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The Management/Leadership Specialist Certificate prepares individuals to become supervisors and leaders in business, commercial or manufacturing facilities. Learning opportunities will introduce, develop and reinforce students' knowledge, skills and attitudes required for job acquisition, retention and advancement in management. Graduates will receive a Management/Leadership Specialist TCC. According to the Occupational Outlook Handbook of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job opportunities for Management/Leadership Specialist will grow as fast as the average. Keen competition is expected for jobs as the number of applicants greatly exceeds the number of job openings. College graduates and those who have earned certification should have the best job opportunities. Competition for these positions can be very competitive and management education can provide a competitive edge. Students interested in continuing their education and advance their careers may continue their education at the technical college level in the Business Management program. Students may pursue an associate degree or diploma in Business Management. Opportunities for continual educational growth may be pursued at the university level. Collegiate programs in the School of Business with a major in Management are available to those students wishing to obtain a Bachelor of Science or a Bachelor of Arts in their chosen field or industry. Management/Leadership Specialists perform the managerial function for the organization. Supervisors are the first line of management between hourly employees and management. Leaders in this field require good interpersonal skills. They must have clear and persuasive communication skills, analytical minds, and the skill to evaluate complex relationships among numerous factors. Dealing with people is an important part of the job.
The standard curriculum for the Management/Leadership Specialist certificate program is designed for the semester system. Students may enter the program each semester. The Management/Leadership Specialist certificate takes approximately 3 semesters to complete and is online. To graduate, students must earn a minimum of 18 hours.
*Approved Electives: BUSN 1240, BUSN 1330, BUSN 1400, BUSN 1410, MGMT 2135, MGMT 2205
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- Submit a completed application;
- Be at least 16 years of age;
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- Satisfy Placement Testing requirements.
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(Prerequisite: Provisional admission) Develops a working knowledge of the laws of employment necessary for managers. Topics include: Employment Law, the Courts, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR Discrimination Law, Selecting Applicants Under the Law, OSHA and Safety, Affirmative Action, AT-Will Doctrine, Right to Privacy, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Family Medical Leave Act(FMLA), Worker's Compensation, Unemployment Compensation, and National Labor Relations Act.
This course introduces the fundamental concepts, terminology, and operations necessary to use computers. Emphasis is placed on basic functions and familiarity with computer use. Topics include introductions to computer and digital terminology and usage, operating systems, Internet and digital communication, word processing applications, spreadsheet applications, database applications, and presentation applications.


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You know that feeling you get sometimes, where you think everyone hates you and is secretly plotting your demise? (No? Just me?)
Usually that's called "paranoia." Unless, of course, you're in one of these bakeries:
Betcha never knew someone could give you the finger while wearing a baseball mitt, now, did you?
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If you think you're pregnant, or hoping to be, you can just hop down to your closest store and pick up a pregnancy test. Women in North Korea don't have that easy of an option, however. Use of pregnancy tests in North Korea has been limited, but reports from inside the country are revealing that sales are, in fact, up.
Desire to take control of pregnancy
In North Korea, contraception is illegal, as is abortion. Also, women traditionally go see a doctor for pregnancy confirmation, and that isn't always a sure thing because many hospitals aren't equipped with ultrasound technology. This often results in incorrect diagnoses.
It turns out that women aren't especially happy with the current setup — a response that isn't difficult to imagine. Unmarried women are regarded with disdain if they go to the hospital for a pregnancy confirmation, and the whole process leaves the ability to diagnose pregnancy firmly in the hands of physicians.
"At an obstetrician, they verify the patients' marital statue first and then perform the diagnosis," a source tells Daily NK. "It is still regarded as extremely odd for an unmarried woman to visit a hospital for this, and there is a negative social stigma attached to people who do."
Pregnancy tests are being brought into the country most commonly from South Korea or China, and although the South Korean ones are around twice as expensive, women prefer them because they are more accurate. And while abortions are illegal, some obstetricians do offer them under the table for cash.
I simply can't imagine living in a country where contraception and abortion are both illegal and you have to look to the black market to get good pregnancy tests. It's frightening.
More pregnancy in the news
Are antidepressants safe during pregnancy?
Pregnant moms may have a 1 in 10 chance of developing gestational diabetes
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - The University of South Carolina Beaufort women's soccer team's much-improved second season has produced another first for the young program. Sophomore goalkeeper Chelsie Mummert earned honorable mention All-Sun Conference honors last week.
Mummert played a major role in helping the Sand Sharks go 9-10 and qualify for the Sun Conference tournament just one year after winning only one game in their inaugural season. The sophomore from Summerville posted five shutouts and a 2.94 goals against average, and she led the conference in saves (140) and saves per game (7.37).
Sand Sharks make academic all-conferece
The Sun Conference also announced the academic all-conference honorees for the league's five fall sports last week. Five USCB student-athletes made the list.
John Stanas (men's cross country), Meleah Powers (women's soccer, women's cross country), Fred Gallman (women's soccer), Blair Kent (women's soccer) and Becca Kent (women's soccer) were among the 146 student-athletes honored.
To be eligible for consideration, student-athletes must have attended their respective institutions for at least two semesters and have achieved a 3.5 or better cumulative grade point average.


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Bangalore is the town of dreams for IT professionals. Many ambitious engineers arrive at the town to fulfill their dreams. Due to the existence of numerous MNC's and IT companies in Bangalore it is often called whilst the Silicon Pit of India. Pupils and young experts arrived at Bangalore to realize their caliber. And that desire of these job development makes them to shift from the town and within the city as well. Moving is among the complex processes, regardless of if you are going domest


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NEW YORK (AP) Brian McCann put an emphatic end to his season-opening slump, hitting his first two home runs for the New York Yankees to help beat John Lackey and the Boston Red Sox 7-4 Saturday.
Carlos Beltran, Alfonso Soriano and Kelly Johnson also connected as the Yankees scored all their runs on homers. Lackey (2-1) was tagged for a career-high four home runs in 5 2-3 innings.
New York has won two of three in a series that wraps up Sunday night.
A.J. Pierzynski hit his first home run for the Red Sox.
Hiroki Kuroda (2-1) pitched into the seventh, and reliever Matt Thornton gave up Mike Carp's two-run single that made it 6-4. With runners at the corners, Carp was caught stealing for the third out.
Shawn Kelley pitched a perfect ninth for his second save.
CHICAGO (AP) – Ryan Raburn hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with two outs in the seventh inning to lead Cleveland over Chicago.
Nick Swisher, Jason Kipnis and David Murphy homered for Cleveland, which snapped a three-game losing streak. Murphy added a bases-loaded triple in a four-run ninth against Donnie Veal.
The Indians improved to 18-4 against the White Sox since the beginning of last season, overcoming another shaky start by Justin Masterson. Josh Outman (2-0), Bryan Shaw and Cody Allen combined for 3 1-3 innings of one-hit relief before closer John Axford finished in a non-save situation.
Adam Eaton hit his first homer for the White Sox. Ronald Belisario (1-1) took the loss.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Joe Mauer hit his first home run of the season and Ricky Nolasco earned his initial win for Minnesota in a victory over Kansas City.
A day after getting his first RBI of the year, Mauer hit a three-run shot against James Shields. Brian Dozier connected for his fourth home run, a leadoff drive for the Twins.
Nolasco (1-1) showed why the Twins signed him to a $49 million, four-year contract to steady their rotation. In his first home start for Minnesota, the right-hander went eight innings and allowed five hits.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker lacrosse team suffered their first loss of the year at the hands of the Catawba Indians on Wednesday night. The nationally ranked No. 12 Indians defeated the Cobras 12-6.
Coker struggled to penetrate the Indian defense early on, but finally cracked the barrier in the second quarter, scoring a pair of goals. At the half the Cobras trailed 7-2.
In the second half the Cobras seemed to find their groove, scoring four goals, while holding Catawba to just five.
John Bretton (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.) scored a hat trick to lead the Coker offense, while Timothy Smith (Commack, N.Y.) added a pair of goals. Keith LcClair (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) also had a goal with an assist.
The Cobras will be back in action on Friday at home against Pfeiffer University in their first Conference Carolinas game. Face-off is scheduled for 6 p.m.
McDonald's Player of the Game- John Bretton
Bretton had a hat trick, scoring three goals for the Cobras
The McDonald's Player of the Game is presented by the Hartsville McDonald's and is given to the most outstanding performer during each Coker College home athletic event.


text: This is a strange curiosity I thought might be interesting - just after I finished the script for Looper but before we began preproduction I asked Joe to record some voice-over, and with help from my friend Ronen Verbit constructed this "fake trailer" using clips from other movies. This is a fairly common thing to do when you're trying to get a movie off the ground, but it was the first time I tried it. It was meant to show more some of the film's tone, and to show how the odd concept could be presented in a clear and compelling way in the marketing. Zach Johnson did the sketches. Note that we hadn't begun the casting process yet, and the clips were chosen just based on their visuals and not by who is in them.


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[a talk presented to the Concord Area Humanists on May 2, 2012]
A few weeks ago I found myself at a funeral where no doctrine of the afterlife was preached. No one assured us that the deceased was with Jesus now, or in a better place, or had moved on to another incarnation. No one promised that we would meet her again someday.
Instead of speculating about where she is now, the service celebrated the life that she had led, the kind of person she was, and the effect she had on those who knew her.
I came away from that funeral with two impressions: First, that this woman had really lived. And second, that living a human life is a pretty cool thing to be able to do.
In short, that funeral was an inspiring, upbeat event.
Now, that description may sound familiar to you, and in fact it has become familiar to me too. But it isn't what I was brought up to expect. One of the first things my mother told me about "unbelievers" was that their funerals are dark, dismal affairs. I don't think she had attended many Humanist funerals, so I imagine that she came to this knowledge by deduction: If there is no Heaven, no salvation, no afterlife, then how can a funeral be anything but a bleak confrontation with the fact that death is the pointless end to a pointless human life?
It's amazing how widespread this view is among the general public, and even more amazing how compelling it seems to people who have little or no experience of Humanism.
Deathbed conversions. If you are a Humanist who was brought up to believe in an afterlife, chances are at some point in your young adulthood you had this conversation: An elderly friend or relative says to you, "Those notions are all well and good at your age, but when you get older, and death starts staring you in the face, then you'll come back to the Church."
They're very confident about this, because they know that Humanism can't handle death.
Supporting that view is an entire mythology of deathbed conversions by famous free-thinkers or skeptics -- Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Thomas Paine, and many others. A few days before Christopher Hitchens' death, an article in The Daily Caller asked "Is Christopher Hitchens about to convert?"
In case you're wondering: No, he didn't, and as best we can tell neither did any of the others I listed. But an interesting circularity keeps such stories going: On the one hand, they are offered as evidence that Humanism can't handle death. And on the other, they are believable because, of course, everyone knows that Humanism can't handle death.
Sometimes, though, the anecdotal evidence goes the other way. James Boswell wrote this account of David Hume's final illness:
I had a strong curiosity to be satisfied if he persisted in disbelieving a future state even when he had death before his eyes. I was persuaded from what he now said, and from his manner of saying it, that he did persist. I asked him if it was not possible that there might be a future state. He answered it was possible that a piece of coal put upon the fire would not burn; and he added that it was a most unreasonable fancy that we should exist for ever.
Boswell, a believer, concluded: "I left him with impressions which disturbed me for some time."
But Hume's friend Adam Smith didn't find Hume's peace of mind disturbing in the least. He wrote to another friend:
[p]oor David Hume is dying very fast, but with great cheerfulness and good humour and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.
A more recent case is that of Randy Pausch, the Carnegie-Mellon professor whose "Last Lecture" in 2007 has been downloaded on YouTube more than 14 million times. "If I don't seem as depressed or morose as you think I ought to be," he says as he describes his terminal cancer, "I'm sorry to disappoint you." He then goes on to give one of the most inspiring talks I've ever heard.
Anecdotes like this are not science. But until I see some objective data on the question of who dies well or which beliefs hold up as death approaches, all I can say is that my own experience does not support the idea that a Humanist death is unusually horrible. Elderly or dying Humanists that I know personally do not seem to be softening their positions or returning to traditional religion. Elderly or dying believers do not seem noticeably more serene about their fate.
So I am left with a mystery: Where does this notion come from, that Humanism can't handle death? What would it mean to "handle death" in a humanistic way?
Living without an afterlife. Now, I anticipate some of you resisting that turn of phrase, because what about death needs "handling" anyway? You just die. Everybody does it sooner or later. Some people do it in their sleep. Infants do it. Dogs and cats do it. Even amoebas manage to die. It's not particularly difficult.
And yet, for some reason, human beings have never found it that simple. Cultures all over the world, in many different eras of history, have postulated some kind of an afterlife. The society we are living in was built largely by and for people who believed in a particular vision of the afterlife.
We live in that society, but we don't share its traditional view of what happens after death. How do we manage?
If you have been living as a Humanist for decades, and especially if you were raised as a Humanist, you may still have trouble grasping the question. "What do you mean manage?" You breathe in, you breathe out. You eat at mealtime, sleep at night, and go to work in the morning just like everyone else. Living without an afterlife is like being a fish without a bicycle. It never occurs to you that you should have one, so you don't feel the lack of it. What's the problem?
But when believers look at us from the outside, they imagine a tremendous lack and a huge problem. Much of their world would come unglued if they lost their belief in Heaven and Hell, and so they imagine that we must live in an unglued world.
How do we manage?
The unspoken questions. Let me give a simple example. The first time my father realized that I wasn't expecting us to meet again in Heaven, he asked: "So you think we just die and that's it, like animals?"
Like animals. I was fascinated by that, as if the soullessness of animals was a fact observable by any five-year-old.
But then I thought about who I was talking to. Dad has been a farmer all his life. He has killed, seen killed, or sent to be killed countless chickens, pigs, and cattle. And yet, I don't believe he has ever murdered a human being.
That's one of the fundamental questions any meat-eating farm culture has to answer: Why is it OK to kill animals but not people? My father's Christianity answers by putting a great metaphysical gulf between animals and humans: We have eternal souls and they don't.
There are dozens, maybe even hundreds of issues like that. They aren't the first questions that come to mind when you think about death, but once the conceptual infrastructure of the Christian afterlife is in place -- once you have souls, salvation, Heaven, Hell, Judgment Day, and so on -- people use it to answer all sorts of questions.
And when you challenge that vision of the afterlife, all those other questions come open again.
So when a believer asks, "What do you think happens when we die?" that spoken question is just one bird in a flock of questions that are unspoken and perhaps even unconscious.
Now think about how Humanists answer questions. Humanism is heavily influenced by science, and so we tend to answer questions the way scientists do: We narrow them down, get the terms defined very precisely, and then answer exactly what was asked.
What happens when we die? Our bodies get buried and they rot.
And while that answer is true as far as it goes, it leaves our questioner thinking that we have somehow missed the point, or that we are shallow people who deal with life's deepest issues only in the most superficial ways.
Toughness and bleakness. Another aspect of the Humanist character adds to this misunderstanding. Many Humanists glory in the image of mental and psychological toughness: We are the people who have the courage to live without any fairy tales. We face the cold, hard truth, whatever it turns out to be. As Julian Baggini wrote about atheism in The Guardian a couple months ago: "Life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that."
Bleakness. That's a selling point. Where do I sign up?
Hearing this kind of rhetoric, a believer may picture Humanists living a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max kind of life: Everything is bleak, hopeless, and purposeless, but we can take it. Only a special kind of person can live in the rubble of the old worldview, but we're up to it.
No we aren't. Maybe we're tough, but most of us are not that tough. We don't live in the rubble of the old answers. We cleared that rubble a long time ago and started to rebuild. And if we can't support our new structures by attaching guy-wires to Heaven, that just means we've had to dig our foundations deeper into the Earth.
That's where we need to take the conversation. When believers ask us what happens after death, we need to look past the obvious question and unpack some of the assumptions behind it. Perhaps like this: "I have no confidence in any particular vision of an afterlife. But life confronts me with the same issues you face, and I have found other ways to deal with them."
Answers that don't assume an afterlife. From there the conversation might go in any number of productive directions. Think about all the life-centered questions that traditional religion answers by reference to Heaven and Hell. Yes, those questions come open again when you stop counting on an afterlife. But do Humanists really live without answers to them? Or do we just answer them differently?
Here are some of the most important issues that open up when a believer starts doubting the afterlife.
- Morality. Without the rewards of Heaven and the punishments of Hell, why be good?
- Justice. In this life, people often do not get what they deserve. Bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people. If that injustice is not balanced in the afterlife, how do you make peace with it?
- Anger. If the people who wrong you are not going to be punished by God after death, how do you let go of your desire for revenge?
- Guilt. If you are not going to be punished after death, and if you have no second chance to make up for the ways you have failed people who are now dead, how do you forgive yourself?
- Purpose. Heaven provides a goal that orients the believer's life. Without that, don't you just flounder around?
- Grief. If you are never going to see your loved ones again after they die, how do you come to terms with losing them?
- Meaning. If death is the ultimate end, what's the point?
If I were talking to a non-Humanist audience, I might feel obligated to start at the beginning of that list and work my way to the end, because some people genuinely doubt that these questions have answers.
I don't think that's necessary here, and it would even be a little insulting to explain to you how it is possible for a Humanist to be moral. You might find it interesting to have discussions among yourselves about how you answer these questions. But I doubt you need a lecture.
I will say a few words about grief and meaning, though, because I've had some trouble with them myself, and a lot of the usual answers didn't help me very much. So I think that as a community we need to do more work on these questions, and I'd like to give that work a nudge in what seems to me to be the right direction.
Grief. Let me start my discussion of grief by telling a story: Years ago I knew a woman who thought that I understood money much better than she did. So whenever she had a financial decision to make, she'd ask my advice.
But one time she didn't ask when I expected her to. So I wondered how she figured out what to do. She said that when she thought about asking me, what I would say just popped into her mind. So she did that.
Now, one way to interpret this story is that I have a spiritual double who (unbeknownst to me) goes around giving financial advice to my friends. For all I know, that spirit might be immortal, and might go on talking about interest rates and credit card payments long after I'm dead.
But a more reasonable explanation is that my friend had projected a part of her own intelligence onto me. As she got to know me, she shaped a piece of her own mind to think and talk like me, until eventually she could converse with "me" even when I wasn't there.
I suspect most of you recognize this phenomenon. Most of us have entire communities of people living in our heads -- parents, siblings, spouses, children, bosses, teachers, friends, and acquaintances of all sorts. When I wonder what my wife will want to do when she gets home from work, I don't deduce it logically like Sherlock Holmes. Instead, I talk to her in my mind.
These internal voices keep talking even after death. For example, I know what my mother would think of friends I didn't meet until after she died -- because her voice in my head continues to comment on them.
That's a major way that we know other people: We shape pieces of ourselves to resemble them. And when they die, there is a period of confusion, where we don't really know how far the death goes. Maybe that piece of myself is dead also.
Sorting that out is a big part of the grieving process. My mother is dead, but the piece of me that I shaped to resemble her is still alive. Her voice is in my head and I can continue to consult it for the rest of my life. Those conversations do not depend on her soul continuing to live in Heaven.
Humanists often say the dead live on in our memories, but that's such an inadequate description of the reality. We don't just remember people, as if they had been reduced to photo albums and souvenirs of things that happened long ago. We continue to interact. We carry them around in our minds as active presences.
That isn't the same as having them in the room as flesh and blood. But day-to-day it is not actually that different from believing they watch us from some etherial realm.
Meaninglessness. Traditional Christianity teaches that meaning comes from God, and that a life cut off from God and the hope of Heaven must be meaningless.
One of the most powerful expressions of this view is a speech that Shakespeare puts in the mouth of MacBeth. At this point in the tragedy, Lady MacBeth is dead, MacBeth's schemes are coming apart, and given all the things that he has done, he can only hope that there is no afterlife, because if there is, he must surely face some terrible punishment. So this is how he views the human condition:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
This is what believers hear when you say, "We Humanists are tough. We don't need fairy tales about the afterlife." They think you have steeled yourself to deal with meaninglessness on a MacBeth-like scale.
But is that really what a Humanist life is like?
Death and meaninglessness. This issue of meaning first became real to me when I was about 16. I was working at my hometown newspaper -- this really dates me -- carrying typewritten pieces of paper from the newsroom to the composing room where the stories were set into metal type.
I used to read as I walked. One stormy day, the story in my hand was about a man who had been killed in his front yard when a branch blew off a tree.
I had never thought about that kind of death. I grew up watching westerns and cop shows on TV. People died left and right on those shows, but they died inside plots that made sense. Their deaths were heroic or tragic or the result of their own foolishness. And I had known relatives to die after long illnesses, but those illnesses themselves were a kind of story in which death was a logical conclusion.
But this guy in his yard -- I had never heard of him before, but I was convinced that this branch blowing down was not the climax of any story he thought he was living. He must have been in the middle of a million other things, and then suddenly he wasn't.
Out, out, brief candle!
Here was a guy who literally died in the middle of sound and fury that signified nothing. When the storm came, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Something about that kind of death seemed to threaten the whole meaning of life, and it took me decades to put my finger on what it was.
Meaning and stories. When we talk about meaning, what are we talking about? What kind of answer are people looking for when they ask, "What's it all about?"
I think they're looking for a story. I think they want somebody to frame what's happening to them as something other than just a random sequence of events.
"What's it all about?" I might ask as I battle traffic on the MassPike. But if I'm battling traffic because my wife is in labor and I'm trying to get her to the hospital, then I don't ask what it's all about. I know what it's about. This scene is part of an important story, and my actions are turning the plot in a better or worse direction.
That's meaning.
When people say they want to "make a difference", that's what they mean. They want their actions to move the plot of some important story. They want that story to reach a better conclusion because of what they did.
We live inside stories, sometimes dozens of them simultaneously. And when our stories are working, life is good -- even when life is bad. If you're exhausted and in pain, life is bad. But if you're exhausted and in pain because you just won the Boston Marathon, life is good.
The story creates the meaning.
But sometimes our stories fail us. Sometimes the conclusion you're working towards seems so unlikely that it doesn't inspire you. Sometimes you forget why you even wanted it in the first place. Sometimes you get so alienated from your story that you feel like an impostor in your own life. "Yes, I look like a success, but that isn't really me."
That's when you have a crisis of meaning.
Meaning and the afterlife. Death throws a monkey wrench into our stories. Usually our short-term stories get their meaning from the longer-term stories they fit into. Studying at 2 a.m. is meaningful because it's part of the story where I ace tomorrow's test. But the test is only meaningful as part of the longer-term story where I pass the class. And that matters because of the story where I get my degree, and so on.
But what if the longest-term story I can tell is the one where I die? Doesn't that undercut all the others?
The fact that I might die at any moment means that the stories I think I am in the middle of may never conclude in any satisfactory way. And even if my life is not cut off prematurely, then eventually I arrive at decrepitude and senility. What kind of climax is that?
So you see the problem. It's not just that I will die. As I said at the beginning: That's easy; everybody does it. But given that I am going to die, how can I tell the story of my life in a way that engages me and motivates me and gives me a sense of meaning?
The afterlife is clearly an attempt to solve this problem. If there's an afterlife, then our stories don't just cut off. We get to finish them in Heaven. And old age is just a temporary hardship on the way to a glorious eternity.
It's a fabulous plot device. For Humanists, though, it has just one problem: It's too transparent to be believable. Of course I want to believe that I will live forever in bliss, that all my questions will be answered someday, and that all my relationships will work out perfectly and then continue forever. Who wouldn't want to believe that? It's a wonderful fantasy.
The problem is that I can't believe it. It's like the story that tomorrow will be a good day because I'm going to win $10 million in the lottery. Good as it sounds, that story doesn't motivate me or give me a sense of meaning (no matter how many times I repeat it to myself), because I just can't believe it.
By the way, I think that's why I'm not seeing a lot of old-age or deathbed conversions among my Humanist friends. Yes, the approach of death makes us want to believe in an afterlife. But wanting was never the obstacle. Everybody already wants to believe that story. The problem is that it's not believable, and the approach of death doesn't make it any more believable.
Meaning without an afterlife. So that's where we Humanists are: The afterlife plot device isn't working. What are we going to do?
Personally, I found a solution in a surprising place: The final speech of Martin Luther King, the Mountaintop Speech.
Now, this doesn't read like a Humanist speech at all, because it isn't. King was a Baptist minister. The Mountaintop Speech talks about God, and the whole mountaintop image comes from the story of Moses. But don't let that turn you off. The speech contains the trick that I needed to tell the story of my life in spite of the prospect of my death.
As I read this excerpt I want you to bear in mind that this really is King's last speech. He doesn't know it, but he is going to die the next day. It ends like this:
And then I got into Memphis. And some began to ... talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?
Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.
And I don't mind.
Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!
And so I'm happy, tonight.
I'm not worried about anything.
I'm not fearing any man!
Did you hear it?
Let me explain what I learn from this passage: If the story I'm living in is purely about me, then my death may cut it off short of its conclusion.
For example, suppose the story that motivates me is that I am going to be rich and famous. Suppose I work for years at that, but I'm not rich and famous yet when the doctor tells me I have three weeks to live. Then what was my story all about? How does my life mean anything? It was all a waste.
The mere possibility that my story may turn out that way undercuts the meaning of the whole thing. At any moment, I might find out that it was all for nothing.
Now think about the story Dr. King is telling. I'm sure he also had plenty of personal stories, personal relationships, idiosyncratic tastes, and so on, just like we all do. But in addition to all that, he is living in the story of his people's march to freedom. That is a collective story that did not begin with him and is not cut off by his death. The contributions he makes to that story do not become meaningless just because he dies before the story reaches its conclusion.
I'm not trying to take Dr. King away from the Baptists, and I assume he did believe in an afterlife. That's not the point. The point is: If you can pull off the trick in the Mountaintop Speech, you don't need an afterlife.
If you can become part of a collective story, a story that will continue beyond your death, and if you believe in that story and can find a role in it that gets you out of bed in the morning, then death will not undercut the meaning of your life. You can go on telling meaningful stories about your life right up to the moment you die.
Summing up. So that's my message: The next time some non-Humanist asks you what you think happens after death, don't just say, "They bury you and you rot." Think about what he's really asking. Think about the here-and-now issues that all people, no matter what they believe, have to address -- issues like morality, justice, anger, guilt, purpose, grief, and meaning. Traditional religion answers those questions by imagining an afterlife, but Humanists answer the same questions in other ways.
That's the interesting conversation to have, and it will give your questioner some insight into what Humanism really is.
I left most of those questions up to you, but I did say a few things about dealing with grief, and about how the prospect of death makes it harder to tell an authentically motivating story about your life.
And finally, I told you how I deal with that difficulty, the trick I picked up from Martin Luther King: Some important part of the story of your life needs to be bigger than you -- not because God demands it and not even because that's how good people live, but because you need to be part of a story that will not end when you die.
If you can do that, I predicted that your life will stay meaningful right up to the moment of death. And I can predict something else, too: Your funeral will be an upbeat, inspiring event.


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Louis Martini Monte Rosso Cabernet Sauvignon 2007
Winemaker Notes
Critical AcclaimAll Vintages
For 85 years, the Louis M. Martini Winery has crafted world-class Cabernet Sauvignon from the exceptional vineyards of Napa and Sonoma counties. Our founder believed in a simple, honest premise: The best grapes make the best wines. Today, this legacy continues at the historic winery in the Napa Valley with an acclaimed collection of unforgettable Cabernet Sauvignon wines.
Home to a diverse array of smaller AVAs with varied microclimates and soil types, Sonoma County has something for every wine lover. Physically twice as large as Napa Valley, the region only produces about half the amount of wine but boasts both tremendous quality and variety. With its laid-back atmosphere and down-to-earth attitude, the wineries of Sonoma are appreciated by wine tourists for their friendliness and approachability. The entire county intends to become a 100% sustainable winegrowing region by 2019.
Grape varieties are carefully selected to reflect the best attributes of their sites—Dry Creek Valley's consistent sunshine is ideal for Zinfandel, while the warm Alexander Valley is responsible for rich, voluptuous Cabernet Sauvignon. Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are important throughout the county, most notably in the cooler AVAs of Russian River, Sonoma Coast and Carneros. Sauvignon Blanc, Merlot and Syrah have also found a firm footing here.
A noble variety bestowed with both power and concentration, Cabernet Sauvignon enjoys success all over the globe. Inherently high in tannins and acidity, the best bottlings of Cabernet can age beautifully, with the ability to last fifty years or more. Cabernet Sauvignon flourishes in temperate climates like Bordeaux's Medoc region and forms the base of the Medoc reds, which are typically mostly Cabernet with Merlot and smaller amounts of some combination of Cabernet Franc, Malbec and Petit Verdot. (Enjoying a great deal of success in various regions around the world, this blend is now globally referred to as a Bordeaux Blend.) Cabernet Sauvignon from the Napa Valley is responsible for some of the world's most prestigious, age-worthy and sought-after "cult" wines.
Tasting Notes for Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon is a dry red wine rich in color, tannin and extract. It expresses notes of blackberry, cassis, plum, currant, spice and tobacco. In Bordeaux and elsewhere in the Old World you'll find the more earthy, tannic side of Cabernet, where it is typically blended to soften tannins and add complexity. In warmer regions like California Washington, Argentina, Chile and Australia, you can typically expect more ripe fruit flavors upfront.
Perfect Food Pairings for Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon is right at home with rich, intense meat dishes—beef, lamb and venison, in particular—where its opulent fruit and decisive tannins make an equal match to the dense protein of the meat. With a mature Cabernet, opt for tender, slow-cooked meat dishes.
Sommelier Secrets for Cabernet Sauvignon
Despite the modern importance and ubiquity of Cabernet Sauvignon, it is actually a relatively young variety. In 1997, DNA profiling revealed the grape to be a spontaneous crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc which took place in 17th century southwestern France.


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All you need now is to have selected your two tributes, one boy and one girl if at all possible, to send into battle to represent your district.
You'll need a computer with Minecraft 1.8.8 for each of your tributes, and a minecraft / mojang account for each of them to use.
You'll also need another computer where a responsible adult can join the gtsystem chat at http://gtsystem.org/chat so you can receive updates from Capitol and know what's going on, and what you're supposed to do.
You might also want a computer with a projector to show the map of your server if you're still doing reapings, or to watch the twitch stream of the finals at http://twitch.tv/gtsystem if desired.
Here's the schedule for regional and international finals.
MAKE SURE YOU ARE IN THE CHATROOM at http://gtsystem.org/chat 30 MINUTES BEFORE YOUR REGIONAL FINALS IF YOU WANT TO PLAY!
Australian finals: 21-11-2015 4 PM AEDT (Sydney Time)
European finals: 21-11-2015 16.00 CET (Berlin Time)
US/North American finals are simultaneous
US/North American finals: 11-21-2015 3 PM EST (New York Time)
US/North American finals: 11-21-2015 2 PM CST (Chicago Time)
US/North American finals: 11-21-2015 1 PM MST (Denver Time)
US/North American finals: 11-21-2015 12 NOON PST (California Time)
11-21-2015 4 PM EST (New York Time)
11-21-2015 1 PM PST (California Time)
21-11-2015 22.00 CET (Berlin Time)
22-11-2015 8 AM AEDT (Sydney Time)
Let us know in the chat or via email if you are still having questions or trouble! Once the regionals are about to begin, chat is your best bet as we won't be able to check email as frequently. Thanks for your participation and....
OK! If you have your gtsystem site and moderator account, your VERY OWN IMHG SERVER is now ready for use!
If you don't yet have your site and moderator account, be sure to fill out the form here. (If you've already filled out the form, you will be receiving an email from us with your site info very soon.)
Once you've got your gtsystem site for your library and a username that's been made a moderator, you're ready to go!
**** First, start up your server! ****
1. Log in with your moderator account to your gtsystem site.
(i.e. http://aadl.gtsystem.org search this page if you're not sure of yours: http://gtsystem.org/partners )
2. Go to your GT Control Panel on the left side menu.
(if you don't have the GT Control Panel listed, you're not logged in as a moderator account! Let us know your username and we'll fix it!)
3. At the top of the GT Control Panel page, you'll see your Minecraft server panel. Your server address is listed here along with the status of your server.
(i.e. aadl.gtcloud.net . If the Minecraft panel doesn't show, let us know and we'll fix it!)
4. Click Start Server then click the button that appears to confirm starting your server.
5. Wait about a minute for your server to be created.
(You can refresh the page to check the status.)
6. Once your server is running, you'll see the IP address. You'll only need the IP address if for some reason you're not able to connect to your server by name.
7. Please stop your server when you're done!
(restarting your server can get the name and the IP out of sync. Don't restart your server as a troubleshooting measure!)
**** Now, launch minecraft and connect to your server! ****
1. Start Minecraft and log in with one of your Mojang / Minecraft accounts. This is not at all related to your GTsystem account.
2. When you reach the Minecraft title screen, choose Multiplayer.
3. Click Direct Connect.
4. Enter your server address, i.e. aadl.gtcloud.net then click Join Server.
(if the connection times out, try the IP address from your GT Control Panel. If it's still not working, let us know, we'll fix it!)
5. You'll find yourself in the IMHG Arena!
**** Then try a Hunger Games Match! ****
1. Use the W, A, S, and D keys to move. Look around with the mouse. Click to use, X to attack, E for Inventory, T to chat, Space to Jump.
(You can see more controls by pressing escape to pause, then choosing options > controls)
2. You'll find yourself in the Arena at the Spawn point near the cornucopia. You won't be able to open any chests until the match starts.
(You need at least 2 players in the arena to start a match!)
3. Once you have at least 2 tributes in the arena, the game countdown will start. Other players can join during this time.
4. During the countdown, your tributes can choose their starting kit by right clicking and choosing a kit from the menu. These items will be added to their inventory when the match begins.
5. Once the match begins, you get 15 seconds of invincibility. This is a good time to raid the chests.
6. Find your opponents and run up to them, then press X to attack!
(weapons are very helpful here. Anything is a weapon though!)
8. After the match ends, everybody will be kicked off the server. It takes the server about 30 seconds to reset, then you can rejoin and start another match.
**** BONUS: See a map of your players in action! ****
If you've got a projector in the room, it can be AWESOME to connect it to a computer showing your server's world map! You'll find it by going to your server in a web browser and adding /map to the end of the url, i.e. aadl.gtcloud.net/map . That map updates in real time showing the locations of all the players on your server and even their health level! Great overview of a match!
Let us know as always if you're having any trouble, and stay tuned for updates on scoring, including details on auto-scoring mode and how to hold a reaping with pen and paper. Thanks for playing and....
The eighth annual International Games Day @ your library is Saturday, November 21, 2015! And YES, there will be another International Minecraft Hunger Games (IMHG) Tournament presented by the Ann Arbor District Library! In this tournament, your players can compete against other libraries (of all types) from around the world. The basics are below, but you'll find all the details here: http://gtsystem.org/IGD2015
1.) Be sure to register with ALA as a participating venue using the IGD form.
2.) Fill out the IMHG form to get the GT System folks rolling on setting up your account.
3.) Sign up for the IMHG email list to be sure that you're receiving up to the minute info on IMHG.
4.) Get ready to select your library's tributes to participate in the regional and final tournaments on Saturday, November 21.
The deadline to register for IMHG is October 31, 2015. Each library will register as a "District" and will receive gtsystem site and moderator accounts. Gtsystem includes the controls to start, stop and monitor your IMHG server. The servers will be available for testing starting November 3, and ready for scoring events the week leading up to the tournament beginning Saturday, November 14, 2015.
If you've filled out the IMHG form, you'll receive an email the first week of November with more information about your gtsystem site and moderator accounts.
Questions or concerns? Email the team at email@example.com for help.
Hello Moderators and Players. National Gaming Day is quickly approaching and we will be pushing out improvements to the site in the coming weeks. Before that can get started, I am going to be updating some of the backend code here at GT System on Monday Morning, October 19. You may see an hour or so of downtime, but the site should come back up exactly as it was before. New features and fixes will follow soon.


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The wood surface is easy to clean, and protects blade or tool surfaces from dulling or marring.
Measuring 2" tall by 3/4" thick, it is available in a 12" or 18" length. Countersunk brass washers stabilize the mounting holes and provide a clean, finished look when combined with the included brass screws.
For use in the kitchen or workshop. Made in USA.These products are not stocked at our retail stores, but can be ordered for pick-up.


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Perhaps the molasses-slow, mockumentary-ish "Computer Chess" will connect with a small but rabid community. The critical buzz for writer-director Andrew Bujalski's ("Beeswax") latest suggests as much.
Thing is, great films about niche societies—like the spectacular doc "The King of Kong"—open up their worlds to a broader audience. That doesn't mean pandering; it means translating what makes their subjects special. In his black-and-white, early '80s-set look at a chess tournament and a group of men experiencing hiccups in their personal and technological progress, Bujalski maintains a detachment that stares blankly rather than observes. He's long been mentioned in the same sentence as Chicagoan Joe Swanberg, but with every film, the "Drinking Buddies" filmmaker increases the distance between the two.
Arguably boring topics like programming don't have to yield boring films (cough, "The Social Network"), and "Computer Chess" makes Ashton Kutcher's recent, uneven "Jobs" look like a classic.
Throughout "Chess," characters (played by mostly unknown actors, plus Wiley Wiggins of "Dazed and Confused") use overhead projectors and giant operating systems and strive for various forms of human and/or computer interaction. Many chess moves are made; a few socially awkward guys advance toward the hooker standing outside their hotel. What develops, outside some minor points about people moving about like game pieces and the inability to predict innovation, is something like a Christopher Guest film without a point of view. "Guys like you are from Mars to me," one less-dweeby dude asks another. "How do you get to be you?"
Bujalski doesn't exactly demonstrate "Napoleon Dynamite"-esque judgment toward his geeky subculture, but he also possesses minimal curiosity or insight. Oh, very funny, one guy (Myles Paige) doesn't have a room reserved so he tries to pass time with whomever will let him in. Big deal. Like the body of this filmmaker's work, "Computer Chess" and its praise prove to be much ado about nothing.
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Mmmm, Crunchy!
Hey, kids! Do you know what day it is?!
It's Chocolate Covered Anything Day!
[Kermit flail]
Yep, today is the day when you can take anything and everything and cover it in CHOCOLATE!!!
And you thought chocolate-covered bacon was awesome.
Caught a fish on your camping trip?
Cover it in chocolate!
Wolf Spider crawling on you in the middle of the night?
There's literally no end to the things you can cover in chocolate!
Right, guys?
Hang on.
Dipped or sculpted?
[grabbing baker by lapels]
Well, whichever it is, you're going to larva this one:
Okay, seriously. Japan? We need to talk.
[putting arm around Japan]
Look, I get it. You're fun! You're kooky! Hello Kitty and tentacles and all that. But chocolate covered beetles? Really? Is that even a thing?
It is?
Well, could you at least make them a little less creepy?
Apparently not.
Thanks to Kristina M., Cattie P., Jessica C., Amy M., & D.L., who will never look at that chocolate fountain in Golden Corral the same way again.
Quick Note: Hiya, guys. Here at Cake Wrecks, we have right at 600,000 regular visitors. I've met a lot of you, and I can say with some authority that you are all awesome. Seriously.
So we're doing this Charity Countdown thing, and we're trying to raise five grand for 8 pretty cool charities. That means, if my math is right, that one out of 600 readers would have to give a buck a day for 8 days and we'd meet our goal.
One person out of 600. 8 bucks total. A frozen lasagna is 8 bucks.
So. Be the one. Go here and do it. It'll make you feel good, and that little will help someone a lot.
And thanks for being awesome.
- john (the hubby of Jen)


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450,000 (1998).
5* (Developing). Recognized language (1999, Constitution, Article 3).
SVO; prepositions and postpositions; genitives, articles, adjectives, numerals, relatives after noun heads; question word final; 1 prefix, 9 suffixes; word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment; verb affixes mark number, subject (obligatory); class marking with participle obligatory; middle and passive voice; causatives; CV, CVC, CVV, CVVC; nontonal.
Also use Hausa [hau].
Taught in a few experimental primary schools. Radio. TV. NT: 2015.
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The Fulbe (15,000,000) from Senegal to Sudan consider themselves one ethnic group speaking one language, but acknowledge differences in speech. Muslim, traditional religion.


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Tristan Carey Daniels II arrived at Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna on Oct. 18. The newborn son of Ashley Kuhns and Tristan Daniels of Kent weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at birth.
He is the maternal grandson of Darla Kuhns and Frank Dixon and the paternal grandson of Arnold Smith and Anisi Daniels-Smith, all of Kent.
Great-grandparents are Sheldon Kuhns of Kent, Alfred and Rosie Daniels-Rose of Streetsboro, Jeff and Linda Sanders of Ravenna, Linda Miller of Canton, Patricia Smith-Miller of Farwell, Mich., and Arnold and Donna Smith of Detroit, Mich.


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Advanced Microscopy
About the Core
Tissue morphology and knowledge of the localization of specific proteins within a cell are integral to understanding cellular metabolism and the causes and consequences of diabetes and new advances for the treatment of diabetes. The tools of morphological analysis are varied but most involve particular skills or equipment that are too costly to be supported in individual laboratories. The Advanced Microscopy Core provides a wide range of service covering the broad categories: performing specific morphological procedures, providing access to equipment and reagents, and giving advice, training and interpretation. The effort in all the facilities is to provide prompt, customized service.
There are five main components in this core: Electron Microscopy (EM), Confocal Microscopy, Histology and Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) facilities and Morphological Consultation. The components run with different operation schemes: the plastic embedding and electron microscope work is done by the Core Manager; he also does the highly specialized immunolocalization of specific molecules at the ultrastructural level. The Core Histology Technicians take fixed/frozen tissue prepared by users and return slides (H&E and unstained for immunohistochemistry). Both the Confocal microscopes and Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM) are used directly by the individual investigators with the Core training new users, providing maintenance of the microscopes, and troubleshooting problems. Mr. Cahill trains the users for both the Confocal and LCM equipment.
Services of the Advanced Microscopy Core:
1. Tissue preparation / embedding / sectioning
a. Paraffin embedding and sectioning: Tissue is fixed in each investigator's lab; the Core serves as a resource of information about fixatives and procedures. An order is initiated online.
b. Cryostat sectioning/use of cryostat Frozen blocks of tissue are prepared by the investigator and brought to the core freezer; specific instructions can be included on the on-line order form. After training, researcher can book the cryostat for individual use.
c. Plastic embedding and sectioning for Light microscope A useful service for very small samples, such as cell pellets, transplanted islets, pituitary grafts or young mouse embryos, for light microscopic analysis. Order is made under EMNet online.
2.Transmission electron microscope analysis Samples analyzed on EM are first fixed, osmicated, embedded and sectioned as above for plastic sections. Fixation procedures are discussed with the Core personnel; fixatives and their recipes are available from the core. Immunochemistry on ultrastructural level is also available. Order is made under EMNet online
3. Confocal Microscopy Use After training, researchers can use independently with sign up on Intranet.
a. Zeiss LSM 410 for routine imaging of immunofluorescent with 3 channel (red, green, and blue UV).
b. Zeiss LSM710NLO This microscope with 6 laser lines including two photon, 3 spectral detection channels allows multifluorescent spectral imaging, ion imaging, enhanced 3-D examinations, and manipulations for FRET or FRAP. Live cell imaging is possible.
4. Laser capture microdissection facility use. Arcturus Pixcell II Laser capture microscope and accessories. After being trained, researchers use it independently.
5. Consultation Expert advice provided by the Core personnel
Core Personnel
Susan Bonner-Weir, Core Director
Chris Cahill, Core Manager
Alevtina Pinkhasov, Core Technician
Anna Monisva, Core Technician
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Welcome to the ground-breaking Women's Health Curriculum and toolbox developed through a collaboration between AACP and the FDA's Office of Women's Health. This curricular framework outlines core competencies and performance-based learning objectives for use in either dedicated courses on women's health or in conjunction with other pharmacy courses. While these core objectives and competencies should be introduced by faculty and mastered by all pharmacy students, the curriculum is designed to be flexible in order to keep up with the ever-changing knowledge about women's health issues.
The curriculum contains multiple online resources to enhance discussions on the competencies and objectives. We will continually update and add to this framework and welcome your suggestions for topic areas and resource inclusion, which can be made by contacting Dr. Ruth E. Nemire, AACP associate executive vice president. We hope you and your students benefit from this curriculum, and use it and its resources in creative ways. Women are not only patients, but caregivers and healthcare decision makers in our society, and learning about and incorporating into pharmacy practice knowledge about their unique health needs benefits us all.
Task Force Members
Laura Borgelt: (email@example.com)
Associate Professor
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Colorado
Gerald (Jerry) Briggs: (email@example.com)
Co‐Author, Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation Co‐Author, Diseases, Complications, and Drug
Therapy in Obstetrics: A Guide for Clinicians Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Emmanuel (Tayo) Fadiran: (email@example.com)
Senior Health Program Coordinator Office of Women's Health
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Robert (Buzz) Kerr: (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Former Vice President for Academic Affairs American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
Professor Emeritus University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Anne Lin: (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Dean Notre Dame of Maryland School of Pharmacy
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Ray Rogers is a unique kind of fighter -- a labor organizer who says he has the timing and technique necessary to KO opponents of unions. Last November the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' long, 17-year organizing drive against J. P. Stevens, which Rogers started engineering in 1976 , left the textile giant on the ropes -- with a brand new union contract that forbids future use of Rogers's unorthodox tactics against the company. He looks forward to more "skirmishes."
"It was like Muhammad Ali doing Sonny Liston," says Rogers, who is mild-mannered but not overly modest, jabbing the air in his small office suite near New York City's Union Square as he describes the Stevens victory.
"He jabbed him here and he jabbed him there, he danced around, and boom boom boom, weakened him, always knowing that he was going to come in with a final knockout blow, but he could not take his adversary head-on, he had to figure out ways to go in the back door before he could actually deal that knock-out blow."
But Rogers didn't use physical violence against Stevens -- he planned what he calls a "corporate campaign," using organized labor, the press, and other groups to pressure the sources of the company's financial capital in a carefully timed strategy aimed at disorganizing its strength as well as organizing labor. He claims this is the new look of labor struggles in the 1980s -- and last spring he started his own firm, Corporate Campaign Inc., to advise unions on how to use capital to pressure capitalists.
The next opponent: New York Air, the new low-cost non-union airline started by the heads of unionized Southwest Airlines. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) has a half-year, probably renewable, contract with Rogers for a sum he would not disclose (though he denied press reports that it was for $1 million dollars) to force New York Air to accept Southwest's union contract. Already Rogers has prevailed upon the AFL-CIO's executive council to advise its 102 unions to remove invested pension funds from New York's holding companies, major investors, creditors, and corporations represented on New York's board of directors. In 1978 he helped ALPA negotiate a settlement with Northwest Airlines using his tactics of pressuring a company's financial backers.
As a young social worker in Appalachia during the 1960s, frustrated by the inaction of government and community groups in the face of poverty and malnutrition, Rogers began reading the writings of labor organizer Saul Alinsky, which formed the basis for his belief in the importance of involving "middle Americans" with influential political and financial power, in labor struggles. His first success, an organizing drive at the clothing manufacturer Farah, utilitized a boycott to meet his ends.
Now he has a new office, a staff of about 15 (up from two permanent staff members during the Stevens compaign), calls for advice from unions and community groups around the country, and a controversial reputation with businessmen and old-line unionists alike.
The son of blue-collar parents from Massachusetts and a former VISTA worker, Rogers says his desire to "disorgaize the power structure" comes more from empathy with "the underdog" than any doctrinaire socialism.
Growing up as something of an underdog himself, he says he learned early to "fight power with power."
"One of the best things that ever happened to me was that I had the living daylights beaten out of me by a bully."
Punching at the air again, the burly Rogers describes how, as a sickly child, he took up weight lifting and trained to fight.
"I was so scared stiff for three years," he says of those childhood bullies, "and it never happened to me again" after he finally stood up to them and made them run away.
"The only thing that might really rile me up, and it does rile me up, is for somebody -- unless they're a lot smaller and then it doesn't work, or there's more than one -- to come up to me and say, 'You're gonna do as we say' . . . and I don't care if there are 100 people there, I'm not gonna do it, and I'm not gonna run."
The same qualities of self-discipline and will that Rogers put into training himself to fight and overcome physical weakness is evident in his organizing work -- in what he says is often a seven-day, sometimes 12-hour-a-day, workweek.
His drive also shows itself in an ability to orchestrate a broad coalition of people and interests, as he did in the Stevens campaign.
"I've taken some people that would really like to come to heads with each other. You get the people together, you get them in a winning program, you get them working . . . you don't have time to fight among one another. . . .
"I think a lot of organizers make the mistake of rushing out and trying to get people to change their whole life styles for what they think is such an important issue. Me, no matter what the issue is, I view everybody as a little building block and I just want to get a little piece of their time, and by taking this huge force of little commitments I make one big powerful force."
Rogers thinks many labor unions today lack the qualities of a fighting movement, resorting to legal suits and demonstrations without any ongoing strategy.
"The reason I came up with this whole idea [of corporate campaigns] . . . is that I got so fed up with seeing community groups and unions build a demonstration and that was the beginning and end of their conceptualized strategy . . . unless it was to prepare for a bigger demonstration. . . .
"I hope I will be showing the unions during the coming year the kinds of strategy that's necessary to challenge the corporate and financial structures," says Rogers of his plans for a corporate campaign aimed at New York Air.
During the Stevens campaign, Rogers helped forge a coalition of unions, church groups, students, and others to pressure banks and insurance companies providing Stevens with necessary credit. They used shareholder meetings and elections, as well as publicity, demonstrations, and union investments, to challenge the companies' financial support of Stevens.
"Most people even today don't realize what really happened in the Stevens campaign," Rogers claims. "Most people only viewed them [successes in pressuring Steven's creditors] as isolated, they never viewed them in the context of an overall strategy that had a beginning A and an end Z."
He credits careful assessment and long-range planning for the success of his strategy. Rogers says that in 1976 he determined the major sources of Steven's credit, and he began to make the Stevens account more trouble than it was worth for these financial backers.
The union did not always follow his unorthodox advice, and he left it for a time in 1977. But his publicity campaigns, demonstrations, and organizing of investors and sympathetic activist groups, all targeted at prominent companies or investors, had an effect. Rogers claims that his threat to lead a costly contest in Metropolitan Life's shareholder elections was the final catalyst to last November's settlement -- which came after some last-minute moves by Metropolitan Life chairman Richard Shinn.
"The union will never admit it, Stevens will never admit it to the press, Metropolitan Life will never direct it to the press, but I know what happened -- I know that Stevens was threatened to have its credit lines cut off."
Whatever Roger's unsubstantiated claims, J. P. Stevens did insist on a clause in the new union contract prohibiting workers from using corporate campaign tactics against it in the future. He proudly points to this sharp prohibition as proof that his methods work.
"What I did is I took the power, all the power that Stevens had behind it, and I broke it down into segments that we could deal with, that we could confront and defeat. . . ."
Rogers says that business today is more dependent on credit and the political climate, and powerful financial institutions behind business are susceptible to both popular pressure and the influence of billions of dollars in union pension fund accounts. He says that he intends to take advantage of this credit and investment connection (which he terms the "Achilles' heel" of business) to use capital in the interests of what he sees as powerless people -- minorities and workers.
Because banking and financial structures are still centered in highly unionized areas like New York City, he sees union pressure on capital as a way to protect organizing efforts in Sunbelt states more antagonistic to unions.
Rogers's critics, found in both labor and business, claim that in his new capacity as a professional, free-lance organizer, he aims mainly to make money and a name for himself.
They note that his new case, New York Air, involves a highly paid profession (airline pilots) which is not as popular a cause as the Southern textile workers at Stevens.
Rogers admits that he will have to rely more heavily on a boycott campaign than he did at Stevens. Picketing by union airline workers has already started at airports serviced by New York Air, as has a mailing campaign and publicity drive. With AFL-CIO support, financial pressure on New York Air has begun.
As for his own salary, he said he is paid $425 a week by his corporation, consisting of himself and his assistant, Ed Allen. Any profits, Rogers says, will be plowed back into future campaign efforts and free aid to community and labor organizers. He would not specify these future efforts, but says he does have plans if the New York Air drive is successful.
He's fighting to see that it is.
"You take any antiunion organizer from out there, and I don't care, I'll take him on. . . . But what we do isn't easy . . . I can only say what I say to my mom all the time. I say, 'Ma, quite frankly I may fall on my face . . . but there's no question I believe that I've developed some concepts . . . that must be adopted if the underdog in society is ever going to have a chance, to create that dispersion of power.'


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MPI 2.2's Scalable Process Topologies and Topology Mapping in practice
Today we feature a guest post from Torsten Hoefler, the Performance Modeling and Simulation lead of the Blue Waters project at NCSA, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Computer Science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) .
I'm sure everybody heard about network topologies, such as 2D or 3D tori, fat-trees, Kautz networks and Clos networks. It can be argued that even multi-core nodes (if run in the "MPI everywhere" mode) are a separate "hierarchical network". And you probably also wondered how to map your communication on such network topologies in a portable way.
MPI offers support for such optimized mappings since the old days of MPI-1. The process topology functionality if probably one of the most overlooked useful features of MPI. We have to admit that it had some issues and was clumsy to use but it was finally fixed in MPI-2.2. 🙂
But what are process topologies about? Well, as the name says, a user can tell MPI about the logical communication topology (the flow of messages between processes) of his MPI job. The user can then query the information he put into MPI, which doesn't seem all that useful. However, the most useful feature is that he can request an optimized mapping of the running processes to MPI ranks in the newly created topology. The library simply returns a new numbering of ranks in the created communicator which optimizes the mapping of ranks in the logical topology to the underlying system architecture.
It is now clear that this feature is only useful for relatively static topologies. But how many applications do you know that communicate in very regular structures with nearest neighbors? Many applications simply use n-dimensional grids for communication. More irregular applications still use a topology that is based on the structure of the input system (e.g., sparsity structure of the stiffness matrix). Even adaptive mesh refinement often runs multiple iterations with a given mesh to amortize the creation costs.
So it seems that application performance could be improved with better mappings. But how does it work in practice? MPI allows to create so called "topological communicators". Those communicators have the user's process topology attached. MPI-1 offers two mechanisms to create such communicators: a scalable mechanism to create n-dimensional Cartesian topology communicators and a non-scalable mechanism for creating arbitrary (graph) communicators. The MPI-1 mechanism to create graph communicators requires each process to specify and store the full graph. In MPI-2.2, the distributed graph topology, a new scalable constructor was introduced that allows distributed storage of the graph. We discuss and document the new graph topology interfaces for end-users in "The Scalable Process Topology Interface of MPI 2.2".
Now it seems that the user-side is pretty clear and graphs can be specified easily and portably. However, the question "does it help in practice and how well is it supported" remains. Well, first, I have to disappoint you: general topology mapping (even renumbering) is NP-hard. This is proved in "Generic Topology Mapping Strategies for Large-scale Parallel Architectures". However, that doesn't mean that the simple Cartesian mappings cannot be improved! Many implementations, for example IBM's BlueGene/P MPI supports optimized mappings for Cartesian topology. The number of MPI libraries that supports mapping of arbitrary graph topologies is unfortunately negligible. This is because mapping is hard and benefits are unclear. In "Generic Topology Mapping Strategies for Large-scale Parallel Architectures" we propose two mapping algorithms and show that they perform well in practice (reduce congestion by up to 80%). We hope that such strategies are adopted by library implementors to make the user's life easier!
It is also a "chicken-egg-problem", i.e., no library will optimize it until an application uses it and no application will use it until it provides benefits. However, the application-side is very simple and libraries that automatically create graph topologies from the output of parallel graph partitioners exist. Thus, programmers should consider using the topology interface to create an incentive (or pressure 😉 ) on the MPI implementors to support this functionality. However, one should make sure to use the Cartesian or distributed graph constructors in order to guarantee scaling to large numbers of processes.
One more thing: MPI-3 is on it's way and a new proposal exists to extend the process topologies with communication capabilities. The proposal introduces new "collective" operations that act on the process topologies. This means that each process communicates with his local neighbors. Such a pattern is very typical for halo exchanges in many codes. The collective and declarative specification allows the MPI implementation to compute optimized messaging schedules and relay messages through other processes just like it does for collective operations since MPI-1. Initial experimental results and a detailed description of the envisioned functionality can be found in "Sparse Collective Operations for MPI".
That's it for now! Remember: process topologies is a beautiful portable abstractions to achieve optimized topology mapping in MPI-2.2 and optimized communication for arbitrary communication patterns in MPI-3.
Torsten Hoefler is a regular participant of the MPI Forum. He leads the collective operations and process topologies working group and is chapter (co-)author of chapters 5 and 7 in MPI-2.2 and MPI-3.
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An investigation has been launched by the police watchdog following concern that three forces failed to respond quickly enough to allegations made against paedophile rock singer Ian Watkins.
The 36-year-old on Wednesday was beginning a 35-year prison sentence after a judge said his "horrific" offences "plumbed new depths of depravity".
Watkins, who fronted the Welsh band Lostprophets shook in the dock at Cardiff Crown Court, as he was sentenced for 13 offences, including the attempted rape of an 11-month-old baby boy and the abuse of a baby girl.
Described by the judge as a "committed and determined paedophile", Watkins used his fame and power over "fawning" and obsessed female fans to persuade them to cooperate in the abuse of their own children.
He told one of the women: "You and your daughter belong to me now."
Watkins had videoed the abuse and stored it on a secret hard drive on his computer, that was only discovered when code breakers were brought in from GCHQ.
But despite his conviction, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it would look into concerns that the police forces in South Wales, South Yorkshire and Bedfordshire had not responded appropriately to previous allegations made against the singer.
The IPCC said it was aware of reports made to the police up to three years before Watkins' arrest in 2012 and would be seeking to establish if his celebrity status had any impact on the investigation.
Police on Wednesday also said they feared the abuse could be the "tip of the iceberg" as they revealed they were working with detectives in the US and Germany to see if he carried out similar crimes while touring with the band there.
Watkins pleaded guilty to 13 child sex offences last month, but yesterday it emerged that the day after admitting the offences, he made a phone call to a female fan in which he described the abuse as "MegaLolz", a phrase popular with his group's followers, meaning a big laugh.
Watkins was also recorded telling the fan: "I don't know what everyone is getting so freaked out about."
Mr Justice Royce told Watkins that while he had seen many horrific cases come before the courts, his offences "broke new ground".
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"You knew you could use that power to induce young female fans to help satisfy your insatiable lust and take part in the sexual abuse of their own children.
"Away from the highlights of your public performances lay a dark and sinister side. I am satisfied that you are a deeply corrupting influence, you are highly manipulative, you are a sexual predator, you are dangerous."
The mothers of the two abused babies, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, were jailed for a total of 31 years.
Addressing all three of them, Judge Royce said: "Any decent person looking at and listening to the material here will experience shock, revulsion, anger and incredulity. What you three did plumbs new depths of depravity."
In receiving a 35-year sentence, Watkins joins a list of some of the most serious and longest serving criminals in Britain's jails.
But Judge Royce said the case had many aggravating factors including the "delight" he clearly got in engaging in the most terrible offences involving tiny children and his lack of remorse, demonstrated by the phone call he made to a fan after his guilty pleas.
Detective Chief Inspector Peter Doyle said the case was the most disturbing one he had seen in 28-years as a police officer.
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David Wei is the founding partner and Chairman of Vision Knight Capital. He has around 20 years of experience in investment, management and operation in China. Prior to founding Vision Knight Capital, Mr. Wei was CEO of Alibaba.com Limited, a leading global e-commerce company, for five years. Mr. Wei successfully led the listing of Alibaba.com Limited on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2007. Between 2000-2006, he worked at Kingfisher plc, a leading home improvement retailer in Europe and Asia. He was the chief representative for Kingfisher's Asia sourcing office, and CFO then CEO of B&Q China, a subsidiary of Kingfisher plc. Under Mr. Wei's leadership, B&Q China grew to become China's largest home improvement retailer. He has also served as head of investment banking for Orient Securities Co. and then corporate finance manager at Coopers & Lybrand (now part of PricewaterhouseCoopers).
Mr. Wei was ranked one of "China's Best CEOs" by Financial Asia magazine in 2010. He holds a Bachelor's degree in international business management from Shanghai International Studies University and is a graduate of the corporate finance program at the London Business School.