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African American Women in World War II
by Maureen Honey
African American women made meaningful gains in the labor force and US armed forces as a result of the wartime labor shortage during the Second World War, but these advances were sharply circumscribed by racial segregation, which was legal in all parts of the country, and virulent racism in the dominant culture. President Franklin Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 8802 in 1941 banned race discrimination in defense industries and civil service jobs. It was rarely enforced, however, and mostly ignored by employers until they were forced to hire nonwhites by exhaustion of the white labor supply. Even then, war industries often filled their most menial and dangerous positions with black employees, frequently on night shifts and in janitorial slots. African American women suffered both racial and gender discrimination, so they had to fight very hard even to enter skilled spots on the production line in aircraft, shipyard work, and other well-paying war industries.
Entrenched racist attitudes on the part of white employers and coworkers in the nation's war-production centers hindered black women's ability to gain employment in these unionized blue-collar jobs. When black people did get hired, they often were forced to use separate restrooms and to perform the lowest paid, most difficult work. Sometimes their employment triggered hate strikes, which erupted periodically over the war, when white workers walked off the job over promotion or hiring of African Americans into previously restricted departments and occupation categories. In 1943, for example, a Baltimore Western Electric plant was forced to build separate toilet facilities for white and black workers when white women demanded them. Barred from most service occupations like telephone operator, clerical worker (other than federal offices in Washington, DC), or waitress at white restaurants, black women mainly found war jobs in dangerous industries such as munitions plants.
The difficulty for black women entering skilled production areas, retail and other service work, or transportation jobs during the 1940s is mirrored in their continuing dominance of the private market for maids. Although during the war, the proportion of African American women who were working in domestic service fell dramatically, from 60 to 44 percent, domestic employment remained their primary occupation category throughout the war. Even in the military, which they did enter as a support for black male soldiers in the segregated armed forces, black women had trouble escaping low-skilled assignments, and they were not allowed to take combat roles. Six African American WACs, for example, were court-martialed at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, when they refused to take custodial assignments. In her memoir of being the first African American to join the Women's Army Corps, Charity Adams Earley mentions the common army practice of dividing into "white" and "colored" the jobs WACs were given, with the latter being menial and unskilled.
With the exception of some individual welders and riveters who managed to cross the color line in aircraft and shipyard industries, especially in California and at the height of the labor shortage, African American women found themselves at the bottom of the economic list when it came to well-paying jobs. Black men and women never accounted for more than 6 percent of all employees in aircraft industries, for example, whereas white women constituted nearly 40 percent of all aircraft workers. Maya Angelou's experience in San Francisco as a teenager eager to get one of the many lucrative blue-collar jobs opening up after Pearl Harbor is instructive when we look at the routine racism black women faced in their quest for wartime jobs. In her well-known memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Angelou recounts with pride being hired as the city's first black streetcar conductor, but she faced daunting hurdles. When she raced to the employment office after reading an advertisement in the newspaper, for instance, she was met by a clerk who discouraged her with evasions and negative responses; later, Angelou wondered if she was being singled out for bad shifts. Due to her stubborn persistence, Angelou was hired, but the prejudice she encountered cast a pall over the cityscape she had come to adore, and one can imagine how much fortitude was required to leap beyond the routine racism that greeted such pioneers.
Despite these obstacles in the labor force, there were some significant breakthroughs in the economy for African American women in World War II. The federal government, to cite the best example, made sure to hire black women as clerical workers in Washington DC, a huge step forward, and new, improved images of them appeared on Hollywood screens. Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Hazel Scott, and other glamorous singers played prominent roles in musicals or production numbers in movies. These images were new to the dominant popular culture, and while many of the scenes were cut for southern audiences, they paved the way for postwar widening of the narrow, demeaning stereotypes in place before the war. The eroticism that trivialized much of white women's representation in popular culture was for black stars an important move toward romantic desirability for a group that had been stereotyped as mammies and jezebels.
The performing arts in general saw progress for black women, foreshadowed by Marian Anderson when she achieved fame at an iconic moment in front of the Lincoln Memorial when she sang a patriotic song at the invitation of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1939 after being barred from singing at Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In her wake followed Broadway stars like Etta Moten and Anne Wiggins Brown, who performed in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and the blockbuster hit Carmen Jones. All-black Broadway shows such as Shuffle Along and Blackbirds of 1928 had been hits during the 1920s, but the 1940s witnessed a second blossoming of all-black shows years after their heyday during the Harlem Renaissance. The musicals Stormy Weather and Cabin in the Sky were released as popular films in 1943, while dancers like Katherine Dunham came to the fore showcasing African and Caribbean culture.
Most of all, World War II provided an empowering political base for African American women that heralded the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s. The battle against racism undertaken during the war, known as the Double Victory Campaign (Victory over Fascism Abroad, Victory over Racism at Home), was fueled by organizers such as Ella Baker, Mary Church Terrell, Mary McLeod Bethune, and many others, including Rosa Parks, who was already refusing to move to the back of the bus. Ending racial segregation of the armed forces—a barrier that came down in 1948—was the primary goal of the Double Victory Campaign, which was also opposed to segregation in housing, transportation, and employment practices, as well as at lunch counters, theaters, bathrooms, drinking fountains, swimming pools, and the multitude of venues in American life that discriminated against black people.
Signaling the enormity of these challenges, in 1943 alone, there were 242 violent attacks on African Americans in forty-seven cities as southern migrants to crowded cities clashed in public spaces over racial tensions simmering through American institutions. Despite the disappointing lack of progress for African American women in the wartime labor force, the war was a political watershed for them, and women played leading roles in articulating the community's opposition to segregation and Jim Crow. If they were often defeated as individuals during World War II, as a collective force, African American women found an empowered voice in those years, one that anticipates the fruit of their embittering but powerful wartime efforts to break silence, challenge limits, and change forever the terms of their own lives.
Maureen Honey is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. She is the author of Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda in World War II (University of Massachusetts Press, 1985) and Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II (University of Missouri Press, 1999).


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Editor's note: This article was revised Sunday night with updates from Ecuador's vote.
QUITO, Ecuador — Scandals, economic crises and popular uprisings: This country has had its fair share of them in recent years, prompting seven leadership changes in the last decade. Heads of state came and went so fast they became known as disposable "Kleenex presidents."
So it may come as a surprise that many Ecuadoreans want to hang on to their current leader. President Rafael Correa declared himself the winner in Sunday's election, after exit polls projected a wide victory. Early results gave Correa 56.7 percent of the vote, a roughly 30-point lead over his nearest rival, banker Gillermo Lasso.
This ushers in a rare period of political continuity for this tiny South American country and oil-producing OPEC member by giving Correa a full decade in the top job.
"We've made history in a country where no government from 1996 to 2006 finished its term .... Today [an election] was won in a single round," Correa told a crowd Sunday from the balcony of the presidential palace in Quito, according to Agence France-Presse.
"We are here to serve you," he said. "Nothing for us, everything for you: the people who deserve the right to be free."
A charismatic leftist economist leading what he calls a "citizen's revolution," Correa, 49, was first elected in 2006, then quickly re-elected in 2009 under a new constitution.
Key to his success has been a boom in oil sales, the country's main export. Record high prices have nearly tripled government revenues over the past six years and provided the government with billions to invest in highways, hospitals, schools and social programs.
The financial wiggle room has also enabled Correa to strike a more independent path than his pro-American predecessors.
In a country where the US dollar is the official currency, Correa has criticized Washington, expelled the US ambassador, and forged new alliances with US critics Venezuela, China and Iran.
He even offered political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who's evading arrest in London by taking refuge in Ecuador's Embassy there.
All of that has boosted Correa's standing among average Ecuadoreans. The only real drama in the eight-candidate race on Sunday was whether Correa would win enough votes to avoid a runoff. That required him to land more than 50 percent of the vote or take more than 40 percent of the ballots while topping the second-place finisher by at least 10 points.
The government took full credit. "The polls are predicting a huge victory for Correa and that is because the reality in Ecuador has changed," Patricio Barriga, the government's acting communications secretary, said before the ballot. "There really has been a citizen's revolution with new roads, new schools and new hydroelectric dams. There have been huge improvements from six years ago."
There have been other changes. The poverty rate dropped from 38 percent to 29 percent between 2006 and 2011, according to the World Bank.
By most accounts, Correa — who has a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois — has done a decent job of managing the economy and the influx of petrodollars. Unlike Correa's ally Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, he's mostly refrained from interfering with the private sector and expropriating businesses. Social programs range from new school uniforms and subsidized mortgages to monthly cash stipends to the disabled and poor families.
Such government initiatives have made a huge difference, said Quito taxi driver Miguel Cualchi.
When his 90-year-old mother suffered a herniated disk, doctors performed her surgery free of charge at a government hospital and later provided her with post-op treatment and prescription drugs. In the past, Cualchi said, his mother would have had to rely on an expensive private hospital or public hospitals that lacked medicine and bed sheets.
Although he works independently, Cualchi says he's now eligible for social security, thanks to the Correa government. Meanwhile, driving his cab has become easier because of improvements to streets and highways. "They're excellent," he said. "Smooth as a carpet."
Correa used the new roads to barnstorm the country drumming up support for his policies and his re-election effort.
"There isn't one province he hasn't visited," said Andres Gonzalez, dean of the political science department at the University of San Francisco in Quito. "He goes everywhere. It's amazing. If you are a peasant in rural Cotopaxi province and the president comes to visit you, of course you will vote for him."
Correa was also blessed with a weak field of opposition candidates. They include Lucio Gutierrez, one of the former Kleenex presidents who was ousted in 2005, banana magnate and perennial presidential candidate Alvaro Noboa, and Guillermo Lasso, a banker who faces long odds because Ecuadoreans are still angry about a government bail-out of the country's banks in 1999.
Read more: Who are the main opposition candidates in Ecuador's election?
"There are a lot of people who don't support Correa, but they can't figure out who to vote for," said Santiago Basabe, a political analyst at the FLACSO think tank in Quito.
But Basabe and other experts increasingly fear Correa may be amassing too much power.
A new constitution, approved in 2008, gave more control to the executive branch while the courts and government watchdog institutions have been stacked with Correa's allies. What's more, the president could soon control the legislative branch. On Sunday, Correa's Alianza Pais (Country Alliance) party will try to win a majority in the 124-seat National Assembly.
One result is that allegations of official corruption often go nowhere while the courts tend to come down on the side of Correa and his allies. Correa has also waged a blistering campaign designed to intimidate the independent media, according to press freedom groups like Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
The president regularly insults journalists. He sued El Universo, the country's leading daily newspaper, and won a $40 million slander settlement before issuing a pardon. Under a new law clamping down on electoral press coverage, the newsmagazine Vistazo was fined $80,000 last year for an editorial that urged voters to reject a ballot referendum.
More from GlobalPost: In Ecuador, a quiet war on whistleblowers
"Correa doesn't take criticism well," said Jose Velasquez, news manager at the private Teleamazonas TV station, which is often critical of the government. "I mean journalists, we question people. We question situations. And he just doesn't like that. He's not used to it. He's not used to someone saying: 'You might be wrong.'"
Government supporters counter that it is precisely this firm hold over the ship of state that's given Ecuador a measure of political stability and economic prosperity. In the past, they said, presidents were too easily cowed by lawmakers, the news media and business organizations. Correa, they say, will not be disposed of so easily.

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Sometimes You Have To Change The Ending -- Metaphors & All/
By Alejandro Adams "If we do not reunite Sykes and Thornton, which shows that people do side together, that they do stick with each other...then perhaps we have destroyed everything we have been talking about in this picture." -- Producer Phil Feldman in a letter to Sam Peckinpah regarding the the final scene of THE WILD BUNCH *
It's not every day that a notorious bruiser of a director gets along with his producer. But it's equally rare that a producer respects a filmmaker and his vision to the degree illustrated by the note above--Feldman had even protested Peckinpah excising some of the film's more violent bits. Directors are usually the ones who get so far up the ass of their own work they can't see clearly. In a somewhat alarming inversion, Feldman was a producer exhibiting more concern for the integrity of the film than for the paying audience. **
I've started with an anecdote about a producer not only because this quasi-promotional outing is brought to you by Ted Hope's kind invitation but also because filmmaking is about relationships, sometimes just one relationship, and it can feel like the scene that reunites Sykes and Thornton. Or not.
My new film AMITY, which screens as part of Cinema by the Bay on Saturday, contains a 26-minute scene. I think the San Francisco Film Society programmers deserve a special round of applause for overlooking that obstinate quirk. The scene takes place in the back of a limousine at night, which only makes it worse. I don't know how my producer feels about the scene, whether she's egging me on or rolling her eyes. We don't talk much. We're divorcing, slowly, just passing the three-year mark. We're in the middle of a custody battle that looks like the climactic shootout of THE WILD BUNCH but in much slower motion. Three years, gattling guns still tearing through flesh. I could make it sound less dramatic, but sprinkling potpourri on a pile of dogshit can only do so much.
My producer and I made some good films together. I think AMITY is one of them. The problem for me, and the main reason it took me three years to finish the film, is that its themes rub up against reality too much. I'm frightened by the thought that AMITY could be my future. Maybe the film is a prophecy. But then it's normal to be scared of your own film. Every time you create something, you risk creating a monster. If you can't stand the heat, etc, etc.
Incidentally, I can't stand the heat.
I owe apologies to those who gave themselves to this project three years ago. I didn't know my life was about to derail. People in my projects don't just show up and say some lines I wrote. They use their real names and real history and fabricate only enough to conform to the story I'm trying to tell. Greg and Michael, who play Greg and Michael in the film, are just Greg and Michael. Greg tells some colorful stories about Bangkok, Michael tells us he was a therapist in the Army. So far it's a documentary. I don't want to go on giving away details--I'm just trying to illustrate that the commitment I ask for is not superficial. You will sacrifice yourself if you make a film with me. That part I'm not sorry about. I'm just sorry all that commitment sat on a shelf for three years.
Integrally related to the breakup of my marriage is the loss of a distribution deal for my first three films. I don't want to be too confessional here--let's just say I lost everything in one go. If you want more detail, buy me a drink sometime. You'll find out why I have abandoned everything and everyone that qualifies as "the independent film scene" from Brooklyn to San Francisco.
I will say in passing, though, that my distributor regularly disparaged Ted Hope because Hope's definition of "independent film" never seemed to include zero-budget films. But here he is offering me space to go on about my zero-budget film. And I'm giving him a firm handshake.
The publicists at the festival cringed when I confessed that there's no Facebook page or trailer for my film. I'm not trying to be an asshole. I appreciate these opportunities. I hope everyone who reads this buys a ticket to see my film. My previous three films sold out multiple screenings in 500-seat venues. AMITY is screening in a venue with 150 seats and I'm told the advance sales are "light."
I went into the premiere of my first film with critical head of steam behind it. That head of steam only increased on my second film. When my third film was ready to screen I didn't have any of the vitality that had fueled the success of the others. It screened once. No, twice. It's not as if those critics or festivals disappeared. I disappeared. There were screener requests and screening invitations but I was too much of a zombie to answer a simple email. I don't know if I owe anyone an apology for that--I only hurt myself.
At the peak of my success I had...a few glowing pullquotes. Man, this makes me tired.
I have led people to believe that AMITY has some kinship with Cassavetes's HUSBANDS. Maybe it does. But there is some hokey self-psychologizing in the dialogue that is intended to neuter its commentary about "men today"--they don't understand themselves any better when talking about "phallic symbols." It's just embarrassing.
I don't care about men today. My film is about men, now and forever. Its scrutiny is unyielding which led the SFFS programmers to pronounce on it mercilessly in the festival guide blurb. Maybe everybody in my films is a piece of shit and maybe I'm a piece of shit too.
I got some things from my father. You have to get them from somewhere.
AMITY is about the way a man stands holding a pool cue, the way he talks through a big bite of hamburger, the way he admires old American cars, the way he is aggressively lonely, the way he internalizes agony until it becomes something else. It's about a man who's willing to be there for another man no one wants to be there for. Like RIO BRAVO. Why does Chance stick around and help Dude when Dude clearly has no self-respect and has dishonored the badge? Maybe friendship isn't the point--just integrity, just character. Fuck doing something because it's noble, do something because it's right. They say RIO BRAVO is a response to the politics of HIGH NOON. I'm not an academic or a critic or a politician. I'm just a man. I'd like to be the kind of man Hawks threw into the town of Rio Bravo when Dude needed someone. Anyone. AMITY is about that kind of anyone. There is an enormous closeup of his profile and contrary to the logic of the profile shot, he is accessible, he is giving. It's a horrible shot, defying good taste, uncomfortable to the viewer, bad cinema. I am very attached to this shot.
It amuses me that some filmmakers still think they're being transgressive when they put a bunch of sex and violence on screen. When I was in fourth grade I drew a picture of a hand giving the finger to some kid sitting next to me. I got it out of my system early I guess. What's really transgressive in a film these days is forgiveness. Redemption stories are common--that's not what I mean. I mean forgiveness in the face of non-redemptive behavior.
Satyajit Ray made films that move me. He might be the only one. It's foolhardy and even dangerous to try to make films that move people. Especially if you're shooting standard-def 4:3 video. You really must be out of your mind.
Regarding IM LAUF DER ZEIT Wim Wenders said he was interested in examining why straight men sometimes choose each other's company rather than that of women. My film is about two men who do not seem to get along but who choose to be together anyway--and incorporating a few women complicates their tenative bond, to put it mildly.
Marriages may end, friendships may end, but maybe something happens between two people one night and it doesn't have a label and it scratches an itch you didn't know you had.
And that's how I would describe my film.
BIO: Alejandro Adams wrote and directed the zero-budget features AROUND THE BAY, CANARY and BABNIK which are collecting the most exquisite dust. He has been called the "first meaningful filmmaker to make himself known through Twitter"*** but he no longer has a Twitter account so there you go. Alejandro has two children with beautiful blue eyes and longs for seventeen more with beautiful brown eyes.
* "Peckinpah: The Western Films -- A Reconsideration," by Paul Seydor
** It's a long, complicated story with an unfortunate outcome. Sykes and Thornton didn't, as it were, stick together in real life.
*** Interview with Vadim Rizov
Ted's note: I am not sure who Alejandro's distributor was but s/he clearly was comfortably talking knowingly about something they knew little about (aka me!). My commitment to indie, as demonstrated by my actions, encompasses no-budget, micro, and beyond. The actions of a distributor dropping an artist's films demonstrate something else altogether...
CHECK OUT ALL OF The San Francisco Film Society's program: "Cinema By The Bay". I hope to see you there.


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Accused leader of Ga. militia receives life in prison without parole for double slaying
ATLANTA – A Georgia soldier accused of running an anti-government militia has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for a double slaying.
Pvt. Isaac Aguigui (AH-gee-gee) of Cashmere, Wash., pleaded guilty as part of a deal that spared him the death penalty on two counts of malice murder. He also pleaded guilty to four counts of violating Georgia's anti-gang law.
Prosecutors said Aguigui and three fellow Fort Stewart soldiers were part of a militia group called Forever Enduring Always Ready. The defendants were accused of fatally shooting a former member of their Army unit and the man's 17-year-old girlfriend.
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Established in honor of the founding director of the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, the Ricardo J. Quinones Lectureship brings to the CMC campus some of the world's preeminent intellectuals, writers, and public figures. The honoree for Academic Year 2005-06 was Harvey Klehr, an internationally recognized authority on the history of American communism, Cold War politics, and espionage. On April 19, he delivered a talk entitled "Was Joe McCarthy Right? New Archival Evidence on Soviet Espionage in America."
Professor Klehr, one of the first Western researchers permitted access to the archives of Communist International (Comintern), contended that, contrary to views common in both orthodox and revisionist historiography, the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) "was never an independent American political party but a creature given life and meaning by its ties to the Soviet Union." Klehr holds that the Soviet archives and the decrypted Venona files reveal "evidence of monetary support and use of the CPUSA for espionage" and that "the leadership of the CPUSA not only knew about the espionage, but actively participated in it."
Dr. Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History at Emory University, has authored or co-authored eleven books, including The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism; The Soviet World of American Communism; Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America; and In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage; as well as numerous articles and reviews for such publications as The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Review of Books. In 2004, he was appointed to the membership of the National Council on the Humanities.


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JEREMY Clarkson and his fellow former Top Gear hosts have been pictured having dinner at a pub near Chichester amid speculation that secret filming is taking place at Goodwood today.
The Earl of March in Lavant has just tweeted a picture with the trio with the words: "Excited that the guys from @BBC_TopGear came in for dinner last night - @JeremyClarkson @MrJamesMay @RichardHammond"
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Last month Clarkson was axed from the hit BBC show after a fracas with a producer.


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Patterson, Jennifer ORCID: 0000-0002-8254-7602 (2009) Natural health awareness: maintaining the health of the planet by maintaining optimum personal health (multimedia version). In: Villiers-Stuart, Poppy and Stibbe, Arran, (eds.) The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World. University of Brighton Faculty of Arts: Sustainability Network, Brighton, UK.


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Not debatable: Obama stumbles
DENVER — It had been nearly 1,400 days since Barack Obama strode onto a debate stage — and it showed in a major way Wednesday at the first presidential debate of 2012.
Obama, who has spent most of the past four years speaking to hand-picked interviewers or lecturing audiences required to remain mostly mute while he spoke, struggled to shake off the rust in a jostling debate environment that gave his opponent Mitt Romney parity, equal time — and a new lease on political life.
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There were no game-changing gaffes and the debate was a substantive break from months of caustic negative campaigning on both sides, including lengthy discussions over deficit reduction and entitlement reform that seemed to yield hints of common ground — and also seemed to elevate both men.
( See also: Complete coverage of the Colorado presidential debate)
Yet even that was inherently bad news for Obama, who had hoped to convince voters he was the only possible president onstage.
Romney's aides and surrogates sprinted into the spin room to offer effusive assessments of their candidate's performance, and Fox News contributor Juan Williams was caroling "Massacre! Massacre!" to himself as he bounded out of the men's restroom. Obama's team didn't meet the press for a full 10 minutes — and one top Democrat, asked to say the best thing about the president's performance, said Obama has been "just working to maintain cool and be reassuring" in an email to POLITICO.
( Also on POLITICO: Romney's 5 best debate lines)
"Look, Romney was always going to have a good night on style points," conceded Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who still judged his boss to be the winner. "I've been telling you guys that for a very long time, but look, we won this debate tonight because we talked directly to the American people about plans. Romney couldn't do it. He stayed on defense the entire time. He couldn't lay out a tax plan that made any sense. You know he spent a bunch of time trying to defend his Medicare positions in states like Ohio and Florida; that's gonna be a real problem for him."
Romney wasn't perfect but he kept his awkward outbursts — which have plagued him throughout his career — to a minimum.
One cringe-worthy moment came when he tried to justify his proposed cut to PBS, which employs moderator Jim Lehrer and Sesame Street characters.
"I'm sorry, Jim," he said, reprising a standard stump speech line. "I'm going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I'm going to stop other things. I like PBS, I love Big Bird. Actually like you, too. But I'm not going to — I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for. That's No. 1."
( Also on POLITICO: Mitt to Lehrer: I'll pull PBS funding)
Yet Romney appeared to provide a flailing candidacy with new direction. A smiling, relaxed former governor, confident and under control after 27 debates over the past 18 months, seemed to strike a balance he has thus far failed to achieve, attacking Obama and softening his own image and positions.
"I think all of us will conclude that from the opening statement on, Mitt Romney won the debate, and so my sense is that, as often happens in first debates, which incidentally are always the most significant, you'll see the needle move a few points," said former Florida GOP Chairman Al Cardenas, now a lobbyist and Romney surrogate.
( PHOTOS: Scenes from Denver debate)
"I'm not saying it's decisive in the campaign, but it's a tremendous progress for Mitt. My sense is the race is practically tied now. By next week when you wake up, you'll see Mitt probably forging ahead in a few of these swing states that are pretty close now. And so the president is going to have to re-evaluate what his strategy is going to be."


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HIV/AIDS News
Study Offers New Insights Into Overcoming Disparities in Health
Socioeconomic disparities in health can be reduced and possibly even eliminated in some cases by specific interventions, such as adoption of a rigid treatment plan and intensive patient monitoring, that help patients better manage their own treatment, according to a new study by researchers at RAND. The study, which showed an association between a patient's level of education and adherence to complex treatment regimens for two diseases - HIV and diabetes - found that income, age, race, and gender were not as important as education in influencing health, but that differences associated with less education could be effectively overcome, resulting in improved compliance and improved health outcomes.
"Lower socioeconomic status (SES) - less education and lower income and wealth - has for some time been strongly linked with poorer health," says James P. Smith, Ph.D., RAND, who conducted the research with colleague Dana P. Goldman, Ph.D. "This research offers a new and practical explanation for why these differences in health may occur and how we might address them." Smith notes that experts have looked at a number of possible explanations for health disparities associated with SES, including differences in access to health care and insurance or in smoking and drinking among high and low SES groups, but exactly how these factors contribute to differences in health is unclear.
Goldman and Smith's report appears in the July 22-26, 2002, online issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research was supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"This report takes a clever and useful approach to looking at health disparities," says Richard M. Suzman, Ph.D., Associate NIA Director, Behavioral and Social Research Program. "We knew that education was one of the most important contributors to health and life expectancy, but were not sure exactly why. These analyses give us hope that we can define strategies to help improve the health of people with less education, using interventions for illnesses that require adherence to complex regimens."
The study evaluated treatment and health status for two diseases: HIV and diabetes. These conditions were selected by the researchers because treatments are complex but highly effective in maintaining or improving health. National studies on the two diseases provide a wealth of information for characterizing people with the diseases, the details of their treatment, and results of the treatment. HIV data were obtained from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS), which followed patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART. Data on diabetes came from the national Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT), a clinical trial looking at the effectiveness of diabetes treatments.
For both diseases, Goldman and Smith found, there were large differences in adherence to treatment regimens by education and that differences in complying with treatment significantly affected overall health status. The HAART data on HIV showed, for example, that 57 percent of college graduates always stuck with their treatment plan, while only 37 percent of high school dropouts did so. The study showed that income did not appear to affect adhering to treatment, while education level consistently mattered. Further analysis demonstrated that complete adherence to treatment was the single most important factor in improving health outcomes and that the role of education made a difference only in affecting adherence.
The study of people with diabetes went a step further, comparing patient behaviors in the DCCT diabetes trial. When the researchers compared the conventional therapies with a more intensive therapeutic approach, they found that education no longer had an effect on outcome. There was little difference in health status among people in different educational groups using the more intensive, enforced treatment, showing that imposing strict adherence to a treatment regimen helped the less educated more than those with higher education.
"These analyses show that the ability to adhere to a treatment regimen, while it can be influenced by education, is the bottom line for better health," points out RAND's Goldman. "Our study suggests to health providers that not all patients are alike in their ability to adhere to and maintain complicated medical regimens. But we also demonstrate that SES effects are amenable to change with training, monitoring, and possibly other approaches."
It is important to know why education matters, since related factors like income did not appear to influence adherence to health regimens or, ultimately, health status. It may be that certain features of education itself could play a role. Higher level reasoning skills and instruction in how to obtain and process complex information, components of higher education, might help patients make judgments about symptoms and treatments. In addition, personality traits and personal habits, including those that may prove useful in schooling or which schooling could help develop, might also influence adherence to health regimens. For example, the self-discipline it takes to complete assignments may prepare people for following a doctor's orders. Greater understanding of the role that these factors play will enable development of a variety of useful interventions, Suzman suggests.
The NIA leads the Federal effort to support and conduct research on the basic, biomedical, social, and behavioral aspects of aging. The Institute's Strategic Plan to Address Health Disparities specifically addresses how health disparities among various groups can be narrowed as the population ages, as research attempts to explain and understand why differences occur. To see the Strategic Plan and other information on aging, visit the NIA website at www.nia.nih.gov. Copies of NIA policy and consumer publications can be viewed online or may be obtained by calling toll free 1-800-222-2225 or TTY 1-800-222-4225.


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4dapted necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 111 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
Manfield Partners
Check out our website. We need help!
I did the text which I think gives a good description of what we do and what we are looking to do as a firm.
First step is to get a logo for business cards, letter head etc. Then we'll need to start thinking about the website which as you see needs some work and then presentation material etc.
We are advisers to and investors in businesses. We specialise in turnaround situations and situations where we can bring operational and financial expertise.
We are 5 key partners with around 10 operating execs.
The best things to read on the website are the case study examples as they give a good idea on what we actually do.
Target audience is mixed between senior executives in business (CEOs, CFOs, Managing Directors) and finance people (being bankers, private equity, other capital providers)
They will meet us in person hence get a business card, look at the website, a presentation and see letters from us so the image they get of us is purely from these other things.
We need a new logo to start with.
The brief on the website was that we like simple and plain.
We liked the following sites for look and feel (and hence logo too):
- http://www.bettercapital.co.uk
- http://www.palamon.com
- http://www.greenparkcapital.com
- http://www.bluebayinvest.com
Happy to give more but this gives a flavour.
We're not big into photos on the website. We're not looking for anything really fancy. Simple, professional, not cheap or childlike, clear, simple and bold. Something that says we are a serious, trustworthy, hands on, professional team
The old one is attached so you can see what we had. Happy to consider tweaks to it and complete new designs.
No clip art or stock images to be used in the design
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Harvard posted three straight-set singles wins Friday against Samford (Photo: John Cade/Mississippi State Athletics).
STARKVILLE, Miss. – A stop-and-start morning of rain delays and indoor/outdoor decisions did not phase the No. 27 Harvard men's tennis, as the Crimson coolly collected four singles wins to polish off No. 63 Samford in the opening round of the 2013 NCAA Tournament Friday. The win allows Harvard to advance to the second round where it will face the winner of the No. 10 Mississippi State/Austin Peay match.
The victory marks the second straight season Harvard has collected a win in the opening round of the NCAA tournament. Last year in Gainesville, Fla., Harvard took down Virginia Tech, 4-2. The Crimson ups its all-time NCAA record to 15-21 with the victory over Samford.
The match began with singles and Harvard's top two players, Denis Nguyen and Shaun Chaudhuri, took the courts for the Crimson. Nguyen, facing Samford's Zac Dunkle on the top singles court, came out with a red-hot serve, holding easily and narrowly missing on a few break chances early in the first set. Returning on serve at 4-3, the sophomore finally found his break and held serve in the ensuing game to secure the first set, 6-3. Dunkle earned a break of his own midway through the second set, but Nguyen returned the favor with two more breaks and polished off the match with a 6-3, 6-4 final.
Chaudhuri, playing Elliot Barnwell on the second court, had trouble figuring out the Samford player's aggressive serve-and-volley tactics and dropped the first set quickly, 6-2. The sophomore was able to get a read on Barnwell's serves beginning early in the second, and the momentum shifted swiftly to Chaudhuri, who breezed to a 6-2 second-set win and started the third frame with a full head of steam. Harvard's No. 2 continued his relentless barrage of groundstrokes, and polished off an exhausted Barnwell, 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 to give the Crimson a commanding 2-0 lead in the match.
Senior co-captain Andy Nguyen took the court against Fares Kilani at No. 3, and had every weapon working right out of the gate, storming to a 6-1 first-set victory, just after Chaudhuri finished his three-set affair. The senior did not let the intensity dip into the second stanza, keeping his foot to the gas in a dominating 6-1, 6-2 victory, putting the Crimson within one point of the victory.
Harvard's clinching point came courtesy of sophomore Alex Steinroeder in the fourth singles position. Steinroeder used a strong and consistent first serve coupled with powerful groundstrokes to post a decisive 6-2 first-set score against Samford's Alex Sajonz. The Samford player took a 1-0 lead in the second set, but Steinroeder was able to duplicate his first stanza efforts, posting a solid 6-2, 6-2 win to clinch the shutout with for the Crimson.
No. 27 Harvard 4, No. 63 Samford 0
1. Denis Nguyen (H) def. Zac Dunkle (S), 6-3, 6-4
2. Shaun Chaudhuri (H) def. Elliot Barnwell (S), 2-6, 6-2, 6-2
3. Andy Nguyen (H) def. Fares Kilani (S), 6-1, 6-2
4. Alex Steinroeder (H) def. Alex Sajonz (S), 6-2, 6-2
5. Nicky Hu (H) vs. Austin Akers (S), 2-1, suspended


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Falken Gets You Going
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18th Annual Girls' Haven Gumbo Festival
Southeast Texans are connoisseurs when it comes to gumbo. Ask anyone who the award-winning cook is in their family, office or church group and you'll get 10 different reasons why their favorite is the best. The folks at Girls' Haven take tasting and enjoying the Southeast Texas staple to the limit. Come on out and enjoy the best gumbo on the planet Saturday, Feb. 25, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the parking lot at Parkdale Mall in Beaumont in front of Macy's and behind Logan's.
You won't be disappointed, say the organizers. This year's event promises to be the biggest and the best in all of its 18 years. There will be continuous live entertainment and more than 20 games and activities for the kids. Tickets for the gumbo are $7 a bowl or four taster cups. Tickets can be purchased at the gate or in advance by calling (409) 832-6223. And one of the very best parts of the day is that all proceeds benefit Girls' Haven."If your group or family wishes to participate in the actual gumbo-cooking contest, you need to register right away," said executive director Alice Teeler. "This year's entry fee is a $100 donation to Girls' Haven per team, and that gift secures a 10 x 10 (foot) space. A $150 donation secures the larger 10 x 20 space." The spaces are available to groups or individuals wishing to compete, and a word to the wise: They take this contest very seriously.
Bragging rights for a full year come with a win, and they are a valuable commodity.
Gumbo will be judged in three categories: seafood, poultry and combination. One of the most sought-after awards is the People's Choice; folks value that win highly.
Not only will guests enjoy award-winning gumbo, either in bowls or taster cups, but there'll also be live entertainment. Texas 80 Proof, Lamar Port Arthur groups, Stone Cold and others will take the event stage to make your visit truly fun and memorable. Sonny "The Bird Man" will also be on hand for a live show.
The kid's area will feature carnival like games. Admission and parking are free.
Mark and Lanell Wilson were instrumental in the founding of Girls' Haven in 1994 when the couple discovered a great need in the area. Girls' Haven seeks to provide a safe, nurturing environment for girls affected by physical, sexual or emotional abuse, neglect, abandonment, exploitation or severe family dysfunction. The only priority is to promote and enhance the quality of life for girls in need.
Girls' Haven serves girls ages 6 to 17 in a warm and caring environment. House staff provides an education, and resources are available to help those children who are behind academically. Children older than 17 are also helped if they are continuing to pursue an education. Guidance and positive leadership shape promising futures for the girls entrusted to the care of this valuable organization. More than 200 girls have been served since the inception.
Girls' Haven is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization as designated by the IRS and welcomes visits and inquiries as to their work.
Dana Melancon serves as president of the board of directors, with John Ceravolo as vice president. Rose Blount is secretary and Joe Fisher is treasurer. Christy Mellen is officer at-large, and the board is made up of Lanell Wilson, LeAnn Ewing, and Margueritte Humphrey. Teeler is the executive director.
Some of this year's sponsors include Lamar, Clear Channel, The Examiner, Fox 4 KBTV, SETMA, SoutheastTexas.com, Market Basket, KLVI, Quality Mat Company, Cumulus, YMBL, Southeast Texas Cancer Center, Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Sign International, ExxonMobil, Jason's Deli, Southwest Printing, Golden Triangle Waste Solutions, Lanell Wilson, Alphabet Soup, Bob and Karen Wortham, Beaumont Bone and Joint, Thermacon, and Texas State Optical.
To enter a cooking team, or for sponsorship opportunities, call Teeler or Patti Crittenden at Girls' Haven at (409) 832-6223.
Brenda Cannon Henley can be reached at (409) 781-8788 or at brendacannonhenley [at] yahoo [dot] com.


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An Uncommon Education
The Central Park School for Children is committed to nurturing and guiding the natural eagerness of each child to explore, grow, and relate to others. The school is founded on three principles: that children are naturally full of life, power and confidence; that the best available research should guide our methods; and that children develop best in a community where curiosity, challenges and learning are valued. The school is a community of partners who seek to guide, cherish and be amazed by the children.
Goals for Children
CPSC educates the whole child: socially, emotionally, intellectually and physically. All students will develop:
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills
- Effective Oral and Written Communication Strategies
- Habits of Mind: Curiosity, Imagination, Agility, Openness, and Initiative
- Joy and Enthusiasm for Learning
Inclusion Statement
At CPSC we create environments in which any individual or group can be and feel welcomed, respected, supported, and valued to fully participate. We embrace differences and offer respect in words and actions for all students, families, and staff.
CPSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, height, weight, physical or mental ability, genetic information, political affiliation, veteran status, military obligations, or marital status.
Educational Approach
Our learning program centers around what is best for our children to reach their potential as confident, powerful, lifelong learners. Combining our knowledge of how children grow in the areas of academic, social, emotional and physical development, our caring, diverse community inspires a joy for learning. Students become creative, empathetic problem solvers who possess the habits, skills and creativity to make the world a better place. Explore our website to learn more about our teaching and learning practices.
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- After-School Program
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Learn how CPSC is making a difference...»


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What do you think Shanahan is planning to do with the amazing fantasy football lineup of RB's from 5 years ago?
I think LJ might be able to pull something out here. He doesn't have all that many miles on him. Portis is probably done. One concussion too many. And fast Willie's not fast any more.
I'd love to hear what you all think about this!


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Dezhou, Shandong, China
Member Since: 2014
Business Type: Trading Company
PE Grass grid pavers for greening
1.Product Introduction
Grass grid is made of high-strength HDPE or PP broadband, which are welded into a piece of netty cell structure, it can be stretched out and folded easily. It can be folded in course of conveyance while being stretched out; soil, stone or concrete can be filled into it, which will become a structure body with big side restriction and high strength. It can be used as a cushion to deal with weak foundation increasing the load capacity, and can also be laid on the slope to be made up the protecting structure.
2.Product Feature
1) Anti-aging,
2) Resisting acid and alkaline
3) Homogenous structure
4) The best sidewise restriction and soil-fixation
5) Convenient and fast construction
3. Product Function
1)Parking Lots (Grass or Gravel) & Overflow Parking
2)Make reinforcement treatment for soft soil foundation
3) Protect steep slope
4) Used in highway, railway, airport, wharf,
5) Especially in Airslaked Mountain, desert and swamp land etc.
Quality assurance
1.On a regular basis or as per your request,we entrust national testing agencies to conduct quality inspections
2.Strictly in accordance with the ISO9001-2008 international quality system standard,we monitor and manage the whole process throughout production,quality testing,and measurement to ensure product quality
3. For quality-related construction delay or substandard construction(except for damage or losses due to customer's responsibility or irresistible natural disasters),we have refunding,replacement,and repair services.We will respond to customers' feedbacks on quality issues within 24 hours.
After-sales service
1.In order to provide customers with comprehensive technical support,we will provide technical and other related information upon request in a timely manner.
2.In required,we will appoint specialized technicians to the construction site to give technical trainings to construction people,and offer technical guidance throughout the whole construction process.
3.For damage due to shipment and delivery,after we receive the complaint,we will check the issure through provided pictures and videos.If our responsibility is confirmed,we wil offer free replacement.
4.When the construction is completed,as your request,our technical staff may participate in the final acceptance.
Hongxiang New Geo-Material Co.,Ltd in leader of the geotextile, geomembrane and GCL in China. It was set up in June,1987 and become a provincial enterprise in Oct.1997. It occupies a land of 300,000 square meters, with total asset RMB320,000,000. There are 1200employees, among them, there are 268 professional and technical personnel. We have 56 production lines mainly produce needle-punched geotextile, filament spunbond geotextile, high strength geotextile, 3-layer co-extrusion geomembrane, dripping membrane, heart treated compound geomembrane 8m in width. PE/PVC/EVA press prolong geombrane, textured geomembrane, ant-skid geomembrane, uniaxial geogrid, biaxial geogrid, steel-plastic geogrid, geocell, geomat, woven geotextile, split yarn woven geotextile and so on. Owning the word leading production line of geosynthetics. We have our own R&D department and our own test room which reach to national level.
At present, we are one of the largest manufacturers of geosynthetic in China. Our trademark is "Hongxiang", registered in 2000. We passed the evaluation of ISO9001 in 2001 as well as ISO14001 certification. Our products were appraised as qualified products during the National Product Quality Selective Examination in 2004. We participated in the drafting of the National Standard of Geosynthetics of the People's Republic of China in 1998. We are also a participator to draft two national standards of short fiber needle-punched geotextile and non-woven compound geomembrane.
1. Where is our company located ?
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By sea , By train , By ari, depend on your country.
5. What's your MOQ quantity ?
MOQ is one 20' container , the quantity could be negotiable .


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The World's Happiest Countries (REPORT)
(HN, 4/3/12) - On Monday, representatives at the UN took a day off from discussing the crisis and conflict engulfing the globe to talk about something totally different: how to be happy.
Holding a high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly hosted by the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan - long ranked as the `Happiest Country on the Planet' - the world body looked at ways to put happiness on the global agenda at their gathering "Wellbeing and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm".
In partnership with the Earth Institute at Columbia University, the government in the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu may just have a thing or two to teach our world leaders.
The first-ever World Happiness Report, is based on Gallup World Polls over a period of 2005-2011, with respondents aged 15 or in more than 150 countries asked to evaluate the quality of their lives on an 11-point ladder scale running from 0 to 10 - with the bottom rung of the ladder (0) being the worst possible life for them and 10 being the best possible.
The report generally shows that the world's happiest countries are all in northern Europe -- Denmark, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands took the top four spots, in that order. Canada came in fifth, well ahead of the United States at eleventh place. The least happy countries at the bottom of the list were Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Benin and Togo.
In advanced countries, women are happier than men, while the position in poorer countries is mixed. Happiness is lowest in middle age.
Bhutan's King Jigme Khesar Namgyel, initiated the idea of an alternate model to Gross NationalProduct as a measurement of national progress in the 1970's and the country has famously adopted the goal of gross national happiness over gross national product (GNP).
The 800,000-person kingdom - where the per capita income is an estimated $670 - has become the center of development economics these days as Western policymakers seeking knowledge on national happiness in the globalized world look to Bhutan for answers.
Indeed the debate is growing over how to best measure the progress of countries beyond monetary valuations; and the `Happiness Quotient' ranks high in terms of quality of life.
According to the report - co-authored by economists Jeffrey Sachs of the Earth Institute, Richard Layard of the London School of Economics, and John Helliwell of the Economics Department of the University of British Columbia - on average, the world has become a little happier over the last 30 years; tho the rise in economic living standards has not always had a direct impact on happiness.
True - overall the happiest countries in the world are all in Northern Europe while the least happy countries are all in Sub-Saharan Africa; but it's not just wealth that makes people happy: political freedom, strong social networks and an absence of corruption are far more important than income in explaining well-being differences between the top and bottom countries, according to the report.
The survey reflects a new worldwide demand for more attention to happiness and more lack of misery as criteria for government and public policy making. It also reviews the state of happiness in the world today and shows how the new science of happiness explains personal and national status.
On a more personal level, the researchers argue that good mental and physical health, someone to count on, job security and stable families are all crucial to self-happiness.
UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon at the High-Level meeting said "I commend the Government of Bhutan for initiating this important debate on the link between happiness, well-being and prosperity."
He commented that he had received a final report recently of the Global Sustainability Panel, in preparation for the upcoming Rio+20 Earth Summit citing the 56 recommendations of the panel and the importance of establishing a `Sustainable Development Index', or a set of indicators to measure progress towards sustainable development, including happiness and well-being.
Ban ki-Moon noted that such thinking dates back to the earliest times, and can be found, for example, in the teachings of the Buddha and Aristotle. More recently, measuring success by wealth alone has been questioned in the groundbreaking Brundtland Report of 1987, the Human Development Index and the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, established by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.
"We need a new economic paradigm that recognizes the parity between the three pillars of sustainable development. Social, economic and environmental well-being are indivisible. Together they define gross global happiness," said the UN Secretary General.
He called upon government ministers, policymakers, business and civil society leaders, and young people - to work together to transform our economies, to place our societies on a more just and equitable footing, and to protect the resources and ecosystems on which our shared future depends.
Connecting the dots between these issues - between water, food and energy security, climate change, urbanization, poverty, inequality and the empowerment of the world's women - lies at the heart of sustainable development and he said, "The outcome from Rio+20 should reflect this".
Countries in order of their `Happiness Factor' according to the report are in this order:
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Introverts, rejoice! The Internet thinks your glorious idiosyncrasies and private vexations are adorable and that you are worthy of complex care and feeding. Yes, it's great to be an introvert in 2013! So how do you know if you are one?
Huffington Post's popular diagnostic, "23 Signs You're Secretly an Introvert," says you may claim membership in this elite club if "idle chatter" fails to thrill you, if networking "feels disingenuous" (you "crave authenticity in [your] interactions"), if you "have a penchant for philosophical conversations and a love of thought-provoking books and movies," if you're "geared toward intense study and developing expertise," if you "have a keen eye for detail," and if your habit of "thinking before [you] speak" gives you a "wise" reputation. There's more: You might also be an introvert if you "look at the big picture" and if you prefer the window or aisle seat on buses.
I always thought I was an introvert because occasional bouts of solitude recharge me and lots of excited conversation with new people eventually turns me limp. But given the above lofty criteria, maybe I'm actually an extrovert? Luckily, Gawker's Caity Weaver has come out with a list of "15 Unmistakable, Outrageously Secret Signs You Are an Extrovert." They include:
— You interact with other humans in orthodox ways and sometimes it's fun and sometimes it's not and mostly it's whatever.
— When you want to stay in, you just do it without making a big, aggrieved production about how it is absolutely essential for you to stay in sometimes — you need to do it, you just have to recharge — because you have extreme intermittent photosensitivity . . . OF THE SOUL.
— You speak at a volume perceivable by humans.
So maybe I am, secretly, an extrovert. Or an ambivert, which is a mix of the two personality types. This makes me a little sad, since the cachet of the introvert seems to have skyrocketed recently: A great piece on firstpost.com by Sandip Roy, "The Introvert Strikes Back," posits that "the tables are turning . . . The Introverts Rights Revolution . . . might well be upon us." Books like "Quiet: The Power of the Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" and articles like "Why Introverts Can Make Excellent Executives" imply that introversion is marketable. And, anecdotally, sighing over your "old lady ways" and "social awkwardness" has become a bit of a humblebrag — as if you can't wait to get the check, go home and work on your novel while your silly friends fritter away their youth at some gross bar.
So why the cultural apotheosis of the lone wolf? Why has she captured both our admiration (with her supposed profundity) and our sympathy (with her supposed fear of social gatherings)? Why does she get to climb the Parnassus of nerd-cool, one commendatory listicle at a time, while friendly, tail-waggy extroverts are left in the dust?
It's the Internet's fault, writes Amy Grey in the Sydney Morning Herald. The online balance of power between introverts and extroverts is totally skewed. Grey says that "the Internet has become an introvert's playground," allowing them to "perform to a captive and sympathetic audience." Online, they control the terms of their social engagement. They can unplug at any time. And yet they still enjoy the benefits of communicating with others, of feeling heard and valued. And then the poor, conforming regular extroverts, who just want to get along with the group, adopt the new norms, the ones lionizing introspection and alone time, and soon enough our nation's bars and restaurants will be empty, with everyone busy at home being "introverted."
Of course, the scientific definition of introversion is different from the Internet's definition. The introvert label doesn't mean you are scared of others — that's shyness — or that you contain mental and emotional depths incomprehensible to the trifling masses. It merely describes a person who prefers interacting in smaller social groups and occasionally wishes to be left alone. How trendy.


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The man accused of murdering and raping ABC Melbourne staffer Jill Meagher will contest the charges at a committal hearing.
Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, appeared briefly in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on Friday via videolink.
He is charged with murdering and raping Ms Meagher, an Irish national, in September last year.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Felicity Broughton was told an application by Bayley to cross-examine witnesses at the committal hearing was not opposed and she agreed the witnesses could be cross-examined.
An interpreter would be required on the first day of the hearing, the court heard.
Bayley sat with his hands together and spoke only briefly to answer questions from the magistrate.
Asked by Ms Broughton if he could hear and see the courtroom, Bayley replied: "Yes, I can."
A stony-faced Bayley, wearing a dark grey shirt, looked up occasionally as he sat at a small table, but mostly he kept his head bowed.
A suppression order on Bayley's background was extended to include a surname that he had used previously.
The order will remain in force until the start of the committal hearing.
Some witnesses who have made statements will be cross-examined by Bayley's lawyer during the hearing.
After the proceedings, a magistrate will determine if there is enough evidence for Bayley to stand trial.
On Friday, the packed courtroom included supporters of Ms Meagher as well as local and Irish media.
Her husband Tom was not in court.
Ms Meagher disappeared while walking home from a Brunswick bar in inner Melbourne in the early hours of September 22.
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Dr. Lustig graduated from MIT, and received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College. He performed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital, and his clinical fellowship at UCSF. From there, he spent six years as a post-doctoral fellow in neuroendocrinology at The Rockefeller University in New York.
Dr. Lustig has authored over 85 research articles and 45 chapters. He is the former Chairman of the Obesity Task Force of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task force of The Endocrine Society, and on the Steering Committee of the International Endocrine Alliance to Combat Obesity. He is the Editor of the volume "Obesity before birth: maternal and prenatal effects on the offspring.


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He was a strong voice in reshaping waterfront development plans, touting the "lighter, quicker, cheaper" model. Two decades earlier, he helped revive Chippewa Street.
Now, Mark Goldman is focusing his efforts on a Black Rock neighborhood.
The urban activist, entrepreneur and local historian sat down with The Buffalo News' Brian Meyer to talk about a variety of issues. Here is a summary of some of the key points that were discussed. Watch the full seven-minute interview at www.buffalonews.com/video.
Meyer: You [believe] that Western New York should ban the phrase "used to be." "We used to be a city of a half-million people. We used to be a major manufacturing center." Why?
Goldman: Just like in your own personal life, you want to focus on who you are now and who you can be in the future. You build on your past, certainly, but you certainly can't replicate it. … You have to adapt and change and make the most of who you are – where you are. We have a great deal to build on. … "Used to be" just kind of holds us back.
Meyer: When you talk about building on [assets], obviously there has been a lot going on on the waterfront. You were a proponent for this more streamlined development. That has happened. Are you pleased with what you've seen so far?
Goldman: Yes. I think that what we need to do is slowly, gradually and organically build a destination. And you do it by these more programmatic things, like the lighter, quicker, cheaper stuff that Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. has sponsored – many programs, cultural programs, historical and heritage programs that have brought … according to them, hundreds of thousands of people. We've created a destination, so now you can build on that, literally. Then you can start building more capital projects.
Meyer: But is this model that we've implemented going to bring some big fish?
Goldman: No, it will bring a lot of smaller fish – which is what a fisherman wants.
Meyer: We are sitting here at the Black Rock Kitchen and Bar on Amherst Street. … What made you decide to open [a business in Black Rock]?
Goldman: That relates to my whole notion of economic and community development. The best way to build for the future I really think is to build on the past – not on who you used to be in the sense of glory days – but rooting contemporary development in the history. And Black Rock is an area that, as many people know, is rooted in history. It's older, in fact, than Buffalo. The people who are here now have a very, very strong sense of that past…
Meyer: Stuff is happening in this little pocket. You have some artisans who are doing things and other businesses. … Do you think this is a permanent revival of this neighborhood?
Goldman: What you need is people moving in. It can lead to more people moving in. … Let people in what's becoming a very quickly overpriced Elmwood area realize that there's a decent housing stock here. … Again, it's sort of lighter, quicker, cheaper. Instead of spending a huge amount of money and political energy creating a big destination which may or may not work, you create a series of small ones – get people coming, talking about it and saying, "Hey, wow! I like it over here."


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A quarters of the workforce in the Greater Brockton area can expect to be affected by the minimum wage hike approved by state lawmakers last month.
BROCKTON – When the state's new minimum wage increase goes into effect, some areas of Massachusetts may experience bigger economic impacts than others. In Greater Brockton, 25 percent of the labor force will likely see increased wages under the new minimum wage, the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center says.
"The largest impact will be in areas where there are more low-wage workers, but there are lower-wage workers in most cities and towns in the commonwealth," said Noah Berger, executive director of the nonprofit Budget and Policy Center.
State lawmakers voted last month to incrementally raise the minimum wage to $11 an hour by Jan. 1, 2017.
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center in Brockton released its analysis projecting how many workers will be directly and indirectly affected. Urban centers in the South Coast, Central Cape and Western Massachusetts will see some of the largest economic impacts, as they have high concentrations of low-wage workers, according to the analysis.
The Greater Brockton region, the Budget and Policy Center said, has an estimated 10,300 workers earning less than $11 per hour, and 2,200 earning slightly above the new minimum wage. Those 2,200 "indirectly affected" workers are also likely to see raises as employers adjust their wage scales, Berger said.
Claudia Ortiz, an employee at Family Dollar in Brockton and human services student at Massasoit Community College, is one of the workers will be affected by the jump in the minimum wage.
She, her brother and her mother struggle daily with minimum wage budgeting.
"Sometimes I want to buy something and I just don't because I wouldn't have money to buy food or pay my cell phone bill," Ortiz, who lives with her family in the city, told the Enterprise.. "It's unfair for me and other people to get only $8 an hour. You cannot afford anything on minimum wage."
Often times minimum wage jobs are the only thing available for people seeking to work.
"There are just not a lot of jobs available in Brockton, and the jobs that are here are primarily in the service industry," said Julie Aronowitz, a field director for the Brockton Interfaith Community.
The group had previously started a petition to put a minimum wage increase question on November's ballot, but stopped the campaign after the Legislature passed its own minimum wage legislation.
In total, the Boston-based center said, 25 percent of the labor force in Brockton and surrounding communities would likely see increased wages under the new minimum wage law. Statewide, an estimated 605,000 workers, or 20 percent of the Massachusetts labor force, can expect to see their wages rise, the center said.
The study shows there are 473,000 workers in the state currently earning less than $11 per hour, and an additional 132,000 workers who fall into the "indirectly affected" category.
Higher wages will lead to increased consumer activity and more cash entering the local economy, Berger said.
Aronowitz agrees with Berger's assessment.
"The families that we talk to are really deciding do I pay my rent or do I buy food or do I buy medicine," Aronowitz said. "More money means they are spending that money locally, and that money is actually coming back into our communities."
Some, however, say the minimum wage hike could have unintended negative consequences.
Jon Hurst, president of the Retailers Association of Massachusetts, opposed the $11 minimum wage, saying it could hurt small businesses and potentially lead to layoffs.
"If your costs are going up and sales are not, and you can't afford to raise prices because of competition, you have no alternative but to reduce employment, move your business or go out of business," he said.
In Brockton, Jonathan Jamoulis, the owner of Cape Cod Cafe and president of the Campello Business Association, thinks that the higher minimum wage is going to have an impact on local businesses.
"I think we're going to feel it. I really do," Jamoulis said.
While Jamoulis supports a higher minimum wage for adults than the current $8 per hour, he said he would like to see a split minimum wage for minors, who will also receive $11 per hour under the new law.
"If those wages go up, I'm probably going to have less kids working for me and the prices are probably going to go up eventually," Jamoulis said. "The money has to come from somewhere."
Hurst said he would have supported a more modest wage hike, perhaps to the $10.10 mark President Barack Obama called for at the federal level.
He added that he's disappointed Massachusetts didn't do away with mandatory time-and-a-half Sunday pay for retail workers or adopt a separate, lower minimum wage for teens.
He expects to see fewer jobs for teens and greater challenges for small retailers.
"My concern there is that on a Sunday, the minimum wage for retail stores is not going to be $11. It's going to be $16.50," he said. "We are very concerned about the future of our main streets. I have real concerns on whether a small store can even operate on Sundays on that type of wage scale."


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LeTourneau University will begin classes for new and returning students for the Fall 2013 semester on Monday, Aug. 26. Check-in to residence halls for new students will take place Wednesday, Aug. 21. New student registration will take place Thursday, Aug. 22. Orientation for new students will begin on Wednesday, Aug. 21, and last through Monday, Aug. 26.
Returning students can check into their residence halls Saturday, Aug. 24.
The last day to register or change registration for Fall 2013 is Friday, Aug. 30. LeTourneau University will hold classes on Labor Day.
LETU welcomes two new deans to the university this year. Dr. Bruce Bowman will be the dean of the School of Business; and Dr. Kimberly Quiett is the new dean of LETU's proposed School of Nursing, pending SACSCOC and Texas Board approval.
New faculty members for 2013-2014 include: Dr. Scott Anson, associate professor of mechanical engineering; Dr. Peter Bradley, psychology professor and director of clinical training; Dr. David Dittenber, associate professor of civil engineering; Dr. Aaron Kuecker, associate professor of theology and director of Honors College; Dr. Daniel Ostendorff, assistant professor of history/political science; Dr. Jeffrey Quiett, professor of psychology; Dr. Luke Tallon, assistant professor of theology; Dr. Charles West, professor of psychology and director of graduate counseling and marriage and family therapy program; and Dr. Mark Williams, professor of accounting. LETU also welcomes Dr. Byron K. Lichtenberg, as a visiting scholar in mechanical engineering.
Also new this year are Leslie Bowman, director of the Learning Resources Center; and Dr. Jodie Hilburn, an instructor in teacher education.
LeTourneau University is an interdenominational Christ-centered university located in Longview that offers academic majors in aviation, business, communication, criminal justice, education, engineering, health science-nursing, human services, kinesiology, the liberal arts, the sciences and psychology.
LETU also offers graduate degrees in business administration, counseling, education, engineering, psychology and strategic leadership.
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