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Alums for Sullivan: Dragas' top employee sends out emotional video
"Maybe it was a mistake," says Carol Wood, the spokesperson for UVA, who sent out a link on Saturday morning to an emotional video of alumni standing up in support of ousted President Teresa Sullivan.
The video, which opens with a Thomas Jefferson quotation about opposing tyranny and depicting an array of alumni– stretching from the hallowed UVA Grounds to foreign nations– is an under three-minute vignette of support for Sullivan as an instrumental version of UVA's "Good Old Song" plays quietly in the background.
The video was created by a group called "Students, Family & Friends United to Reinstate President Sullivan," a YouTube account created June 22. At the time of this posting, it had 234 views.
Wood, who now reports directly to Sullivan's nemesis, University Rector Helen Dragas, says she intended to send the video just to fellow members of the communications staff, and the header on the email suggests as much.
"Maybe I should apologize," says Wood. "I'm tired."
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In a way, I am glad that these people are making such technological gaffes. It is a sign that their communications system was not designed to keep things secret or confidential.
Good on ya, Carol. Being tired doesn't mean being wrong.
Thanks, Carol Wood, for putting together this inspiring video!
Thank you Carol. Mistake or not the actions of Rector Dragas and the firing of President Sullivan are so egregious that every staff person at UVa should refuse to work for Dragas EVER .
No apologies needed, only applause.
If there is one thing that everyone ( Republican, Democrat, Independent, God fearing and not ) agree on --Dragas must go and I hope the Governor is listening !
From all that I have observed, Carol Wood is the consummate professional. She provides news and information from other sources to the UVa community in a fair and balanced manner. The system is overwhelmed and even those of us on the perimeter find it difficult to concentrate. I think the headline hints at something subversive and stirs the pot unnecessarily. Thank you, Carol Wood and staff for keeping us all so well informed.
And thank you, Hawes, for the clarification on the video attribution. You jumped in before I finished my comment. I'm sounding a bit defensive and need coffee.
Students, Family & Friends United to Reinstate President Sullivan thank you for this moving video, not a dry eye in the house.
Please rent a huge screen to show this Sunday at the rally - the world needs to see this.
This is a special moment when people of all walks of life and all political persuasions are coming together to stand up for honor and justice and to bring President Sullivan back.
My granddaughter, whose father is a UVa alum, having read the entire Harry Potter series 5 times, offers this quote to inspire us:
"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Intentionally or not, thank you, Carol, for communicating but a few voices from the alumni community. (I only wish I had been able to get in on the action!)
Dear Governor McDonnell,
Please read this:
Interview at Newsplex with Buford Scott
CS: Where do you see UVa. going from here? There hasn't been a lot of good press in terms of how this was all handled. Do you see this as being a black eye as some have said?
BS: Yes, I'm afraid it is. I have been in a number of meetings in Richmond the last couple of days since i got back from Florida with my two sons, and people sort of in an embarrassed way titter with the subject of UVa. They asked me what's going to happen and what can I do to fix it and some say, 'Buford, we wish you were on the board up there and this would have never happened,' which of course is not the case. But it is an embarrassment not only in Virginia but in academia across the country and maybe around the world. It'll be a while before we live this down, and I think the Board of Visitors, again, while I'm sure they were doing what they thought was the right thing for the university, they really did not handle it very well at all.
Please contact the Governor and ask him to put us out of our collective pain now and announce that the Dragas/PR machine can come to a halt, the staff at UVa can go home and rest, and the Board can vote to reinstate President Sullivan on Tuesday. Even if Helen Dragas sits in the Rector's chair, if the Governor announces she will not be reappointed the struggle will come to an end.
Thank you Governor- please let us get some rest !
Wait. We're quoting Harry Potter now? I thought we were supposed to argue about whose Thomas Jefferson could beat up whose Thomas Jefferson.
Go Carol!!!!! Thank you, honorable, honorable, honorable!!!!
Please email the Governor, and yes, I think Jefferson would agree with Harry Potter.
Carol, you are the ultimate professional and a delightful human being. No apology is needed! The past few weeks have taken a toll on all of us and it was soooooooo....UNNECESSARY!
Hang in there, my friend!
Carol, such an honorable gesture and respected. Thank you for speaking up and out against tyranny. Hang in there and I hope you get some rest soon....blessings and namaste....
I hope that the Foundation's PR guru, firstname.lastname@example.com, got to see the video.
As an employment proposition, returning to UVa would be one of the worst possible moves President Sullivan could make, in my opinion.
Setting aside all the affection that exists for her on grounds, and setting aside the temptation for her to return just so that "They" don't "win," how realistic is it for her to come back to work for a board - the vast majority of whom either quietly tolerated or actively joined in Dragas and Kington's deceptions and scheming?
When choosing a leadership role, one tries to measure the likelihood of success, the potential for trusting, creative relationships, the possible rewards of service.
To return to UVa might prove a point, but would it lead to a successful relationship between the President and the Board and Faculty? The odds, I think, are against it. President Sullivan returning would be a noble gesture - and would, at a fantasy level "undo" the pathetic failure of the BOV to lead responsibly, but it would, in all probability, not lead to the best use of President Sullivan's gifts.
Let's face it: UVa doesn't deserve her. Dragas is UVa's own creature, as is Kington. The cost of letting Dragas and Kington dance all over the U's principles is a terrible one: it cost them a potentially great leader.
But that's that. Let her go somewhere where she'll be appreciated, where she can start again, and where she can make her mark.
That place, sadly is NOT UVa.
What UVa will do next is anyone's guess. A year or two of interim presidency, a thorough post mortem on this debacle, and some key resignations seem in order. But whatever UVa does next, it's not President Sullivan's problem.
She's already paid to great a price for UVa's weakness. Let her go.
As an alumni, I am grateful you send this video out, produced with great love and care by alumni who are deeply, gravely concerned for their university. THANK YOU!
Obviously, I am tired too. The above comment should read: As an alumna, I am grateful you sent this video out, produced with great love and care by alumni who are deeply, gravely concerned for their university. THANK YOU!
I keep thinking "Too bad 'Control Z' isn't an option."
For UVA to move forward, Dragas and 11 other Board members need to go. (YOU know who YOU are!) The only ones who should remain on the BOV are the three who were kept out of the loop until the last minute when Dragas was orchestrating the coup. Everyone else needs to GO!!!!!!!
Please do the honorable thing. GO AWAY!
everyone should write a note to the governor, here is where to find the official email form
here is a note i just sent in:
Dear Governor McDonnell,
I write to you to express and record my outrage at the treatment of President Sullivan of the University of Virginia by Helen Dragas and other members of the Board of Visitors. I hold two degrees from the university and have lived most of my life in Albemarle County. I find the behavior of Rector Dragas and her associates on the Board of Visitors responsible for the forced resignation of President Sullivan inexcusable, even if there had been some legitimate reason for seeking her resignation. The behavior of Ms. Dragas, both in public and behind closed doors has greatly insulted the university community and diminished the reputation of our institution.
The faculty has made clear its support for the President and its lack of confidence in the Board of Visitors as it is now constituted.
I join the many thousands who are asking for the immediate removal of Ms. Dragas and her close associates on the board responsible for the unfortunate events that have done such damage to our university, as is now being widely reported in the national press, including even in Time magazine.
Furthermore, I ask you to insist on greater transparency in the proceedings of the Board of Visitors meetings where the disposition of public money and resources is discussed and directed.
Finally, I must ask you, as I have already asked Senator Deeds, to review and improve the process by which members of the Board of Visitors are selected so that we do not have a repetition of this unfortunate and painfully embarrassing episode of inappropriate behavior by high public officials.
It seems to me that this most damaging and regrettable chapter in the history of the university could have been avoided if you and Governor Kaine had chosen the members of the Board of Visitors with greater wisdom.
Speaking for myself, I would rather see a Board of Visitors largely composed of distinguished educators rather than regional real estate developers. In any case, in the future there should at all times be a member of the faculty, perhaps the leader of the faculty senate, as a voting member of the Board of Visitors.
In closing, I ask you, again, to act without delay in removing Ms. Dragas from the Board of Visitors along with those other members who forced President Sullivan to resign under duress.
Dr. James Bartholomay Kiracofe
Terrific video. Perhaps the BOV should be forced to watch it on a loop for an hour before the Tuesday meeting! :-)
It would be good to hear from more faculty, especially those who are emeritus and full professors. In many ways their reputations are at risk here. Less senior faculty can and will go elsewhere and will make names for themselves at other institutions.
No matter what the outcome, the University has suffered damage that can not be undone. My friends in the academic world are outraged by these actions and won't be applying to teach at UVA at any point in the near future.
A story in news today talks about the costs of online testing. It is twice as expensive as in classroom testing. The Internet classes from Harvard et al have yet to make a dime for any of those schools. If UVA wants to become the next Uinversity of Phoenix, it should do so without any support from the State of Virginia or from any donations covered by the status of a nonprofit 501 (3) C organization. You can't have it both ways Rectors!!!!!!!!
The Governor is not going to do any more. If the BOV does not make a decision Tuesday, he will dismiss them all perhaps reinstating Dragas and those that are to his liking such as Jones who donated $100K to his campaign. You need to write your reps in the Virginia General Assembly - because that is who, according to VA Code the BOV "answers to". The Gov only appoints them, the General Assembly approves them.
Thank you everyone who sent in their pictures for the rally and this extremely touching video. Please send the link to each member of the BOV and especially to President Sullivan so she can truly appreciate how much she is appreciated. This is that time - that fork in the road - when each member of the BOV will have to decide if they can rise to that level of leadership, when they think not about their own selves and their own legacies, but with humility consider what is action will preserve the University for the next two hundred years. I guess it is kind of like Harry's last walk into the Forbidden Forest...
Carol- no need to apologize! You are doing remarkable work under very difficult circumstances. I have noticed several small things in your very professional communications that made me smile-- small nods to those who are paying attention. Thank you!
But as you watch what the Governor says and does remember this:
From the Kiernan email about "the Project " to oust Sullivan
These are the kind of people who want to run UVa and they are the Governors big donors.
As you might expect, the decisions involving my modest role in all of this have not been entirely mine to make. As many of you know no major decision of this kind can be made at Virginia without the support and assent of the Governor. I am not sure what my future role in this process will be. Those are the facts.
Sent from my iPhone
I think C-ville Native is correct about the governor.
still, flooding his office with e-mail and telephone calls can't hurt.
he is a politician and does count votes.
But I think C-ville Native is correct about contacting our representatives in the
state legislature. I spoke directly to Senator Deeds yesterday at some length asking for investigation of what has happened and for reform of the system by which members of the board are chosen. I also told Senator Deeds that I believe that Ms. Dragas must be removed from the board at once.
I would have had a similar conversation with Delegate Bell but his office does not answer the phone and only has voice mail.
I also called Delegate Morrisey's office, in whose district I do not vote, to voice my support of his effort to conduct a legislative oversight review of the situation.
One comment I saw in these threads said that Delegate Morrisey was grandstanding, but I certainly do not see it that way. The Speaker of the House said he thought it was premature to conduct an investigation, but I think it is long overdue.
Like many others I've been putting together pieces and parsing statements from various sources. What I've gathered is this: There is no issue brought up by Helen Dragas that President Sullivan has not already addressed or indicated her willingness to address, if only she'd been asked.
The statements from the Board on online education are embarrassingly out of date. President Sullivan has already stated her doubts about the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the talking head lecture and multiple-choice-after model.of education. I have spoken in some detail with someone (my brother) who was incredibly frustrated and unimpressed with nursing classes online. If you are someone who thinks critically and learns most from the Socratic engagement of professor and students, it is impossible to learn and impossible not to feel cheated by a series of lectures on DVD with an exam at the end.
Just because the Washington Post's cultural guru writes up online ed as the latest craze does not make it desirable or suitable for UVA. (And how sad that newspaper articles are offered as support for the claim that this incredibly accomplished scholar should be removed after only two years!) I was so impressed when I came here (in the first year women came) to find first year classes taught by full professors, some of them world class.
I have always been proud of the academic traditions of my university and received two graduate degrees here and one elsewhere. I've spend my entire career in colleges and universities, teaching philosophy and poetry. So I know how members of a university community should conduct themselves.
Helen Dragas has caused incalculable damage, as others have said. The sad fact is that even now she seems to have no idea what she's done.
If we swiftly reinstate President Sullivan, we can start to work undoing the damage and meeting the considerable challenges we face, none of which, I would think it should be obvious, were caused by Terry Sullivan!
I'm just saying, what if Sullivan and Dragas make up and promise to work together? Could you handle it?
I'd agree it's best to stay on topic and not let this devolve into a general gripe session.
On a more critical note--and in conceptual continuity regarding "devolve"--please don't forget that DEVO is back on the road on a reunion tour. (This latest drama proves: We're all DEVO!)
R.I.P.: Malcolm McLaren
Thank you, Carol Wood, for "accidentally" sharing this video.
Ann E., CLAS '08
OK folks, I made a comment. The rape stories are old news ....sad, frustrating, and true ... but old news. I am not going to read nor defend them because I do believe Pres Sullivan has a plan to address these crimes and I was willing to keep the faith that she would. I don't believe a successor would give it the topic the consideration she has. The comment I made on this article was about Wood apologizing for sending this out and I find irony in that. I don't say anything that I have not personally been touched by, involved in, or the subject of ...and perhaps my fault is that I use my real name instead of some pretend pen name. That I can remedy. Enuf...
First woman Rector?
First woman President?
nothing compared to this
Carol, et al
Isaiah 32:8..... "But the noble (wo)man makes noble plans and by noble deeds, (s)he stands"
Accident or not, thank you and know you do not stand alone.
Not one of TJ's quotes but one with which I think he would agree.
I'm confused what the story is here. Did she intend to send it out to her staff and instead sent it to a much larger group of people? Was her "Maybe it was a mistake" comment an opinion about Sullivan's ousting stated in her email, or something she told the Hook after she sent the email?
This video is not very convincing and in fact makes it's point seem fishy . It is comprised of 98% from one gender with children generously inserted .Are we supposed to believe the children are there on their own expressing their own point of view or are they just pushed forward. It looks like they are just put there holding a sign of which they don't know it's relevance . The same ,therefore,must be inferred by the gender block . They also just seem to be there as props unaware of what they are doing .
Good 10 feet elevation view.......try analyzing the photos less and take a 10,000 ft + view of the concept. Not quite "art" but a creative statement about an emotional issue regarding the BOV's dishonorable action.
This threatening of lawsuits against folks for posting their opinions is just the antics of the undemocratic .They only support free speech for themselves and those who agree with them . A person doesn't have to specify that they are merely expressing their opinion like in the old days . Judges take it for granted that those posting on these forums are simply expressing an opinion or providing facts as they understand them to be .So their opinions might be wrong or they error in their facts but that is not libel . Come on bully !!!
@ shame --- It did all that but it is a piece of lame _ _ _ _ . Admit it . Does more to defeat it's intent than support it .
Can't find the time schedules for Sunday's and Tuesday's events without reading all the articles. Anyone have it handy?
Many thanks!
Susan Russell... How can you be so sure Hawes believes all you say? That's a weird statement.
Snoop here are all the meeting times . Tomorrow's rally is at 2pm on the Lawn
Frank Speaker seems to be a shill for the Board. Shame!
Very effective piece of communication science.....I think it will hit the mark, but is already unnecessary since I suspect the we, the dissedents, have most probably already won......there is value in seeking the truth where ever it may lead and to resisting tyrants.
Wrecker, Rector, eRector, or iRector?
It was either deliberate or it was sloppy to send that link. But I've been underwhelmed by that office for years. We get news stories about cats and magnolia trees. Is that the best material we have, or the easiest to run?
old wahoo makes an insightful observation in his 9:00 pm post.
Frank Speaker has been trolling articles here for a while. He has mentioned several times that he's a Canadian but for some reason likes to comment on local events. He typically seems pretty uninformed about the issues he offers his opinion on, so it's understandable that he would appear to be a shill.
I'm not being a smart a$$; but I learned on election night 2000 not to count my birds in the hand until the chickens had come home to blow the house down.
O.k, maybe a little a bit.
This is not over until it's done; and that may well not happen on Tuesday. I think that the vote from the BOV is going to be good; but there are appointments to come who could proceed in much more devious and even less transparent ways. Whatever the motives, financial or ideological, of those who began this mess, they will not disappear on Tuesday.
Block that metaphor! :) (or, was that a portmanteau cliché?
I'm afraid you are absolutely right and that most of us here had better prepare for the worst (btw I was mentally prepared for Sandusky to be acquitted the way OJS and Casey Anthony were).
The next wind that blows from the East(?) Oval Room may have a strong scent of the wind off the pastures. The masters of the universe may have to endure a temporary setback but it's clear they're determined to turn the University into a hedge fund against intellectual honesty or socratic discourse. At least for once it's the Darden & Comm. Schools, not the athletic department as at PSU, which seems to have become the tail which wags the dog.
On topic I'd venture that Ms. Wood's mistake was exactly that. Let us hope the Dragon "Lady" doesn't axe her in another fit of spite.
By the way, Mark Warner first appointed Kington to the BOV (Kington was dropped by Kaine and reappointed by McDonnell).
Has anybody asked Mark Warner what his take is on the current situation?
I was wondering if Macaca Georgie had anything to say about the situation. Didn't he somehow manage to graduate from UVA?
Absolutely, I think we need to hear from both Mark Warner and George Allen.
Mark might have more influence, of course; but I think both of them need to weigh in on this matter.
Hook editor, Hawes Spencer, on WNRN Radio ( 91.9) at 11am this morning .
Hmmm ... it's 11 ... and I'm streaming WNRN, but no Hawes ...
Ahhh ... 11:02 and things are lookin' up!
You know, maybe what the Rally on the Lawn should be about today is a call to lift the agreement between Sullivan and the Board. Truth and reconciliation. Or at least facts presented by all.
Is this Logan Anderson a kid or the Editor of the Editorial Page at The News & Advance in Lynchburg?
Logan is the kid in the video at 0.59 .
@ Pam: " Is this Logan Anderson a kid or the Editor of the Editorial Page at The News & Advance in Lynchburg?"
Dear Pam,
Are you suggesting there is a significant difference?
Separately, as a Media General paper, The News & Advance is a lot like The Daily Progress, only worse.
Back on point: Resign, Dragas! You are useless to the University of Virginia.
I hope to see you all at 2pm on Lawn today. This will probably be the largest demonstration ever on the UVa lawn.
If you can't make it --tune in via video feed
Dear Silly Logan,
So it's OK for you to dish out unsolicited advice and tell Logan Anderson to STFU, but it's not OK for her to do that?
Exactly who TF died and appointed you the forum monitor?


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Nearly two weeks after the fact Jimmy Fallon appeared on Brian William's '30 Rock' show to weigh in on the Michele Bachmann into song debacle.
You will recall that when Bachmann appeared on Fallon's show last month his house band The Roots played Fishbone's 'Lyin' Ass Bitch' as she walked on stage. NBC later apologized.
Fallon told Williams that "no one should be treated like that" and that he was "embarrassed" by the incident and that he "wanted it to go away."
Fallon also revealed he'd called Bachmann numerous times to apologize and when he finally spoke to her she assured him she'd had a "kick" on his show. Also? Questlove, the Roots drummer and band leader, was apparently yelled at by everyone including his mother.
Vid of the interview below. Related: When did BriWi become so completely intolerable.


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The word harmony evokes equilibrium and peace. When we idealize harmony we imagine the smooth melding of opposites. The music of life supporting us, internally and externally. The balm of a tropical breeze. Floating in the peaceful, friendly ocean of life.
Looked at closely, however, harmony reveals itself to be composed of both stress and rest in balanced relationship. Parts that on their own may be jarring can together form a harmonious whole. All of nature is a great mix of differences, and when the mix is harmonious, it nourishes us. We don't usually dissect the opposing forces in a particular moment in a forest or a mountain top, but those opposites are there if we look closely. Individuals may be adrift and stressed on their own but harmonious in a couple, family, or community. Certain aspects of a person may be disconcerting, but when experienced as part of the whole contribute to the depth and lovability of that same person.
When experience is primarily harmonious, we have the sense of being held, either internally through our own equilibrium, or externally through the alignment of supportive outside forces. With too much rest, we lose the stimulation necessary for development. With too much stress, we lose the rest necessary for development. In harmony we have both.
Whether our early lives were hard or easy, they were the "nature" for our emerging sense of self. As you grew in age your awareness of yourself as a somebody grew. Maybe you had the great good luck and grace to be nourished in love and tenderness, and your sense of yourself developed easily and naturally. Many of us have had less than ideal sheltering, and that too has its own kind of surprising grace, a grace that is discovered when we are willing to meet the result of our less-than-ideal sheltering.
When our early nourishment has been less than ideal, the edge of uneasiness that accompanies our growing identity leaves the sense that there is a hole where there should be wholeness. We feel essentially unprotected, vulnerable. In search of protection and strength we attempt to fill this hole with any number of temporary plugs. We learn to be more lovable, or to know more, or to be tougher, or to need less, or to pretend that all is fine.
The perceived holes in our cocoons insist to us that something is needed, something is missing. We hope that others will give us back what we seem to inherently lack. And in harmonious phases, we do feel whole again, but the return of the sensed lack within us keeps proving that nothing and no one can permanently fill it.
When we are willing to stop avoiding the pain of this absence, to stop making war against this absence, to stop dramatizing it and stop filling it with pleasurable objects, the absence turns out to be the gateway to the living presence of wholeness. The inner incompleteness we experience calls us deeper into ourselves through pure inquiry. Pure inquiry reveals the insubstantiality of the perceived "me" that needs protection and completion. The hole itself, when experienced directly, is the window into revealed self-completion.
--- At the end of our first cocooning, after our time in whatever kind of womb we inhabited, the placenta burst. The onslaught of the hormonal sea at puberty ended whatever kind of childhood we lived in, the realities of adulthood disrupted our idealizations nourished in adolescence. Aging or disease of the body ends the sense of physical self as indestructible.
Do we learn? Mostly we haven't, although wisdom does assert itself in bits and pieces along the way. Mostly we have fought every disruption as we have longed for what is lost. Mostly we have been surprised and even offended when disruption has appeared. Can we learn? Certainly, and it is time. Disruptions can be fully met. Rather than longing for what has passed, we can assess what we have lost and be open to what is next, bearing whatever pain any transition may bring.
This is not a recommendation for simple-mindedness or new age naïveté. Global disruptions demand attention of the highest order, and many of our personal disruptions do too. There is the possibility of all that is good being lost in any disruption, from the ending of our time in the womb to the ending of an era. The point is to realize that disruption and harmony are part of the same whole.
When we no longer simply mourn whatever has disappeared or fight whatever has appeared, we can discover what is not lost in disruption. In this discovery, a deeper, inner harmony is revealed. It is absolute. With awareness of the essential, undisrupted integrity of oneself, clarity of action and courage of inaction are natural and appropriate. We live without the need to search for fulfillment. We find it in who we are.
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New Blogs (Arabic-English)
Violet for Iraq belongs to the category of day-to-day memoirs of Iraqi teenagers, a blog that talks about. well you know. She also has an Arabic blog in which she publishes poetry. While Aws Ayad opens his blog by being furious about a college incident with a girl.
Ali The Translator seems to confirm the fact that Iraqi translator blogs are making a niche, he talks about stuff such as politics, and also his experiences in Tal-Affar.
حبيبي يا عراق مدونة إسلامية شيعية احيانا يخالطها شيء من وقائع الحياة التي تعيشها صاحبة المدونة: العراقية بنت العراق


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Rebecca Raby has seen many changes to the Department of Child and Youth Studies during her nearly 12 years at Brock.
Now the chair of the department, Raby arrived on campus in 2002, when the new master's degree program was just getting started. She joined a small faculty of eight people but watched it grow quickly over the next four years, doubling in size in that time.
The new additions added depth and breadth to the new youth component of the department. Prior to 1998, the department's focus was child studies with less room for investigating youth issues.
New hires also filled out the three streams of research defining CHYS: developmental psychology, exceptionalities, such as learning disabilities, and socio-cultural, including studying the diversity of experiences of young people.
"That was really a very exciting time of growth," Raby recalled. "The leadership of (then-chair) Dorothy Griffiths and then Fran Owen was really great at modelling that we all pitch in to make the department successful."
On Tuesday, the department will celebrate those successes when it marks its 20th anniversary. The event, which kicks off at noon on the third floor of the Cairns Complex, will include speeches by the department's first chair, Zopito Marini, presentations from young people in local schools where CHYS students have been conducting practicuums, and birthday cake.
From 12:30 to 2, there will be an open house with displays, and opportunities to meet faculty and ask questions.
At 20 years old, Brock's Child and Youth Studies department is one of the oldest in Canada, and in that time, it has grown to rival only psychology with the highest number of majors in the Social Sciences at the University.
It originally started as a program with courses in psychology, sociology, education and phys. ed. before becoming a full-fledged department in 1993. Since then, it has become a beacon for award-winning faculty, attentive administrators, and the best and brightest students.
"If you're someone who wants to study Child and Youth Studies, I, of course, think we're the place to go," Raby said. "We've been working at it a long time and working at doing it well."
That includes forging community partnerships for student practicums within schools and local social organizations, including Big Brothers Big Sisters, Powerhouse Project: Young Carers Initiative, the RAFT, Learning Disabilities Association of Niagara, Niagara Children's Centre, and Pathstone Mental Health.
Dedication to the student experience through those educational experiences and support from faculty and staff has been a priority, Raby noted.
Looking ahead, she said the No. 1 goal of the department is to add a PhD program, which is currently in the works, and to become more transdisciplinary by fostering more research relationships with other departments.
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Students of Little Rock Central High
For protecting the future by understanding the past. Essay by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
In 2005, two years before the 50th anniversary of the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, civics teachers George West, Keith Richardson, Cynthia Nunnley, and Mike Johnson gave their students an assignment. They wanted them to understand—in a personal way—what took place in their school decades before they were born. They asked the students to interview a relative who lived through the turbulent Civil Rights years, including the 1957 desegregation of Central High. That semester, history came to life in a way it never could in a history book. In living rooms, across kitchen tables, on front porches at sunset, this generation's students of Central High unlocked doors to powerful memories. The essays they wrote—500 in the first two years—were the start of an ongoing educational experiment: The Memory Project.
Now in its ninth year, the project has captured the imag¬ination of more than 1,500 students and evolved in relevant ways. Initially published on a website—lrchmemory.org— the first oral histories were harvested and published in a book, Beyond Central, Toward Acceptance, in 2010. This book became an important tool for the National Park Service (NPS), which hosts 125,000 annual visitors who come to the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site. Beyond Central answers the most frequent visitor questions: Do today's students know about the history of their school? What do they think about civil rights today?
"Although Park Rangers do lead guided tours into Central on school days, our agreement is that we will not disrupt classes," says NPS ranger Jodi Morris. "Visitors have seldom been able to speak directly to students. The Memory Project's website and publications provide that student/visitor connection."
In 2012, a dozen Central High School volunteers, ages 14 to 18, began archiving a new round of oral histories from other students. They blind-reviewed 300 and chose 45 for a second book: Mapping the Road to Change: Insight on Perceptions, Prejudice, and Acceptance.
Published in January, this book looks at race and beyond for the roots of issues both local and global. Students wrote about anti-Semitism in Cleveland, conflicts between Muslims and Sikhs, and the human rights protests in Tiananmen Square. They contemplated WWII Japanese internment in U.S. camps as well as issues of discrimination around sexual orientation and physical disability.
The process presented startling revelations about "things you wouldn't find in a textbook," says student editor Abhilasha Gokulan. "The project starts a conversation among young kids that they would never have had."
Among those interviewed was Thelma Mothershed Wair, a member of the Little Rock Nine. Now in her early 70s, Wair told her 14-year-old grandniece, Amaree Austin, about braving the violent mobs that hurled threats and racial slurs at her and eight other teenagers as they enrolled as the first black students at Central High.
Austin said many of today's students feel far removed from the legacy of the Little Rock Nine. Their attitude, she said, is, "That happened a long time ago."
But the more she listened to her great-aunt, the more she appreciated their courage and determination to be treated as equals—and the more she felt determined to claim it.
"I wanted to share [that history] with others so we can understand where we came from," she said, "to keep us from going back."
An Emmy-winning journalist, Hunter-Gault is the author of In My Place, a memoir about being the first African-American female student at The University of Georgia.


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Army private 'pressured to implicate Assange'Four Corners Quentin McDermott for Four Corners - exclusive
Supporters of the man charged with stealing 250,000 classified US documents published by WikiLeaks say the White House is trying to break the young soldier.
Private Bradley Manning has been held in a military prison for eight months.
His supporters have told the ABC's Four Corners program the US government is pressuring him to implicate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the theft of the documents.
The Four Corners investigation has also discovered a fierce debate within WikiLeaks over whether it was in Manning's best interest to publish the cables.
Manning was charged with transferring information from military computers without authorisation, and could spend the next 50 years in prison.
He was turned in by former computer hacker Adrian Lamo, who befriended the young private.
Mr Lamo has revealed the contents of their online chats to Four Corners, saying Manning openly confessed to being a WikiLeaks source.
"For me, the precise moment at which I felt that what Bradley Manning was doing was a danger to national security and to the lives of others was when he characterised one of his leaks as being in excess of a quarter of a million State Department documents," he said.
To date, there is no evidence Mr Assange directly helped or conspired with Manning to take the classified material.
Supporters of Manning say his prison conditions are designed to break the 23-year-old and force him to implicate Assange.
One of the few civilians Manning is allowed to see is Boston researcher David House.
Mr House, who is a member of the private's legal advocacy team, alleges the conditions Manning is being held in at the Quantico military brig outside Washington amount to torture.
"From getting to know him and from watching his state degrade over time, the only conclusion I can reach is that this is torture," Mr House told Four Corners.
Mr House also alleges US federal agents investigating Manning's suspected connections with hackers in Boston have attempted to bribe members of the city's hacker community.
And he himself has been stopped at airports and had his computers seized, but without any charges being laid against him.
"It's almost thuggish behaviour on the part of the US government and the way they're prosecuting this investigation, and for someone who's doing legal defence, it's very alarming to see my country devolve into this," said Mr House.
Internal debate
Four Corners has also discovered a fierce debate within WikiLeaks over whether it was in Manning's best interest to publish the cables.
Former WikiLeaks insider Daniel Domscheit-Berg told the program he was "devastated" at the news of Manning's arrest and questioned the decision to release the cables in the first place.
"If the cables had not been published, there would've been no proof that anyone had given the material to a different entity," Mr Domscheit-Berg said.
"So from my perspective, what should have happened with these cables, for the sake of Bradley Manning, would have been to just keep them back as long as possible until you find out what is happening with him before you publish them.
"Because that's just feeding allegations of spreading material to other entities, and that might mean new charges that have not come up at this point in time."
For his part, Mr Assange maintains WikiLeaks does not know the identity of its sources.
"Because we don't know who our sources are, we cannot be in a position where upcoming publications can be affected by taking hostages ... that would be a very dangerous precedent to set. We have a promise to our sources that we will publish," he told Four Corners during an interview in England in January.
When asked about the internal debate over Manning, Mr Assange said:
"We were concerned as to how that would possibly play into his case and we saw that his charges only included some 50 cables, and so we were not sure whether that related to the material that we'd released," he said.
"But we could see that extra accusations would probably be made against him given that that he was the only name being floated around by the US military."
Mr Assange says the Guardian newspaper in England set out the exact timetable for the eventual publication of the cables, but told Four Corners: "It was very, very important to have them published eventually. The particular timetable was not of our choosing."
WikiLeaks has so far donated $15,000 to Manning's legal defence, but Mr Assange would not comment on what the organisation was doing now to support Manning.
"If the allegations against Bradley Manning are true, he is the United States' foremost political prisoner," he said.
Mr Assange is himself in the middle of a legal battle with Swedish authorities trying to extradite the WikiLeaks founder from the UK so he can be interviewed over complaints of sexual misconduct.
Giving his own view on Mr Assange and Manning's respective legal positions, Mr Domscheit-Berg told Four Corners:
"All this hype about WikiLeaks and Julian and Julian's problems in Sweden, what are these problems in Sweden compared to the trouble that this private is in?
"This person who potentially is, I think, one of the biggest heroes for freedom of information in our time, how does that relate? There's no relation in between these two things anymore.
"Everyone should be talking about Manning and not about Julian's trouble in Sweden or in Great Britain or wherever."
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Representatives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban and Development met Monday with community leaders, city, county and state officials as New Bern launched its plan to revitalize the Greater Five Points area.
Representatives from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban and Development met Monday with community leaders, city, county and state officials as New Bern launched its plan to revitalize the Greater Five Points area.
More than 80 people filled the auditorium at Craven Terrace to hear from HUD, New Bern Housing Authority officials, the mayor and city staff about the Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant that the New Bern Housing Authority received in November.
The $400,000 Choice Neighborhood grant will be used to create an implementation plan to relieve distressed areas, provide education, jobs and affordable housing in Greater Five Points. The implementation grant could be $30 million to $40 million.
Julian Marsh, executive director of the New Bern Housing Authority, said it will probably take two years to complete the plan.
The target area for the Choice Neighborhood Planning Grant includes the poorest neighborhoods in the city. Part of that area includes Craven Terrace and Trent Court, which have the highest concentration of poverty in the state, Marsh said.
The city is trying to provide better housing, jobs, education, health care and opportunities for people in Five Points and surrounding neighborhoods, and to do that, the city will focus on the community�s needs, Marsh said.
The city has done several plans over the years to revitalize the Greater Five Points area. But the plans were never realized, Marsh said.
�Yes there have been a lot of studies done,� he said. �Now it�s time to implement them.�
With a team effort, that could be accomplished, he said. Much of the data on the needs of the Greater Five Points area has already been compiled through studies like the Renaissance Gateway Plan and the Brownfields study, he said.
The Housing Authority applied for the Choice Neighborhood Grant last May and, at that time, already had partners with monetary pledges and in-kind resources available for the project, Marsh said.
He said the plan will look at three goals: people, neighborhoods and housing.
Those goals will be sub-grouped into areas such as education, health care, housing and economic development, Marsh said.
A focus group will go into more detail looking at the specific needs, he said.
The plan will be done in four phases: an assessment of needs; the formation of strategic goals (like how to improve health care and reduce crime); developing all the ideas and goals; and finally combining all of those processes into the implementation plan, Marsh said.
�I know there will be challenges,� he said. �...but I am fully confident this project is on the right track.�
Mayor Dana Outlaw said one purpose of the all-day event was to introduce HUD officials to city staff, elected officials, community leaders, education leaders, capital groups and Housing Authority officials.
�We wanted them to know we are all a big team, working together,� the mayor said. �We are going to have some fun with this. We�ve had a lot of studies of New Bern in the past. But they were only studies. We�ve got to kick it forward this time. We can�t stop. We�ve got some momentum.�
Outlaw said he wants to see the plan bear fruit and is looking forward to a transformation of the housing projects and a joint private/public partnership that can bring affordable housing to New Bern.
Outlaw said he believes New Bern�s chances are great of getting the additional $30 million to $40 million implementation grant.
�Private industries are looking at what is happening here with the Choice Neighborhood grant and are saying, �You know, this is a place I want to invest in, the ball is rolling, the people are united, all the groups are working together,�� he said. �Nobody is trying to do anything other than be part of a big team here. I think the possibilities are excellent because we are going to be able to demonstrate that, dollar-for-dollar, there is no better place to invest than the city of New Bern.�
Members of the community and officials also took a walking tour of two apartments at Craven Terrace to see how outdated they are. They were built in 1941 with small rooms. After visiting the apartments, they took a bus tour of distressed areas in the Five Points area and had meetings all day to further explain the Choice Neighborhood plan to the public.
At the beginning of the day, Mark Stephens, New Bern�s interim city manager, gave the federal housing representatives and officials from out of town an orientation of New Bern and what it has to offer.
The public was invited to a �Community Stakeholder Meeting� scheduled from 6-7:30 p.m. Monday at the Flame restaurant on Neuse Boulevard to hear a brief overview of the planning goals, planning process and how the community can participate.
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Rory McIlroy's bid to win the Open Championship got off to the perfect start on Sunday at Royal Liverpool.
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This week I have been making vintage pretties as samples for some of the courses that I am going to be teaching in the second half of the year at Cakeology Ltd.
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Saturday, 18 May 2013
'Cake Craft Made Easy' Book Launch Giveaway
To celebrate the launch of my new book 'Cake Craft Made Easy' this week, I'm excited to be able to run a little giveaway!
There a 3 prizes available to win!
First prize is a copy of 'Cake Craft Made Easy' and an awesome pack of Spring-inspired cake decorating supplies: a Wilton bunny brownie/whoopie pie baking pan, assorted coloured cupcake cases, tubes of pink and green non-pariels, a tube of edible pearls, a lovely shabby chic rose tea towel, a Wilton bows and buttons silicone mould, and 8 Spring cookie cutters!
Second prize is a copy of 'Cake Craft Made Easy', a dual colour piping kit and five 'take a bite' cookie cutters.
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Friday, 26 April 2013
Vintage Tea Party
Earlier this year I had a second wedding reception in Australia for my family and friends who couldn't join my London wedding last year. I spent months collecting vintage crockery from London car boot sales to send to Australia to recreate a British teaparty for my guests. Here are some photos from the day....
It was such a lovely day.
|Flower arrangements from my neighbour's farm. Teapot biscuit favours made by me. I also made labels for the teapots that said 'Keep Calm and Drink Tea' to add extra Britishness!
|I used paper doilies as name places and tied labels onto store bought jam with lace ribbon to add a touch of class. Table numbers were designed by In the Treehouse. A lovely assortment of cakes and sandwiches were made by High Society.
|A candy bar featuring retro sweets, cake pops and meringues was put together by the wonderful Princess Jades Candy Buffet. I made the meringues, and got the lovely Savannah from Savvy Fare to make the pretty 2-tiered white chocolate mud cake, decorated with handmade sugar flowers for the centre of the table - just stunning.
|All our guests were encouraged to take a little bag to fill with sweets from the candy bar - it was so lovely to see the faces on all of the kids there when they saw the candy bar - they thought they were in heaven!
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Thursday, 25 April 2013
Here are a few things coming out of the kitchen at Icing Bliss to bring the sunshine into the house...
|Cookie stacks decorated with delicate sugar blossoms
|Sweet little bunny biscuits decorated with royal icing
|Teapot cookies - they make lovely favours for a kitchen tea
|Shabby chic grey and cream cupcakes - gorgeous for an elegant wedding
|Frilly flower 6" cutting cake made as part of a display for a wedding
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Monday, 15 April 2013
Shabby Chic Cookies
Here are some photos of my cookies which I entered into the Decorated Cookie class at Cake International last weekend. I was really chuffed to get a bronze award as all the entries were incredibly beautiful.
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Cake International - London 2013
Cake International was held from 12-14th April at the ExCel centre in London. Thousands of aspiring and professional cake decorators flooded through the doors to see live demonstrations from baking experts and buy the latest equipment in cake decorating from over 100 exhibitor stands. There were also over 500 entries in the competition classes - almost double the number from the previous year. The buzz at the show was infectious and I was really excited to gaze at all the amazing talent in the cake decorating world. Here are a few pictures from the show....
There were so many amazing cakes and you can see many more of them in this great video montage. Congratulations to everyone who won an award at the show!
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Born to a wealthy family in Brockton, Massachusetts, Davis spent his youth in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn and attended Erasmus Hall High School. He attended Wittenberg University and Syracuse University, where he earned a degree in English. Upon graduation, he began his coaching career as the line coach at Adelphi College from 1950 to 1951. From there Davis served as the head coach of the U.S. Army team at Ft. Belvoir, Virginia from 1952 to 1953. His next coaching assignment was as the line coach and chief recruiter for The Citadel. From 1957 to 1959 Davis was an offensive line coach at the University of Southern California.
Davis' first coaching experience in professional football came as the offensive end coach of the Los Angeles/San Diego Chargers from 1960 to 1962.


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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Colored girls
It's always a good idea to preserve continuity with color comps. If you're going to paint in watercolors, you should always do your comps in watercolors. This makes it much easier to match your colors on the finished painting. It's even better to write down color formulas or combinations used to achieve specific colors. The reflective and translucent quality of different mediums can wreck havoc with colors and perception, and this goes double for the computer. You throw in the differences between reflected and projected colors and you're begging for a headache.
So, I did this comp on the computer with a sweet Japanese ink and paint program called SAI Paint Tool. It was fast and so convenient, and it's a great program for tablet PCs. The only real drawback was trying to match colors on the finished piece, and that was a real headache. I wonder why?
The colors needed to be bright but just south of psychedelic. I always thought the 60s made it okay to use bright colors, but when we got to the 80s it had spun out of control. The 70s got it just right, and that was the feeling I wanted. Laura "Colorista" Martin works across the hall from me here at the studio, so I called her in for a second opinion, and after a bit of tweaking you could actually hear the colors sing.
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- Jake Ekiss said...
Mmm, that's some sweet sweet music too. Always love seeing your color process, makes me more thoughtful on mine. I presume with interior pages you've got to work a bit looser than you would on commissions given time constraints, but what would be the difference, if any, in process? Just wondering.
- December 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM
- brian said...
Jake: I never do a color cop for interior pages, but my layouts are a little more elaborate.
With interior colors I just pick my subject color, establish a dominant color for the page,and then build a color range around it. The whip crack of time doesn't allow much more planning than that.
- December 17, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Héctor Barros said...
Recently I´ve found a color management software, Color Schemer, still learning how to use it, but it seems pretty usefull (it allows the user to export the color swatches and selections to Photoshop or Corel)
Every pic you upload is amazing... and inspiring, too, anytime I visit your blog, I remember why I want to be an illustrator
- December 26, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Happy New Year~..................................................
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- Attila said...
I scanned in the Nikki piece you did for me at Megacon. If you would like for me to email a copy to you, let me know.
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Hi, Brian,
I enjoyed talking to you at Wizard World in Atlanta, wrote about it my blog: http://julianadeflorey.livejournal.com/7263.html
best, Julia Scott
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NEW YORK — A top Iranian official told NBC News it was possible that the three U.S. hikers who were arrested last year on espionage charges might not be spies after all.
Mohammad-Javad Larijani, secretary-general of the High Council for Human Rights and a close adviser to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the comments this week in an interview with NBC News' Ann Curry, in which he also suggested that the door may be open for a thaw in U.S.-Iranian relations.
The Americans — Sarah Shourd, 32, Shane Bauer, 28, and Joshua Fattal, 28 — were arrested in July 2009 when Iranian authorities claimed that they had crossed the border into Iran while hiking in Kurdistan, an autonomous region of Iraq that borders Iran.
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Larijani said he hoped the case against the Americans could be resolved before going to trial, suggesting that security and intelligence officials were simply acting out of caution in a volatile border area.
"Oversensitivity of the intelligence is not uncommon, though it is not a healthy thing, I agree," he said. "We think that we should not overreact."
Larijani made it clear that he believed Shourd, who was freed in September on $500,000 bail and has returned to the United States, was not engaged in espionage, saying his agency was able to convince authorities that she "was not even capable of doing such things."
Bauer and Fattal remain in custody. While Larijani said prosecutors and intelligence officials believed they had a strong case against the two men, he told NBC News he hoped it would be determined that they "were really hikers" who "accidentally ... crossed into the most volatile area on the border."
Curry interviewed Larijani this week in New York, where Iran was defending its human rights record before the United Nations. A U.N. committee approved a draft resolution Thursday expressing "deep concern" about human rights violations in Iran, including torture and the use of amputations and stoning as punishment.
Larijani told the U.N. committee that the resolution was part of an effort by the West to derail Iran's constructive interaction with the United Nations, referring to the United States as "the mastermind and main provocateur."
Less confrontational rhetoric
At the same time, Larijani held out the prospect of improved relations with the United States, telling NBC News that there were "converging interests" between Washington and Tehran, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He said Iran had "persistently supported" the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki even as "all the other Arab states, especially those who are very close allies of the United States, were opposing this government."
Larijani — who studied mathematics at the University of California-Berkeley and speaks fluent English — harshly criticized the Obama administration for what he called its "blind hostility" toward Iran.
He said the Obama administration should stop thinking of Iran in black-and-white terms and proposed that the two countries focus on building confidence, starting with small measures that could produce results in the short term.
Larijani's comments came as the U.S. State Department this week criticized Iran's handling of cases against human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and other human rights lawyers.
"Iran's leaders should know that their efforts to silence those Iranians who stand up for the rights of their fellow citizens does not go unnoticed," said the spokesman, Philip Crowley. "The United States remains gravely concerned about Iran's continued harassment, detention and imprisonment of human rights defenders."
Sotoudeh was detained in September and faces trial for "collusion against national security" and "spreading propaganda against the Islamic Republic." Larijani told NBC News that his agency would be "very sensitive on these cases," but he maintained that Iranian authorities believed that she was engaged "in a very nasty campaign" against Iran's national security.
Death penalty unlikely for rights lawyer
Since her arrest Sept. 4, Sotoudeh — who has represented 2003 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Shirin Ebadi and other women's rights activists — has reportedly spent much of her time in solitary confinement and recently ended a hunger strike.
A coalition of seven human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, issued a statement in October charging that by prosecuting lawyers for "doing their job," Iranian authorities were "further undermining an already deeply flawed justice system."
Larijani criticized her hunger strike as illegal. But he said that while the charges were serious, he did not believe she would face the death penalty if convicted.
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"It is very difficult work," she said. "With many difficulties we manage to do it. Once it is done, we feel very pleased."
Larijani acknowledged that Westerners condemned parts of Iran's legal system, especially its practice of stoning and lashing some offenders, but he said they did so out of a misunderstanding of the law.
He would not weigh in personally on whether stoning should be banned, but he said he thought changing the law would not be easy.
Larijani said stoning was rarely imposed in Iran, only in a handful of extreme cases of adultery, and its defenders intend it as a deterrent, he argued.
Video: Sotoudeh weighs risk of activism "Stoning does not mean beat her until she dies," he said. "Stoning is like flogging, like lashes. It means that you should throw a limited number of stones of limited size. She may survive; she may not."
Some Iranians consider lashing "more humane" than six months in prison, "because then [a defendant] can walk to his house." Larijani said. "He may be upset for a couple of days, but nobody knows that. He's within his family. So this is a cultural matter."
And he spoke with pride about Iran's technical achievements, its development of missiles and its controversial nuclear program, citing in particular Iran's ability to produce nuclear fuel.
"This is prestigious for us," said Larijani, who comes from a prominent Iranian family: His brother Ali is head of Iran's parliament, and another brother, Sadegh, is in charge of the judiciary.
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It's really a shame that the ability to fly anywhere in Azeroth has made ground mounts a little obsolete. There are so many great-looking ground mounts. Here are my favorites:
1. Swift Palomino
I always wanted a pony. Once I got my druid exalted with Stormwind this is the first mount I bought.
2. Swift Orange Raptor
When I first rolled a Blood Elf, I knew I didn't want to be riding around on a chocobo…hawkstrider for very long. I did every troll quest I could find so I could buy this much more impressive-looking raptor.
3. Purple Skeletal Warhorse
Again, I like ponies. Even skeletal ones.
4. Raven Lord
What a pain in the ass this mount is. I've read so many accounts of people running Sethekk Halls every day for months before this dropped for them. I saw it drop a number of times during random dungeon runs – and it was always won by a Pally. I finally got it completely unexpectedly while doing an achivement for Pilgrim's Bounty.
5. Amani War Bear
A giant bear decorated with tusks and skulls is pretty hard to beat. Besides looking excellent, the Amani War Bear also shows off the accomplishment of doing a timed ZA run – and a bit of luck with the dice.
6. Golden KingWhat a gorgeous lion mount. I love the big mane and the shiny armor. It's very fitting for the Alliance.
7. Kor'kron Annihilator
Blizzard really out-did themselves with the two level 25 guild mounts. As much as I love the lion, I think the Horde mount is even better. The Scorpion is huge (especially with a tauren on it) and menacing – and it waves it's arms in the air when you press the spacebar! Awesome.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tech-sector giants Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. drew most of the attention from investors on Thursday, as both companies geared up to report quarterly results after the market close.
Also in the spotlight were Zynga Inc. ZNGA, +0.65% and online review and recommendation company Angie's List Inc. ANGI, -4.86% , as their shares posted big gains in the wake of their latest earnings reports.
Apple AAPL, -1.46% shed 1.2% to close at $609.54 ahead of its earnings report. Bloomberg TV reported that Apple is set to launch its own streaming radio service that would compete against the likes of Pandora US:P. Pandora shares fell 11.7% to close at $8.20.
After the close, Apple reported a 24% jump in earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter, but the results fell short of expectations. Read the complete report on Apple earnings.
Earlier this week, Apple unveiled the iPad mini, a smaller version of the iPad intended to compete more directly with Amazon's Kindle Fire tablets. Read more about Apple's direction with iPad mini.
Amazon AMZN, -1.50% shares rose 2.4% to close at $222.92.
Amazon after the close said it swung to a third-quarter loss of 60 cents a share on revenue of $13.81 billion. Excluding 37 cents a share related to losses from its investment in LivingSocial, Amazon would have lost 23 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by FactSet estimated the online retailer to report a loss of 7 cents a share on $13.9 billion. Read the full story on Amazon earnings.
Zynga ZNGA, +0.65%, which has been much maligned of late following several high-level executive departures and concerns about the social-gaming company's outlook, saw its shares climb 12.3% to close at $2.39. Late Wednesday, Zynga reported third-quarter results that included plans for a $200 million stock buyback and a deal with bwin.party that will have Zynga offering real-money games in the United Kingdom.
Zynga's deal involves its Poker and Casino titles, and a slots that is based on Zynga's "FarmVille" game franchise. Read more about Zynga's buyback and real-money gaming plans.
Needham & Co. analyst Sean McGowan raised his rating on Zynga to buy from hold, and said the he believes the company's stock has bottomed out at its current levels.
Angie's List ANGI, -4.86% shares surged 27% to close at $11.56, in the wake of better-than-expected third quarter results. Barrington Research analyst Jeff Houston raised his rating on Angie's List to outperform from market perform, saying the company's "revenue visibility, differentiated offering, ability to increase advertising prices and operating leverage potential" make it more attractive heading toward the end of the year.
Security software company Symantec Corp. SYMC, -0.42% rose 6.7% to close at $18.54, and Internet content distribution technology provider Akamai Technologies Inc. AKAM, +0.19% was also up 6.7% closing at $38.54, after both companies reported upbeat quarterly results.
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.80% edged up a fraction closing at 2,986. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, -1.83% rose 1.4% while the Morgan Stanley High-Tech Index US:MSH dipped into the red, down a fraction.
Declines also came from F5 Networks Inc. FFIV, -0.77%, which gave up 11% to close at $83 after the networking-technology company reported disappointing fiscal fourth-quarter results. Other decliners following earnings results included Citrix CTXS, +0.54% , ServiceNow NOW, +0.90% and Tellabs US:TLAB .
Facebook Inc. FB, -0.11% shares shed 2.9% to close at $22.56. Russian Internet company Mail.ru Group said it had cut its stake in Facebook to 0.75% from the 1.34% it reported on Sept. 5.


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NEW YORK – Week 4 of the MLSsoccer.com Team of the Week owes two MLS clubs for most of its players. The Seattle Sounders (4) and the Houston Dynamo (3) contributed more than half of the best XI following the action from the most recent weekend of play.
Reigning MVP David Ferreira makes his debut appearance, the Crew's Chad Marshall shows up for the third consecutive week, while New York Red Bulls fans may be surprised to see their former reserve left back in the lineup.
GK – Kasey Keller (Seattle Sounders): Several big stops against the Fire. Seattle fans already miss the 'keeper, who will retire at the end of this season.
DF – Chad Marshall (Columbus Crew): The only three-time Team of the Week nominee, Marshall continues his strong start to the season. The Crew have three straight shutouts.
DF – Danleigh Borman (Toronto FC): Aron Winter wants players who are adept at attacking and defending and Borman showed on Saturday in San Jose that he can do both effectively.
DF – Bobby Boswell (Houston Dynamo): Also contributing on both ends of the field this week was the Houston central defender. Calm and smooth along the back line and cool near the goal mouth as well.
MF – David Ferreira (FC Dallas): The MVP is back. His two goals – and a celebration involving a baby pacifier – allowed FC Dallas to exact some MLS Cup revenge.
MF – Brad Davis (Houston Dynamo): After a stellar preseason, the best left foot in MLS proved again why more than any other player wearing orange, he is the Dynamo's inspiration.
MF – Steve Zakuani (Seattle Sounders): The Englishman is on a tear to start the year and he terrorized yet another MLS right back, this time scoring a goal on one of his patented runs deep into the box.
MF – Nizar Khalfan (Vancouver Whitecaps): They don't come more dynamic than the Tanzanian, who has the pace to be dangerous from anywhere on the field and the stamina to cover more ground than any of his teammates, no matter how many games the schedule throws Vancouver's way.
FW – Mauro Rosales (Seattle Sounders): It's been a smooth transition for the technically gifted Argentine, who has the experience to figure out exactly how he can be useful to the Sounders in whichever position he plays.
FW – Will Bruin (Houston Dynamo): An early Rookie of the Year candidate, the former Hoosier got his first MLS goal but more importantly was active and dangerous for the entire match vs. Vancouver.
FW – O'Brian White (Seattle Sounders): After a frustrating start to 2011, the Jamaican forward seems to be on track with his second goal in as many games. His off-the-ball work is being rewarded with goals, which can only add to his confidence.
Manager – Jason Kreis (Real Salt Lake): He has diligently worked on building his squad over the recent years, cultivating young players until they were ready to become quality contributors. Qualifying to the CCL finals felt good but winning in New England with a side lacking many starters has to rank up there for Kreis.
Honorable Mentions: David Beckham (LA Galaxy), Fabián Castillo (FC Dallas), Simon Dawkins (San Jose), Stefan Frei (Toronto FC), Ugo Ihemelu (FC Dallas), Rafa Márquez (New York), Paulo Jr. (Real Salt Lake), Chris Schuler (Real Salt Lake), Roger Torres (Philadelphia).
Goalkeepers: Tally Hall (Week 2, Week 3), Kasey Keller (Week 4), Nick Rimando (Week 1);
Defenders: Danleigh Borman (Week 4), Bobby Boswell (Week 4), Danny Califf (Week 1), Omar Gonzalez (Week 3), Zach Loyd (Week 1), Chad Marshall (Week 2, Week 3, Week 4), Drew Moor (Week 2), Jeff Parke (Week 1), Alain Rochat (Week 2), A.J. Soares (Week 3);
Midfielders: Osvaldo Alonso (Week 2), Kyle Beckerman (Week 1), Geoff Cameron (Week 3), Brian Carroll (Week 2), Davide Chiumiento (Week 1), Brad Davis (Week 4), Simon Dawkins (Week 3), David Ferreira (Week 4), Shalrie Joseph (Week 3), Juninho (Week 1), Nizar Khalfan (Week 4), Javier Morales (Week 2), Marco Pappa (Week 2), Teemu Tainio (Week 1), Steve Zakuani (Week 3, Week 4);
Forwards: Omar Bravo (Week 1), Will Bruin (Week 4), Teal Bunbury (Week 3), Omar Cummings (Week 1), Caleb Folan (Week 3), Eric Hassli (Week 1), Javier Martina (Week 2), Paulo Jr. (Week 2), Mauro Rosales (Week 4), Camilo (Week 3), O'Brian White (Week 4), Chris Wondolowski (Week 2);
Managers: Hans Backe (Week 2), Jason Kreis (Week 4), Ben Olsen (Week 1), Gary Smith (Week 3).


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Mario has never looked sharper than he does in New Super Mario Bros. U.A new Nintendo console wouldn't be complete without the tubby plumber. And Mario has never looked sharper than he does in New Super Mario Bros. U.
The moustachioed marvel revels in Nintendo's long overdue move into the realm of high-definition.
The game features some terrific new foes and wonderfully imaginative backdrops, including a stage inspired by Impressionist painters.
The playful levels contain loads of surprises and cleverly hidden secrets, rewarding patient players prepared to explore.
There's more creativity here to justify the "new" label than in previous series instalments. Almost every stage has a wonderful new gimmick.
Early levels are joyously accessible to all, but as you progress you will discover some challenges are fiendishly difficult, and will certainly test a player's skills and resolve.
The enjoyable power-ups include items that let Mario hurl fireballs, encase enemies in ice and a new squirrel suit that lets Mario glide, cling to walls and take advantage of a helpful mid-air boost.
Baby Yoshi appear in some levels to add amusing twists. There's the chance to inflate Yoshi to use like a hot-air balloon, trap foes inside bubbles and light up dark caverns.
Other highlights include a mischievous rabbit that requires constant pursuit, and a massive sea snake that chases you throughout an underwater level.
Four players can run riot together through the madcap levels, while a fifth player can use the Wii U's touch-screen controller to place platforms to helpfully assist or mischievously hinder progress.
Using the screen is not as much fun as directly controlling Mario or his pals, but parents might find it useful for joining in and helping kids through tricky sections.
Challenge mode is also a welcome addition, with some inventive objectives helping to teach advanced techniques.
It's testament to Nintendo's design nous that the game is just as much fun whether alone or with friends. You can continue playing solo just using the GamePad screen even when others are using the television.
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Kaua'i CC art faculty adds finishing touch to Hall of CompassionKauaʻi Community College
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(Lihue) On September 6, 2013 the Lawai International Center's Hall of Compassion was finally completed with the crowning of its roof with an artistically designed ceramic artwork provided by Kaua'i CC art faculty Wayne Miyata. With the help of a crane and specially rigged lifting device, Miyata and volunteers gently installed the huge ceramic ball atop the Hall's roof. The placement of the sacred ball represents the final phase of bringing to reality a structure that represents the connection of earth and heaven for all.
Miyata resides on Kaua'i and recently retired from a distinguished career as head of Kaua'i CC's Ceramic program. He currently lectures at the College. Miyata is world renowned for his artwork and has held numerous exhibitions locally, nationally, and internationally.
Materials for the Hall of Compassion were prepared and shipped from Japan. The unique technique of constructing without nails was used. The project was carefully overseen by architect Nobuyuki Yamamoto, one of the last temple building masters in Japan.
The Hall of Compassion graces Lawai Valley, a place where prayers of all ethnicities and religions are heard. In ancient times, Hawaiians built heiau in the Valley. Today, it a place known for 88 shrines replicated from an ancient pilgrimage of 88 temples in Shikoku, Japan.
On Sunday, October 6, 2013, from 1:00 pm, Lawai International Center will host its annual Pilgrimage for Compassion, where they will also hold a dedication ceremony for the Hall of Compassion. Contact Lynn Muramoto at firstname.lastname@example.com. The event is open to the public.


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Ultimate Adventure Trucks - Where Are They Now?Posted in Project Vehicles on May 1, 2010
If you've ever wondered what happens to our old Ultimate Adventure vehicles, we're here to tell you that they never really go away. In one form or another their legacy lives on to wheel another day.
A few of the rigs don't survive; some are dismantled because they were preproduction vehicles and unregisterable for street use or sale. Those that didn't make it into the fleet of retired UA vehicles were stripped of their parts and live on through other projects. The rest of the UA rigs from yesteryear are well-kept pieces of history and trail-tested treasures.
Jeep M38A1, UA01
Then: The Jeep was built for and used on the hardcore trails of the Pacific Northwest and Canada ("Ultimate A1," Aug.-Oct., Dec. '01). The A1 then went on to complete the Utah and Colorado Ultimate Adventure of 2002 (UA02). It was used on many other off-road trips and recently saw mud-tire test duty.
Now: The retired M38A1 is now a driving instruction tool and resides at the western retirement home for old Jeeps: Editor Rick Péwé's backyard.
Ford Super Duty, UA02
Then: This incredible '02 Ford saw action in the Ultimate Adventure of 2002 (riding high on 46-inch-tall Michelin XZL tires) but didn't realize its full potential until 2009 when it was built into the Ultimate Ranch Truck by Offroad Design in Carbondale, Colorado ("The Ultimate Ranch Truck," Aug.-Dec. '09).
Chevy Avalanche, UA03
Then: The UA Chevy Avalanche ("Ultimate Avalanche," Aug.-Dec. '03) was wheeled hard in North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The body took a beating, but the Avalanche survived thousands of miles of some of the toughest terrain this country has to offer.
Now: The Avalanche saw its fair share of abuse at the hands of multiple drivers and has since been slightly repaired and sprayed with a coat of flat black paint. It is currently in the hospice care of Tech Editor Fred Williams and may soon be turned into a camping and hunting truck for future adventure.
Toyota Tacoma, UA04
Then: The supercharged 3.4L V-6 '01 Tacoma was built for UA action in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota ("Ultimate Taco," Aug.-Dec. '04). After the Ultimate Adventure the truck could be seen wheelin' around California trails but experienced a couple of rollovers at the Hammer Trails in Johnson Valley.
Now: The Tacoma was a preproduction vehicle (what we call a crusher) and therefore couldn't be registered for ownership. Due to significant damage and its preproduction status, it went back to Toyota for its date with the crusher-after a few good pieces were salvaged.
K10 Chevy Truck, UA05
Then: The $500 '75 K10 truck ("Ultimate K10," Aug.-Nov. '05, Jan. '06), built with 1-ton axles and a Ram Jet 350, sustained some of the worst body damage of any UA vehicle when it made its way through Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. However, the rig did make its way home to Los Angles under its own power.
Now: The worn-out and well-beaten UA Chevy, having lost a few parts to other projects, is now sitting in storage. The truck is waiting for Editor-in-Chief Péwé to bring it back to life and return it to its former glory as a true trail truck.
Toyota FJ, UA06
Then: This '07 FJ was named the Ninja Turtle and wheeled extremely well through southern Idaho and northern Nevada on UA06. The Turtle was transformed from an IFS mild-trail vehicle to an all-out trail machine ("Ultimate FJ," July-Dec. '06).
Now: After the UA the FJ was taken to Moab for Easter Jeep Safari and on a number of trail runs. This Toyota, like the FJ, was also a preproduction vehicle. Just before it went back to Toyota, Fred Williams took it to compete in Four Wheeler magazine's Top Truck Challenge. Afterward it was stripped and thrown in the crusher.
Jeep Wrangler JK, UA07
Then: Better known as the Rubi Wagon, the UAJK was one of the most ambitious of our builds ("UAJK," Aug. '07-Jan. '08). The Jeep was fitted with a Cummins 24-valve common-rail diesel engine and was both unique and one of the most capable vehicles in the Texas Ultimate Adventure.
Now: The Rubi Wagon has been on tons of off-road adventures since 2007, like Moab and the Tierra Del Sol Desert Safari around the Salton Sea, California. The UAJK is currently under the care of Fred Williams, who has aspirations of driving the Jeep from Alaska to Florida (remember, there's no top or heater in this big Jeep) for a truly ultimate four-wheel adventure.
Chevy Z71, UA08
Then: After making it through the UA08 the '00 GMC Sierra 1500 ("The Ultimate Z71," Aug.-Dec. '08), continued to get thoroughly used and wheeled. Now the beaten adventure rig is a daily driver and a weekend trail romper.
Now: Feature Editor Ali Mansour's home garage now keeps the truck warm at night. The truck no longer has the vinyl wrap and looks more like a sleeper than ever before. Though there is still a bit of wind noise and whistle from the body damage, the Z71 is still running strong.
Ford Super Duty, UA09
Now: As mentioned earlier, seven years after this Ford first saw action on the Ultimate Adventure it was built into the Ultimate Ranch Truck ("The Ultimate Ranch Truck," Aug.-Dec. '09) and went on another UA. The extremely modified '02 Super Duty, which also goes by the nickname Whopper, drove over 7,000 miles to complete the Ultimate Adventure in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan.
The Ultimate Ranch Truck wheeled Holy Cross Trail in Colorado one month after the UA. Next it will see Moab this coming April. The Whopper is now safely stored at the new Petersen's 4-Wheel & Off-Road headquarters.


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World's Worst Friend President Obama: We Have 'Better Things to Do' Than Plan Trips to Cuba for Beyoncé
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President Obama showed his true colors in an interview on Today Wednesday morning, when host Savannah Guthrie asked if he had been aware that two normal, average American citizens named Beyoncé and Jay-Z were planning a visit to Cuba before the trip occurred.
Those true colors: Bad Friend Burgundy.
Obama was like Why would I plan that trip I don't have time to plan that trip I don't even know them really I don't even like them really my Mom made me go over their house one time after church but I wasn't even there that long and I don't talk to them and we're not friends whaaaat whoooo huuuuuh?
Here's what he actually said:
"I wasn't familiar that they were taking the trip. My understanding is I think they went through a group that organizes these educational trips down to Cuba. You know, this is not something the White House was involved with. We've got better things to do."
Better things to do? That's interesting. I guess Beyoncé and Jay-Z have better things to do than drop off that "Someone Who Loves Me Went to Cuba and All I Got Was This Lousy Camiseta" t-shirt they picked up for a certain special somebody at the Havana airport.
Obama didn't touch the second part of Guthrie's question, which asked whether he had "seen" (it's a song, Savannah!) Jay-Z's "Open Letter," in which the rapper brags about receiving White House clearance for the controversial trip. Guthrie was probably too embarrassed by the dorky way she'd said "~raps~" the first time to do a follow-up.
As previously reported, Florida Senator Marco Rubio recently demanded an investigation into the couple's trip to Cuba, requesting that the White House "explain exactly how trips like these comply with U.S. law and regulations governing travel to Cuba." The trip was approved by the Treasury Department, reportedly as part of a "people to people" cultural exchange.
(In case you're wondering, the interview segment was filmed prior to Monday's Boston Marathon bombing, which is probably why Savannah Guthrie and the President didn't have anything more interesting to talk about than Beyoncé and Jay-Z.)


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