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Don't Wait for Disaster
Security managers are covering their bases to curb the effects of an avian flu pandemic. We look at what some are doing.
Security managers are covering their bases to curb the effects of an avian flu pandemic. Here's what some are doing.
In the insurance business, planning for the unexpected is all in a day's work. But for the past several months, Paul Klahn has been planning for the unthinkable: an avian flu pandemic.
As information security officer for Assurant Employee Benefits, a Kansas City-based unit of insurance firm Assurant, Klahn is part of a team preparing the company should a pandemic strike. Team members plot out how to weather scary scenarios like severe workforce shortages, the need to keep employees apart and a possible surge in claims.
"You have to start planning," Klahn says. "Everything I've read from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) characterizes it as a real threat."
The warnings from experts about the possibility of an avian flu pandemic are certainly ominous. According to WHO, the H5N1 virus--a strain of avian influenza--has "considerable" pandemic potential. If the virus becomes fully transmissible between humans, it will spread throughout the world in three months, the organization believes.
If a severe pandemic similar to the devastating 1918 Spanish flu hits, U.S. officials estimate that 90 million people could become infected and 1.9 million may die. They advise businesses to expect an employee absenteeism rate of up to 40 percent due to illness, employees caring for ill relatives and fear of infection. The World Bank forecasts the economic impact of a pandemic on the U.S. at $350 billion.
A number of organizations, especially large companies, are heeding these dire predictions. They're figuring out ways to have employees work remotely, initiating employee education campaigns, identifying critical business functions, stockpiling hand sanitizers and masks, and making sure their suppliers are also preparing.
"If we have a 1918-like pandemic, it's going to be brutal," says Jay Schwarz, vice president of information systems at Alex Lee, a Hickory, N.C.-based wholesale and retail food company. "There are things that companies can do to prepare that could be the difference between survival or not for any organization."
A survey of 222 North American companies conducted by Gartner last year showed only tepid interest in conducting pandemic planning, but analyst Roberta Witty says that's changed this year, with about 20 percent looking to plan. Certain industries are more proactive than others, including financial institutions, food distribution companies and transportation firms, she says.
Aside from planning to have employees work at home by beefing up VPN capabilities and adding videoconferencing technologies, companies need to look at how they'll handle inventories--especially in our just-in-time economy--and adjust human resource policies to handle extended absences, travel and the myriad issues a pandemic presents.
"Some say it's like Y2K, a non-issue...but responsible companies put steps in place so the Y2K issues were addressed," says Ken Wilson, a management consultant who specializes in pandemic planning. "If responsible companies prepare and educate employees, we have a good chance of minimizing the [pandemic's] impact on our country."
Catastrophe Planning
At Assurant, planning for a possible avian flu pandemic began in earnest earlier this year. The employees involved in the effort serve on a handful of committees representing various departments, including IT, healthcare and human resources.
"It's a significant effort," says Klahn, who is on the IT committee. "We're running down every scenario we can."
For example, a pandemic may cause claims to go up, so the company--which has about 12,000 employees--needs to plan accordingly so it can best serve its customers.
Being able to have employees work remotely, either at home or elsewhere, is a top priority that comes with plenty of challenges. Experts suggest that paper-based processes and privacy regulations such as HIPAA are some of the issues companies face in creating offsite work situations. In some instances--such as customer-service representatives needing sensitive data to handle calls--having employees work at home raises privacy issues if that data is on their personal computers, Gartner's Witty says.
Understanding the company's critical business functions has been crucial in the planning effort, especially for IT, Klahn says. Rather than just throwing up a lot of remote-access technology, understanding essential processes can lead to other solutions.
"We have to prioritize which business functions are most critical to keep running. We might repurpose people and give them the opportunity to work in different parts of the company to keep those critical functions going," he says.
In the end, the planning will help the IT department become stronger because it will be more aligned with the business and more agile with enhanced work-at-home capabilities, Klahn adds.
"The reality for us, as a company, is that this type of broad planning just increases our capabilities to serve our customers and employees in the long run," he says.
Officials in Orange County, Fla., also expect a long-term payoff in preparing for a pandemic, which is part of the county's comprehensive emergency management strategy. The county's pandemic planning group includes emergency medical service agencies, hospitals and other community organizations that would respond in the event of an outbreak. The group considers issues such as how to continue services that can't be provided remotely.
"Even if we don't have a pandemic, the planning and infrastructure will serve us well no matter what the emergency is," says Dave Freeman, Orange County health and medical disaster coordinator and manager of the county office of emergency medical services.
"The most important element is the planning process itself. It brings together community partners working toward a common goal," Freeman adds. "As you do this consistently, your overall capability becomes more robust because people are used to working with each other.
You become much more adaptable no matter what the event is."
A Different Kind of BCP
The business continuity team and medical staff at Constellation Energy had been monitoring the avian flu situation since the middle of 2005. At the time, even though the probability of it becoming a pandemic appeared low, its impact would be high, making it a high risk, says Robert Cornelius, director of business continuity at the Baltimore-based Fortune 150 company.
"We look at everything from a risk perspective," he says. "We felt that the prudent thing to do was to start planning for this [possible pandemic outbreak]."
Protecting its 9,700 employees and keeping critical businesses functioning in the event of hurricanes or other disasters have always been priorities for Constellation. While the company could have used its existing business continuity plans (BCPs)--which identify critical business processes--as a starting point, a pandemic required additional work.
"This is an attack on your human resources," Cornelius says. "We felt we needed very specific plans."
Together with Constellation's medical and safety departments, his team spent time with experts to understand the threat, educated upper management on the risk, won senior leaders' endorsement for the planning effort and reached out to the company's business units.
In a worst-case scenario, in which a pandemic results in many infections and deaths, companies need to plan for how they'll take care of employees who must come into the facility to perform critical functions, Cornelius says.
"There are certain crucial functions that people have to come into our facilities to perform, like control room operations, electric substation repairs and gas emergency response," he says. "We need to have plans for those people to work. Other folks, we'd have work at home.... We're going to try to protect our people as best we can. So for the people coming in, we need to make sure we have the proper operational plans and supplies."
To that end, Constellation has stocked up on gloves, masks and bacterial cleaners. It is also educating employees on how to prepare at home for emergencies, including a pandemic. Using "lunch-and-learn" seminars and department safety meetings to educate employees has been effective, Cornelius says.
Every company should focus on educating employees about the pandemic threat, says Harold Bingham, business continuity program manager at Monster.com. He's done presentations throughout the online career firm to prepare employees.
"To the extent that your employees are informed, it's a higher likelihood that the panic and fear will be diminished," he says. "That's going to be key."
Lessons Learned
For Intel, the SARS crisis was a learning experience that's helped the chip giant prepare for a possible avian flu pandemic. In 2003, when Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome was hitting Asia, Intel was forced to cancel conferences in the area and close an office in Hong Kong after an employee showed symptoms of the disease.
As the crisis unfolded, Intel put in place safeguards and established mechanisms for staying in touch with WHO and other health agencies about outbreaks, says spokesman Chuck Mulloy: "We'll monitor their activities closely and step up the response depending on what's called for in any place in the world where we have facilities."
A company-wide leadership task force has developed plans and supplemented existing policies so that Intel can respond in the event of a pandemic.
For example, the company has had a telecommuting policy for years, but needed to make sure it would apply in the event of an outbreak, says Jim Wick, task force chairman and environmental health and safety manager for the Americas at Intel. Human resources policies, including pay practices and travel support, have also come under scrutiny.
Workforce planning has included telecommuting, but, since Intel is a manufacturer, it has had to plan how to maintain business functions while protecting employees who must work onsite. The company has developed facility cleaning procedures, which include personal health and hygiene practices, such as the usage of antibacterial hand cleaners.
"And, we've tested. Every major business unit and site has gone through a pandemic exercise or drill," Wick says.
Intel has shared its preparations with its contractors and suppliers, and has encouraged them to plan, too. "We have some key suppliers; if they are crippled by the disease hitting their employee base, that hurts our business, too."
The task force has also done a lot of education for its nearly 100,000 employees, including an intranet site with tips on how they can safeguard their families from contagious diseases.
All of the planning is what Wick calls prudent preparedness. Unlike other companies, such as airline firm Virgin Atlantic, Intel made a policy decision not to stock antiviral medicine Tamiflu.
"I think we've done the prudent thing for our business--to protect our people, which are our most valuable resource," he says.
If a pandemic hits, it could last for weeks or months, notes Don Ainslie, global security officer at Deloitte & Touche. Once it's over, organizations will be evaluated on "how well they treat their people and how they service their clients," he says.
Food Industry Preps
After the epidemiologist who advises Alex Lee on food safety issues told executives last year about the pandemic threat, the company didn't waste any time. Information systems VP Schwarz pulled together a task force of 16 people from all parts of the business to brainstorm how the industry would be affected by a pandemic, and how the company would respond. The group came up with more than 120 ideas, which are summarized in a document that Alex Lee has made publicly available.
"We're in the food business, and we serve a lot of communities in the Carolinas. People have to eat--we have to keep this food supply going. We made a decision that this [planning] isn't going to be a competitive thing," Schwarz says. "We wanted to get the industry to wake up to this risk."
The group's report takes into account various scenarios such as consumers avoiding restaurants, and increased demand for online shopping and home delivery, and lists recommendations for dealing with those situations.
Coming up with the ideas was fairly easy, but putting them into action is difficult, and Alex Lee has a long way to go in its preparations, he says. The company has spent a lot of time analyzing its employee base, thinking through situations such as filling in a shortage of truck drivers with employees who aren't drivers but have the credentials.
Another focus is employee best practices in a pandemic: using phone and email instead of face-to-face meetings whenever possible. But having employees work remotely is fraught with problems, including security, ample VPN bandwidth and a reliance on the Internet running properly, Schwarz says. "If your job requires paperwork, how's all that going to flow?"
A big part of what his company does is distribute food to grocery stores, a job that obviously can't be done remotely. "We get pallets in from manufacturers and get them to grocery stores. You can't do that from home," he says.
Making sure its vendors also are preparing for a pandemic is another big focus for Alex Lee, and company executives have met with vendors to discuss how to maintain the supply chain in the event of an outbreak.
Schwarz advises other organizations embarking on pandemic planning to get upper management on board: "It's impossible to address this issue without top management support. You need resources in terms of people and money if you're going to do it seriously."
Preparing for such a catastrophe raises a lot of tough issues, but companies are better off thinking through them now, he adds.
"Even though it's difficult, it's got to be easier than waiting for the pandemic and having chaos," Schwarz says. "Pandemic planning is not optional."


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I'm watching Fox News Sunday this Memorial Day, 5/27/12, listening to the great "Progressive" icon of the right, Senator John McCain, whine about the failure of America to protect some Middle East terrorists from other Middle East terrorists in Syria. Following up his disgraceful support, (along with that of S.of S. Clinton and President obama), of the Muslim Brotherhood takeovers in Libya and Egypt, he is near apoplectic in our failure to fight terrorist's battles for them.
I would like to ask this great "Progressive" icon of the right, Senator John McCain, what our upside has been in Libya and Egypt? We are now funding our avowed enemies, an organization dedicated to destroying America from both within and without. We are still giving over a billion dollars a year to Egypt. We give hundreds of millions of dollars to the PLO.
Why does he think America would get any benefit from different terrorists killing muslims, in place of Syria's Assad? The ignorance or purposeful mendacity of those that try to defend what is happening in the Middle East, and our funding and support for it, proclaiming it is in some way a march towards "Freedom and Democracy," is staggering!
Once again, the teachers unions and forced failure of the education system has come to the rescue of the radical anti-Americans running this administration.
The Main Stream Media can throw around the word "democracy" about what is happening, like "democracy" is a good thing! Majority mob rule is not something we should be supporting, anywhere in the world.
I am grateful to the military man, John McCain, for his past actions in defense of this nation.
I am disgusted by the politician, Senator John McCain, for his campaign of ignorance and propaganda on behalf of America's most vociferous and active enemies, the Muslim Brotherhood.
My God, this embarrassment to the Senate, the great "Progressive" icon of the right, Senator John McCain, actually just stopped the conversation to remind Americans and the world that there are, "grades of Muslim Brotherhood!"
Well said, Imam McCain, I'm sure your lies have them dancing in the aisles at CAIR, the terrorist organization founded by the Muslim Brotherhood, and equally dedicated to destroying America. They spend millions of dollars trying to spread the lies you just spouted.
I noticed, Senator McCain, you didn't mention where we could go to find the new rules of some of the "grades of the Muslim Brotherhood," you know, where they call off their plan to destroy America.
You gave no names of so-called "moderate" members of the Muslim Brotherhood willing to stand up next to you, Imam John McCain, and state they are willing to live with a free, non-muslim America in the world.
More proof that "Progressives" are the biggest threat to America.
Alan West was right, but they are not all in the Progressive Caucus, or solely on the left.
Let Syria burn, until as many as possible are dead.
When whoever wins wins, if they prove they truly want to be our friends, help them. If not, let them, too, self-destruct. It should never have been our business to feed or defend, or monetarily support, our enemies.
Have a thoughtful Memorial Day, and consider what we as a nation will be asking our future soldiers to die for under the choices we will make for them. Elections have consequences on more than just the price of gas.
Never be afraid to shake the hand and thank our uniformed military citizens when you have a chance.

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The Academic Senate and Academic Federation will come together to present their highest honors and to hear this year's Faculty Research Lecture.
As the recipient of the Faculty Research Lecture Award, the senate's highest honor, Professor Jodi Nunnari of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology plans a talk on the topic, "I Breathe for Mitochondria." See separate story on Nunnari.
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph J. Hexter will join the senate and federation in recognizing Nunnari and the other award recipients (profiled below).
The senate will present six Distinguished Teaching Awards, in undergraduate and graduate-professional categories; and four Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Awards. The federation will present two awards: Excellence in Teaching and Excellence in Research.
The program is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14, in the Activities and Recreation Center Ballroom, starting with the awards program at 5:15 p.m. and followed by a reception at 6:30 and the Faculty Research Lecture at 7:15.
RSVPs are requested by May 10, and can be arranged online.
Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Awards
John M. Eadie, professor, wildlife, fish and conservation biology; and animal science — He is a service-oriented academic, best illustrated by his role in drafting the North American Waterfowl Management Plan 2012. This plan is an ambitious strategy to restore waterfowl populations through habitat protection, restoration and enhancement. His contributions to the plan spanned socioeconomic, political and ecological issues, and helped ensure it be implemented within a science framework. He also maintains a heavy department and university service load. His leadership, enthusiasm and ability to synthesize and integrate information endear him to colleagues and also make him unusually effective in his service efforts.
Scott Fishman, professor, clinical anesthesiology, and chief, Division of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine — He is an internationally renowned clinician and activist educator whose career has focused on advancing treatment for patients in pain and improving quality of life. For more than a decade, he has led efforts to raise awareness among practicing physicians, state and federal legislatures and the general public that relief from pain needs to be balanced with effective risk management strategies to prevent prescription drug abuse.
Jay Lund, professor, civil and environmental engineering, and director, Center for Watershed Sciences — He is one of California's top water experts and a leader in reforming water resource management in the state. He has brought his unique talents in modeling, economics, engineering and geography to bear on some of the thorniest and most pressing water issues in the state. He has consistently and effectively brought science to policy, influencing policymakers, government agencies and public interest groups. He helped found the California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum, which has impacted the way water managers operate in the state. He developed CALVIN, California's only statewide water resource optimization model, which is used by many agencies to evaluate water policy and operations scenarios. He also played a central role in the development of a series of assessments of California water policy in collaboration with the non-profit Public Policy Institute of California. His work on the Sacramento –San Joaquin Delta has led to or informed multiple institutional changes and groundbreaking legislation on the Delta.
Joy Melnikow, professor, family and community medicine, and director, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research — In addition to being a distinguished family physician known for providing the best care to patients, Melnikow has made significant contributions to health policy through her work on the Let¹s Get Healthy California Task Force and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Members of both bodies are selected for their abilities to recommend changes that benefit the health of the state and the nation. Her investigations have identified ways to improve cancer-screening guidelines, develop successful disease-prevention programs and assure the effective use of health-care resources. Frederick Meyers, executive associate dean of UC Davis Health System, said in his letter nominating her for the award that Melnikow has "a national and international reputation for clear thinking, excellent communication skills and rigorous application of the principles of evidence-based medicine and clinical epidemiology to health outcomes research, prevention and policy."
Distinguished Teaching Awards: Undergraduate
Matthew Augustine, associate professor, chemistry — He was already an outstanding chemistry researcher when he arrived at UC Davis as a new assistant professor in 1997, but it was in front of the General Chemistry lecture class that he discovered his love of teaching. Adopting a style that department vice chair Neil Schore calls "energetic but conversational," Augustine regularly earns comments such as, "best chemistry teacher," "give this man a raise," or simply, "awesome!" An avid surfer who has been known to solve problems in quantum mechanics while trying to catch waves, Augustine is noted for an ability to teach complicated concepts in a casual, relatable environment without watering them down.
Manuel Calderón de la Barca Sánchez, associate professor, physics — In his teaching, Calderon "leaps the orchestra pit," making the distance between students and instructor disappear, wrote Professor Gergely Zimanyi in nominating Calderon for the award. Rather than lecturing directly, he nudges students towards discovering answers for themselves through strings of questions, whether he is talking to UC Davis physics students or a crowd of high schoolers at an outreach event in the Bay Area. Calderon uses his office hours to guide students through the material, connecting ideas presented in class, and helps students develop the skills to succeed professionally. "It is through his dedication to mentoring that I have gained much needed confidence to pursue post-graduate studies," wrote one former student.
Catherine Chin, associate professor and director, religious studies — Her research focuses on early Christian social and intellectual history, ritual, literary cultures of late antiquity and the early middle ages, pre-modern notions of gender, sexuality, and the body. She is praised by colleagues and students alike for her enthusiasm and influence in the department. One student who nominated her said she is "the most influential professor in the Religious Studies Department." Said one colleague, "I have seen many professors in action in my years at Davis, and she is the best I have ever seen at evoking from students sophisticated analysis and original theories about texts -- all this in a seemingly effortless manner." Her most recent publication is Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008).
Thomas Gordon, professor, plant pathology, and Science and Society — Known by his peers as a remarkable storyteller who artfully uses humor and analogy to grab the interest of his students, Gordon is passionate about teaching. While juggling a productive research program and demanding administrative duties as chair of the plant pathology department for more than seven years, he continues to take on more than his share of teaching responsibilities at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Perhaps his "signature" course is "Mushrooms, Molds and Society," an undergraduate course, which he initiated in1997. As one of the campus's most highly enrolled classes, it now attracts more than 500 students annually and is one of the top five classes recommended to incoming freshmen.
Distinguished Teaching Awards: Graduate-Professional
Elizabeth Freeman, professor, English — She came to UC Davis in 2000 from Sarah Lawrence College. Freeman has written numerous scholarly articles and two books, and is now the editor of GLQ, a journal of Lesbian and Gay studies. "Her graduate seminars, which range in subject from surveys of mid-nineteenth American literature to theoretical inquiries about the relation between sexuality and temporality, consistently fill up with students," wrote Scott Simmon, chair of the English Department, in recommending her for the award. "Professor Freeman has also taught a wide range of graduate courses focused on the professionalization of our PhD. Students, including an introductory course on graduate study in the field, courses on how to publish an article and how to teach composition."
Sharon Strauss, professor, evolution and ecology, and Center for Population Biology — She has trained 18 graduate students during her faculty career at UC Davis, with alumni describing her as their "mentor for life," yet her strongest contribution to graduate education at UC Davis may be through her leadership in two Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) programs sponsored by the National Science Foundation. These prestigious awards are meant to encourage new models of graduate teaching that cross disciplines. Strauss is principal investigator on two of the six IGERT grants that UC Davis has received, on Biological Invasions and on Responding to Rapid Environmental Change. Trainees come not just from the graduate groups in Ecology and Population Biology, but also History and Economics, and trainees emerge with an understanding not just of biology and ecology but of the social and legal aspects of environmental problems. Strauss also hosts an annual roundtable on work/life balance for graduate students. "She encourages her students to be excellent educators and engaged citizens as well as top-notch scientists," wrote Professor Artyom Kopp, in nominating her for the award.
Excellence in Teaching
Scott Herring, lecturer, University Writing Program — Herring is a regular reporter for the Yellowstone Report, and he has published two books, Opening Days: Classic Waterfowling in California and Lines on the Land: Writers, Art, and the National Parks. Herring's experience as a writer, focusing on natural resources, for a variety publications, informs his teaching and makes his classroom a richer place for students, wrote one colleague. "What really set Dr. Herring apart from many of my other professors, was his interest in helping each individual student," wrote a student who nominated Herring. "This was demonstrated not only by his availability for help and advice outside of class, but also how he tailored his teaching to each student to make it as useful for that person going forward."
Excellence in Research
Ann Powell, associate researcher, Department of Plant Sciences — An internationally recognized expert on how genes and biological mechanisms and pathways, interact to affect fruit ripening and disease resistance in tomatoes, Powell and colleagues in 2012 announced a discoverythat caught the attention of scientists, agriculturists and consumers around the world. The researchers reported discovering a gene mutation that tomatobreeders have for decades been selecting as they bred commercial tomato varieties because it caused the tomatoes to be uniformly light green beforethey ripened and suitable for harvesting all at the same time. Powell and fellow researchers demonstrated that this desirable trait was accompanied by an unintended reduction in sugars that compromises the flavor of the fresh tomatoes and their desirability for processing. This work promises to open the door to developing tomatoes with heirloom-quality flavors as well as hardiness for harvest and processing
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by Nathan Lerner
After a one-year hiatus, Philadelphia CineFest is back this year with a roster of 65 films from over 17 countries that will be screened from April 7 to 14, mostly at Ritz Theaters in center city. The festival will afford audiences an opportunity to see "Good Day for It," one of the 65 films and the latest from former Lafayette Hill resident, Nick Gerard Stagliano. The multi-talented auteur, 52, is the co-screenwriter, director and producer of the film.
(Stagliano has also produced, edited and/or directed five other movies: "The 24th Day"(2004), "Secretary" (2002), "The Florentine" (1999), "Home of Angels" (1994) and "Scared Stiff" (1987). None has received widespread distribution.)
Stagliano, in his mid-40s, was born and raised in Conshohocken, where he graduated from the long-gone Archbishop Kennedy High School. He recounted, "I forged many great friendships there which still last today. My father was a big fan of the movies, and I inherited that love from him. I remember how, as far back as when I was eight years old, he let me stay up late on Oscar night to see all the winners. I would go to school the next day and tell my friends. Of course, they had no idea what I was talking about.
"Growing up in Philly suburbia, I was strictly a mainstream Hollywood John Wayne film lover. While I have obviously expanded my tastes to include world and more experimental and edgy cinema, I still remain simply a fan of the movies."
Stagliano's family eventually moved from Conshohocken to Lafayette Hill after his high school graduation, prompted by "the accomplishment of the American Dream by my father and mother." They lived there for 17 years, on Thomas Road directly across from Whitemarsh Valley Country Club.
"Our view out the front window was nothing but grass and trees … and golfers. I remember those years fondly — the bigger sky and fresher air and the easier access into the city through the beautiful shopping and bars and restaurants of Chestnut Hill."
Stagliano matriculated at Villanova University, which was "a great experience for me. As an English/Communications major, it gave me the freedom to explore all sorts of literary and storytelling models. I was thinking of becoming some sort of writer, the cliché of the Great American Novelist or a sports writer, as I was a three-sport man in high school and a power-lifter in college."
But Stagliano had an unexpected epiphany when he took a class in Super 8 cinematography at Villanova. "To most students a throwaway class, but I enjoyed it immensely. The professor advised me to pursue my filmmaking further in graduate school. Without his prompting, I might not be here today. My parents were completely supportive, and my dad was really excited."
Attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts came next for Stagliano. "It was great for a lot of reasons, but not what I had expected. At the time I went there, it was situated in the East Village along with the Graduate Acting and Dance Department and off on its own from the main campus on Washington Square.
"That was quite an eye-opener for a kid from the suburbs just off Chestnut Hill to be thrown into the fast world of New York City. Coming from a bucolic campus like Villanova and knowing the world-class reputation that Tisch had, I was completely shocked to see that the building and classrooms were decidedly not high-end.
"That was an education in itself. It is not really about the tools or the toys, but the people who make the difference. In that respect, it was a tremendous experience. Under the banner of being a student, I had nothing else to do except watch films, volunteer to work on films, talk to other artists in the school —writers, actors, teachers.
"Originally, I wanted to be a director with thoughts of writing as well, but when I got to NYU Film Grad School, I realized how difficult writing good screenplays really is. It was a long road before I decided to add the writer/director combo to my work.
Over the years, I worked on anything I could in New York — commercials, industrials, films, student films — in every position, from production assistant to grip/electric, assistant director, assistant editor, editor and ultimately director. Each of those experiences advanced my education as a producer since that job basically encompasses all of the others, and more."
Stagliano is thrilled about having his latest film shown at the festival. "'Good Day for It' is my fourth film shot in Pennsylvania, with two shot in Philly. I still consider myself a local. We shot the film in the Poconos, and many of the crew are from Philly. Screening here is like a home viewing, and I could not be more excited. "
Stagliano praised the event organizers. "The team at this year's Cinefest is very energetic and committed to making this a great festival. I am confident that both the 'Good Day for It' screening and the whole festival will do the city proud. The core audience that comes to festival screenings are the true patrons of the arts and specifically of independent, non-studio films. There is a great need for these alternate films to move people and challenge them. There are only so many teenage vampire movies that we can handle!"
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F1 is switching to turbocharged 1.6-liter engines next season, and you kind of expect they'll be pretty similar to the 1.6-liter turbocharged engines in ordinary family cars nowadays. Not even close.
After looking over reader grinditintosecond's brief look at these motors, I realized i have absolutely no way of easily explaining what's going on here.
Apparently there's some kind of turbo compounding that was developed after WW2? There may be some interaction with KERS and the turbo? I have no idea, this is starting to sound like witchcraft to me, and it's a long way away from my level of turbo understanding.
I can sort of explain how a turbo works. Exhaust gas spins one turbine llike a water wheel. That little turbine spins an opposite turbine that pushes fresh air into the engine, giving more power.
Can any of you explain in simple terms how these 2014 Formula One turbo engines work? If you need reference, check out this F1-Technical forum discussion and this Race Tech Magazine article, and the ever-helpful ScarbsF1.
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Census Data for Planning and Service Areas, 1980: United States and Puerto Rico (ICPSR 8004)
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This file contains 1980 Census data for the 679 Planning and Service Areas (PSAs) in the United States and Puerto Rico. Data for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and for each of the approximately 4,000 counties and county equivalents in the United States and Puerto Rico were subsetted from the 1980 Census of Population and Housing, Summary Tape File 1 (STF 1) and aggregated to the PSA level. The file contains 312 substantive data variables organized in the form of 53 "tables", as well as geographic codes for region, state code, PSA, and land area. The remaining STF 1 geographic codes and the six tables representing median values are not included. Data for each PSA include ethnicity and age of residents, housing units, and units rented.
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- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and United States. Bureau of the Census. Census Data for Planning and Service Areas, 1980: United States and Puerto Rico. ICPSR08004-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1983. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08004.v1
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Midwest Steel Blanking Inc., Lombard, IL, has ordered a 72- by 0.135-in. by 40,000-lb.-capacity multi-blanking line from B&K, a division of Formtek Maine, Clinton, ME. Midwest Steel Blanking operates a 25,000-sq.-ft. facility and processes 21 million lb. of steel annually. The new B&K line features an uncoiler with an ultrasonic variable-tension brake system, hands-free thread-up, a corrective leveler, dual-sided threading table, four-roll servo feed and a scrap winder to take care of edge-trim material. Its stacker includes a 10,000-lb. by 72-in. by 168-in.-capacity lift table.
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Scion hoped to capitalize on the buzz over its new Scion FR-S sports car by offering the first cars to 86 randomly selected individuals who applied at a Scion website. Great idea… except the winners still know nothing about the car they're buying.
Scion VP Jack Hollis announced the "Scion First 86" contest at last week's Detroit Auto Show. People applied yesterday at scionfirst86.com for a chance to be one of the first 86 owners or get some undisclosed "special prizes."
As part of the deal you had to select a local dealer, which is a clever way by Scion to judge geographic desire for the new two-door — as well as build buzz.
A Jalopnik reader — who we'll call John to protect his identity — entered and was one of the individuals selected. He was sent the email above and, according to John, was called by Scion corporate. Here's how he remembers the conversation:
Scion: "Congratulations, you're one of our First 86! You won the ability to
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John: "How early?"
Scion: "I'm sorry, we don't know that."
John: "Okay, can you tell me the price?"
Scion: "The price has not been announced."
John: "What options for the car will I have?"
Scion: "I don't know the options either."
So Scion is asking buyers to put $500 down for a car without knowing how much it'll cost, when they can get it, or what options it'll have other than the pre-selected color and transmission.
Sounds like every luxury car pre-order process we've ever encountered.
And yes, that's for a Scion. The car brand that's supposed to be cheaper than Toyota.
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But despite all the hilarious conditions that come with being one of the first 86 buyers, John is still thinking he's going to put down a deposit. He wants the car that badly.


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Well, what would you do? You'd never go along with this, right? You're too smart. Me, too. "Compliance" encourages us to feel superior to the employees of a fast-food chicken chain in Ohio, and so we do: Audiences are said to be outraged at what the characters do, and San Francisco-based critic Omar Moore went back to more screenings to confirm that there were walk-outs.
In the case of "Compliance," the walk-outs aren't because it's a bad movie, but because it's all too effective at exposing the human tendency to cave in to authority. As the film opens, Sandra (Ann Dowd), the restaurant's manager, is already feeling guilty. An employee left a freezer open and $15,000 in food was spoiled. Almost as bad, somebody didn't order more pickles and bacon, and the district supervisor is scheduled to make an inspection visit. For Sandra, this is a perfect storm.
The phone rings. She's told she's speaking to a policeman. Officer Daniels (Pat Healy) asks if Sandra has a young blond woman working up front. She does: Becky (Dreama Walker). The cop then tells Sandra a woman in the police station is complaining that Becky stole something from her purse while it was on the counter, and he can see her doing it on a security tape.
Does this ring any bells for you? Of course it does — and all sorts of logical questions. Not for Sandra. She's asked to take Becky into a private employees' area and search her clothing and possessions. Slowly, step by step, the telephone requests escalate, until she is strip-searching Becky.
At a fairly early point, director Craig Zobel chooses to reveal that "Officer Daniels" is not a real cop at all (no kidding), but an ordinary guy, flat-voiced, soft-spoken, who's building himself a sandwich in his kitchen. There is no suggestion that he's sexually aroused. He isn't a breather. He walks outside to have a cigarette; reluctant to smoke in the house? His voice is insistent. He creates a scenario in which his fellow cops and the "victim" are searching her house to see if she left the money at home. His description of this search demonstrates how radio drama can be more absorbing than television drama, because we visualize events in our minds that are more real than any film or video could possibly be.
This film is based on an actual 2004 event that took place at a McDonald's in Mount Washington, Ky. Google it and you'll find most of the same details. If you're not one of the film's walk-outs, you'll discover at the end that 70 similar deceptions have occurred in the United States.
We're reminded of the famous 1960s studies by the behavioral scientist Stanley Milgram, who told subjects they were in control of a dial that administered electrical shocks to a person in the next room. As he ordered them to turn the dial higher and higher, they obeyed, even though they could hear screams and pleading through the wall. Milgram, with his white laboratory coat, stethoscope and clipboard, represented authority, and a majority of his test subjects were willing to turn their dials even up into a red "danger" area.
What did that prove? Debates are still under way. What did the fast-food strip searches prove? You tell me. If the stunt worked 70 times, they must prove something — perhaps that we are afraid of authority. I know that when a traffic cop pulls me over, I'm frightened — scared enough that I drive safely and am almost never pulled over.
But we would never fall for a deception like the one in "Compliance," would we? We wouldn't follow the instructions, as Sandra does, or allow her to, as Becky does. We might be more like Kevin (Philip Ettinger), another employee, who finds there are some things he will not do to a co-worker.
This is a well-made film, with plausible performances by all the leads, especially Ann Dowd. We feel we know people like this. There is the uncomfortable realization that if a TSA agent wanted to strip-search us at an airport, we might agree. Or would we? Would you? Why have some audience members walked out? Are they angry at "Officer Daniels," or Sandra, or that they were briefly taken in? You tell me.
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Oh, good, I am glad you didn?t leave. I found it disheartening how people responded to you in that thread.
Oh, good, I am glad you didn't leave. I found it disheartening how people responded to you in that thread.
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I sent you a friend request. I'm a former New Yorker myself. Before moving to Oldsmar Florida in October of 1997 with my parents I lived in Beacon New York and worked 5 minutes up the road at the VA Medical Center @ Castle Point New 'York for over 21 yrs after getting out of the Air Force in May ' 75. I presently live in Spring Hill Florida with a fellow with an SCI. My roommate is a fellow Veteran and is a T-9 Paraplegic post US Marines due to a gunshot in bed at home. May I ask how you got hurt and what your level of injury is? I have moderate to severe lumbar spinal stenois and degenerative disc disease which qualifies me for care under Spinal Cord Injury Service VA Hospital in Tampa Florida which is about 45 miles or so south of where I live here in Spring Hill Florida. Forgot to mention above that I was born in . Please send me a reply on my e-mail address : firstname.lastname@example.com
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Any proof that it's the cbd stopping the seizures?
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Robot Duo Stars in Fabricator's New Welding Cell
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Monday, April 1, 2013
D&S Manufacturing, a custom manufacturer of large-scale components and assemblies for Caterpillar, Oshkosh Corp. and others, has added a new dual-robot arc-welding cell to its plant in Black River Falls, WI. The cell, developed and integrated by Wolf Robotics, Fort Collins, CO, features two ABB six-axis robots, a pair of Lincoln Electric welding power supplies and a servo-driven twin-station positioner, all controlled by one ABB IRCS MultiMove control. "Load-and-go fixturing eliminates the need to perform manual tack welding prior to loading components into the positioner," says D&S continuous-improvement manager Joe Lane. To optimize quality and throughput, the cell includes touch sensing and seam tracking capabilities.
See also: Wolf Robotics LLC, ABB Robotics, Lincoln Electric Co.
Related Enterprise Zones: Fabrication, Welding