of gun permit information contributing to a crime.
Some gun owners may fear that having their names and addresses publicly available coupled with information on the handgun permits they�ve obtained could make them vulnerable. But that fear isn�t rooted in any real danger.
Few North Carolina newspapers and television stations would see fit to publish lists of every local handgun owner. We don�t think gun thieves are likely to call their local sheriff�s office and request these public records themselves. We also think few criminals would target residents who they know have guns for home defense.
There�s no evidence to suggest that records of residents� personal property lead to that property being compromised. If there were, lawmakers would have long ago tried to seal the public deed transfers and land purchases that tell you who bought which home and for how much.
A groundless fear of hypothetical crime is a poor justification for drafting a law. We think legislators are exploiting gun owners� anxiety for political gain. There may be other reasons they want to make gun permits private, but inciting panic about throngs of thieves combing public records in search of their next victim only serves to weaken their argument.
Handgun permits aren�t open for public inspection so that gun owners will be subject to undue scrutiny. These records are open so the public and press can hold accountable the county sheriffs who issue them.
With a little patience and a lot of research, any resident of Lenoir County, as with those in all North Carolina counties, can check to see that those receiving concealed handgun permits meet the legal requirements and have not been convicted of violent crimes.
While The Free Press won�t be publishing a list of all gun permit-holders, we might rely on those public permits to see whether a criminal suspect has been licensed to carry concealed. That option will disappear if lawmakers pass SB 28. Are lawmakers seeking to eliminate the press� watchdog role over government officials? It�s a frightening concept and one all too easily achieved.
Levelheaded lawmakers should vote against SB 28 and prevent their colleagues from keeping still more government records under lock and key.


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|28 June, 1938
I usually write you immediately I come home. And here, I came home a week ago for the days of my vacation. I'll stay here until mid August. Maybe I'll also travel to the sea for a few weeks. Were it not for the great boredom, it's possible to rest here very nicely.
In general, the town became more beautiful in the past year, it's immersed in greenery and white acacia trees were planted in it. It's a pity that the summer isn't blessed with sun, as usual, right now it's cloudy and a bit chilly. By the way, I just came back from Keidan. I visited Tzila Hamburg, she sends you her regards. She's planning to come to America for the 1939 exhibition.
Yes, Miriam Elkind, my co-worker at the school in Rasiani, is leaving Kovna for New-York on March 8th. She agreed to visit you and give you my regards. Too bad that you're leaving New York for a while, so I don't know how the meeting will take place.
I gave her your parent's address and she'll write you there when she'll get to New-York. Maybe you could visit her if she'll not be able to visit you. She'll return to Lita from there in August.
Receive her graciously. She's a good young woman. She'll tell you the smallest details of my life. You can also talk to her and tell her about yourself. She's a refined person and she'll tell you everything.
So, be safe and sound and enjoy the summer.
My dear children Freida and Avraham!
Surely you traveled somewhere for a holiday, we wish you a good time and that you relax from the heavy burden that you carried all year long.
Moshe already wrote you that his friend is coming to New-York for a month.
We'd be pleased if you could meet her, but we don't want it to interfere with your holiday.
We wanted to send you something. Unfortunately the young woman wrote us too late, so we didn't have the time to ask her what she can take with her. So, be healthy my children.
Your father
My beloved daughter Freida and Avraham!
I'm very happy that you made acquaintance with the family of my late brother Yitzchak [Isaac]. The joy would have been greater if my brother could have seen it. What is aunt Ester [Ester Bregston Fishel Levenberg, widow of Isaac Levenberg, Nehama's brother - Danny] telling about my sister Elke? Where is she? How long is she going to stay with her daughter? Will she always be with them? I hope that she'll enjoy her stay with them.
We have no news. Thank God, we hold on despite our poor health. How do you feel, are you still thin. You should recover and be healthy together with your beloved husband.
We already have some vegetables and strawberries from our garden. It's raining here this summer.
My beloved children write us often, this is our only pleasure. We just want to hear good news from you. Be healthy and strong.
Wishes you, your loyal mother.
Warm regards to your parents and your beloved family members.
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Pioneer® Surgical Announces New International Sales V.P.
MARQUETTE, Mich., March 3, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ — Tom McLeer, GM of Spine and Chief Marketing Officer for Pioneer Surgical, with corporate headquarters located in Marquette, MI, announces the appointment of Jim St. John to the position of Vice President International Sales.
Jim has 25 years of experience in the spine industry; he lived in Europe for over 12 years and speaks 5 languages. Jim last worked for Benvenue Medical where he had the role of Vice President Worldwide Sales & Marketing. Before that he worked for Zimmer Spine and Abbott Spine, with his last position located in Europe where he was the GM of Zimmer Spine SA (Bordeaux, France) and VP of Zimmer Spine EMEA. While with Zimmer Spine, he had sales, marketing and general management responsibilities and was instrumental in developing their international strategy and distribution channels. Twice during his time with Zimmer Spine he led the integration of multiple distribution channels as a result of mergers.
Tom McLeer states, "Jim will be responsible for establishing our strategy and managing our entire international sales operation. He will provide additional focus in our established territories of Europe and China as well as working to expand into new markets in the world. We are excited to add such strong international talent to our team."
About Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.
Pioneer® Surgical Technology, Inc. is a dynamic medical device firm founded in 1992. Pioneer's focus on innovation has resulted in over 120 U.S. and foreign patents, with numerous patents pending. The company has a comprehensive portfolio of orthopedic, spine and biologic systems. Pioneer entered the orthobiologics market with two acquisitions in 2007. Our Orthopedic, Spine, and Biologics divisions produce state of the art, cost-effective solutions for surgical procedures that have proven difficult or problematic for both surgeons and patients. Pioneer employs more than 250 people worldwide. For more information on Pioneer and its products, visit www.pioneersurgical.com.
SOURCE Pioneer Surgical Technology, Inc.
Read more: http://www.centredaily.com/2011/03/03/2558224_pioneer-surgical-announces-new.html#ixzz1FvaJrCax


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Mission/Goal Statement of the Guild
The goal of the Eastern Kingdom Herbalists' and Apothecaries' Guild is to encourage study, teaching and practice of medieval herb uses, as well as study of medieval apothecary and pharmacy practice, in the East Kingdom. The Guild should serve as a conduit for herbalists and apothecaries in the kingdom to communicate with and learn from each other, and to disseminate knowledge about medieval herbalism and pharmacy to others.
Tisane, the Guild Newsletter
ti-sane - ti-'zan, - 'zan, n. Etymology: Middle English,from MiddleFrench, from Latin prisana, from Greek ptisanE, literally, crushed barley, from ptissein to crush - date: 14th century: an infusion (as of dried herbs) used as a beverage or for medicinal effects.
To learn more go to Tisane
EK Herbalists' and Apothecaries' Guild Mailing List
Mailing list for members of the Guild. Discussion of period herbal topics and guild business. Open to anyone who wishes to participate in the Guild or who is interested in the Guild's activities. To subscribe, send an e-mail to <email@example.com> or click on the link below, and follow the instructions in the confirmation e-mail you receive.
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Inside Joslin
Joslin and SETMA Announce Affiliation
Monday, November 01, 2010
Joslin has announced an affiliation with Southeast Texas Medical Associates (SETMA), LLP, in Beaumont, Texas. The Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at SETMA will offer some of the latest advances for treating diabetes and its complications as well as patient education and support services.Read More
Teaching Teens to Cope with Diabetes
Friday, October 29, 2010
"We need more complex and creative approaches in diabetes education for teenagers, and we're all still trying to figure out the best way to do this," said Margaret Grey, Dean of the Yale School of Nursing, speaking at Joslin this week. Presenting the fourth annual Joslin Harriet Mackay Forum, Grey highlighted her research in educating youth with type 1 diabetes—particularly in boosting their life skills in coping with the condition that requires around-the-clock management.Read More
Q&A | Ashley Atkins of the Joslin Pediatric Clinic
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Ashley Atkins, R.N., M.S.N., C.P.N.P., joined Joslin as a pediatric nurse practitioner a year ago. Here she answers five questions about her professional background and what day-to-day life is like in the Joslin pediatric clinic.Read More
Latino Diabetes Initiative Broadens Its Community
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Odds are even that a Latino child born in this country will develop diabetes during his or her lifetime. More than a tenth of all Latinos in the U.S. have diabetes today, and the rate rises to a quarter for those aged 50 or older. This is the huge challenge facing Joslin's Latino Diabetes Initiative (LDI), a comprehensive effort to improve the lives of Latinos with diabetes and their families—combining clinical care, patient education, community outreach, research and healthcare team education.Read More
Q&A | Thomas Serwold on Type 1 Diabetes and Autoimmunity
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
In type 1 diabetes, immune cells called T cells destroy insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells. Scientists have known about this autoimmune attack for decades, but they are still grappling with its wildly complicated details.
Thomas Serwold, Ph.D., who joined Joslin's Immunobiology research section last year, answers questions about his lab's work and the overall progress in understanding autoimmunity.Read More
Joslin Clinic Recommendation on Avandia
Monday, September 27, 2010
The following is a recommendation from the Joslin Clinic on the recent decision by the Federal Food and Drug Administration regarding Avandia.Read More
Lloyd Paul Aiello Becomes Professor of Ophthalmology
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Lloyd Paul Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., head of the Beetham Eye Institute at the Joslin Diabetes Center, has been promoted to the rank of Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.Read More
Q&A | Howard Wolpert on CGM Research and the Artificial Pancreas
Monday, September 20, 2010
A senior physician in the Joslin adult clinic and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Howard Wolpert, M.D., analyzes the best ways to adopt technology for type 1 diabetes management. Here, Dr. Wolpert answers six questions about his lab's Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) studies and the quest for an artificial pancreas.Read More
Waging War on Weight and Diabetes
Friday, September 17, 2010
Roughly a million people in the United States develop diabetes each year. The overwhelming majority of these cases have type 2 diabetes, and the main culprit driving the growth of the disease is excess body weight.Read More
Q&A | Howard Wolpert, M.D., on CGM in the Diabetes Clinic
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
A senior physician in the Joslin adult clinic and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, Howard Wolpert, M.D., examines the best ways to adopt technology for type 1 diabetes management.Read More
Q&A | Angelina Bernier, M.D., of the Joslin Pediatric Clinic
Monday, September 13, 2010
Endocrinologist Angelina Bernier, M.D., works in the Joslin pediatric clinic. Here she answers five questions about her background, her patients with type 2 diabetes and her clinical research.Read More
Asian American Diabetes Initiative Builds Clearinghouse for Information
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
The Asian American Diabetes Initiative (AADI) at Joslin Diabetes Center has unveiled exciting additions to its web site, http://aadi.joslin.org, offering innovative, interactive and culturally relevant tools for Asian Americans who live with diabetes and their healthcare providers.Read More
Joslin Researchers Hope to Teach Old Drug New Tricks
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
An anti-inflammatory drug called salsalate, commonly given for arthritis pain, is being tested in Boston to determine whether it can also help prevent cardiac disease.Read More
Team Type 1's Southerland to Talk at Joslin
Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Phil Southerland, founder of the famed Team Type 1 of competitive cyclists, will give a public talk at Joslin on the evening of September 15, launching the annual Joslin Diabetes Roundtable.Read More
Joslin Study Looks for Links between Insulin Resistance and Alzheimer's
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Joslin's Gail Musen, Ph.D., is studying whether sophisticated brain imaging tools can detect early warning signs of Alzheimer's disease among people with insulin resistance.Read More
Pre-Teens Enjoy Joslin Fenway Outing
Thursday, August 19, 2010
The Red Sox still may be in third place this season, but you could never discern that from the smiles at Fenway Park last week. More than 25 young Joslin patients between the ages of eight and twelve and their families, accompanied by staff and doctors, toured the home of New England's favorite team on a beautiful sunny summer day.Read More
Study Wins Beatson Challenge in Type 1 Diabetes Research
Friday, August 13, 2010
Two years ago, philanthropist Thomas J. Beatson, Jr. asked four Joslin Diabetes Center scientists to present him with compelling proposals for research on type 1 diabetes. Inspired by all four, in January 2009 he decided to help fund each, splitting a $1-million gift evenly between the four labs.Read More
History of Insulin Exhibition to Feature Joslin Artifacts
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Early days at the Joslin Clinic will be showcased in a "history of insulin" exhibition at the New York Historical Society (NYHS) in New York City, beginning October 5th.Read More
Q&A | Joslin Publications for People with Diabetes
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
"Joslin Publications has, in my view, two responsibilities," says Susan Sjostrom, Joslin's Director of Healthcare Services and Publications. "The first is to attempt to meet the perceived needs of the diabetes community by proactively developing and publishing publications, web content and other materials that meet those needs. For these publications, I rely on the dedication and commitment of my colleagues who generously provide the vision and clinical content, even though this is never their 'real' job."Read More
Q&A | Jacqueline Shahar on Diabetes and Exercise
Thursday, July 29, 2010
"Diabetes is a complex disease and there's a lot you can do with exercise to manage it," says Jacqueline Shahar, who is a Clinical Exercise Physiologist, a Certified Diabetes Educator and the manager of the exercise physiology department at Joslin.Read More
Summer Magic Casts a Spell for Families at Joslin
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Children and their families came out to Joslin earlier this month for the Pediatric Clinic's fifth annual Summer Magic event. The children participated in crafts, played limbo and bean-bag toss, enjoyed a picnic dinner and saw a magic show.Read More
Q&A: Gordon Weir on Type 1 Diabetes Research
Monday, July 26, 2010
When type 1 diabetes wipes out the body's insulin-producing beta cells, how can they be replaced? That's been a focus of research for decades for Gordon Weir, M.D., and his wife, Susan Bonner-Weir, Ph.D.Read More
Dodging Diabetes for Joslin
Friday, July 23, 2010
Back in 2005, Anna Tiedeman Irwin was looking to organize a fundraising event that required no athletic ability, was a lot of fun and wouldn't intimidate people from participating. The movie Dodgeball had just come out and served as inspiration for the First Annual Dodging Diabetes Charity Dodgeball tournament.Read More
Joslin Announces Opportunity to Win Iacocca Mustang
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Mustang, the car that "changed everything" in the automotive industry, will now contribute to finding a cure for diabetes. Joslin is raffling off a special edition of the famous "muscle" car – the Iacocca Silver 45th Anniversary Edition Ford Mustang.Read More
What Exactly Is a Certified Diabetes Educator?
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Tracey Lucier got excellent news last year: She had passed a grueling four-hour exam to become a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE).Read More
Learning Diabetes Lessons from Team Type 1
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
In the Race Across America, teams of cyclists compete around the clock for more than 3,000 miles. "In 2005, people said we couldn't do this because we had diabetes," said Joe Eldridge of Team Type 1. "But we put together a team with eight people with diabetes, and we finished in second place by three minutes."Read More
Texas Woman Receives Joslin 75-Year Diabetes Medal
Monday, July 12, 2010
Barbara Kimbrough, of Haskell, Texas, has received the Joslin 75-Year Medal, recognizing her many decades of living successfully with diabetes. Ms. Kimbrough, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was nine, is only the 35th person in the world to receive the award, which she accepted in a ceremony here late last month.Read More
Risks Are Manageable in Pregnancy with Diabetes
Friday, July 09, 2010
"I can count on one hand the number of women I have told not to get pregnant," said Tamara Takoudes, M.D. "You just have to monitor your pregnancy every step of the way." Drs. Takoudes and Florence Brown, M.D., co-directors of the Pregnancy and Diabetes Program at Joslin and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, joined Joslin exercise physiologist Jacqueline Shahar and author Cheryl Alkon for a panel discussion at Isis Parenting in Brookline, Mass. in late June.
RPB Wasserman Award Aids Research in Diabetic Eye Disease
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Lloyd Paul Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., of Joslin and the Department of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School has been granted a $60,000 RPB Lew R. Wasserman Merit Award by Research to Prevent Blindness.Read More
Teens with Diabetes Enjoy Fenway Tour
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
More than 25 teens and their families came out for Joslin's teen tour of Fenway Park last week. The event began at Joslin and then families walked together to Fenway Park, the oldest venue used by a sports team in the United States, where there was an informative and humorous tour about the park's history.Read More
Q&A | Rebecca Longo, N.P., of the Joslin Adult Clinic
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
After working in intensive care and a variety of other nursing fields, Rebecca Longo, N.P., decided that diabetes care was where she needed to be.Read More
Joslin Shows Transplanted Beta Cells Learn to Deal with Stress
Friday, July 02, 2010
For transplanted beta cells, life is tough. Not only are the insulin-producing cells in a stranger's body, tucked into the liver rather than the pancreas, they are a bit short on oxygen and blood, and they are often exposed to raised levels of glucose. Joslin Diabetes Center scientists, however, have shown that the cells can protect themselves by actively adapting to their new homes—findings that may help to aid future transplants aimed at treating type 1 diabetes.Read More
Joslin Finds the Trouble with Tribbles in Diabetes
Thursday, July 01, 2010
Named for the furballs whose astonishing fecundity made them stars in early Star Trek episodes, the tribbles protein, first identified in fruit flies, aids in regulating many cell processes in humans.Read More
Inside Joslin Archives
Clinic News & Notes
- Q&A | Ashley Atkins of the Joslin Pediatric Clinic
- Latino Diabetes Initiative Broadens Its Community
- Joslin Clinic Recommendation on Avandia
- Q&A | Angelina Bernier, M.D., of the Joslin Pediatric Clinic
- Summer Magic Casts a Spell for Families at Joslin
Joslin Research Updates
- Q&A | Thomas Serwold on Type 1 Diabetes and Autoimmunity
- Q&A | Howard Wolpert on CGM Research and the Artificial Pancreas
- Joslin Researchers Hope to Teach Old Drug New Tricks
- Joslin Study Looks for Links between Insulin Resistance and Alzheimer's
- Study Wins Beatson Challenge in Type 1 Diabetes Research


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President pushes for gun control
President Obama met with local officials, community activists, victims of gun violence and local law enforcement at a round table discussion in Minneapolis Monday afternoon. He spoke with them and stated he wanted to hear their ideas about how we can protect our kids. President Obama said, "If we're serious about preventing the kinds of tragedies that happen, law enforcement and other community leaders must have a seat at the table." He called it a "very productive discussion."
After the round table discussion, Obama addressed the local media with the Minneapolis Police Department and the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department behind him and shared his solution to gun violence.
The president laid out his plan by stating the need for universal background checks on anyone wanting to purchase a gun. He said this solution is based on neither liberal nor conservative ideas but has support across the board. He referenced three main parts of his plan:
– Legislation to crack down on people selling guns to criminals.
– Reinstate a ban on military assault rifles.
– Guns to be limited to 10-round magazines.
"Our law enforcement should never be outgunned by the criminals," Obama added.
Obama detailed some possible root causes for the gun violence. He said he plans to make it easier for young people to get the mental health treatment they need. He would also like to see "more cops on the beat" and hopes that Congress will confirm Todd Jones, Minnesota's U.S. attorney, as head of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Recently, there has been much buzz over this issue within Pine County. Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole publicly stated he will not enforce, and is not required to enforce, any new federal law the president may enact regarding gun control saying, "I would view any such mandate, regulation or administrative rule illegal and refuse to carry it out."
The sheriff's comments drew both criticism and a "hat's off to the sheriff" response from Pine County residents. A handful of sheriffs across the nation have also come out against any new gun control law. They cite the oath they took in becoming a sheriff in which they are obligated to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
A spokesperson for the Ramsey County Sheriff's Department spoke with the Courier on the possibility of creating a ban on assault rifles or limiting the capacity of magazines or clips. "Let the Legislature do their job and hopefully, they will seek our input when legislating," stated Randy Gustafson, public information officer, Ramsey County Sheriff's Department. Gustafson also concurred with Pine County Sheriff Cole in that sheriffs are not obligated to enforce federal law.
"The number of bullets in a person's gun is less of a concern than who is carrying the gun," added Gustafson. "We should be able to keep that right, but with that comes responsibility."
Gustafson stated law enforcement would like to have actual access to information, which people think they already have access to, such as mental health information associated with abnormal behaviors or criminal activity.
A local law officer questioned a policy determining mental health in regards to gun ownership stating, "Who is going to decide what is abnormal behavior or if a person might be deemed as dangerous? Might I be considered dangerous because of a certain activity I participate in?"
The theme that transcended the conversations among journalists, prior to the president's speech, is there seems to be a correlation between where people live and how they view gun control laws.
Some north Minneapolis residents were questioned on their feelings about further gun control laws. One resident named Angela stated she completely supports any ban on assault weapons and she is tired of seeing children die like they do because of the violence incurred with guns.
Another resident, named Tamika, stated the criminals are the ones with the guns and "it wouldn't do any good, they would just get the guns without background checks anyway."
Two men traveled from Detroit, Michigan, to state their support for Obama's gun legislation. One man said he took two personal days just to travel to Minneapolis and tell people the killing needs to stop.
The opinions of the city dwellers interviewed contrasted with the opinions of local Pine County residents informally polled in Pine County, all of whom wanted to be identified by only their first names. One man named Roger stated, "Unfortunately, when you live in a free society, there may be a price tag that comes along with that."
Another Pine County resident, Vince, added, "Passing another law to stop gun violence is not the answer. The current laws we have now are not working. What is one more law going to do?"
A third Pine County resident, Jeff, blamed the media saying, "A big problem is that there is too much reporting and too much information which puts ideas in people's heads. Also, I own 10 guns and have never needed a 30-round clip." Another male resident blamed the lack of morality in our culture for recent gun violence.
The recurring theme heard among the Pine County residents' interviews was "guns don't kill people, people kill people." The recurring theme heard among the inner-city residents was they "wanted to see an end to the gun violence that is happening within their own communities."


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Service-oriented architectures (SOAs) connect the modern enterprise, providing the essential links between applications, platforms, business processes and data sources. But many enterprises, having embraced SOA for everything from ERP and mobile devices to social networking and cloud computing, now face challenges. Namely, they need to advance their SOA capabilities, programs and oversight to create a more service-oriented enterprise.
The business advantages of SOA include:
Accessibility—Deliver data and collaboration capabilities to knowledge workers via PCs, portals, mobile devices or composite applications, regardless of where that data resides.
Agility—Create a flexible SOA foundation that supports quick and cost-effective business strategy changes, by separating business processes from technology.
Analysis—Enable rapid decision making by giving business leaders real-time, mission-critical business intelligence, backed by analytics, dashboards, reporting tools and mobile delivery.
Efficiency—Apply SOA to consolidate, streamline and eliminate existing applications, as well as to embrace applications, infrastructure and platforms based in the cloud.
Value—Connect old and new technology investments, as well as mash-ups, social media, the cloud and more, in a secure, controlled and cost-effective manner.
No matter whether your organization is just beginning with SOA or already has advanced SOA practices and infrastructure in place—but needs to identify the next step—Accenture offers the right strategic approach, breadth of skills, industry knowledge and project experience to help organizations more quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively deliver and capitalize on SOA.
The Accenture SOA Center of Excellence supports our solution planning, architecture and delivery capabilities, reducing delivery costs and improving delivery quality and consistency. Accenture offers:
Unparalleled SOA project experience.
A vendor-neutral perspective combined with sound business advice, industry knowledge and technology acumen.
Ongoing research into emerging SOA trends plus strong relationships with major SOA vendors.
Extensive industry and business process knowledge together with its ability to craft solutions that enable high performance.
Leading-edge architects to help ensure that SOA delivers rich, robust and extendable solutions.
SOA accelerators to help clients adopt required reference and delivery architectures, delivery methods.
Pre-built, industrialized solution frameworks that are secure and highly repeatable.
Strong relationship with key SOA vendors, including Oracle, IBM Software, TIBCO, Microsoft, SAP, Pegasystems and Software AG.
The Accenture Global Delivery Network, which includes more than 6,000 technology architects based in 50 facilities, to support easy build and maintenance of a cost-effective SOA foundation.
To help organizations create a results-driven SOA strategy that supports and enhances their organizational, business and information access requirements, Accenture offers three services:
SOA Strategy: Roadmap—For organizations just starting with SOA or those that require a well-defined SOA program path.
SOA End-to-End Design and Delivery—Addresses end-to-end business concerns, using industrialized delivery methods, training programs and tools to drive SOA adoption throughout the organization. Our full life cycle SOA approach includes industrialization, governance and business process management.
SOA Modernization—Extending and Streamlining. Accenture's modernization program helps organizations with mature SOA programs overcome speed, cost-control and quality challenges.
Deployed a Java-based SOA solution for a leading general insurer to support it's new multi-channel platform and gain market share.


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Police just swarmed Tom Cruise's Beverly Hills estate after someone placed a 911 call saying there was an armed intruder on the property ... TMZ has learned.
Beverly Hills cops were all over the property and found nothing.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... it appears to be the latest incident of celebrity swatting.
Tom was not home at the time. We're told the only people in the house were some security officers and a cook.
FYI, a 12-year-old was arrested recently for allegedly committing a swatting prank against Ashton Kutcher and Justin Bieber.