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The Annapolis Community Foundation's exponentially expanded reach
Anne Arundel County has two Community Foundations. Both remind us that giving helps keep us strong.
The Community Foundation of Anne Arundel is big, visible and rich with caring people.
The Annapolis Community Foundation is, by comparison, small and relatively invisible. With a board of generous citizens, it gives small grants and start-up money to fund new enterprises within our capital city.
Over its nine years, the Annapolis Community Foundation has supported 40 groups with $2,500 grants to launch a dream or to help sustain an established program to enhance our quality of life.
Walking downtown, you may have noticed the vegetable gardens at the old Recreation Center on Compromise Street. They were planted by Grow Annapolis, a community gardens program that got its start with one of these grants. Grow Annapolis is now growing and recently helped students at Annapolis Elementary School on Green Street plant a fruit orchard.
Visitors to the city park at the foot of Charles Street would be thirsty without the Annapolis Community Foundation. A gathering place for dog walkers, the park overlooks the waters of Spa Creek. But there was no water for visitors. Annapolitan Joel Dunn proposed a drinking fountain. When the city said no, the Annapolis Community Foundation supported his cause with 50 percent of the cost. Neighbors and dog walkers raised additional dollars. The result: a drinking fountain that is handicapped accessible and includes a dog bowl.
For the past two years, the Annapolis Community Foundation has helped fund the Annapolis High School Bridge Program, a three-week program to prepare ninth-graders for success in high school.
Many good ideas die on the vine because the costs of creating a non-profit are beyond the means of cash-starved new groups. The Annapolis Community Foundation helps them, sheltering new programs under its own non-profit umbrella. The Community Boating Program, years in the talking stage, fledged under the Foundation.
Other efforts last only until their goals are met. Brick-by-Brick — co-chaired by former first lady Kendel Ehrlich to repair the unsightly broken sidewalk around St. Anne Church and improve the entrance to the State Capital — was one of these. In partnership with the Annapolis Community Foundation, Brick-by-Brick raised $50,000 for brick sidewalks and placed the names of its contributors in a time capsule in the sidewalk near the church entrance.
Maryland's Sister States Program partners with the Annapolis Community Foundation. When landslides devastated Brazil, Maryland's Sister state, our contributions were funneled through the Annapolis Community Foundation.
New partners include Save the Coconuts, a fund-raising program dedicated to supporting breast cancer research; a fledgling Scared Straight program run by Raynaldo Brown; and Green Drinks Annapolis.
Low-key and out of the public eye, the Annapolis Community Foundation gets its money from generous board members and occasional small fundraisers. Yet it has helped launch many ideas that are a part of city life today — among the 40, Annapolis Arts Alliance, Box of Rain, the Clay Street Computer Learning Center, the Reason Straight Project of the Annapolis Police Department, Ron's Barber Shop at the Lighthouse Shelter and Vision Workshop.
Apply for a grant, make a contribution or learn more: annapoliscommunityfoundation.org; executive director Jennifer Navabi at 443-854-9256.


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Last chance to collect yourself and see "Collected Stories" at Bas Bleu Theatre. Photo by William A. Cotton.
Seriously … 27 of them close in the next eight days. So get on your butts:
This week's theater closings
Today, Oct. 24: Denver Center Theatre Company's "The Voysey Inheritance," Space Theatre
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Sir, You Are Being Hunted Alpha footage surfaces
Alpha footage from Sir, You Are Being Hunted has been released by Big Robot, and it's a full two minutes or so longer than the teaser released last week.
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Kickstarter UK: Sir, You Are Being Hunted delivers 'tweedpunk robo-horror'
Kickstarter UK submissions have been on full tilt since the service started accepting direct submissions from Britain. It's a game that sees the player hunted across randomly-generated lands by sharply-dressed killer robots, and it's shaping up rather nicely. Check out the alpha footage below.
Quick shots - Sir, You Are Being Hunted
Big Robot has released some new environment screenshots of its upcoming "British indie S.T.A.L.K.E.R.," Sir, You Are Being Hunted. The images are the result of the team running around in-game for 30 minutes, according to studio founder and RPS editor Jim Rossignol. Sir features a storyline which sees robots hunt humans for sport. The studio's […]


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In January, Pope Benedict called social networking a "gift" – but warned that "obsessive" use of services like Facebook could lead to social isolation. Four months later, the Vatican established a papal Facebook page in an apparent bid to reach out to young Catholics.
Now a Catholic archbishop in the UK is a taking the Pope's concerns about social networking a giant step further, charging texting "dehumanizes" community life and that Facebook and MySpace could contribute to teen suicide by fostering "transient relationships."
"They throw themselves into a friendship or network of friendships, then it collapses and they're desolate," Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the spiritual leader of Catholics in England and Wales, told The Sunday Telegraph.
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The comments risk making Nichols appear out of touch. His words also underscore the Church's ambivalence toward the Internet age.
But is there any truth in what he says? Judge for yourself:
"I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community," he told The Sunday Telegraph. "Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanizes what is a very, very important part of community life and living together."
Nichols added that too much emphasis is being placed on friend counts on social networks like Facebook: "But friendship is not a commodity, friendship is something that is hard work and enduring when it's right."
The archbishop cited the recent death of a 15-year-old British girl who overdosed on painkillers, reportedly after being mocked by bullies on the social networking site Bebo. But can Megan Gillan's death – which is still under investigation and a tragedy by any standard – be blamed on social networking?
She met her alleged tormentors at school, not on the Internet. Bullying can take place anywhere, though the Web certainly provides an additional forum and the public nature may add an extra string.
Teenagers, no doubt, are some of the most vulnerable users of the Internet, facing potential threats from adult predators as well as hurtful comments from peers. Today's teens are among the first to grow up in the full-blast social networking era, so perhaps the complete effect can't yet be judged.
The power of social networking to bring people together over common interests, nurture personal relationships and renew old friendships is still being weighed against its potential to isolate those who live online, and to be used as a tool of harassment. Common sense, moderation – and, in the case of children, careful parental involvement – would seem key in striking a balance.
Nichols, by the way, is well represented on Facebook. There's a page in his name (though it's unclear if he set it up himself). There's also a page called "Supporters of Archbishop Vincent Nichols" and another titled "NOOOOO to the new Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols."
Which page would you join? Use the comments section below to weigh in.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992.


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The Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce said it would place cotton from Region 1-A under quarantine in January if the region's growers again fail to pass a referendum for a boll weevil eradication maintenance program.
The move came as USDA Farm Service Agency offices prepared to mail ballots to eligible cotton farmers and landowners in Leflore, Quitman, Sunflower, Tunica and west Tallahatchie counties for another referendum. Growers should have received ballots on Sept. 29 and have until Oct. 10 to return them to county FSA offices.
A majority of producers in the five north Delta counties supported the maintenance program in balloting in June and again in August, but not enough to meet the 66.67 percent approval requirement for passage of any boll weevil measures in Mississippi.
"Most growers would not have considered the enormous inconvenience or cost of a quarantine," said Will McCarty, Extension cotton specialist with Mississippi State University.
"A quarantine will be expensive from a grower- and enforcement-standpoint. As growers consider their options for the next referendum, I think they will see that the eradication program offers the best short-term and long-term option."
MDAC officials say state law dictates that areas that no longer have an active boll weevil eradication program be quarantined.
"All cotton produced in the region will be required to be ginned within region boundaries," the agency said in a press release. "Cottonseed to be moved from the region will require fumigation at an estimated cost of $5 per ton. Movement of all regulated articles will require a certificate showing that the articles have been fumigated or cleaned prior to movement."
Growers found in violation of any of the quarantine rules will be subject to fines of up to $1,000 per violation.
If the referendum again proves unsuccessful, growers will also bear the brunt of the cost of a mandatory trapping and spraying program to insure no weevils are present in the region should there be a request to lift the quarantine.
In a letter to Region 1-A growers, the MDAC estimated yearly quarantine costs for growers with land overlapping into adjacent regions to be more than $20 per acre. Growers with fields entirely in Region 1-A should expect costs to exceed $15 per acre. The department called these "very conservative" estimates.
The referendum says growers would pay no more than $12 per acre per year over the next 10 years for a maintenance program in Region 1-A. Eradication program managers have said they do not anticipate the program costing more than $8 to $10 per acre the first two years and $6 to $8 per acre in the following years.
Growers in 1-A came close to passing the referendum in August with a 65.95 percent vote in favor of the maintenance program. That was significantly higher than the 55 percent approval in the June referendum.
Growers in Region 1-B — the north Delta counties of Bolivar, Coahoma and Washington — passed the August referendum with an approval rating of 68 percent.
Although most growers appear to be pleased with the reduction in boll weevil numbers that has occurred since eradication began in 1999, some growers have balked at the maintenance program because of low cotton prices or concerns they might have to pull the full $14 per acre assessment for the 10 years.
"I can assure you that since we're paying the same assessment as everyone else, that the fees will not be set any higher than they have to be," said Rick Parson, a farmer from Vance in Tallahatchie County and a member of the board of the Mississippi Boll Weevil Eradication Corp.
Ballots from the latest referendum are scheduled to be counted Oct. 17.
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Tri For A Cure helping to fund breakthroughs in cancer research
Research to wipe out leukemia funded, in part, by Maine Cancer Foundation
A doctor from Bar Harbor's Jackson Laboratories believes his nearly 10 years of research could soon wipe out leukemia.
Dr. Kevin Mills said his big breakthrough happened about five years ago thanks to information discovered through research grants funded by the Maine Cancer Foundation.
"Without the Maine Cancer Foundation, we would never be able to do the initial, basic discovery work that's required to get us where we are today," said Mills
Mills believes he has discovered a treatment that causes leukemia cells to self-destruct. He is developing a drug that attacks the protection that allows tumors to grow and survive.
"We've discovered a way of removing or reducing that protection mechanism, and then the tumor cell essentially kills itself from the inside out," said Mills.
Mills' work is proof of the impact events like Sunday's Tri For A Cure can have on cancer research. The event, this year alone, has raised $1.2 million for the Maine Cancer Foundation.
"There's cutting-edge research going on here that people don't realize," said Maine Cancer Foundation Executive Director Tara Hill.
Each year the organization awards more than $1 million in research grants.
"To be able to look back at those couple of grants that Kevin's received, and to know that it is now turning into information that he's going to be able to use to make an enormous difference in leukemia and patients, is so satisfying," said Hill.
Mills predicts the payoff from the research will happen in the next several years.
While his research will ultimately have cost millions of dollars, it began with the first grant, made possible through money raised through events like Tri For A Cure.
"So there is a very direct line from the Tri For A Cure, the Maine Cancer Foundation and the kind of research we're doing in the laboratory," said Mills.
Sunday's event will be the sixth Tri For A Cure, which has raised at total of $4.5 million for cancer research.


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What's up everyone and welcome back to another fun and adorable tutorial here on DragoArt.com. I will start this awesome Sunday with a lesson on how to draw an anime cartoon kitty step by step. I know that there is so many anime cats and kittens already uploaded and submitted here on the site, but I just couldn't help myself from drawing another anime animal that is so popular with anime/manga comics, and series. I was looking at the latest anime animal that I submitted and I think it was called a Chibi cat or kitten I'm not sure I would have to go back and look. Anyway, this tutorial is a very easy one to learn from because the kitty is so incredibly simple to draw due to the fact is cartoon like and mainly round. All the steps are simple to follow and the instructions are even easy to read. When you gaze upon the eyes of this cute little cartoon kitty, you will instantly fall in love. So, let's stop the chatter and start the drawing, I guarantee that you will love learning how to draw an anime kitty or cartoon kitty step by step. I will be back with other cool lessons in a bit so stay tuned. If you like drawing cats check out this tutorial on How to Draw Hello Kitty.
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I hope you enjoyed Teddy Roosevelt's birthday as much as I did. Unlike last year's big 150th birthday bash, this year was a little quieter for our favorite #26.
However, the family did give me a surprise birthday present this week in the form of new vanity plates.
So remember if you see me driving around the DC area: Honk if you love Teddy!
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Sophomore co-captain Caroline
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ITHACA, N.Y.- The Harvard men's and women's fencing teams competed at the Ivy League Championships, Part 1 today hosted by Cornell. The men wrapped up the day with a 1-1 record while the women finished with a 2-1 mark. Both squads fell in the opening matches to Penn but managed to respond with a win over Yale. The women also picked up a victory over Cornell.
In the first matches of the Ivy League Championships, Part 1, the Harvard men fell to Penn, 15-12, and the women also bowed to the Quakers, 17-10. For the Harvard women, Caroline Vloka posted a 3-0 record to help the Crimson win the sabre competition, 5-4, against Penn. The Quakers captured the foil, 7-2, and the epee, 6-3, to take the match. On the men's side, Harvard took the epee competition, 7-2. James Hawrot put up three wins and Karl Harmenberg and Ben White each won two bouts in the epee. Penn won the foil and sabre competitions, 8-1 and 5-4.
The Harvard men closed out the Ivy League Championships, Part 1 with a 16-11 win over archrival Yale. The Crimson captured the epee, 7-2, and edged the Bulldogs in the sabre, 5-4. Yale returned the favor by squeaking by Harvard in the foil, 5-4. Valentin Staller and White turned in 3-0 performances for the Crimson while Tomaso di Robilant, Harmenberg, Hawrot and Thomas Kolasa all picked up two wins against Yale.
On the women's side, Harvard convincingly won the foil, 8-1, and eked by Yale in the epee, 5-4. The Bulldogs picked up five wins in the sabre and the Crimson got four. Four Harvard fencers posted perfect 3-0 marks against Yale. Shelby MacLeod, Noam Mills, Arielle Pensler and Vloka each won three bouts for the Crimson.
THe Harvard women concluded the event with an 18-9 victory over host Cornell. The Crimson won all three weapons in the match. Harvard nearly swept the sabre, 8-1, and took five bouts in the foil and epee competitions. Hayley Levitt and Vloka each posted 3-0 records in the win. Vloka finished the day with an undefeated mark of 9-0.
Boston bragging rights will be up for grabs, as the Crimson returns to action, Feb. 24, to take on Boston College, Brandeis and MIT in the Beanpot.


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Holidays in Laives/Leifers
Just a few kilometres from South Tyrol's capital city Bolzano sits the small town of Laives and the neighbouring communities of Bronzolo/Branzoll and Vadena/Pfatten. Holidaymakers here will profit from the central, yet quiet location of the municipality amidst the wine and apple growers. Here along the South Tyrolean Wine Road the decisive role of wine and its impact on the local culture is palpable. The Laives parish church is characterised by the melding of traditional design and contemporary arts. For the active, a ride along the Etschtal Cycle Path comes highly recommended. It is even possible to ride all the way to Lago di Garda lake.


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A Romantic Proposal on Christmas Eve
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From duchesses to chamber maids, everybody's reading it. Each Tuesday, The London List appears, filled with gossip and scandal, offering job postings and matches fro the loverlorn-and most enticing of all, telling the tales and selling the wares a more modest publication wouldn't touch.The creation of Evangeline Ramsey, the London List saved her and her ailing father from destitution. But the paper has given Evie more than financial relief. As its publisher, she lives as a man, dressed in masculine garb, free to pursue and report whatever she likes-especially the latest disgraces besmirching Lord Benton Gray. It's only fair she hang his dirty laundry, given that it was his youthful ardor that put her off marriage for good.Lord Gray-Ben-isn't about to stand by while all of London laughs at his peccadilloes week after week. But once he discovers that the publisher is none other than pretty Evie Ramsey with her curls lopped shorty, his worries turn to desires-and not one of them fit to print.


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When a legendary guitarist is invited to play on a recording session, he or she is expected to make a noticeable impact on the song or album being recorded.
Bearing that in mind, Jeff Beck—as a session guitarist—has pretty much never disappointed.
Here are his top 10 guest-session appearances.
Actually, we've thrown in a bonus track. Our math was never all that good anyway!
11.Jon Bon Jovi, "Blaze of Glory" Blaze of Glory (1990)
Beck guested on Jon Bon Jovi's 1990 solo album, Blaze of Glory, even lending a solo to the album's title track. As it turns out, someone in YouTube land was thoughtful enough to post this 31-second clip of Beck's isolated guitar solo. At the very end, you can hear someone scream "Yeah!" from the control room.
10. The Pretenders, "Legalize Me" Viva El Amor (1999)
At first, one wonders if Beck is even playing on this song—until just around the 2:14 mark, when he boldly announces his presence with one of his freakish trademark whammy-bar moves—and it only gets better from there.
09. Toots & The Maytals, "54-46 Was My Number" True Love (2004)
This is from a Toots album that's packed with guest appearances by big-name guitarists, including Eric Clapton, Trey Anastasio, Bonnie Raitt and Keith Richards. But, as always, Beck stands out in a crowd, delivering a cool, weird solo that almost makes it sound as if his part was tracked backwards in the mix (It wasn't). It's also a nice change of pace to hear Beck in a reggae setting.
08. Paul Rodgers, "I Just Want to Make Love to You" Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters (1993)
Beck's evil tone on the intro riff alone is enough to earn this tune a spot on this list. It also represents the only slide guitar to be found among these choices. Beck appears on three songs on this Muddy Waters tribute album by the Bad Company and Free frontman.
07. Paul Jones, "The Dog Presides" Insane Times (1968)
Here's the Jeff Beck Group-era Beck sounding very much like his former Yardbird self on this song's opening riff, fills and solo. The recording even features another former Yardbird, Paul Samwell-Smith, on bass. That's Paul McCartney on drums, by the way. No one seems to remember the barking dog's name.
06. Narada Michael Walden, "Saint and the Rascal" Garden of Love Light (1976)
This catchy, funky instrumental with a strong hook can almost be considered an outtake from Wired, Beck's classic 1976 album. After all, Narada Michael Walden played drums on Wired and wrote four songs on the album, including "Play With Me." Beck returned the favor by playing with Walden.
05. Jimmy Copley, "Everyday I Have the Blues" Slap My Hand (2008)
For people who've survived listening to Beck's over-produced Flash album (1986), it's a real treat to hear him play with such a small, stripped-down band; in fact, all you really hear are the drums (Copley is a British drummer with impressive credentials) and Beck's chunky-sounding Strat. And that's fine, because you get to hear him turn a simple three-chord blues shuffle into a showcase for his whammy-bar hijinks and out-of-left-field bits and pieces.
04. Rod Stewart, "Infatuation" Camouflage (1984)
Listen to how Beck contributes something special and unique to what could've been just another catchy mid-1980s pop hit. Beck also appears in the video—as does actor Mike Mazurki, who can be spotted in the films Some Like It Hot and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (my all-time favorite movie).
03. John McLaughlin, "Django" The Promise (1995)
Simply put, this one gives you twice the bang for your buck: You get Jeff Beck trading off with John McLaughlin on a seven-plus-minute rendition of John Lewis' "Django," a musical elegy for guitarist Django Reinhardt. Beck starts things off with the basic melody, and things pretty much get more and more interesting as the song moves forward.
02. Stanley Clarke, "Hello Jeff" Journey to Love (1975)
When the star of the show—in this case, bassist Stanley Clarke—actually incorporates his session guitarist's name into the title of the track he played on, you can expect some memorable fretwork. Such is the case on this mid-Seventies instrumental gem, which features impressive playing by everyone involved, including the brilliant Clarke.
01. Roger Waters, "What God Wants, Pt. 3" Amused to Death (1992)
Roger Waters is singing about vultures, bullets and soldiers, when, all of a sudden, a Strat bursts into the mix just before the two-minute mark, playing a powerful, emotional solo. Is it an outtake from Pink Floyd's The Wall? Nope; it's one of a handful of Beck-enriched songs from Waters' 1992 Amused to Death album.
Check out Beck's solo, and how he uses every inch of real estate Waters gives him. If nothing else, the song answers the rarely asked question, "What would Pink Floyd have sounded like if Jeff Beck were in the band?" "I still don't know how he does it," Waters says of Beck.
"He's incredibly technically gifted in ways the rest of us can't even begin to think about. He also has incredible pitch. When you play a harmonic and then play a melody on the whammy bar, it's quite extraordinary to listen to."
Damian Fanelli is the editor-in-chief of Guitar World. His New York-based band, the Blue Meanies, has toured the world and elsewhere.


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Yup, more from the big GTA: Chinatown Wars blowout that dominates the latest issue of Nintendo Power magazine. While the Wii would seem the most obvious Nintendo system to bring the GTA franchise to, Rockstar boss Dan Houser instead says the DS was the more "natural" fit:
[The Wii] didn't feel natural to us, I guess. It really was that the DS felt like it had a lot of interesting challenges that would be totally different from what we'd done in the past. The stylus and the chance to use minigames in that way was really interesting and exciting to us, and we thought we could integrate seamlessly between those two modes. And it would be the chance to make something really good on a handheld with our handheld-focused team. That was really why we went that way. We haven't really done any concrete, major thinking about the Wii, one way or another. They're sort of separate issues.
That and the money, Dan. Don't forget the printing of money. GTA: Chinatown Wars [Nintendo Power, via Nintendo Everything]


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It's a bad idea to steal from a police officer. It's an even worse idea to post a photo of the crime on Facebook.
A Kentucky man was arrested on misdemeanor charge after allegedly siphoning gas from a police cruiser, according to The Smoking Gun.
Micheal Baker, 20, was caught after he posted a photo of himself crouching near a Jenkins Police Department car with the gas tank open on Facebook.
According to the arrest warrant, Baker was charged with theft of goods under $500. He was arraigned on Wednesday.
The photo has since been removed from Baker's Facebook page, but he managed to make light of his recent arrest.


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Over the years car manufacturers have made some interesting choices when it came time to pick paint colors. Which choices were good and which choices were bad varies greatly on a person by person basis. This weekend we want to know which color is the worst to ever appear on a production vehicle. What is the worst car color?
My choice for the worst automotive color is the brown color you see above on my trusty '98 4runner. While I love almost everything about my 4runner from the 3.4 V6 to the five speed manual transmission, I can't stand its boring color. The rare nature of the aforementioned V6/five speed combination is to blame for me deciding to purchase a vehicle with a color I so thoroughly despise. Whenever I see a early third gen 4runner in black, blue, red, green or any of the other better color options, I can only look longingly and remind myself how much it costs to repaint a car.
I told you about my 4runner's undesirable shade of brown, so tell us, what do you think is the worst factory car color ever used?


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21 February 2013
Members of the
Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
European Parliament
Brussels and Paris, 21 February 2013
Dear Members,
As discussions on the Asylum Procedures Directive and the suspension/safeguard clause for visa-free travel resume, we would like to draw your attention to an acute problem and to a possible solution that is in your hands.
The problem is the sharp rise in unfounded asylum applications from citizens of five Western Balkan countries that were granted visa-free travel in 2009/2010.
Our proposed solution is to insert the following text in the Asylum Procedures Directive:
"Countries that have successfully completed a visa liberalisation dialogue with the European Commission, having met all the requirements and benchmarks under such a dialogue, including those related to fundamental rights under Block 4, and for which the visa requirement was lifted subsequently, shall be regarded as constituting safe countries of origin for the purposes of this Directive."
The number of Western Balkan asylum applications in the EU in 2012 currently stands at 41,500. This is 60 percent more claims than in 2011. It is 320 percent more than before visa liberalisation.
In Germany, citizens of Serbia made up the largest group of claimants in 2012. At the same time, only 0.2 percent qualified for refugee status or subsidiary protection.
This situation raises an obvious question: Why are application numbers increasing despite it becoming ever more obvious to applicants that chances to be granted protection are miniscule?
In a recent ESI report "Saving visa-free travel" we argued that the main incentives for applicants are in fact the benefits provided during the application procedure itself and the length of the procedure.
In the report we show that Western Balkan asylum seekers overwhelmingly target EU member states with long procedures: Germany, Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg.
In these member states, the first-instance procedure takes around 3 months, and as much as 7 months in case of an appeal.
On the other hand, member states which decide on claims quickly, within less than 3 weeks, have experienced no, or a much smaller, increase. Shorter procedures also mean lower burdens on the recipient countries.
This discrepancy explains why there has been a sharp increase in Germany and not in Austria; in Sweden and not in the Netherlands; in Belgium and not in France (until a court forced France last year to abandon the accelerated procedure for Albanian applicants).
Switzerland could reduce the number of applications dramatically by shortening the duration it takes to process applications. In August 2012, it cut the decision-making time from 4 months to 4 days. Asylum applications from Western Balkan citizens fell from 780 in August to 65 in December.
Recent developments in Germany confirm the finding that a short procedure is key. Germany made a concerted effort between October and December 2012 to process Western Balkan claims, bringing the average decision-making time from 3 months down to 9 days. Claims dropped from 6,600 in October to 1,000 in December.
The opposite trend has also been observed. In March 2012, Albania was taken off the French list of safe countries of origin. The decision-making time increased from 3-4 weeks to some 6 months. The number of Albanian claims in France rose from 500 in 2011 to 2,300 in 2012 (without December).
It is important to note that a shorter procedure does not minimise the chances to receive international protection for those who are found to need it. In fact, the contrary is true: some countries with shorter procedures and fewer applications granted protection to Western Balkan asylum seekers a lot more often than those with long procedures.
Austria and France (with short procedures) decided on 6,785 cases, granting refugee status or subsidiary protection to 435 claimants between 2009 and 2011. Germany and Sweden (both with long procedures) decided on 27,220 cases, granting refugee status or subsidiary protection to no more than 55 claimants.
If a short asylum procedure is crucial to resolve this problem, how can it be brought about?
The first step is to designate countries that receive visa-free travel as a result of a formal visa liberalisation process as safe countries of origin.
All visa liberalisation roadmaps and action plans require implementation of anti-discrimination legislation. They also require policies protecting minorities. A country that fully meets these requirements – as verified by the Commission and member states' experts – can be assumed to be a safe country of origin.The notion of a safe country of origin is nothing new. Many EU member states have national lists of safe countries of origin. This concept is also already established at the EU level. EU member states consider each other safe countries of origin:
"Given the level of protection of fundamental rights and freedoms by the Member States of the European Union, Member States shall be regarded as constituting safe countries of origin in respect of each other for all legal and practical purposes in relation to asylum matters." (Protocol No. 24 of the TFEU)
Bulgaria and Romania were declared safe countries of origin two years before they acceded to the EU:
"It results from the status of Bulgaria and Romania as candidate countries for accession to the European Union and the progress made by these countries towards membership that they should be regarded as constituting safe countries of origin for the purposes of this Directive until the date of their accession to the European Union." (Current APD, recital 20)
If the countries that have undergone a formal visa liberalisation process are declared safe countries of origin, EU member states can provide for an accelerated examination procedure when dealing with claims from their citizens.
The proposed new text for the Asylum Procedures Directive also stipulates that "member states shall lay down reasonable time limits for the adoption of a decision in the procedure at first instance." The decision-making should be short – certainly less than 1 month in the case of safe countries of origin. All procedural guarantees protecting the rights of asylum seekers would still apply.
In 2011 the Commission proposed to introduce in Council Regulation 539/2001 the possibility to suspend visa-free travel in a fast-track procedure. This foresees that if a member state is confronted with (a) an increase in irregular migrants, (b) an increase in largely unfounded asylum claims, or (c) an increase in rejected readmission requests, it can request a suspension of visa-free travel with the third country.
The currently agreed text stipulates that the request of a member state must be addressed to the European Commission. It must be "duly motivated and shall include relevant data and statistics as well as a detailed explanation of the preliminary measures that the Member State concerned has taken with a view to remedying the situation."
ESI suggests expanding this section. One of the "preliminary measures" member states should take is to accelerate the asylum procedure:
"This notification shall be duly motivated and shall include relevant data and statistics as well as a detailed explanation of the preliminary measures that the Member State concerned has taken with a view to remedying the situation. In case of an increase in largely unfounded asylum requests, these measures shall include an accelerated asylum examination procedure for the nationals of the third country in accordance with the basic principles and guarantees on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection status."
This should also be one of the issues taken into account by the Commission when it examines such a request:
"3. The Commission shall examine the notification(s) made by one or more Member State(s) pursuant to paragraph 2, taking account of:
[...] whether the Member State(s) in question have taken all the available and necessary measures at the national level in order to remedy the situations described in paragraph 2, and, in case of the situation described in paragraph 2 (b), have accelerated the asylum examination procedure for the nationals of the country in question in accordance with the basic principles and guarantees on common procedures for granting and withdrawing international protection status."
We are convinced that these measures would contribute to reducing the high numbers of unfounded claims from Western Balkan citizens without restoring the visa requirement for the Western Balkans.
For further information, we invite you to look at a compilation of up-to-date statistical material on the issue of Western Balkan asylum seekers on the ESI webpage: www.esiweb.org/visaandasylum.
Kind regards,
- ESI report: Saving visa-free travel. Visa, Asylum and the EU roadmap policy (1 January 2013)
- Statistical update: asylum seekers from the Western Balkans (15 February 2013)
- The Schengen White List project page
- Today's Zaman, Yonca Poyraz Doğan, "Knaus: Turkey, EU to develop more trust through plans for visa-free regime" (27 January 2013)
- ESI at EPC policy dialogue: Visa Liberalisation and Turkey - What progress? (1 February 2013)


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On The Stereo: 7"s with Gerry Stumbaugh
For this edition of On the Stereo, we welcome my friend and fellow record collector Gerry Stumbaugh. Gerry's worked at the Last Record Store in Santa Rosa for almost ten years now, and he's hosted the Left of the Dial radio show on KRCB for eight years. His preferred format is 7"s, bless his heart, and while he pounded Negro Modelos and I macked down on some El Farolito, we hung out and listened to nothing but 7"s.
I have to warn you—this play-by-play goes on forever. Click after the jump at your own risk. We're record nerds. Lots of swearing, too. Sorry, Dad.
Included are discussions of 7"s by Themes, Bikini Kill, the Gaslamp Killer, Ratatat, Built to Spill, Santogold, No Age, Spank Rock, Screeching Weasel and Navy of the Nice, along with tangential excursions into Mexican snack treats, the unusual breakfast diet of Mike Watt, and the follies of WCW Tag Team Wrestling.


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FRIDAY, MAY 9th - 5 to 7 P.M.
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Honda Elite 80 Scooter, 8733 Miles. Lawn and Garden Tools,
Battery Charger, Several Old Walking Plows, Wheel Barrow,
Craftsman Tool Box, Hand Tools, Old Grinding Wheel, Cross Cut
Saw, etc.
Grosberger will sell: 1984 Pace Arrow 34
ft. Motor Home with 454 Chevy Engine, New Tires, Front air/heat,
Oversized hot water heater all in last 5,000 Miles. Power Back
GT5250 Watts Generator w/10 H.P. Engine; Ping Pong Table.
Danny Fletcher will sell the following:
4'x7' Trailer w/ramp; (Titled) Yard Pull Type 2 Wheel Trailer;
Hibachi 18V Cordless Drill Set; Skill 3" Sander; Craftsman 4"
Belt and 6" Diameter Disc Bench Sander Combo; GM Truck Tube
Steps; Ford Ranger Front Chrome Bumper; API Grand Slam Deer
Others will sell: Large Concrete Lawn
Ornament (Japanese); Other Lawn Ornaments; Pottery including
Roseville; Glassware; Misc. Sports Cards & Memorabilia; Old 4
drawer file cabinet (wood); (4) Wooden folding chairs; Hoover
upright vacuum; Artist easel w/light; Vintage glass shades; 50's
lamp; Pair of Old Shutters (wood); Iron Door Stops; Large
Vintage Butcher Block on Legs (from Eckert's Market, Lincoln)
Few Pieces of Furniture. Troy Bilt Tuffy Tiller 4 H.P. (Like
New); Pull Type Dump Lawn Cart; 3 Bicycles; Bike Carrier/Reese
Hitch; Red Wagon; Lightning Rods (no globes); Old Key
Collection; Wicker Rocker; 1940 Galvanized Bath Tub; Old Child's
Metal Bed; Exercise Equipment; Cane Rocker; 20 pieces White
Granite Ware; (2) Singer Sewing Machines Bases with Soap Stone
Table Tops; Hose Reel w/Hose; 3 Plastic Sleds; Several Cement
Yard decorations/Planters.
JD 320 Snow Blower; Large
Amount of Costume Jewelry; Coins; Shot Glass Collection;
Small Electric Drum Set and Guitar; Hand Tools;
West Point Cadet Top Coat; Glassware; Children's Puzzles; 20"
TV; Lazy Boy Recliner; Picture Frames; Window Air Conditioner;
Queen Size Box Spring; Over Stuffed Chairs; Cedar Chest; Corner
Curio Cabinet; Sofa; Love Seat; Coffee Table; Small
Entertainment Center; Small Cane Rocker; Table Lamps; Army
Stretcher; much more.
Cash or Check
w/Positive ID. Not Responsible for Accidents. Lunch Served
Mason City, IL. Office Ph. 217-482-5351
RON KNOLLENBERG (IL. License #440000160)
Cell 217-341-1219
MATT SWANSON (IL. License #041000157)
Home 217-482-3010 Cell 217-652-3403
AUCTIONEER'S NOTE: This is
only a partial listing. Hope to see you at the OPEN HOUSE,
Friday, May 9th from 5 to 7 P.M. and Auction Day,
Saturday, May 10th. Your attendance is always
appreciated. Ron and Matt
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Public Auction
Saturday May 17, 2014
Auction to be
Held at 1387 250th. Avenue,
New Holland, Illinois
DIRECTIONS: Take
5th. Street to 225 Avenue, Go South 1 Mile to "T",
Turn East 1st. Home on the South Side of Road. WATCH
ALLIS WD Tractor- John Deere, Snapper, & Cub Cadet Lawn Mowers -
Appliances - Collectibles - Tools - Household
Wilbur and Frances Schaub having moved into assisted living will
sell the following at Public Auction.
Tractor and Lawn Tractors: Allis Chalmers
WD Narrow Front, not running, JD L130, 48" Deck, 23 H.P., V-
Twin, Hydro, 743 Hours; Cub Cadet #108, Hydro 38" Deck; Snapper
LT16, 16 H.P. Twin 48" Deck; Huskee GT hydro, 46" Deck 18.5 H.P.;
Simplicity Model 2010 w/38" Tiller and 42" Front Blade; JD #38T
Pull Lawn Sweeper.
Truck: 1992 Dodge Dakota, Ext. Cab, V-6,
Auto, air, 153,000 Miles, Runs Good.
Tools & Misc.: Old Flare Wagon; Honda
ATC110 3 Wheeler, not running; 24" Lawn Roller; Roto Tiller;
Lawn Boy Mower; Campbell Hausfeld Air Compressor; Battery
Charger w/Booster; Honda 450 Motorcycle, not running; 20 ft.
Aluminum Ladder; 8 ft. Folding Ladder; Metal Parts Bin, and
Hand, Lawn, and Garden Tools: Acetylene
Torch Set w/2 Wheel Cart; Log Chains; Bench Grinder w/Stand;
Misc. Lumber; Electric Hand Tools; Auto Ramps; Lawn Boy; 150,000
BTU Kerosene Heater; Work Bench w/Peg Board Back; 12 ft. Tandem
Axle Flat Bed Trailer; Reece Hitch; Single Axel 6' Trailer, no
Title; Wooden Ext. Ladders; Pull Lawn Trailer; Wheel Barrow; 2
Wheel Dolly; Hand Tools; 6' Step Ladder; Metal & Wood Fence
Posts; 8 Gallon Shop Vacuum, and more.
Old Small Child's Bike; Hand Seeders; Harness Repair Stool
w/Vice; Hand Water Pump; Scythe; Schwinn 26" Mans Bike w/Spring
Front; (2) 64" Dia. Iron Spoke Wheels; (2) 41" Dia. Wood Spoke;
(2) Smaller 18" Dia. Spoke Wheels; Small Wooden Barrels; Cross
Cut Saw; Corn Sheller; Small Platform Scales; IH Peddle Tractor
w/2 Wheel Cart; Radio Flyer Red Wagon; Butcher Kettle w/Stand;
Crock Bowl; etc.
Household: GE 18 Cu. Ft. Refrigerator;
Newer GE Washing Machine; RCA Gas Clothes Dryer; Humidifier;
Wooden 42" Oval Dining Table w/(2) 10" Leaves and 6 Chairs;
Bassett 50" China Cabinet; Lawn Chairs; Microwave; Westinghouse
Roaster w/Stand; Pots; Pans; Silverware; Glassware; Bowls; Small
Appliances; Kitchen Utensils; Hall Tree; Metal Wardrobe; 5
Drawer Chest (Kroehler); Full Bed; Linens; Jewelry Cabinet; Some
Costume Jewelry; Coffee Table; 46" Wood Table; Window Air
Conditioner; Wooden Rocker; Wooden Shelving; Metal 4 Drawer File
Cabinet. Small Entertainment Center; Record Player' 33 Albums;
Folding Chairs; Dirt Devil Bagless Vacuum, much more.
OWNERS: Wilbur
and Frances Schaub
Cash or Check
w/Proper ID. Not Responsible For Accidents. Lunch Served
Mason City, IL. Office Ph. 217-482-5351
RON KNOLLENBERG (IL. License #440000160)
Cell 217-341-1219
MATT SWANSON (IL. License #041000157)
Home 217-482-3010 Cell 217-652-3403
AUCTIONEER'S NOTE: This is
only a partial listing, refrigerator & washing machine, near
new. Your attendance is always appreciated. Ron and Matt
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White Auction House
501 S. Kickapoo St., Lincoln,
Saturday, May 21, 2014 10:00
Appliances, Antiques &
Collectibles, Figurines,
Furniture, Household Goods &
Tools & Outdoor Equip
Ruth Wiggers Estate,
Lincoln, IL.
Full listing & pictures at
www.lincolndailynews.com or
Auctioneers: Col. Dan White &
Gary Morris
Il. License Numbers: 440000381
& 441000185
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posted on Friday, September 01, 2000 - 1:57 pm
I have a specific question regarding the use of scale factors when analyzing longitudinal data.
*Background* - Data consist of 200 kids who responded to a 10 item rating scale at 3 points in time. The 10 items form 2 latent factors. All 10 items are dichotomous.
*Goal* - I want to estimate a longitudinal CFA, such that the 10 items are represented by 2 latent factors at all 3 points in time.
*Question* - Given dichotomous items, I intend to analyze a tetrachoric correlation matrix with the WLSM estimator. Since the same items are included in the model at 3 time points, I intend to impose equality constraints on the thresholds for each item across time. My question concerns the scale factors. Based on what I can gather from the manual, I think that I should set the scale factor for each item at the first timepoint to 1 and freely estimate the scale factors at subsequent time points (eg., {
item1_t2 item1_t3}). First, would you confirm this?
Second, would you elaborate on why this is necessary? I understand that the tetrachoric corr matrix has 1's along the diagnol and does not communicate info about the variance of individual items. However I'm not sure how scale factors address this.
Third, can you offer advice on the substant. interpretation of the scale factors that are estimated?
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, September 02, 2000 - 12:48 pm
Just a point of clarification--WLS and WLSMV require raw data for analysis. Both a correlation matrix and weight matrix are required for correct standard errrors and chi-square test of model fit. I just want to be sure you aren't planning on using a tetrachoric correlation matrix as input.
For total measurement invariance, not only the thresholds but also the factor loadings need to be held equal across time.
Scale factors should be fixed to one at the first timepoint and be free at the others. For a relevant discussion of scale factors, see Multiple group analysis with categorical variables under the Mplus Discussion topic of Cateogircla Data Modeling.
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2012: Second team All-Ivy League at defensive end ... First team All-Ivy League by CollegeSportsMadness.com ... Preseason All-Ivy League by College Sports Madness ... Preseason second team All-Ivy League by Phil Steel's College Football Preview ... Had two sacks, 2.5 tackles for a loss and a QB hurry against San Diego ... Had three tackles including an 18-yard sack at Brown ... had a 12-yard tackle for a loss against Cornell ... Had a sack and two QB hurries against Bucknell ... Had half a sack at Princeton ... Had two sacks at Dartmouth ... Had a sack against Columbia.
2011: All-Ivy League Honorable Mention ... Produced consistently and finished in a tie for second on the team with three QB sacks to go with five QB hurries ... Had a sack in the season opener at Holy Cross ... Recovered a fumble against Brown ... Had an 11-yard sack in a win against Dartmouth ... Had a sack in a win at Yale.
2010: Missed the season with an injury.
2009: Appeared in all 10 games, collecting 31 tackles (14 solo) and 5.5 tackles for a loss of 31 yards, two sacks and seven QB hurries ... Had a tackle for a loss in the season opener at then-No. 23 Holy Cross ... Had five tackles including one for a loss and a QB hurry in a win at Lehigh ... Had a sack in a win over Dartmouth ... Had six tackles including two for a loss and a sack against Penn ... Had four solo tackles and two QB hurries including the final one, forcing Yale's Patrick Witt into an interception with under a minute remaining in Harvard's 14-10 victory.
2008: Did not appear in a game ... Minor H recipient.
At Hillside: Lettered in football and wrestling ... Football captain as a senior ... All-Pac-6 conference at defensive end and tight end ... Special teams and defensive lineman of the year ... Team's Ironman award ... Valedictorian of school ... National Honor Society.
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What works best on diaper rash? I've tried destin but its not working as well as I would...
My son has looser stools soft and mushy. But tends to have a diaper rash all the time. If he falls asleep and poops by the time he wakes up his but his red. Please help!
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NEW ORLEANS -- Baltimore Ravens head coach John Harbaugh said he realized during pregame that coaching against his younger brother in the Super Bowl wasn't the ideal scenario.
"It was still pretty rough. The toughest moment of all was walking across the field," John Harbaugh said of the postgame handshake at the end of a 34-31 Ravens' victory over the San Francisco 49ers one mile up the street Sunday night.
"I came to the conclusion that only thing that would have been worse is if one of us wasn't there; and the only thing worse than that is if neither one of us was there," he said. "Toughest part of all was walking across the field. And if you can imagine there was a great amount of elation and a great amount of devastation and those two feelings went hand in hand at that moment."
Throughout the week John has referred to younger brother Jim "as the best coach in the National Football League," a statement he repeated Monday morning.
Parents Jack and Jackie Harbaugh were guests in the private box of commissioner Roger Goodell along with New Jersey governor Chris Christie and others. Goodell told John Harbaugh that his parents were virtually silent during most of the longest Super Bowl ever played.
Before joining the Ravens' organization and "dancing the night away" with his daughter, Allison, at the team celebration, John Harbaugh said he had a moment to see his parents. They noticeably shared the same torn emotions.
"You could see it on their face, that's emotion," he said.
When the dust settles, the Harbaugh Brothers will talk about football and life, and possibly their Super Bowl experience. A family viewing of Super Bowl XLVII?
"I don't think we'll ever watch that game together, absolutely not," he said.


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Beyond Bullet Points 101
Transform your presentations with Beyond Bullet Points 101! This online training course will take you step-by-step through the process of creating an outstanding presentation beyond bullet points -- and help you to build your own personal presentation along the way. With this training program, you'll learn how to create stimulating presentations while modeling leadership in the workplace. The course modules include: Previewing the Route You'll Take with BBP (12:48) - Module 1: Comparing Two PowerPoint Routes, and Two Outcomes (26:55) Module 2: Igniting Your Ideas by Sparking Emotion (36:53) Module 3: Revving Your Intellectual Engine by Prioritizing Your Ideas (31:25) Module 4: Shifting from Words to Pictures by Setting Up your Storyboard (47:29) Module 5: Stepping on the Gas by Quickly Adding Graphics (26:56) Module 6: Crossing the Finish Line with Engaging Delivery (24:33) Each module features narration, examples, downloads, and interactive quizzes to test your knowledge - once you enroll you'll have full access to the course for 1 year. Total Course Running Time: 207 minutes (3 hours 27 minutes) Note: In order to access the course downloads, you will need to allow pop-up windows with the Coggno website. If you use a Safari browser, you will need to deselect the "Block Pop-Up Windows" feature in the Safari menu in order to download documents from the Download tab in the course. If you use Google Chrome and run into a problem with the downloads, you may need to use an alternate browser.


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How your agency's culture can boost productivity, attract top talent and cut hiring costs.
Does your organization have a defined culture or values?
If not, or if you don't know, then January is a perfect time to think about how those two attributes can add to your top and bottom lines in the coming year. If they sound fuzzy and warm, they're not. It has been proved that a values-driven culture can give you a competitive advantage and a stronger balance sheet.
For instance, have you ever thought about a values-driven culture as a recruiting and retention tool? It is. Best places to work generally have very well-defined, positive, collaborative cultures that lure the best candidates and keep productive employees. The Society for Human Resource Management estimates that it costs $3,500 to replace one $8-per-hour employee when all expenses -- recruiting, interviewing, hiring, training, reduced productivity and so on are considered. SHRM's estimate was the lowest of 17 nationally respected companies who calculate this cost.
Other sources provide these employee replacement costs: 30 percent to 50 percent of the annual salary of entry-level employees, 150 percent of middle level employees, and up to 400 percent for specialized, high level employees.
Creating a culture that retains good people is clearly one example of its potential for ROI; there are others. Such calculations establish culture as a business asset, even a revenue center.
According to researchers Jeff Rosenthal and Mary Ann Masarech, values-driven culture contributes to business performance because they:
- Attract and retain star performers who not only have the skills required to achieve ambitious business goals, but also are so invigorated by the company's core beliefs that they give 110 percent.
- Guide and inspire employee decisions and contribution in a flatter, fast-paced, decentralized workplace that is void of day-to-day management direction.
- Provide fixed points of reference and stability during periods of great change or crisis -- much like a lighthouse with its beacon of light during fog and rough seas.
- Create a more personal connection between employees and the organization, a type of emotional contract to replace the agreements implicit in our parents' world of work.
During almost 40 years in executive leadership positions, it has been my experience that beliefs are captured in values, and those values are exhibited in the form of behaviors. The sum of behaviors defines the culture.
So, if we believe being honest is important, it becomes a core value. If we identify behaviors that are consistent with honesty -- such as not lying, not being secretive, being open, transparent, forthcoming and trusting -- we will want to instill those behaviors into the culture. To have cultural integrity, we must define values so that we are all in agreement on their meaning.
Here are some key steps you must take to establish a values-driven culture:
- Through team discovery sessions, led by the CEO, establish what you believe in as a culture.
- Identify the values that reflect your organization's beliefs.
- Understand the relationship between values and behaviors.
- Agree on which behaviors are consistent and inconsistent with your values; what does that value look like in the office?
- Communicate the values and supporting behaviors down through the organization.
- Monitor behaviors regularly through performance reviews or other measures to manage value/behavior and potential cultural erosion.
A perfect example of a culture that is not working is one my consulting group came across recently in which managers proudly stated that their culture valued openness, opinions, positive disagreement and truth-telling. On closer examination, however, managers actually lacked what they called "mercy skills" in organizational interaction. Simply put, they shoot the messenger and punish all who speak up or disagree.
Where is your culture today, and where do you want it to be in 2014?
John P. Foster, managing member of the management consulting firm Pathfinder Group, has built several businesses and helps executives meet their goals by developing strategies to manage risk. He can be reached at email@example.com
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Never give in to pessimism. Don't know that you can't fly, and you will soar like an eagle. Don't end up regretting what you did not do because you were too lazy or too frightened to soar. Be a bumblebee! And soar to the heavens. You can do it.~~ Earl Brakken, Commencement address at University of Hawaii 2004
I caught a quick image of an eagle in flight a few weeks back. Whenever I see an eagle it reminds me that we all have the ability to soar. Sometimes all it takes is for us to spread our wings and try.


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Wallace L. Lee: In Memoriam
Originally published: 05.01.13 by Jim Norris
Wallace Lee passed away on March 26, 2013. He was 82. He was interred at the Lee family plot on the Triple L Ranch in Franklin, TN, on March 28.
Wallace was the Past President of the Lee Company, a major mechanical contracting firm and a Past President of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America (ACCA), having served in 1984-1985.
Those are the facts about this dynamic leader who changed the mechanical contracting industry and ACCA. Those facts only begin the story.
The first thing one needs to know about Wallace Lee is that he was a man of faith. He had a deep and abiding trust in his Creator that directed everything he did in life. Wallace's sense of honor, honesty, courage, dedication, and respect for others was rooted in his faith.
He was a man of unshakable integrity. In 1981, when his company suffered a devastating loss and was significantly in debt, Wallace took his financial statements to his banker and laid out the truth.
"Now we need to throw these away because we're starting over. I'll pay you and all our creditors within two years if you'll work with me." Two years later, everyone was paid.
• He and his brother Ted bought the family heating business from their Dad and built the Lee Company into a very successful design/build contracting company with over $100 million in annual sales.
• He built the Triple L Ranch into a world leader in cattle genetics and sold his personally bred Polled Hereford cattle to ranchers throughout North America and Europe.
• He transformed ACCA into a leading voice of the HVAC/mechanical contracting industry.
He accomplished all of this through his charismatic leadership. People just didn't want to let Wallace Lee down. He could fill a room with hope and aspiration.
Wallace would never tell others what to do — he'd just show them what he was doing. For many years, he was a popular featured speaker at association meetings and industry gatherings.
He identified himself as a "thief of ideas" and urged others to follow his example.
In his deceptively simple, homespun way, he taught literally thousands of contractors how to be successful as design/build mechanical contractors. If a contractor wanted to thrive in business, he needed only do what Wallace Lee was talking about.
He maintained extremely high standards for the employees of the Lee Company. He demanded excellence and honesty in all dealings with customers. He never settled for less.
And he totally loved his employees. This would be obvious when I visited the business and Wallace introduced me to one employee after another who had been with him for 20, 25, or 30 years. He took great pride in their success with the Lee Company.
Wallace was a dedicated family man. After finishing his tour of duty in the service, he and his wife Ann bought a plot of land outside of Nashville as a safe and secure place to raise their family and pursue their dream of raising cattle. That plot of land grew into the Triple L Ranch.
Wallace and Ann had five children. Four of them live full time on the Triple L. The fifth teaches in Nashville and lives on the ranch on weekends. Ten grandchildren live on the ranch.
One son, Bill Lee, runs the Lee Company. His brother Steven runs the ranch. Son-in-law Daniel Fold, daughter Carol's husband, is Herdsman. They do this — they live there — they work there — because they want to. That's a remarkable testament to the kind of man Wallace was.
Wallace Lee was an absolute joy to be with. We traveled Europe together, we visited the Yukon and the Northwest Territories, and we camped in Alaska four or five times. He was interested in everything: history, science, genetics, psychology, politics, and more.
Wallace Lee was a true friend who inspired me to be a better person. I shall spend the rest of my life striving to be the kind of person he knew I could be.
Jim Norris was the Executive Vice President of the Air Conditioning Contractors of America from 1969 to 1998. He left ACCA in 1998 to take the position of Chairman of the Board of GroupMac. Jim is now retired and works as a stage actor in Lewisburg, WV.
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WELLS, Maine — The Wells Rotary Club had the opportunity to listen to the story of one woman's inspiring journey as she kayaks 2,500 miles from Maine to Guatemala in an effort to raise awareness and donation for a Maine-based nonprofit called Safe Passage.
Deb Walters, a 63-year-old retired scientist and grandmother, was the guest speaker at the Wells Rotary Club on July 21 and had only a few minutes to speak before she had to leave to continue on her journey. Walters said that seven years ago she thought of the idea of kayaking from Maine to Guatemala to raise funds for Safe Passage, an organization she learned about after meeting its late founder, Hanley Denning, on a trip to Guatemala with her Rotary Club from Unity in 2005. Safe Passage aims to help children and families living in Guatemala City, according to its website.
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Walters said she asked mothers there what they wished most for their children. The women told her they hoped their children could go to school.
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Derrick Jones Jr. won the Dunk Contest on Saturday in an epic showdown with Aaron Gordon.
Jones and Gordon extended the Dunk Contest into overtime and treated us to some of the best dunks in recent memory. Jones put on a spectacular performance with one 360, between-the-legs dunk that was reminiscent of Vince Carter. Gordon dunked over Tacko Fall in his final dunk and put up dunks worthy of a trophy himself. Jones earned the nickname of Airplane Mode on Saturday and is an option at the end of your bench in 14-team leagues.
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Buddy Hield beat Devin Booker and Davis Bertans with 27 points in the final round of the 3-Point Contest on Saturday.
Hield had to hit the final shot to beat Booker by one point and take home the 2020 3-Point Contest trophy. Hield is third in made 3-pointers this season with 207. He has been on a roll lately and is a top-30 player over the past month while averaging 21.1 points and 4.5 threes per game. Hield should have a top-50 finish to the season.
February 15, 2020, 8:38 pmBam AdebayoC, Miami Heat
Bam Adebayo beat Domantas Sabonis in the final round of the Skills Challenge to take home the victory on Saturday.
Adebayo beat Spencer Dinwiddie, Pascal Siakam and Domantas Sabonis on his way to winning the 2020 Skills Challenge. Adebayo was able to showcase his talents on Saturday and has been a top-40 player in 9-cat leagues this season. He will have early-round value moving forward.
February 15, 2020, 6:08 pmEvan TurnerSG, Minnesota Timberwolves
Evan Turner is set to work out for the Clippers, per Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports.
Turner is working on a buyout with the Wolves and Minnesota never had any intention of holding ET back from other work. He's only appeared in 19 games all season and would be at the end of LA's rotation, so there's minimal fantasy impact if Turner finds his way to the Clips.
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February 15, 2020, 12:10 amMiles BridgesSF, Charlotte Hornets
Miles Bridges took home the MVP Award of Team USA's 151-131 win over Team World in the Rising Stars game on Friday night, scoring 20 points, grabbing five boards, dishing out five assists and chipping in three steals.
He hit some big shots, including a couple of three of three pointers (3-of-7 3PT). The MVP winner was not immediately obvious after the game and Bridges was the beneficiary of a wide open field. He is clinging to value in standard 12-team leagues and has been a little better of late, averaging 20 points and seven rebounds over the past two weeks. If you have an open roster spot, Bridges offers consistently average production if you need a space-filler.
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Collin Sexton played 20 minutes Friday in the Rising Stars game in Chicago, putting up 21 points, five rebounds and three assists.
Sexton was not pleased about being left off the original roster for Team USA. He got an opportunity due to Tyler Herro's injury and had a good showing Friday evening. He has been very consistent thus far, holding top-125 value on the season and ranks in the top-75 over the past two months. Keep running him out there.
February 14, 2020, 11:49 pmBrandon ClarkePF, Memphis Grizzlies
Brandon Clarke was in the starting lineup for Team World in the Rising Stars game Friday night and put up 22 points on 11-of-15 FG and added eight rebounds.
Clarke has the best shooting percentage out of all NBA rookies this season, sitting at a cool 62.3% from the floor. He didn't let up Friday, only missing four of his 15 shots. Clarke has sneakily almost cracked the top-75 in standard leagues this season and needs to be owned across the board. The Grizzlies are surprising everybody and currently hold a spot in the playoffs, so Clarke should maintain his value.
February 14, 2020, 11:39 pmRJ BarrettSF, New York Knicks
RJ Barrett had 27 points, six rebounds, five assists and chipped in three steals in the Rising Stars game Friday against Team USA.
He had a decent night shooting the ball, going 11-for-17 from the floor, although he missed all four of the triples he attempted. Barrett's fantasy output has really been disappointing so far this season. He ranks outside the top-300 and fantasy managers, if you've managed to hold on to him all the way to this point, should be hoping the Knicks decide to really commit to letting their young guys loose after the All Star break.
February 14, 2020, 2:15 pmWendell Carter Jr.C, Chicago Bulls
Wendell Carter Jr. (right ankle sprain) is hoping to play next Thursday, the Bulls' first game after the All-Star break.
Carter has been sidelined since leaving Chicago's game on January 6 and was hit with a 4-6 week timetable, so a return out of the break would certainly line up with that. His return will likely eliminate Cristiano Felicio from the rotation while Luke Kornet will take a sizable hit to his playing time as well. Thaddeus Young also stands to lose some minutes but is worth hanging onto as long as Lauri Markkanen remains out, even if his ceiling will be lowered. Now would be a great time to make sure that WCJ wasn't dropped in any of your leagues.
Source: Cody Westerlund on Twitter
February 14, 2020, 1:03 pmKevin KnoxSF, New York Knicks
After Kevin Knox played just 10 minutes on Wednesday, Knicks coach Mike Miller said, "Just having minutes isn't the end-all."
Miller's starting to get questions about why some of New York's younger players are still buried in the rotation, often in favor of lower-upside veterans. Knox and Dennis Smith Jr. are obvious cases, with Frank Ntilikina and Allonzo Trier in a similar boat. Miller believes that development is more than just playing a lot. "It's about how these guys get better just if they get 10 more minutes in a game. There are a lot of things that go into the development to make these guys better… I think there are other ways and other factors [than minutes]." Leon Rose might think otherwise, but it doesn't sound like changes are coming unless it's via an edict from above Miller in the organization.
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Steve Guttenberg? In a horror flick? The star of "Short Circuit" and "Police Academy" is set to appear in Daniel Maze's upcoming direct-to-video slasher flick "Cornered!" The trailer is fairly amusing, but then again, when was the last time Steve Guttenberg delivered the goods? Anyone? That's what I thought.
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