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Wed., June 30, 2010, 12:51 p.m.
Dorn apologizes (sort of) for Cliff Lee comparison
OLYMPIA -- State Schools Superintendent Randy Dorn is sorry he compared his salary to Mariners' pitcher Cliff Lee's salary last week.
Which isn't too surprising, considering he's been taking flak for it for the last week on talk radio and elsewhere. It probably doesn't help that Lee is proving to be well worth his salary these days, what with last night's third consecutive complete game victory. If Dorn put up numbers like that for school test scores or graduation rates, he might be able to get a raise, too.
The background: Last week at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing, Dorn was telling legislators it was time for the nation to rethink priorities and put more resources on education.
"I don't want to tell you how many pitches my salary would pay for, for Cliff Lee from the Mariners. It would be embarassing. Somebody who's responsible for a 1,050,000 kids. It would only add up to a few pitches," Dorn said. "We have our priorities out of whack."
"It should be embarassing to our state, and the citizenry of the United States, that we're only willing to spend, basically, a half a game, to be responsible for 1,050,000 students."
Gov. Chris Gregoire was asked this morning what she thought of Dorn's comments, and she declined to get involved in comparing the SPIs and ERAs. But she didn't support giving out raises, either.
"Every family that I know of in Washington state is struggling," she said. "Nobody that I know of in public or private sectors is expecting pay raises now."
Today, Dorn issued a statement about his previous statement, insisting that he was merely trying to make the point that we need to spend more on education by comparing it with what's spent on professional sports.
"Unfortunately I made the mistake of using my salary as the point of comparison. It was a poor analogy and I regret using it," he said. "But I don't regret pointing out the absurdity of our current lack of commitment to education funding. I strongly believe we need to reset government and actually dedicate ourselves to fully funding a basic education for every child in this state. Our future as a society depends on it."
So here's the problem with the logic in today's statement...
If he really wanted to compare what's spent on education with what's spent on sports, he can't compare his salary, which is $121,618, to Lee's, which is about $9 million.
Baseball is a meritocracy. That is, people get paid for doing well based on what the market says they are worth. Players have a base salary, but they get raises and bonuses for playing better. And if they stay around long enough and play much better, they get to negotiate for even more money. That's the position Lee is in right now, pitching well as he approaches free agency.
Education, at least the part of it that Dorn is in, is a bureaucracy. It's a state agency funded by tax payers and the salary is set by a commission based on comparisons with other states and similar jobs elsewhere. Barring some malfeasance in office, Dorn gets that salary regardless of how well he does or the students do -- at least until his term is up at the end of 2012. then he can ask voters to extend his contract, or find another job. His pay is not base on his performance, it's really based on the state's way of guessing what the job is worth.
And he knew that was the salary when he ran for election in 2008.
If he wanted to argue the relative support of professional sports versus education, a better comparison might be what the Mariners spend on their budget compared to what Washington state spends on education.
But can be a tough argument, because the Ms probably spend a couple hundred million, total (their salaries are at $98 million, but there's uniforms, travel, advertising, all those bobble head dolls they give away...) But they also take in money, and the more they spend on good players like Lee who win games -- in theory -- the better the team plays and the more fans come and the more money is spent on beer and licensed T shirts.
The state spends billions, with a B, on education, for those 1,050,000 students. But the demand for a seat in the classroom is driven by demographics. The ability of the students to learn is driven by individual ability plus outside factors like stable homes, good nutrition, health, competent teachers and facilities. Giving Dorn or any state superintendent of public instruction a raise isn't going to change that.
Professional sports and public education run on two completely different models. One's a business, the other is not.
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Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that a pair of raids conducted in Africa by American special forces signaled the ongoing determination of the United States to bring terrorists to justice and sent the message that "members of Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can't hide."
The Pentagon confirmed Saturday night that U.S. special forces had captured alive Abu Anas al Libi in Tripoli, Libya. Libi, also known as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, was wanted in connection with the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The operation was carried out by the Delta Force, a U.S. official told Fox News on Sunday.
The other Africa operation targeted a commander in Al Shabaab, the militant group in Somalia linked to last month's Kenya mall attack that killed more than 60 people. The Navy SEALS involved in that raid were members of SEAL Team Six, the same unit that killed in Laden in his Pakistan hideout in 2011, the U.S. official said.
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From Socialist Review, No.273, April 2003, p.18-19.
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Capitalism's claim of promoting democracy is continually undermined by the growing gap between rich and poor.
In his speech in the House of Commons debate on war with Iraq, Tony Blair allowed himself a rather rambling excursion into what he saw as the basic reasons for the conflict. Perhaps unwittingly slapping down those of his ministerial colleagues who had likened Saddam Hussein to Hitler, he accepted that comparisons with the 1930s were not very relevant. The real battle, he said, is not between relatively rich countries, as it was then. Instead, the battle now is between civilised democracies like Britain and the United States and rogue regimes that could get control of weapons of mass destruction.
This analysis conveniently avoids the real reason for the world crisis – the growing division between rich and poor, between those who have enough money so that they enjoy democracy and those who have hardly any money, food or water, and therefore can't.
This is an ancient and familiar division. In the age of Bush and Blair, it has grown almost out of recognition. Both leaders and both governments are hell-bent on increasing it. Examples are so obtrusive and frequent that it is almost embarrassing to repeat them. A report earlier this year by the American Federal Reserve estimated that in the early Clinton years, 1992-98, the 'net worth' of the richest 10 percent in the United States stayed fairly steady at 13 times more than the poorest 20 percent. Between 1998 to 2001 the gap shot up to 22.4 times more, and is still rising. Jared Bernstein of the normally sober Economic Policy Institute was shocked. He warned, 'I think the increase in inequality that's evident in this report is really pretty alarming. It should really alert those who are thinking about implementing aggressive tax policies.' Perhaps he was thinking of President George W. Bush, who responded to the alert by cutting taxes on dividends paid by a handful of the American rich who he represents.
In Britain the gap is equally horrific, though less dramatically documented. Everyone knows about the poor – nine and a half million homes that can't afford proper heating, eight million people who can't afford one or more essential household items like fridges, telephones and carpets, four million who can't afford fresh fruit and vegetables. The rich are more comfortably protected from statistics – the National Office of Statistics keeps no figures for the richest 1 percent, but everyone accepts that under Blair and Brown the rich and super-rich have sailed off into the stratosphere leaving those impoverished millions in the gutter.
Nor is it quite accurate to moan about the divisions between rich and poor countries. Of course, the statistics of that division are shocking, and of course the rich countries gang together in the G8 to make sure the division continues. But the divisions persist, sometimes even more horrifically, in those poor countries too. The World Wealth Report by the US banker Merrill Lynch in 2000 charted the rapid increase in millionaires all over the world, but found the rise sharpest in Asia, a continent made up mainly of desperately poor people.
These divisions are a far clearer guide to the world crisis than the rise in terrorism or rogue regimes. Indeed, they explain both. The fact that rogue regimes can continue to dominate their people, or that terrorism seems so attractive to so many of the dispossessed, flows directly from the divisions of wealth and property all over the world. The yawning and ever increasing gap between the wealthy and the masses is the central flaw in the capitalist economic system to which all the world's leaders, including the rogue regimes, subscribe. Any policy that does not seek to solve that problem is bound to fail. Any war, and particularly an expensive war like the one in Iraq, can only widen those divisions and therefore make things worse.
Some people still argue that these divisions can best be healed by the democratic process that obtains in Europe and the US. In the old days of the last century an influential group of people called social democrats argued that with the votes of the masses behind them they could, in their words, achieve a 'fundamental and irreversible shift of wealth and power in favour of working people and their families'. That was the British Labour Party's official policy in 1973, 1974 (twice) and even (with the word 'irreversible' tactfully left out) in 1979. Such a promise is almost unthinkable today. The Labour Party, like the Democratic Party in the US, is now a plaything of the rich. The government's policies are manacled to the priorities of the rich. The rich have, quite literally, bought their way into the government as firmly as have their corporate colleagues in the US.
One result of this abandonment of social democracy has been the decline in democracy itself. If the policies of the competing parties are the same, if Democrat is really the same as Republican and Labour the same as Tory, then what's the point in voting? The poor, the workers and the dispossessed lose their champions and, quite logically, abstain from voting. A great wailing went up when less than 60 percent of those eligible used their votes in the 2001 general election, but that has been the situation in the US for as long as anyone can remember. If electoral politics gets taken over by the rich, used by the rich for their corruptions and their power games, why should the poor and the workers give credibility to that process with their votes?
One sad result of this sad process has been the decline of socialist ideas. Many Labour supporters conclude from the long series of Labour failures that the original central inspiration of Labour – socialism – was flawed. Exactly the opposite is the case. The central ideas of socialism are reinforced every day by the continuing disaster of capitalist society. The unimaginable corruptions of private enterprise in recent years – Enron, WorldCom, Ahold, Railtrack, Equitable Life, hedge funds, split investment 'trusts', the collapse of private pension funds – are all contemporary proof of the case for public enterprise, for a planned economy in place of one cast adrift in a sea of stock-market chaos.
The growing gap between rich and poor is the clearest possible proof of the need for equality – for a society where people whatever their abilities earn roughly the same. And the hierarchical nature of control and power under capitalism – every discrimination, every arbitrary sacking and arrogant abuse of workers by corporate bullies – shouts out for a society controlled from below, a genuine democracy whose institutions are firmly and irrevocably fixed among the masses. The meteoric decline of social democracy in the last three decades leads many people to believe that such a democracy is idealistic, unobtainable. But the truth is that every time the masses stir themselves for reform, they automatically throw up organisations far more democratic than anything experienced or patronised by parliaments.
The notion of a representative democracy controlled from below where the representatives are not only elected but can be instantly recalled by the represented, and where the representatives not only promote policies but carry them out, is as relevant today as it was when it was first put into practice by the Paris Commune 132 years ago. The only certainty about such a democracy is that by its nature it cannot possibly be introduced by fawning parliaments such as the one at Westminster, still less by the lobbyists' plaything on Capitol Hill in Washington. It can only come from a movement from below.
Such a movement is much more easy to understand today than even a year ago. The vast movement against war in Iraq – by far the biggest such movement I have seen even in my long lifetime – shows how many people can and will act when they see their governments acting irresponsibly. Many of those millions of people who have demonstrated against the war feel just as strongly about the way the world and its politics are run by corporations, for profit, for the rich, by exploiting the workers and the poor. They are shocked by the constant examples of capitalist waste, of money and wealth spent on frivolity rather than on meeting the needs of a world pining in pain. A recent meeting of the G8 countries agreed to spend a sum of money on the poor that was only just equivalent to the cost of organising G8 conferences!
If the mighty human energy unleashed to contest the war can be directed to organise for socialism and against capitalism, if the power of the people who do the work can be organised against those who profit from it, a real prospect opens up for a new and genuine socialist democracy which can truly liberate the world not just from dictators and weapons of mass destruction but from those who profit from both.
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Meet Apollo, the donkey I sponsored. Actually, you've already met him, but more photos couldn't hurt. The people at The Donkey Sanctuary of Canada have sent me these larger photos of him, and he really is too lovely.
Here's another lovely thing, in the form of a poem I thoroughly enjoyed reading last night. Enjoy:
Translating a 'Prolog'
by Jean Kent
In the spring sunshine, under wisteria through the ironbark—
a sky of emphatic blue above, all around me
a bath of light—
While the tortoiseshell cat is sleeping, wound into a spiral
(on its wrought-iron seat) of caramel, charcoal
and lime-white—
I'm trying to translate a German poem. Earlier the cat
sat on the dictionary. All English translations
of vertrauen—'to trust'? 'have confidence in'?—
disappeared under sunwarmed fur. Now she's confident
she's my mistress again, the purring bundle
settles in her own space—
leaves me to the foreign words in my hands.
Distracted, I hear a crackling under loquat leaves—breaking sounds
below all that my trees have shrugged off
in the last half year—
I wasn't here to rake them clear, and now the leaves
hide, then slowly release, a lizard that looks
like a sundappled creek—
a patient flow across the path, its flick of tongue
a lick of blue, in and out
of the light.
The reptile slides under another blanket of leaves
on a garden bed. The cat still sleeps.
From a forest of German
a snail in a cape of rain begins to wake.
On a book's bright field, oak leaves and acorns
scatter …
The blue-tongue lizard when it blinks in the open again
is under the cat's dreaming chair.
Sunlight aspics them
one above the other, both oblivious, peculiar
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Two-time PFA Player of the Year winner and last season's FWA Footballer of the Year Gareth Bale is Real Madrid's number one transfer target this summer.
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Despite some good recent results, Steven Davis insists Southampton are not getting carried away.
The Saints have beaten Liverpool and Chelsea in their past two outings to move four points clear of the drop zone but midfielder Davis says they cannot rely on solely those triumphs to get them out of relegation trouble.
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"We all know what we have to go and give in each game to go and get a result and that's the way we are in the Premier League.
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The West Oak High School student handbook features an official student creed, which included the affirmation "I believe in faith, for without it, I am a lost soul in a lost world." AU objected to this affirmation, explaining that it is unconstitutional for a public school to inject religious affirmations into school curriculum and culture. Subsequent to our letter, the school district removed the religious affirmation from the student creed.


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Defining an enterprise mobile device passcode policy can be a difficult task. Security managers must meet two opposing goals: (1) Create a strong enough passcode policy to protect the device if it's stolen or lost while (2) not annoying users with needless length or complexity.
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For All Nails #313: Uncommon Women
by David Mix Barrington
Excerpts from Historiae Virorum Illustrorum Novangliae , a Latin reader by William Coe Collar, published in 1903 by Athenaeum Press, Boston, Massachusetts, N.C., CNA. (English translation by D.A.M.B.)
Dame Margaret Fuller: Boston's Woman of Letters
Sarah Margaret Fuller was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (now part of the city of Boston) in 1810, the daughter of Timothy Fuller, a lawyer, graduate of Harvard College, and member of the Northern Confederation Council. From her earliest childhood she was trained by her father in Latin and Greek, and was accepted as the intellectual equal of any man in the literary salons of Boston. She worked as a teacher and private tutor, and organized conversation societies exclusively for women. Her writing on topical affairs, particularly the civil controversy of 1841, brought her to the attention both of Bishop Emerson and the editors of the New York Herald, where she became a regular columnist. In 1849, as social and political revolution swept Italy, Fuller went to Rome to describe for the Herald the emergence of the new Kingdom of Italy under the guidance of Pope Pius VIII FN1.
It was there that she engaged in a series of debates with Monsignor Guido Sarducci on the nature of woman and its implications for religious thought and practice. She argued that women were capable of any kind of learning or employment, and should be free to define their own existences rather than being made subject to their husbands. Her remarks were published as a book, The Nature of Woman. Though Sarducci rebutted many of her points, the debate was credited with affecting Pius VIII's 1858 encyclical De Familia Humana, where marriage is described as an equal partnership of man and woman, and both men and women are urged to educate themselves to their full potential FN2.
In her own writings, Fuller commended the Roman Catholic Church's progress toward a full respect for woman's dignity, but went further to say that her dignity and potential could be achieved either with or without union with a man -- she herself never married. Within the Church, leaders of women's religious orders, such as the great physician and scientist Sister Danielle Richard of Montreal, often cited the Unitarian Anglican Fuller as an inspiration.
On her return to North America, Fuller began the two other works for which she is now best known, her history of Rome (published in twelve volumes in 1878) and the foundation of the girl's academy in the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston FN3 that now bears her name. The school (founded with the help of Bishop Emerson but serving girls of all religious backgrounds) combines the rigorous training in the classics and other letters that Fuller herself received as a girl with practical training in home, farm, and industrial arts. In 1887, in his last honors list, Governor-General John McDowell asked the Grand Council to name Fuller a Dame of the Confederation, the first woman to receive this honor for contributions to letters and to education. She received the honor from the Viceroy in Burgoyne, her last major journey outside Boston before her death in 1889. That honors list remains the latest in the Confederation's history, as the administrations of Governors-General Gallivan and Burgen have so far declined to submit further names for consideration.
Mary Lyon: Pioneer of Women's Education
Mary Mason Lyon was born in Buckland, a small village in Deerfield District, Massachusetts, in 1797. She had a difficult upbringing, as the death of her father in 1802 left her remaining family to manage a small farm, but showed a gift for reading and arithmetic from an early age. Formal education was only sporadically available in the countryside, and Lyon eventually left home for the town of Byfield in Newburyport District, where she was first a pupil and soon also a teacher at a female seminary established by the Rev. Joseph Emerson (no relation to the Bishop) and his gifted assistant Zilpah Polly Grant. After working with Grant to establish two other girl's schools, Lyon developed her vision for a seminary that would provide comprehensive education for older girls, from all social, economic, and religious backgrounds.
Originally named Deerfield Female Seminary, Lyon's school featured low tuition and rigorous entrance exams testing mental flexibility as well as specific learning. Recognizing that girls arrived with different levels of formal academic preparation through no fault of their own, she admitted particularly promising but undertrained girls for six months of special training in spring and summer before they began the regular first-year courses of instruction in the fall. Along with the traditional subjects of Latin, Greek, and English literature, DFS required mathematical competence of all its graduates and trained them in the sciences, including extensive nature study. It was Lyon and her students, together with those of Hooker College in nearby Amherst, who first carefully studied the large preserved birdlike footprints near the Connecticut River, now believed to be evidence of giant prehistoric lizards.
By the time of Lyon's death in 1862, the college renamed in her honor was fully as much a place of higher education as Hooker or Harvard, and formed a part of the system of colleges established and supported by Bishop Emerson (though Lyon, herself a dissenting Christian rather than an Anglican, gave the college no formal association with the Church and emphasized its openness to all creeds).
Today Mary Lyon College is a leading, perhaps the leading, undergraduate institution for women in the Confederation. It includes the art historian Dorothea Vanderbilt among its alumnae, and the agitator and poetess Emily Dickinson among its former students FN4.
Emily Dickinson: The Bellatrix of Amherst
Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in the small farming town of Amherst in the Deerfield district of Massachusetts. Her grandfather Samuel, her father Edward, and brother Austin were all civic leaders in the town, district, and province, and Edward in particular held several political offices. At the age of ten, the beginning of her education was interrupted by the civil disturbances of 1840-1, including the burning of the nearby city of Holyoke. The Dickinsons took several refugees from the fire into their home, and Emily said later that their experiences of suffering at the hands of Northern Confederation and private forces was the catalyst for her lifetime of struggle against injustice.
Emily attended Mary Lyon College in nearby Deerfield from 1846 to 1848, withdrawn by her father in the face of expulsion for organizing a student protest against required chapel attendance and physical education classes. Dissatisfied with the small-town life and with her family home, she moved to Brooklyn where she unsuccessfully sought work as a journalist. There she became involved in a variety of political protest activities, particularly in opposition to conscription for the Rocky Mountain War.
She was first arrested for disorderly conduct in May of 1849 in one of the protests against Henry Gilpin's investiture as Governor-General -- after one night in jail the authorities dismissed the charge of disorderly conduct rather than keep her in questionable conditions. In this way she discovered the tactic that would be central to her career as a political activist. By deliberately committing minor non-violent crimes, such as chaining herself to the railing of a public building, she compelled the authorities to arrest her, attracting attention to her cause, diverting their resources, and raising the spectre of a public trial she could use as a platform for further agitation. This was not without risk, as she was beaten several times and often confined in harsh conditions that no doubt shortened her life -- she eventually died of consumption in 1875 during a strike at a McGregor Industries factory in Philadelphia.
Since her death, Emily Dickinson has obtained some notice as a poetess. Until her final break with her family in 1858 (sparked by her father's election to the Grand Council as a Liberal), she would record her curious short poems in notebooks on her visits to Amherst. Afterward, she left countless scraps of paper behind her in friends' homes, jails and seedy boardinghouses, where many were preserved and later collected and published. But she will best be remembered as the diminutive figure marching at the head of a body of protesters, or being led away to prison, as the voice of conscience for the Confederation, urging it towards equality for women and dignity for the working man.
Victoria Elizabeth Hartford was an Uncommon Woman. FN6 It said so right there on the acceptance letter from Mary Lyon College, addressed to her with all three of her names. The college's judgement, after all, only ratified that of her teachers at Fuller and the committee that had awarded her the Dedham Parish scholarship. Her uncommonness, it seemed, was manifested in the same academic skills that Fuller expected of all its students -- she was just better at those skills than anyone else. To the victors of the academic race went the spoils, in this case the chance to spend three years in Deerfield at the expense of the parish, essentially being paid to read books and write about them.
Which suited Vickie just fine, as it happened. If MLC appreciated her uncommonness as much as had Fuller and the parish, she might eventually earn a living reading books and writing about them. Dame Mags had managed that in the last century, when it was harder -- there was your real uncommon woman. Her dispatches from Italy, her Roman history, her school, all through her own skill. There were more ways for a woman to make her own way now, she thought -- judges, space pilots, politicians, space pilots turned politicians, but Dame Mags had it right. Start by learning your language, and then the languages that formed it, your history, your literature -- when you know that, you have something to say. Then just say it in the clearest and most powerful way, and maybe you can reach Popes and Governors-General and, more importantly, readers around the world. An uncommon ambition for an Uncommon Woman, indeed.
Like Queen Elizabeth, Dame Mags was also uncommon in not having a husband. No more virgin than the Virgin Queen, of course -- at least according to one heavily thumbed magazine article FN7 in the MFA library. The author portrayed Fuller as a total libertine who had been the lover of nearly every important North American literary figure of the century, before you started counting foreigners. It had been uncommon of Vickie, she supposed, to have spent an entire free Saturday at the Dudley Square library tracking down the article's sources. Sloppy! And she had been paid to write this stuff, at least by a jeffie magazine! Sure, Dame Mags had it off with Hawthorne, Woodville, Emerson, Garibaldi, and probably Richardson. But both Dickinson and Lucy Stone? One (much better researched) book suggested that Fuller might have experimented with Sapphism, but there was nothing conclusive. And wasn't Whitman supposed to have been a Platonist?
Her wheeling companion, she saw, had drawn ahead of her while she pondered these matters. At the top of the next hill, David was waiting for her, stopped to look at a flock of sheep and their guard llama FN8 behind a fence. She shifted down and pedaled a bit faster. As she remembered, the swimming hole was about three more miles. Her body was holding up just fine. Not an uncommon body, for all that David was fascinated by it like one of MacPherson's geese FN9, but one that enjoyed the physical sensations of love as much as any. Did she love David? She liked him, was fond about him, cared for him, was happy to be a couple with him at school and for the summer. Which was why, in a sufficiently private corner of the swimming hole, she would be taking off the top but not the bottom of her new Mexican swimdress for him. Was that love? As good a name for it as any, she thought.
In four weeks, though, she was moving a hundred miles away, and David was staying for his last year at Roxbury. He would follow her after that year, he said -- Hooker College was only ten miles from Deerfield, and he was a certainty for next year's parish scholarship. Vickie didn't want him making a decision like that on account of her, but she'd researched it -- Hooker was a fine place for his mathematics, not Burgoyne or Champlain, but a fine place. And the parish scholarship had to be used in the province, and most of the other good places were in or near Boston. What was the point of "going away to college" and staying in the same city? So she had decided -- Hooker was all right for David.
But why was she making that decision? The classic reason for a woman to never marry was to prevent all her decisions being made by her husband. But it seemed to Vickie that the real problem was the reverse. For all that he could make a calculator do tricks or win a cross-country race, David was just a MacPherson goose. First fascinated with those space pilots, now fascinated with her. He would be happy to follow her to college, follow her to graduate school, follow her all her life -- he would marry her now if she wanted.
And that made no sense. Uncommon Women should rule their own lives, but not another's. Which was why this love affair was going so far and no further, and probably had to end before the summer did. But not today. Today was a day for wheeling, swimming, and cuddling with her boyfriend. There would be plenty of other days to be uncommon.
Forward to FAN #314: The Magnificent Anachronism.
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I... really actually dislike this drawing sometimes. Self-portrait, I feel that I mutilated my face in it. Not any identifiable mistake, exactly, it's just... not right somehow. 19"x25" poster-sized charcoal, for no real reason other than that I wanted to. Done at my friend Amanda's house.
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This is the best piece of artwork I have seen on this site so far. You have an absolute talent.
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Thankyou very much! =] I like how this one came out as well.
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u dislike this why? well i love this drawing i love all of ur art it's all amazing and guess what i'm taging all of ur art as my favorite. this look's like someone i don't want 2 say some poeple may think i'm crazy u no i don't care i'll say it look's like drew barrymore to me. u no that's sorta funny my sisters think i look like her but i don't.alright great work keep it up. :)bye bye!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pioneers' DMR leads WBU at Texas Relays
Published 7:00 pm, Saturday, April 3, 2010
Last week when he filled out the entry forms for the Texas Relays, Wayland Baptist track and field coach Brian Whitlock did not notice that the Men's Distance Medley Race was for university entries only. The WBU entry was accepted anyway, and after Saturday's race, Whitlock's Pioneers proved that they absolutely belonged in the race. The foursome of Kirby Dunn, Andre Hamilton, Hildon Boen and Kennedy Kithuka ran a school-record 9 minutes, 44.51 seconds in the relay, finishing just behind the University of Texas for second place. The Pioneers crossed the finish line in front of UCLA, Texas Tech, TCU, Baylor and LSU.
"The guys ran a phenomenal race against some big-time competition," said Whitlock. "I thought going in that we might surprise some people, and I think we definitely did that."
One other school record was also established during the prestigious Relays. Kithuka, a freshman, came back from running the anchor leg on the record-breaking DMR to run a 4:09.37 in the Jerry Thompson Invitational One-Mile Run. The previous mark of 4:11.24 was set just last year in the same race by Kirby Dunn.
Kithuka wasn't the only WBU individual to turn in an automatic qualifying performance in Austin. Senior Kydia Echols posted a NAIA qualifying standard of 2:15.51 in the 800 meters, and freshman Myrun Roundtree recorded a jump of 14.64 meters (48 feet 0.5 inches) in the triple jump.
The 4x100-meter relay teams for the both the Pioneer men and women reached qualifying standards, although the women's team of Leandria Lee, Kimberly Smith, Bianca Grant and Keliesha Ross ran a better time on Thursday in Abilene at the McMurry Relays. The men's team of Lee Prevost, Caleb McLean, Jerry-Lee Davis, and Roundtree placed third in the college division, running a qualifying time of 41.22.
The other qualifying relay was the women's 4x800 team. Echols, Villegas, Jennifer Secrest and Elva Pedroza finished ninth in the 4x800-meter relay with an automatic qualifying time of 9:28.45.
Both the men's and women's Sprint Medley Relays also turned in impressive performances. The men's team of Lee Prevost, Jerry-Lee Davis, Caleb McLean and Dunn finished second in the college division with a time of 3:20.98. Smith, Lee, Ross and Echols ran a 4:00.05 in the university/college division and finished in fifth place. Neither medley relay event is run at the NAIA Championships.
A provisional qualifying time was also turned in at Austin. Villegas, a freshman, met the "B" standard in the 800 meters with a time of 2:17.00.
A portion of the Pioneer teams stopped off in Abilene on their way to Austin to compete at the McMurry Relays on Thursday.
Among that group were the women's sprinters. Smith, Grant and Lee each turned in qualifying times in the 100 meters, while Ross met the standard in the 200. Smith finished the 100 meters in first place with a time of 11.58, Grant was third with a 12.06, and Lee was fourth at 12.14. Ross ran an "A" standard time of 25.12 in the 200 meters to cross the finish line in fourth place. Lee met the provisional standard with a time of 25.22.
Those four young women also won the 4x100-meter relay in an automatic qualifying time of 46.88, and Grant took home the gold in the long jump with a mark of 6.06 meters.
On the men's side, Davis came in fourth in the 200-meters with a time of 21.53, Roundtree won the long jump with an automatic mark of 7.74 meters (25-4.75), and Brandon Mansfield captured first place honors in the hammer with a throw of 55.27 meters (181-4).
The men's 4x100-meter relay team also reached an automatic qualifying standard with their first-place finish, although they bettered their time of 41.47 two day's later in the state capitol.


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New Course Focuses on Islam and the Internet
Posted: August 13, 2002 at 1:00 am, Last Updated: November 30, -0001 at 12:00 am
By Elena Barbre
In keeping with the increased interest in Islam spurred by last fall's terrorist attacks, Stephen Ruth, a professor in the School of Public Policy, will present a new graduate course this fall, Islam and the Internet: Telecommunications and Technology in the Muslim World. The course examines the diffusion of Internet and other information technologies in the more than 50 countries where Islam is the predominant religion.
The course, which focuses on the public policy ramifications of the Internet Age, is part of a series of semester-long seminars that examine the problems inherent in coaxing profitability from information technology. Topics to be explored include how the increasing use of the Internet and electronic commerce in delivering government services will change standards of living in the Muslim world; how serious of a problem the digital divide presents and what can be done to alleviate its effects; what economic effects broadband proliferation may have in Muslim nations; and what role telemedicine and other Internet interventions will play in reducing death rates due to starvation in the world's poorer countries.
"It's a very interesting body of knowledge," says Ruth, who has assembled a broad range of materials to be supplemented by guest speakers with regional and technical expertise. Ruth will make extensive use of online resources and student-centered research projects in the course, using a blend of audio, visual, web-based, and traditional lecture approaches. Half of the class meetings will take place in a traditional setting and the other half will meet through distance learning settings.
The course is open to graduate students from all disciplines, and no previous technology or public policy course work is required. For more information, see the course syllabus or contact Ruth at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Spartak Moscow Region - Vidnoje head coach Pokey Chatman:
"we came out strong on both ends of the court and I am happy to say that all my players offered a great effort to this important win versus a very good team. It is good to have such a momentum a few days before our game versus the reigning Russian Champions."
Janel McCarville, Spartak power forward:
I am happy for not only having a good day but also by the fact our team played well a few days before our game versus last year's Russian Superleague Champions Ekaterinburg.
Fenerbache head coach Haydar Kemal Ates:
Spartak was very powerful and played very well but the truth is that we did not play good defense. Spartak had a great shooting day.


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Epic Drop: Top 15 Signs That Your MLB Team Won't Contend This Year
Your link is here, and while it seems like it's just a list of sadness from my A's fandom days, it really has more to do with those formative years watching the Phillies piss away the final days of Mike Schmidt by cranking out also-ran teams that sucked Mets' exhaust. When the pre-season is spent watching Jeff Russell and Jeff Stone ads, or GlennBo Wilson... well, it leaves a mark. A big one.


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Hovione Announces the Appointment of Colin Minchom, PhD, MRPharmS as Vice President, Particle Design Business Unit
Mar 12, 2012, 08:33 ET from Hovione
LOURES, Portugal, March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Hovione today announced the appointment of Dr. Colin Minchom as Vice President of its Particle Design Business Unit. Dr. Minchom was most recently with Patheon where he held the position of Vice President, Pharmaceutical Development Services for North America. Based in East Windsor, New Jersey, Dr. Minchom will report to Guy Villax, Hovione's Chief Executive Officer.
"We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Minchom to Hovione. He is an excellent addition to our management team in an area of critical importance to our customers. Dr. Minchom is responsible for innovating Hovione's Pharmaceutical Particle Design offerings to meet the development and commercial supply needs of the formulator with poorly bioavailable or otherwise challenging molecules," said Mr. Guy Villax.
"I look forward to building on what has been achieved by Hovione to date in its creation of solutions for customers needing Particle Design for improved bioavailability and also specialist delivery by non-oral routes," said Dr. Minchom.
Dr. Minchom's 29-year career includes extensive experience in the process, science and global regulation of drug development with emphasis on dosage forms and drug delivery. Prior to this role at Patheon Dr. Minchom was Head of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Cerebrus Ltd., a UK privately held pharmaceutical company and has also held positions of increasing scientific and management responsibility at Eli Lilly and E.R. Squibb in formulation and product development, project management and product management.
Dr. Minchom is chair of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) 2012 Annual Meeting Planning Committee for Chicago. He also serves as a volunteer at the United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) as member of an Expert Committee addressing small molecules. Dr. Minchom was until recently an advisor at the Medical and Related Sciences Discovery District (MaRS) incubator in Toronto, Canada.
Trained as a pharmacist at the Leicester School of Pharmacy in the UK, he holds a PhD in Industrial Pharmacy from the University of Wales College of Cardiff.
About Hovione. Hovione is a global company with over 50 years' experience in Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient and Intermediate Drug Product development and compliant manufacture. With four FDA inspected sites in the U.S., China, Ireland, and Portugal, the company focuses on the most demanding customers, in the most regulated markets. Hovione offers integrated API, particle design and formulation development and manufacturing. In the inhalation area, Hovione is the only independent company offering such a broad range of services.
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Need help about being an employee
[/color] My husband and I have been sort of talking about becoming employees on a cruise line. But there are a lot of questions I have. [list]*In your opinion, which is the best line to work for?
*Would it be likely that a husband and wife get hired for the same cruise line?
*Do they allow you to bring your children?
*What is the average pay?
*Can you be a long term employee, beyond 6 months?
*What is a typical day like, as far as work, breaks, down time?
*Is it worth it?
Few major cruise lines, other than NCL America, hire U.S. citizens for most positions.
There is no guarantee that a husband and wife would be hired for the same ship. If they did they may be allowed to share a SMALL cabin.
Only a Captain is allowed to have family onboard and that is for only a short time.
Pay depends on the position. Officers and technical personnel earn far more than crew.
Your contract is dependent if the you and the cruise line wish to continue it and if they wish to assign you to the same ship.
You work your rear off.
Is it worth it? For a husband and wife with children: No.
If you wish to work for the cruise lines I would look for a shoreside, corporate position.
Take care,
Thank you for your answers. It has helped. :D
You can search on Cruise ship employment and find a lot of info that might also help. Like Mike said, it is quite hard work and hours. I don't think it is as glamorous as it seems to the passengers unless you have one of the very few upper positions.
Royal had a position listed a few months ago, but it was a part-time position.
You meet/greet the customers at the airport & then have to bring them to the cruise terminal. I forogot which port it was, but it was in Florida.
Now I don't know about anyone else, but this did not seem too hard to me. I'd rather be moving around than sitting on my butt behind a desk.
Desk jobs are the worst in my opinion, you sit there all day & unless you work out, its a very easy way to gain weight. Too bad the media never mentions that fact.
Under the "People" section we have an extensive "crewmembers" message board. I suggest you look for answers in there. A link to it iis below:
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Involving Key Personnel
While planning for every situation that may occur in an emergency is impossible, being as prepared as possible is important. One way of accomplishing this is to consider the perspectives of various individuals and entities from senior staff and employees with disabilities to first-responders and agencies in nearby space. Involving these key groups early on will help everyone understand the existing state of plans and the challenges that each stakeholder group faces, whether it is related to physical, sensory, or cognitive ability, or personnel, budget, or resources.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) guidance reminds managers, "[E]mployees will look to you for support in a time of emergency. It is important that you understand the plan your agency has in place..." 7
- Are there individuals with disabilities involved in the planning process? If so, do their perspectives represent the broader views of the disability community?
Note: Not only is it important that many types of disabilities are represented (i.e., vision, mobility, cognitive, developmental, and hearing), but the ideas presented should encompass the views and needs of many individuals within a particular disability category.
Example: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) utilizes the Incident Command System (ICS) to enable the Special Needs Advisor to evaluate all emergency preparedness activities. This individual provides input on all emergency plans for personnel and visitor movement (evacuation and shelter-in-place), communication systems (purchases and upgrades), as well as training programs and schedules.
The Special Needs Advisor also studies the potential impact of policies under consideration by the USDA ICS. If a suggested program or system negatively impacts one of the four-major disability categories (vision, mobility, cognitive and hearing), then changes are made to ensure all have access to the information or program. Often, accommodations that are made for individuals with disabilities have benefited the entire building population.
- The active support and understanding of senior staff is essential to bringing about effective and lasting change. Do senior-level staff understand and support the plan or the need to make changes, so as to include people with disabilities?
Note: One possible method of getting management on board is to present the risk(s) for the organization (i.e., One person getting hurt will impact more than 100 people.).
Example: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) accomplished this critical step through a Secretarial memorandum to the agency's key leaders. The memorandum demonstrated both the significance of this issue to all the Departmental employees and the Secretary's commitment to individuals with disabilities. For example, the memorandum designated specific roles and responsibilities in developing the emergency preparedness plan. It also required that people with disabilities be involved in the plan development, and mandated that the DOT Secretary be provided a summary of steps that had been or would be taken (to fulfill the responsibilities and roles delineated). Accordingly, implementation and maintenance of the plan met with little resistance.
- First-responders and service providers are a valuable resource during this phase of the process. They can provide input on the feasibility of plans, as well as coordinate response efforts with an agency.
Example: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) headquarters has its own command center, which is also connected to the police department. The agency has worked closely with authorities to establish protocols regarding who will respond in specific situations. Sometimes the trained DOL staff (e.g., security personnel) handle issues, while local entities are called in other times.
Example: According to Kathy Hargett of the President's Committee on People with Intellectual Disabilities, in anticipation of possible computer or electrical outages at the change of the Millennium, the New York City Regional Office for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (NYCRO MR/DD), in partnership with service providers, developed emergency plans for those whom they serve. These plans included identifying the location of 65,000 individuals; establishing alternative respite and residential facilities to accommodate them; and having a 7-day, portable supply of medications. In addition, these partners participated in training exercises prior to the end of 1999.
On September 11, 2001, these plans resulted in the identification and safe evacuation of more than 2,000 people with mental retardation/developmental disabilities (MR/DD) in the area around the World Trade Center. This included people with profound MR/DD in addition to those with higher functioning abilities.8
- Working with facilities personnel and agencies in nearby or adjacent spaces ensures that the plan meets federal and local requirements, and does not conflict with established procedures.
Example: The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) headquarters worked with nearby employers and first-responders to designate assembly areas following an evacuation. The agency also consulted security and facilities personnel to free evacuation routes of barriers (e.g., construction, security barricades, etc.).
Critical Questions
- Are key staff familiar with the Occupant Emergency Plan (OEP)?
- Are individuals with disabilities involved in all aspects of emergency preparedness? If not, what steps have been taken to engage the disability community? Have the broad perspectives of the disability community been considered?
- Do senior staff support the process of updating your agency plan? If not, what steps will be taken to change this?
- Has the plan been reviewed by first-responders and facilities personnel?
- Does any part of the plan conflict with procedures established by nearby agencies?
Regional and Field Offices
Approximately 84 percent of all federal employees work outside the National Capital Region (NCR). Not only do field representatives carry out many of the federal programs, but they also serve as the Federal Government's principal means of contact with citizens. Regional and field offices face unique challenges when it comes to emergency preparedness planning. Given their unique function and locations, these offices must consider the needs of employees with disabilities, personnel previously unidentified as having a disability, and the public. It is also essential that federal safety plans take into account the plans of agencies and/or businesses in adjacent space. Below are a few factors to consider when developing, implementing, and maintaining plans, including those for field offices.
- Federal agencies that share building space with private companies or other federal agencies must consider how another plan (or lack thereof) will affect their own.
Note: Federal agencies throughout the country have unique characteristics. Some are located in government-built and owned buildings, while others are located in privately- owned buildings. Some are sole occupants, while others share space with other federal agencies or private employers. Some occupy entire campuses, while others may be isolated industrial-style facilities, such as warehouses. Regardless, a coordinated approach to evacuation or shelter-in-place is essential to ensure the safety of all building occupants.
- Determine what effect the agency's location will have on egress routes and access to resources.
Note: Busy streets, construction, and security barriers can all hinder an individual's ability to evacuate. Individuals in rural areas may have difficulty getting home in the event of an emergency, especially if they rely on para-transit services. Working with local first-responders, city officials, and building personnel is essential.
- Take into account the personnel and visitors in the building on an average day.
Note: Some federal agencies have very few non-government personnel in the building. Other offices, especially those that provide services to the public, have a constant flow of visitors and non-government personnel.
- Be aware of employees' needs; however, remember to also consider the needs of others in the building. This may include children in the daycare center, cafeteria workers, contractors, sales representatives, and personal visitors.
Critical Questions
- Is the building inside or outside the National Capital Region (NCR)?
- Does the agency partially occupy, but not control, the building?
- What is the approximate number of occupants?
- Does the agency have representation on the Building Security Committee (BSC)?
- Does the building population consist mostly of Federal Government personnel? Are the personnel from the same agency or several federal agencies?
- Do private sector businesses or state or local government agencies occupy a portion of the building?
- What is the flow of employees and visitors and customers on a typical day and week?
Shelter-in-Place (SIP) Plans
Sheltering-in-Place means seeking immediate shelter and remaining there during an emergency rather than evacuating. Because evacuating may put individuals at greater risk of harm or injury, SIP may be the preferred method of safely waiting out a hazardous event. In most cases, the latter option only lasts a few hours. Advance preparation can help ensure that everyone remains as comfortable as possible. In some cases, occupants may be instructed to evacuate after a certain period of time. Generally, a SIP plan involves taking the following actions steps:
- Shutting down the building's ventilation system as quickly as possible;
- Turning off the elevators;
- Closing all exits and entrances and securing the loading dock and garage areas;
- Notifying occupants and visitors via an audible and visual public address system, phone, e-mail, pagers, etc. of the event and emergency procedures, as well as providing updated information as needed; and
- Asking everyone to remain in the building, until it is safe to leave.
- Determine the action steps to be taken under given sets of emergency conditions. Include emergency scenarios that may occur without access to electrical power supplies. Identify and incorporate the steps needed to assist individuals with disabilities or special needs (see Evaluating Employee and Customer Needs). In the event of an actual emergency, responsible officials will be implementing pre-determined and approved protective actions.
- Communicate the procedures for sheltering-in-place to all building occupants prior to an actual emergency, and mark all designated areas with clear signage.
- Ensure there are multiple and redundant means of conveying timely information to both employees and visitors with disabilities, including deaf or hard of hearing individuals. Keep in mind that interpreters, transliterators, assistive listening devices, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) as well as other aids or services may not be available during the SIP.
- Encourage staff to store any specific personal supplies (e.g., medications, supplies for service animals, etc.) they may need at their desks.
Example: The U.S. Department of Labor Headquarters has two separate procedures for sheltering-in-place, depending on the nature of the emergency. Posture I Advisory requires that employees and their visitors remain at their workstations and wait for further instruction. Posture II Advisory, used in situations deemed highly critical, requires that staff and visitors move to the nearest designated shelter-in-place. Employees are given laminated cards that provide written reminders of the procedures and designated areas. The information is also available on-line for those needing alternate formats. During both types of SIP, no one is allowed to leave or enter the building. The doors are locked for everyone's protection. Each SIP area has telephone(s) and secured cabinets, which are used to store food and other emergency supplies. There is enough food and supplies for both employees and visitors for a period of time. Floor Wardens, Zone Monitors, and security personnel have key access to these cabinets.
Note: Zoë Fearon of DOL's Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management (OASAM) reminds employees and others that the length of time for a shelter-in-place is usually relatively short. "The need to shelter-in-place [due to an airborne substance] only lasts for 4-6 hours." Although agencies should prepare for their employees and visitors, Ms. Fearon urges staff to store any specific personal supplies (e.g., medications, supplies for service animals, assistive listening devices, extra batteries, etc.) at their desks. When the need for a shelter-in-place has passed, authorities explain the reason for it.
Example: U.S. Department of Agriculture Headquarters uses several communication systems to keep employees and visitors informed of situations that necessitate sheltering-in place. These include the Computer Emergency Notification System (CENS), the public address system, wireless email devices, and Local Area Network (LAN) televisions located throughout the complex. These same systems are used to communicate with employees and visitors with disabilities about obtaining assistance, if needed.
Storage lockers throughout the USDA facilities hold emergency supplies such as water, blankets, and medical supplies. The sheer number of employees prevents USDA from stocking enough supplies for everyone, so staff maintain personal Grab and Go kits, which contain at least a three-day supply of essential items (e.g., hearing aid batteries, supplies for service animals, and/or personal medical supplies).
The USDA has two SIP movements. Because almost all the offices in the headquarters complex have windows, employees and visitors are instructed to move to interior hallway spaces, closing windows and locking doors as they relocate. For lighter-than-air chemical, gas and biological events, occupants move to the lower three levels of the complex. For heavier-than-air chemical, gas and biological events, employees and visitors relocate to the upper three floors.
Elevators are used to re-locate persons with mobility impairments. Employees and visitors with mobility impairments are encouraged to self-identify to Floor Wardens, or to use the Warden Phones to obtain permission to use the elevators. By monitoring the weather (via the Emergency Command Center) and staying in close contact with other federal agencies, the USDA is able to use the elevators until just prior to the expected arrival time of the hazardous plume.
Critical Questions
- Have the steps for evaluating an emergency situation and subsequent action been clearly defined, agreed upon, and communicated to all necessary staff?
- Are there multiple methods in place to relay timely and relevant information to all staff and visitors?
- Have all SIP areas been clearly marked?
- Are plans in place that would allow for communication with all staff and visitors to the facility, including those who are deaf or hard of hearing or may have communication difficulties? If not, what steps are being taken to ensure that there are plans in place?
- Are employees encouraged to keep extra medication or personal supplies at their desks?
Evaluating Employee and Customer Needs
Privacy is important. The Rehabilitation Act strictly limits how, when, and what type of information can be gathered about an employee's medical condition, even for purposes of emergency preparedness. Additionally, the Rehabilitation Act and U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) policies require that medical information be kept in a file separate from the employee's personnel file.
- The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 gives agencies and federal contractors permission to gather pertinent information (i.e., the type(s) of emergency assistance an individual needs and how it relates to the individual's disability), and to disseminate it to necessary personnel.9
Example: At the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), a Self Identification/Needs Form has been used to collect the information. The form, developed by the agency's Disability Action Council (DAC), provides individuals with disabilities an opportunity to voluntarily self-identify their requirements and initiates an action by the Emergency Personnel. The form which asks for an individual's contact information, work hours, supervisor's name, and the type of assistance needed is also used in developing personal support networks, promoting cross training, and planning for evacuation. Several co-workers are typically identified to assist an individual, in the event that the primary person is unavailable.
- It is important to reassure employees of confidentiality: that the information will be shared only with those responsible for safety and emergency preparedness.
- Have a dialogue with employees. Communicate the reasons for gathering any medical information, and inform them that responding is voluntary. In addition, let employees know who will have access to the information.
- There are three key points at which the information may be collected :10
- Before Employment Begins: After a job offer has been made, but before employment commences, all entering employees in the same job category may be asked disability-related questions, including whether they would require assistance in the event of an emergency and what type of assistance would be necessary.
- On the Job: All employees may be asked to voluntarily self-identify if they have impairments that would make assistance necessary in the event of an emergency. For those who respond affirmatively, employers may ask what type of assistance employees would need.
- Employees with Obvious Disabilities: Even if an employer decides not to ask all employees to voluntarily self-identify as needing assistance in an emergency, employees with known disabilities may be asked whether and what type of assistance they may need in an emergency. An employer should not assume that employees with obvious disabilities will always need assistance during an evacuation. However, remember that people with cognitive or developmental disabilities may not have the judgment and cognitive skills required to articulate their needs. Generally, people with disabilities are in the best position to determine their own needs.
- The Rehabilitation Act allows disclosure of medical information to first aid and safety personnel, as well as to those who are responsible for implementing the emergency preparedness plan.
- Only medical information necessary to implement the emergency preparedness plan may be disclosed.
- When making equipment decisions, it is best to talk with people with disabilities and other federal agencies, as well as work with local emergency response personnel and community organizations. Communicate regularly with these entities in order to educate new emergency response personnel and to keep abreast of new technology or procedures.
- Those employees with service animals should be encouraged to relay to emergency management personnel their preferences with regard to evacuation and handling of the animal.
Note: Although it may be difficult, encourage employees to think about under what circumstances they may have to make a decision about leaving the service animal behind, and share these preferences with the appropriate personnel.
The Buddy System and Cross-Training
In a traditional buddy system, people pair up as partners to assist each other. For most people, the buddy system is a redundant and additional measure that supplements other means of notifying individuals about and responding to an emergency. A buddy can help ensure that an employee with a disability is informed about and appropriately responds to an emergency. It is important that buddies be able to communicate with and assist the employee with a disability.
Reliance on a single buddy can put the employee who needs assistance at risk, especially when the buddy is not present, able, or willing to assist during an emergency. Therefore, flexibility in an emergency preparedness plan is vital.
Note: According to Bruce McFarlane, Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Target Center, plans should not be based on the buddy or employee being in his or her own office at the time of an emergency. He believes that planning that is person or location dependent generally has glaring weaknesses. Consequently, he sees the buddy system as not exclusively effective, since it is both person and location dependent.
Having an effective procedure in place may mean augmenting the traditional buddy system with additional supports for the employee; in other words, have multiple individuals prepared to assist in an emergency, thus creating personal support networks. For example, the U.S. Access Board chose not to use the buddy system, given staff travel and training schedules and the agency size (less than 30 staff). Instead, staff who volunteered to work with people with disabilities during an emergency situation were cross-trained.
Note: Whether an agency utilizes the buddy system or personal support networks, Peg Blechman, a Compliance Specialist with the U.S. Access Board, recommends that "participation be voluntary, volunteers be cross-trained and have volunteers assemble at central location(s)." If the buddy or the employee is unavailable, a backup system should be utilized. Blechman emphasizes that redundancy is key!
With either approach, cross training is essential. Individuals (and their co-workers) needing to use emergency evacuation devices, such as evacuation chairs, should be trained regarding their proper operation. This will allow these employees to better direct others on the use of the equipment, in the event that "trained" personnel are not available.
Example: At the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA), evacuation chairs have been issued to every employee who will require a chair for emergency evacuation. Additionally, evacuation chairs have been mounted in or near every emergency stairwell above the ground floor in SSA space to accommodate visitors or individuals injured during an emergency, providing a rapid means of evacuation. Monitors are trained on the use of the chair and employees with disabilities are encouraged to participate in the training. Chair training is part of the Occupant Emergency Organization training conducted by SSA's Office of Protective Security Services, Office of Facilities Management, with its training partner, the University of Maryland's Fire and Rescue Institute at College Park, Maryland. Training occurs through various means, at SSA sites across the nation.
A few additional considerations:
- Include training for those who work after normal business hours.
- Check with buddies or personal support networks quarterly to make sure the individuals are still willing and able to assist in an emergency; also, be sure to notify them of changes in work schedules.
- Consider one-on-one training or evaluation of evacuation devices for individuals who may be uncomfortable practicing evacuation procedures in a group setting.
Critical Questions
- Has information about an employee's need for assistance in the event of an emergency evacuation been collected in a manner that is consistent with the Rehabilitation Act?
- Have steps been taken to clearly communicate the reasons for gathering the information and the importance of maintaining the employee's confidentiality?
- Has only the essential medical information been shared with just those who need to know (e.g., first aid personnel, safety staff, and those responsible for implementing the plan)?
- Has the agency consulted with other agencies, entities, and individuals with disabilities in selecting equipment?
- Are there employees with service animals? What specific plans have been put in place for individual and service animal teams? Have plans been made for visitors with service animals?
- Have efforts been made to facilitate the establishment of personal support networks?
- Have all employees needing and providing assistance had adequate training on equipment and emergency procedures?


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Sun., Oct. 27, 2013
Partisan candidates for Coeur d'Alene city government are the tip of the CAVE (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) people who believe that the Coeur d'Alene of the past was better. It was not. I lived it. After the crash of the mines and mills, thousands were out of work. Hundreds left town in search of economic relief. Young people left in droves as Coeur d'Alene did not offer a workplace future.
Jobs Plus and Urban Renewal (LCDC) started the turnaround. A modern hospital became the top tax base, along with tourism. Manufacturing and distribution centers were researched and wooed to come to Coeur d'Alene and to Kootenai County, bringing jobs as well as new citizens. North Idaho College and the Workforce Center educated and trained new workers and provided education to expand opportunities for growth.
I want a proud community being the best we can be. I want a nonpartisan city government as it is intended to be. We need businesses, schools, nonprofits, city amenities and the humanities.
We need new faces looking forward. I'm voting for Steve Widmyer, Amy Evans, Woody McEvers and Kiki Miller. I'm voting for the best our town has to offer. I'm voting for our future.
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THE WAY HE LOOKS (Portuguese: Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho) is a Brazilian coming-of-age drama film based on the 2010 short film I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho). It is directed, written and co-produced by Daniel Ribeiro, and stars Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi and Tess Amorim, reprising their roles from the short.
The film premiered at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize for best feature film in the Panorama section and the Teddy Award for best LGBT-themed feature. It has been selected as the Brazilian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards.
Set against the music of Belle and Sebastian, Daniel Ribeiro's coming of age tale, THE WAY HE LOOKS is a fun and tender story about friendship and the complications of young love. Leo (Ghilherme Lobo) is a blind teenager who's fed up with his overprotective mother and the bullies at school. Looking to assert his independence, he decides to study abroad to the dismay of his best friend, Giovana (Tess Amorim). When Gabriel (Fabio Audi), the new kid in town, teams with Leo on a school project, new feelings blossom in him that make him reconsider his plans. Meanwhile, Giovana, grows jealous of this new found companionship as tensions mount between her and Leo.
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Oh, dear. Another day, another example of people trying to make light of inappropriate issues.
On Friday, Belvedere Vodka came under fire for its ad joking about sexual assault, and today, The Root reported a story about Chops & Hops, a Georgia restaurant, that said it's "black and bleu" sandwich was inspired by Chris Brown and Rihanna's 2009 assault.
From the Chops & Hops Facebook page:
Well we were going to do @TimTebow today but decided to trade for a sure thing this week. Instead @chrisbrown, @rihanna and us teamed up for a award winning celebrity sandwich. Put your hands on this caribbean black and bleu sandwich. Caribbean spiced marinated sliced ribeye blackened then look out for the bleu cheese, sliced tomato, silver Lamborghini onions, and shredded romaine. Chris Brown won't beat you up for eating this unless your name starts with a R and ends with A.
Of course, once people saw the tweets and Facebook message, outrage ensued…because, you know, joking about domestic violence isn't funny. After folks called out Chops & Hops for its egregious message, the restaurant issued a predictable apology.
"The owners of C&H would like to make sure everyone knows that we and our staff DO NOT SUPPORT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. Many of us have been affected by domestic violence in some manner and realize that this is no joke," Mychell Lang wrote. "We have been involved in fundraising for Project Safe Team 6 and we fully intend on donating proceeds (times 6 – in honor of Team 6) from the sales of the burger. C&H continues to strive for a community driven, family oriented, great food and great service environment. We will continue to be involved in our community fundraising and charities near and dear to our hearts."
Right. Until the next offensive marketing ploy, of course.